Beginning of the End - Ellen G. White

Chapter 37
Moses Fails on the Border of Canaan
This chapter is based on Numbers 20:1-13.
The living stream of water that refreshed Israel in the desert
flowed for the first time from the rock that Moses struck in Horeb.
During all their wanderings, wherever the need existed, a miracle
made water gush out beside their camp.
It was Christ who caused the refreshing stream to flow for
Israel. "They drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them, and
that Rock was Christ" (1 Corinthians 10:4). He was the source of all
physical as well as spiritual blessings. "They did not thirst when He
led them through the deserts; He caused the waters to flow from the
rock for them; He also split the rock, and the waters gushed out." "It
ran in the dry places like a river." (Isaiah 48:21; Psalm 105:41).
As the life-giving waters flowed from the smitten rock, so from
Christ, "smitten by God," "wounded for our transgressions,"
"bruised for our iniquities" (Isaiah 53:4, 5), the stream of salvation
flows for lost human beings. As the rock had been struck once, so
Christ was to be "offered once to bear the sins of many" (Hebrews
9:28). Our Savior was not to be sacrificed a second time. The only
thing necessary for those who are wanting the blessings of His grace
is to ask in the name of Jesus, then the life-giving blood will flow
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