“In the evening quail came up and covered the camp, and in the morning dew lay around the camp.” Ravenous locusts and destructive hail were still fresh memories in Exodus 16, so the message was loud and clear when God worked these two anti-plagues to provide meat and bread for his people. God also used the dew-like and honey-flavored bread to patiently teach His children about the Sabbath, even before He instituted it. He gave them a foretaste of the feast to come in the “land flowing with milk and honey,” just as Christ’s body and blood let us participate in the resurrection of the world to come.
