But in order to get there, the first step in the journey was to take Him as their Passover Lamb and enjoy Him as the Lamb of God. But very quickly, the people of Israel got out into the wilderness. God had some other lessons to teach them about Himself. First He wanted them to know Him as the Lamb. Then it was to know Him as their food and drink.
Food is for strength.
Drink is to satisfy. These pictures from the Old Testament, the heavenly manna and the water, became a reality when Christ came and presented Himself to us as the real food and the real drink. You are seeing only a shadow, a picture of the real bread that came down from heaven. We've grown up all our lives thinking that the bread we eat and the water we drink is real. But they are there only to remind us that real food and real drink is available for us in heavenly places, in Christ.