Avoid Israel’s Mistakes

10 For I do not want you to be unaware, believers, that our fathers were all under the cloud [in which God’s presence went before them] and they all passed [miraculously and safely] through the [Red] Sea;^{(A) 2} And all [of them] were baptized into Moses [into his safekeeping as their leader] in the cloud and in the sea; ³ and all [of them] ate the same ^[a]spiritual food;^{(B) 4} and all [of them] drank the same ^[b]spiritual drink, for they were drinking from a spiritual rock which followed them; and the rock was Christ.^{(C) 5} Nevertheless, God was not well-pleased with ^[c]most of them, for they were scattered along the ground in the wilderness [because their lack of self-control led to disobedience which led to death].^(D)