Brazen Serpent
The Lord was displeased with the children of Israel because of their complaining, and punished them by sending fiery serpents among the people, “And the LORD sent fiery
serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and much people of Israel died” (Num. 21:6).
The children of Israel confessed to Moses in Numbers 21:7, “We have sinned, for we have spoken against the LORD, and against thee; pray unto the LORD, that he take away the serpents from us. And Moses prayed for the people.”
We read the Lord’s solution for the fiery serpents in Numbers 21:8-9, “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. 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.” They only had to “look” and they were healed. This, of course, is taken up in John 3:14-15, where Christ referred to this very Scripture, saying, “And as Moses lifted up the
serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up. That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life.”
This is a beautiful evangelistic verse to use when you preach. “Only look to the Lord and be
saved.” Jesus said in John 12:32, “And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me.”
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