The Bible In Paintings >>> 𝘾𝙃𝙍𝙄𝙎𝙏 𝙄𝙉 𝙏𝙃𝙀 𝙊𝙇𝘿 𝙏𝙀𝙎𝙏𝘼𝙈𝙀𝙉𝙏 𝙎𝙚𝙧𝙞𝙚𝙨 ✝️ “That Rock Was Christ” ✝️

[Hebrews 11:6]

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CHRIST IN THE
OLD TESTAMENT

Before Bethlehem, Jesus intervened often in this world. This series presents some of those occasions, along with “types” of Christ: people and objects who represent Him and His qualities.

“THAT ROCK WAS CHRIST”—
A Type of Jesus

EXODUS 17

The whole Israelite community set out, traveling from place to place as the LORD commanded, but there was no water for the people to drink. So they quarreled with Moses and said, “Give us water to drink.”

Then Moses cried out to the LORD. The LORD answered Moses, “Walk on ahead of the people. Take with you some of the elders of Israel and take in your hand the staff with which you struck the Nile, and go. I will stand there before you by the rock at Horeb. Strike the rock, and water will come out of it for the people to drink.” So Moses did this in the sight of the elders of Israel.

1^st CORINTHIANS 10

I do not want you to be ignorant of the fact, brothers, that our forefathers were all under the cloud and that they all passed through the sea. They were all baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea. They all ate the same spiritual food and drank the same spiritual drink; for they drank from the spiritual rock that accompanied them, and THAT ROCK WAS CHRIST.

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TINTORETTO
"Moses Drawing Water from the Rock"

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GUSTAVE DORÉ
"Moses Striking the Rock in Horeb"

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HE QI
"Moses Striking the Rock"

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FRITZ VON UHDE
"Moses Striking the Rock to Get Water"

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PIETER DE GREBBER
"Moses Striking the Rock"

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JACOPO DA PONTE
"Moses Striking the Rock at Horeb"

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JOSEF KEPPLLINGER
"Moses Strikes Water"

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Source

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"Moses Striking the Rock"

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JAMES TISSOT
"Moses Strikes the Rock"

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JOACHIM WTEWAEL
"Moses Striking the Rock"

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TINTORETTO
"Moses Striking the Rock"

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JACOB JORDAENS
"Moses Strikes Water from the Rock"

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KRZYSZTOF LUBIENIECKI
"Moses Strikes Water from the Stone"

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"Moses Has Struck the Rock with His Rod,
and Water Is Coming Out"

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FRANÇOIS PERRIER
"Moses Draws Water from the Rock"

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GERARD HOET
"Moses Beats Water out of the Rock"

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ANTONIO GONZÁLEZ VELÁZQUEZ
"Moses Brings Forth Water Out of the Rock"

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"Moses Striking the Rock"

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SCIPIONE COMPAGNO
"Moses Makes the Water Flow from the Rock"

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TADDEO CARLONE
"Moses Bringing Water from the Rock"

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Source

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MARC CHAGALL
"Moses Striking Water from the Rock"

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Source

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LOUIZ BRITO
"Moses Strikes the Rock"

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Source

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"Moses Gushing Water from the Rock"

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TED LARSON
"The Rock of Horeb"

New International Version ©1984, Abrgd, EMPHASES added
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[ConservativeMind]

There is a contingent here that believes Peter was that “Rock.”

[Hebrews 11:6]

LOL. Paul declares otherwise.

[No name given]

God is our rock that provides the water of life. Thank you very much for posting these beautiful works of art, and may God bless and keep you for doing so.

[Hebrews 11:6]

Well said.

[etabeta]

In the art of Hi Qi I see the influence of Chagall and Picasso. The colors are as brilliant as those of stained glass windows. Great art.
Thank you, Dan, as always.

[Hebrews 11:6]

He Qi makes me laugh every time I see one of his works. No one else has that effect on me.

[Scott from the Left Coast]

I am a huge fan of He Qi as well! His art has much of the same effect as stained glass, as you mentioned. I really like the Larson at the end as well. ]

This entire story gives another reference to the Garden of Eden with the source becoming the four great rivers, and to the river in New Jerusalem…in each case the Tree of Life (Jesus on the cross, just to take it perhaps a step too far) sets its roots around the river that has only The Father as its source.

[etabeta]

Yesterday I finally found out how to pronounce his name: Ho Chi, Thanks, Scott, from another fan of Qi.

[SisterK]

Moses strikes the rock and out of that Rock came Living Water

[Hebrews 11:6]

As Jesus told the Woman at the Well.