quote:Numbers 21:8 And the LORD said unto Moses, Make thee a fiery serpent, and set it upon a pole: and it shall come to pass, that every one that is bitten, when he looketh upon it, shall live. Numbers 21:9 And Moses made a serpent of brass, and put it upon a pole, and it came to pass, that if a serpent had bitten any man, when he beheld the serpent of brass, he lived.
quote:2 Kings 18:4 He removed the high places, and brake the images, and cut down the groves, and brake in pieces the brasen serpent that Moses had made: for unto those days the children of Israel did burn incense to it: and he called it Nehushtan.
Now we know why pictures of snakes often appear on the sides of ambulances and rescue vehicles.
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In Num 21 The story of the Serpent being lifted up was a foretaste of the redemptive work of Christ...Jesus mentions the serpent of Moses and identifies himself with it...What had bitten and made the people ill to death was being lifted up and was becoming the healing when they beheld it. Jesus represented our sin with which we are afflicted until we behold Him as becoming sin for us on the cross...the Perfect Lamb being offered up by God for our sin...for me I believe He has overpaid...so I will in gratitude deliver the goods for which he paid. In 2 Kings we can see that people were carried away with the object rather than the intent of the lesson....this is always the by product of using the mind to figure out the acts of God rather than trusting in God to reveal through His Spirit the truth Hope this helps
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