What a slam on the old testament saints... don't you know that Christ was in THE CHURCH in the wilderness, they drank from that spiritual Rock that was Christ.
This is going deeper and deeper into the woods, let's agree to disagree on most everything related to end times and who the church is.
"The
church in the wilderness" [see the entire CONTEXT of Acts 7:37-43
]
is
not the same as the "
church/assembly [same word!]" in Acts 19:32,39,41... (do you think so??)...
nor is it identical with "the
Church WHICH IS HIS BODY" (I keep imploring ppl to actually LOOK AT
EPHESIANS 1:20-23!* WHEN )
[and these are also distinct from "the church
ES"
]
*I keep pointing this fact out, because of its extreme importance to the topic under discussion.
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Acts 7 -
35 This Moses whom they rejected, having said, ‘Who appointed you ruler and judge?’—him whom God sent and
as ruler and redeemer by
the hand of
the angel having appeared to him in the bush—
36 this one led them out, having done wonders and signs in
the land of Egypt, and in
the Red Sea, and in the wilderness forty years.
37 This is the Moses having said to the sons of Israel, ‘God will raise up for you a prophet like me out from your brothers.’
38 This is the
one having been in
the congregation [/church/assembly] in the wilderness with the angel speaking to him in Mount Sinai, and who
was with our fathers. He received living oracles to give to us,
39 to whom our fathers were not willing to be obedient, but thrust away, and turned back in their hearts to Egypt,
40 having said to Aaron, ‘Make us gods who will go before us. As for this Moses who brought us out from
the land of Egypt, we do not know what has happened to him.’
41 And in those days they made a calf and offered a sacrifice to the idol and were rejoicing in the works of their hands.
42 But God turned away and delivered them to worship the host of heaven, as it has been written in
the book of the prophets:
‘Did you offer slain beasts and sacrifices to Me
forty years in the wilderness,
O house of Israel?
43 And you took up the tabernacle of Moloch
and the star of your god Rephan,
the images that you made to worship them;
and I will remove you
beyond Babylon.’