“So Moses brought Israel from the Red Sea; then they went out into the Wilderness of Shur. And they went three days in the wilderness and found no water. Now when they came to Marah, they could not drink the waters of Marah, for they were bitter. Therefore the name of it was called Marah. And the people complained against Moses, saying, ‘What shall we drink?’ So he cried out to the LORD, and the LORD showed him a tree. When he cast it into the waters, the waters were made sweet.” (Exodus 15:22-25).
The Israelites had just crossed the Red Sea, having witnessed one of the greatest miraculous deliveries the world has ever seen. The ten plagues that God afflicted the nation of Egypt with were not random plagues, but plagues which each challenged one of the false gods worshipped in Egypt. This series of ten plagues culminated in challenging Pharaoh, and the belief that he was a god, at the cost of every first born in the land of Egypt. Only those homes which applied the blood of the sacrificial lamb, as God instructed, to the doorposts of their homes would be spared the loss of the first born. This final plague introduced the feast of Passover, which foreshadows the sacrifice of God’s only begotten Son, Jesus Christ, and His shed blood upon the cross of Calvary. It is in Christ and through the cross that we receive victory.
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