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`To him who overcomes, to him I will give some of the hidden manna, and I will give him a white stone, and a new name written on the stone which no one knows but he who receives it.'  Revelation 2:16-17 (NAS)

The meaning of the hidden manna and the white stone are not given directly in the text. There are no direct references to a little white stone anywhere else in the Bible. It was common in those times to use small stones or pebbles as a ticket to an event such as a feast, but it is unclear as to whether this might be a key to the use here.  There are many references to manna in scripture, as follows:

References to manna in the Bible:

When the children of Israel were led by God, through His servant Moses, from their captivity in Egypt, God fed them with manna, a type of food.  This was not hidden manna, but very visible manna.

"And the house of Israel named it manna, and it was like coriander seed, white; and its taste was like wafers with honey."  Exodus 16:31  (NAS)

"And the sons of Israel ate the manna forty years, until they came to an inhabited land; they ate the manna until they came to the border of the land of Canaan."  Exodus 16:35  (NAS)

There are some references to manna that give some spiritual significance to the physical manna:

"And you shall remember all the way which the LORD your God has led you in the wilderness these forty years, that He might humble you, testing you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep His commandments or not. And He humbled you and let you be hungry, and fed you with manna which you did not know, nor did your fathers know, that He might make you understand that man does not live by bread alone, but man lives by everything that proceeds out of the mouth of the LORD."  Deuteronomy 8:2-3  (NAS)

"Our fathers ate the manna in the wilderness; as it is written, 'He gave them bread out of heaven to eat.'"  Jesus therefore said to them, "Truly, truly, I say to you, it is not Moses who has given you the bread out of heaven, but it is My Father who gives you the true bread out of heaven.  For the bread of God is that which comes down out of heaven, and gives life to the world."  They said therefore to Him, "Lord, evermore give us this bread."  Jesus said to them, "I am the bread of life; he who comes to Me shall not hunger, and he who believes in Me shall never thirst."  John 6:31-35  (NAS)

Is Jesus, the bread of life, this hidden manna?  Is the bread that comes down from heaven not only Jesus, but every word that proceeds out of the mouth of the Lord? 

The text of Revelation does not say, but perhaps these references to spiritual life being sustained by the word of the Lord, and by Jesus, the bread of life...perhaps these thoughts were in the minds of the Christians as they first read the Revelation?

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