Numbers 21:8,9
Then the I AM said to Moses, Make a fiery serpent, and set it on a pole; and it shall be that everyone who is bitten, when he looks at it, 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.
The pain of the venomous bites drove the people to repent, and they begged Moses to intervene on their behalf. I AM instructed Moses to make an image of one of the serpents and to set it on a pole. Anyone who had been and looked at the image lived. The raising of such a contemptible symbol on a pole ordinarily would have caused the people to shrink away in revulsion. But in the case the Israelite s had to look at the serpent's image in order to live. Yeshua pointed to this stunning image in His dialogue with Nicodemus (see John 3:14, 15) as an analogy to His own execution. To the Jews, crucifixion was a sign of a curse. Therefore, just as the Israelite s had to look on the repugnant, uplifted image of a serpent to be saved, Jew and gentile, today have to look at the uplifted image of Yeshua on a cross in order to be saved from our sins.
Then the I AM said to Moses, Make a fiery serpent, and set it on a pole; and it shall be that everyone who is bitten, when he looks at it, 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.
The pain of the venomous bites drove the people to repent, and they begged Moses to intervene on their behalf. I AM instructed Moses to make an image of one of the serpents and to set it on a pole. Anyone who had been and looked at the image lived. The raising of such a contemptible symbol on a pole ordinarily would have caused the people to shrink away in revulsion. But in the case the Israelite s had to look at the serpent's image in order to live. Yeshua pointed to this stunning image in His dialogue with Nicodemus (see John 3:14, 15) as an analogy to His own execution. To the Jews, crucifixion was a sign of a curse. Therefore, just as the Israelite s had to look on the repugnant, uplifted image of a serpent to be saved, Jew and gentile, today have to look at the uplifted image of Yeshua on a cross in order to be saved from our sins.
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