Paul says Israel all "drank from the Rock following them, and that Rock was Christ" (I Cor. 10:4). Was this the Rock of Horeb? Many say, Yes. The Bible speaks differently. Notice they "drank the same spiritual drink" from the "spiritual Rock." The water that Israel drank from the Rock of Horeb was not "spiritual" water, nor was the Rock a "spiritual" one. The "Rock which followed them." The Rock of Horeb did not "follow them." "That Rock was Christ." The Rock at Horeb was not the Messiah. But why does Thayer list "the Rock" as "the vessel out of which one drinks"? Paul says we "are vessels prepared unto every good work". In this sense Christ is "the vessel out of which one drinks." We drink "the blessings of the gospel," the "water of life" (Rev. 22:17), from this "Rock," "vessel," Christ. Israel drank spiritual blessings from this same "Rock" or "vessel." Paul evidently refers to the manifested Yahweh, the pre-existent Messiah, the Yahweh, the Coming One of Israel, the Ho Erkomos, "the One Who is Coming" (Rev. 1 :8), of Christians.