1 Corinthians 10:1-13 - A History Lesson From Israel

¹ For I would not have you forget, brothers, that though our forefathers were all protected by the cloud, and all passed safely through the sea, ² and in the cloud and the sea all, as it were, accepted baptism as followers of Moses, ³ and all ate the same supernatural food ⁴ and drank the same supernatural drink??for they used to drink from a supernatural rock which attended them, and the rock was really Christ??5 still most of them disappointed God, for they were struck down in the desert.

⁶ Now these things happened to warn us, so that we should not long for what is evil as they did. ⁷ You must not become idolaters, like some of them, for the Scripture says, "The people sat down to eat and drink and got up to dance." ⁸ Let us not practice immorality, like some of them, twenty-three thousand of whom fell dead in one day, ⁹ Let us not try the Lord's patience too far, as some of them did, for they were killed for it by the snakes. ¹⁰ You must not grumble, as some of them did, for they were destroyed for it by the destroying angel. ¹¹ These things happened to them as a warning to others, but they were written down to instruct us, in whose days the ages have reached their climax. ¹² So the man who thinks he can stand must be on his guard against a fall. ¹³ It is no superhuman temptation that you have had. And God can be depended on, not to let you be tried beyond your strength, but when temptation comes, to give you a way out of it, so that you can withstand it.