The Israelites were told to gather manna six days a week. They were told that no manna would fall on the seventh day so on the sixth day they were to gather a double portion (Exodus 16:26). There were no designated food gatherers. Everyone was to take part. Some gathered a lot some gathered a little (Exodus 16:17).
Jesus said that He was the bread that came down from heaven and whoever comes to Him will never hunger (John 6:35). How do you consume the living bread? Jesus is the Word of God (John 1:1). When we study scripture we are feasting on His Word. As believers, it is our responsibility to gather our own spiritual food on a daily basis. If we don't eat, we become weak and die.
That pattern of gathering for six days and resting on the seventh seems to have been turned around in today's church setting. Most people fail to do their own gathering on the six days of the week leaving the work to a designated gatherer, usually the pastor. Then they go to church on Sunday and expect to be spoon fed enough nourishment to last through the next week.
On the sixth day, the Israelites were to gather twice as much manna so that they would have a supply on the seventh day when no manna would fall. Is that a warning to us? If a day is as a thousand years (2 Peter 3:8) and it has been six thousand years since Adam, that would put us at the end of the sixth day. We want to be sure that we have stored up enough manna for the seventh day.
Amos 8:11 KJV Behold, the days come, saith the Lord GOD, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the LORD:
Exodus 16:26 KJV Six days ye shall gather it; but on the seventh day, which is the sabbath, in it there shall be none.
Exodus 16:17 NLT So the people of Israel did as they were told. Some gathered a lot, some only a little.
John 6:35 NLT Jesus replied, "I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to Me will never be hungry again. Whoever believes in Me will never be thirsty.
John 1:1 KJV In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
2 Peter 3:8 KJV But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
