Psalms 105:39-45

Here we have a brief account of the Church in the wilderness, until the Lord brought them into the promised land. And here also, as before, we behold a type of the Church now. The pillar of cloud which went before them, strikingly represented the goings of the Holy Ghost before the Church; and the bread typified Jesus, the bread of life, to his people. Indeed, that we might not mistake upon so great a point, the Holy Ghost himself, by the Apostle, expressly tells us that the rock which gave the people drink in the wilderness, and followed them, was Christ; 1 Corinthians 10:4. And to sum up the whole, the Psalmist saith, that Jehovah did all this in confirmation of his Covenant engagements to Abraham. And as these covenant engagements all looked to Christ for their accomplishment, sweetly do we see in the whole, that it is of Jesus and his salvation the whole history treats, in whom, as God promised to the patriarch, all nations of the earth should be blessed; Galatians 3:8.