MANNA
MANNA
- Miraculously given to Israel for food in the wilderness # Ex 16:4,15 Ne 9:15
- CALLED 2a) God’s manna
# Ne 9:20
2b) Bread of heaven # Ps 105:40 2c) Bread from heaven # Ex 16:4 Joh 6:31 2d) Corn of heaven # Ps 78:24 2e) Angel’s food # Ps 78:25 2f) Spiritual meat # 1Co 10:3 3) Previously unknown # De 8:3,16 4) DESCRIBED AS 4a) Like coriander seed # Ex 16:31 Nu 11:7 4b) White # Ex 16:31 4c) Like in colour to bdellium # Nu 11:7 4d) Like in taste to wafers made with honey # Ex 16:31 4e) Like in taste to oil # Nu 11:18 4f) Like hoar frost # Ex 16:14 5) Fell after the evening dew # Nu 11:9 6) None fell on the Sabbath day # Ex 16:26,27 7) Gathered every morning # Ex 16:21 8) An omer of, gathered for each person # Ex 16:16 9) Two portions of, gathered the sixth day on account of the Sabbath # Ex 16:5,22-26 10) He that gathered much or little had sufficient and nothing over # Ex 16:18 11) Melted away by the sun # Ex 16:21 12) GIVEN 12a) When Israel murmured for bread # Ex 16:2,3 12b) In answer to prayer # Ps 105:40 12c) Through Moses # Joh 6:31,32 12d) To exhibit God’s glory # Ex 16:7 12e) As a sign of Moses’s divine mission # Joh 6:30,31 12f) For forty years # Ne 9:21 12g) As a test of obedience # Ex 16:4 12h) To teach that man does not live by bread only # De 8:3 Mt 4:4 12i) To humble and prove Israel # De 8:16 13) Kept longer than a day (except on the Sabbath) became corrupt # Ex 16:19,20 14) THE ISRAELITES 14a) At first covetous of # Ex 16:17 14b) Ground, made into cakes and baked in pans # Nu 11:8 14c) Counted inferior to food of Egypt # Nu 11:4-6 14d) Loathed # Nu 21:5 14e) Punished for despising # Nu 11:10-20 14f) Punished for loathing # Nu 21:6 15) Ceased when Israel entered Canaan # Ex 16:35 Jos 5:12 16) ILLUSTRATIVE OF 16a) Christ # Joh 6:32-35 16b) Blessedness given to saints # Re 2:17 17) A golden pot of, laid up in the holiest for a memorial # Ex 16:32-34 Heb 9:4