YAHSHUA – JESUS CHRIST OUR MANNA FROM HEAVEN
© Carlos Padilla – Easter 2026 – Passover 14 Nissan 5786
When God took out the Israelites from Egypt by the hand of Moses, he took them through the desert to test their faith, and gave them the manna from heaven as their daily food, the necessary amount to live, but the people complained to Moses that they were given that food, and remembered with bitterness the foods they had in Egypt, despising the bread from heaven that God was giving. After the Passover in Egypt, and after being protected with the symbol of the blood of the lamb, on the doorposts and the lintels of their homes, Moses was sent by God to take out His people from the slavery of Egypt, and took them out thought the dessert, to guide them to the Promised Land. During the journey, God would test the heart of them. The majority was not with God, and that generation died, being the next generation the one who arrived at their destiny. We read in the New Testament that Jesus is the true manna, that bread from heaven that God gives us. Do we accept that bread with joy, or do we seek the foods of the world? Do we feed ourselves from the Word of God or do we prefer the fables, the fashions, and the social tendencies of the world? If you want to know how the manna from God is and how it provides us of the salvation for eternal life, and of spiritual food, keep reading…
THE MANNA IN THE DESERT 40 YEARS
40 years to travel a journey of 15 days if it was done today on a direct route along the coast that could have been les than 500km is a data that calls our attention. In the case of Israel in Exodus it would be a journey from the city of Rameses, through the Red Sea, and to the south of the Sinai peninsula, to then go up by the east of the peninsula, until the north, and arrive to the other side of the river Jordan, in front of Jerico, during those 40 years, Deuteronomy 1:3. Why does God make His people spend those years instead of taking them directly to the Promises Land? Many have debated if Moses did not know the way and God was revealing it to him progressively, or whether they got lost, or if God stopped guiding them. But if we go a bit deeper, we can understand that God has to test them in their faith, so that those that in truth really loved Him, the ones who would enter the Promised Land. God gave them the manna from heaven, and they complained. The were missing Egypt, its food and its gods. After that complain, God gave them quail until they were full, “until it comes out through your nostrils” Numbers 11:20. However, God did not take away the manna which they kept receiving every day. They must collect it in the morning, in a portion per person of almost 4 litres, they could cook it and make cakes. On Sabbath God would not send manna, so on Friday he would send double the portion. The journey days from Egypt until Jordan are found in Numbers 33. He gave them the Law in Sinai and waited until all that generation died those older than 20 year who came out of Egypt; Joshua 5:6. Caleb, Joshua and the children, and the families of the new generation entered the Promised Land, who are found in the book of Joshua, who succeeded Moses as leader of the nation.
40 years they ate the manna; Exodus 16:35 until they arrived at the land of Canaan. And when the people had crossed Jordan, at Gilgal, where they celebrated Passover, on the fourteenth day of the month, in the afternoon, and the next day they started to eat of the fruit of the land, the manna cessed; Joshua 5:12. The Passover that we Christians know today as Easter. They were eating the Passover after coming out of the slavery of Egypt, guided by their liberator; we take Holy Supper after coming out of the slavery of sin, through the victory of our Liberator.
OUR SPIRITUAL NUTRITION
The manna tasted like wafers made with honey, and like new oil, like white coriander seed, with tones of bdellium; Exodus 16:31, Numbers 11:7, and the people called it “manna” which is translated as “what is this” the contrary of garlic; Numbers 11:5, which was, according historical and archaeological studies a common element of nutrition in Egypt, which camouflages, as we all know, the taste, and it invades it completely, becoming the spiritual antithesis of the manna, with its smooth and delicate taste, natural, which allows it to be distinguished, pure, I would say that symbolically is something true spiritually. Also, garlic was given to the slaves to strengthen their immunity system, and as antiseptic. It reminds us to the slavery to the world, to sin, and to many things our flesh longs but that it slaves us, and of which the Lord sets us free by His power.
Nutrition is a magnificent parallel to compare what we eat and its results in our heath, aspect, mentality, and longevity, with what we study in the doctrinal, religious, and spiritual level, and its results in our spiritual and mental health.
Churches and their denominations mix the manna, the pure Gospel and the Christian doctrinal base, with their denominational differences, the same as the people of Israel, their religious leaders which got to be divided in the Sanhedrin, between Pharisees and Sadducees, who, as the Lord warned us, use the yeast to inflate the doctrine, the same as today many churches, making the teaching more emotional, attractive. But when it deviates from the sane doctrine, it produces heresy and deviation from the Way of Christ. We must feed ourselves of the bread without yeast, of the manna, of the pure food given to us by the Lords Jesus Christ in His Word, the Sane Doctrine; 1 Corinthians 3, until we enter the Promised Land of the faith.
THE HOLY SUPPER – THE MANNA OR BREAD FROM HEAVEN IS YAHSHUA
The Lord Jesus Christ taught us several times that He was giving Himself for us in a profound way, and linked the bread with the food that gave life, and that life of which Jesus talks is not only physical, but spiritual, and the eternal life, that which begins in the Christian who is born again, and the one that will begin after the resurrection. Jesus and His life as the bread, as His flesh, giving His own life, and His own flesh, the one that symbolically we must eat, which means to assimilate that we become one with Him when we are born again, when we receive His Holy Spirit, and when we live a life as Christian who give testimony of the faith, and who treat their neighbours like He did. That is the fruit of feeding from Him, God’s love. His Word has been revealed to us, preserved and delivered so that we may eat from it every day, which teaches us and tells us how Jesus is, so that we may know Him deeply. The living bread is also the living Word, for it continues to feed us and teach us the treasures of the Lord, and it continues to do it during our entire life of reading and studying the Bible. “You search the Scriptures, for in them you think you have eternal life, and these are they which testify of Me” John 5:39.
If God gave the manna to the Israelites, to the Church He gave His only begotten Son, a new spiritual manna, His living Word, the Gospel of salvation, but He has also come in flesh, He has become Man, the Son of Man, to live among us, feel and experience the same as we do with our limitation, give His life on the cross to carry our sins in expiation, and give us the fruit of His work, such a great salvation, which cannot be gained by our efforts, nor works, but by faith by His grace. The Christian, as the Israelites did when they went to take their manna every morning, must seek for his time with God in Christ every morning, and in His Word, and prayer, his daily bread from heaven, his special intimate time in the Spirit. Without the cross of Christ there is no salvation. Who believes this has eternal life, has eaten from the true manna from heaven and Christ comes to dwell in his interior through the Holy Spirit who makes us His temple. The bread of the Holy Supper is the living manna from heaven, the symbol of the flesh of Christ which when eaten makes us part of Him. “This is the work of God, that you believe in Him whom He sent,” John 6:26.
“I am the bread of life. He who comes to Me shall never hunger, and he who believes in Me, shall never thirst,” John 6:35.
Those who were listening to Jesus answered Him that their fathers ate of the manna in the desert, as it is written: “He gave them bread from heaven to eat”. And Jesus answered: “Most assuredly I say to you, Moses did not give you the bead from heaven, but My Father fives you the true bread from heaven, for the bread of God is He who comes down from heaven and fives life to the world,” John 6:32-33. And this Text links to the conversation of Jesus with Nicodemus in John 3:13 where Jesus explains to him that He is in heaven at the same time as He is with Nicodemus. “I am the bread of life. Your fathers ate of the manna in the desert and died. This is the bread which comes down from heaven, that one may eat of it and not die. I am the living bread which comes down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever, and the bread that I shall give is My flesh, which I shall give for the life of the world”, John 6:51-52. Jesus is our daily bread ¡give us this day! Matthew 6:11, Luke 11:3.
Therefore, as the Israelites had no more manna since they entered the Promised Land, having crossed Jordan, having celebrated the first Passover there, and after beginning to eat of the fruit of the land, we Christians have no more manna “elementary principals of the faith” Hebrews 6:1, let us mature because now our food are the fruits of the new promised land, the fruits of Christ and of the Holy Spirit in us, and from us. Jesus Christ formed in us is now our bread, His flesh, a life of disciple who works in living like Jesus would do in our circumstances, taking the Gospel around us, making the works of God, being part of the Church of Christ; taking the new manna who is Jesus Christ to every person.
CONCLUSION
What food do we want to eat today as true Christians? “…Jesus said to them: Most assuredly I say to you, you seek Me not because you saw the signs, but because you ate of the loaves and were filled”, John 6:26. The Lord gives us the manna, the bread of heaven, He gives Himself to us so that our soul, our mind, and our spirit is fed with God’s love, with the truth, with the pure faith which takes us to eternal life, which He gained on the cross for us, the Church, the bride of the weddings of the Lamb of Revelation 19.
Our flesh may long food from the world, from sin, the garlic that camouflages all and all tastes the same (despite its magnificent natural properties). But God gives us the manna, a food that is healthy, delicate, simple, healthy to all our being, spiritually taking, healthy for our faith, doctrinally without yeast, the Word of the Gospels and of the New Testament.
But when earing the bread, and drinking the wine of the Holy Supper, He teaches us that is symbolizes His flesh and His blood, that when taking them it makes us more like Him, and He loves with love of God, and that is what He requests from us, that we love one another with that love, for by this all will know that we are His disciples; John 13:35.
“Do not labor for the food which perishes, but for the food which endures to everlasting life, which the Son of Man will give you, because God the Father has set His seal on Him”, John 6:27. Jesus will give us the hidden manna, to him who overcomes; Revelation 2:17 message to the Church of Pergamus. This Easter and Passover, when taking the bread and drinking the wine, remember that the essence of the Son of God, the manna from heaven enters in us so that we assimilate Him and work to become more like Jesus, for the glory of God the Father. Amen!
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