III: Exodus and Wilderness

Waters Turned to Blood

the Law's testimony exposing lifeless systems

Root
Exod 7:17-21 · dam (H1818)
Old Testament chain
  1. Exod 7:17-21
  2. Ps 78:44
  3. Ps 105:29
  4. Rev 11:6
  5. Rev 16:3-4
New Testament
Rev 11:6; Rev 16:3; Rev 16:4-6; Rev 16:5-6; Rom 8:19-22

Moses stretches his rod and "all the waters that were in the river were turned to blood" (Exod 7:20); the Psalms keep the memory, "He turned their waters into blood" (Ps 105:29; 78:44). The two witnesses' power to turn water to blood (Rev 11:6) is Moses before Pharaoh, the Law side of the testimony, established by two witnesses (Deut 19:15). In the bowls the sea becomes "as the blood of a dead man" (Rev 16:3), exposing the nations' structures as unable to provide real life, and rivers turned to blood strike the root: what is poured out returns. The futurist pair of literal men in a future Jerusalem replaces that Law-and-testimony witness.

From The Courtroom of Heaven, pp. 159–160, 166, 255–257