IN THE WILDERNESS
“Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea; and were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea; and did all eat the same spiritual meat; and did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Christ. But with many of them God was not well pleased: for they were overthrown in the wilderness. ” (1 Corinthians 10:1-5). There are many references throughout scripture to a place called simply “the wilderness.” Some of those references are to a literal place of desolation such as the wilderness of Sinai where God led the Israelites after they were delivered from Egypt, or the wilderness where Jesus was led by the Spirit to be tempted after He was baptized. Other references to the wilderness seem to indicate a more figurative place where God’s children are led to be proven and their faith to be tr...