November 17

From: Daily Sacrifice By: Henry Allan Ironside

Revelation 2:17

“To him that overcometh wilt I give to eat of the hidden manna, and will give him a white atone, and in the stone a new name written, which no man knoweth saving he that receiveth it” — Revelation 2:17¹⁷He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the hidden manna, and will give him a white stone, and in the stone a new name written, which no man knoweth saving he that receiveth it. (Revelation 2:17).

WHEN Israel was in the wilderness, sustained by bread from heaven, God commanded Moses to fill a golden pot with manna and lay it up before the Lord within the ark, in the holiest of all. This was the hidden manna. Jesus shows us in John 6 that the food by which God sustained the host in the wilderness typified Himself. He came down from heaven as the Bread of God to give life unto the world. The manna spoke of Him in His humiliation. Now that He has gone back to heaven He is the hidden Manna on which the souls of His people feed by faith. The members of the church in Pergamos were exposed to severe temptations. Pergamos was the center of serpent-worship with all its debasing practices. There Antipas was slain, and there the devil made strenuous efforts to seduce God’s children and break down the wall of separation between the Church and the world. But God’s grace was all-sufficient to enable them to triumph, even as it is sufficient to make us today more than conquerors through Him who has loved and redeemed us. All who overcome by faith will enjoy the fellowship of the Lord in a very blessed and intimate way.

“There on the hidden bread

Of Christ—once humbled here―

God’s treasure store—forever fed,

His love my soul shall cheer.

Called by that secret name

Of undisclosed delight

(Blest answer to reproach and shame)

Graved on the atone of white.”

―J. N. Darby

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