03/16/2020
Numbers 21: verses 4-9 The bronze serpent.
Then they journeyed from Mount Hor by the way of the Red Sea to go around the land of Edom and the soul of the people became very discouraged on the way. And the people spoke against God and against Moses saying, “why have you brought us out of Egypt to die in the wilderness for there is no food and no water and our soul loathes this worthless bread“.
So the Lord sent fiery serpents among the people and they bit the people and many of the people of Israel died. Therefore the people came to Moses and said “we have sinned for we have spoken against the Lord and against you, pray to the Lord that he may take away the serpents from us.“ So Moses prayed for the people. Then the Lord said to Moses make a fiery serpent and set it on a pole and it shall be that everyone who has been bitten when he looks at it, he shall live. So Moses made a bronze serpent and put it on a pole and so it was if a serpent had bitten anyone, when he looked at the Bronze serpent he lived.
From this story of the brazen serpent, our society has adopted the symbol of the brazen serpent as the symbol for health, healing and medical treatment. We see this symbol on hospital signs and on ambulances. Most of the world doesn’t know where that symbol came from but this scripture is exactly where it came from.
In the book of John, chapter 3: verses 14-15, we see a “Christophony”, which is something in the past or present that points to something that Jesus did, or that he would be about. That Scripture says “and as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so much the Son of Man be lifted up, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.
Today our world is in a big panic. We are in uncharted territory, going through something that perhaps is more extreme than anything this world has seen before, especially when we take into account the health and financial aspect.
As the early Israelites were to look at that dead, defeated image of a bronze serpent and obtain healing from what the serpent had done to them, so too today we can look to the uplifted Christ where we see our sins atoned for and satan defeated, the enemy defeated and when we look upon that and trust in what Jesus did for us we have salvation, we have healing, and we have our needs met.
Fear not today. Let me say that again, fear not today. Don’t let your hearts be troubled. Look to Jesus, the One who has delivered us from the power of sin and conquered death and the grave and who is your source of healing and protection.
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