On (23 Nov 05) Steve Asher wrote to George Pope...
 SA>  GP> How about the first time God asked Moses to give water to the
 SA>  GP> people, Moses was commanded to strike the rock with the staff.
 SA>
 SA> Do you think Moses was "snookered"? More likely, striking the rock
 SA> to give water was a fore-runner of the "rock of our salvation", who
 SA> provides the water of life freely.
 SA>
 SA>  GP> This second time God says "take up thine rod(ie. the
same as last
 SA>  GP> time) and speak to the rock" (a very subtle change in verb. . .
 SA> the
 SA>  GP> fact he was told to take up the rod would make it seem obvious
 SA> that
 SA>  GP> a repeat performance was required!)
 SA>
 SA> No need to strike the rock for water a second time ... merely ask for
 SA> the water of life & it will be provided.

And Moses was supposed to know this several thousand years ahead of time
how?

 SA>  SA> If the prophets "clearly taught" that no mediator
was required,
 SA> why
 SA>  SA> did Jeremiah the prophet, in Jeremiah 31:31-32 record the Lord as
 SA>  SA> saying... "Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will
 SA> make
 SA>  SA> a new covenant with the house of Isael, and with the house of
 SA> Judah:
 SA>  SA> Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in
 SA> the
 SA>  SA> day that I took them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant
 SA>  SA> they brake, although I was an husband unto them, saith the
Lord."
 SA>  SA>
 SA>  SA> What do you think that new covenant might be? Who do you think
 SA>  SA> the mediator of the new covenant might be?

Better to translate that as a "renewed covenant" because
"new" implies
the old gets done away, and that's impossible with a COVENANT(much
different than a CONTRACT!)

Because I care,
<+]::-{)}  (Cyberpope(the Bishop of ROM!))


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