“The LORD said to Moses, ‘Make a snake and put it up on a pole; anyone who is bitten can look at it and live.’ So Moses made a bronze snake and put it up on a pole. Then when anyone was bitten by a snake and looked at the bronze snake, he lived.” Numbers 21:8-9.
I am amazed at the how everything seems to connect back to the Bible. When my sister died, my son wanted to get a tattoo for which to remember her. He asked me for different ideas based on what was important to her. I suggested the nursing emblem since her passion laid with her gentle care of the infirmed and the dying. Little did I know that this representation was sent by God, used by Moses to heal and foreshadowed the life of Christ.
We find our grumbling Israelites once again complaining about God and Moses, looking for other ways to satisfy their needs. God sent venomous serpents as a means of punishment for their lack of faith and impatient rebellion. Many Israelites were bitten and died from these bites. They finally were humbled and approached Moses to speak on their behalf asking God to help them. God’s solution was the verse listed above which would be a lesson to illustrate the tremendous healing power of God, and forshadowed Christ, the Rod help up and centered one day on the cross requiring every eye to look up and acknowledge Him.
Christ’s body covered the full extent of the cross, which extended in all four directions requiring everyone to acknowledge that He triumphs over everything. Like the Israelites, we are bitten by sin, disease, loneliness and despair but there is a remedy that will heal our broken hearts, heal our grief and deliver us back to joy.
The snake on the pole represented an act of looking upward in faith to God for healing. Christ was lifted high on a hill for all of us to “look at and live” if we will not keep our eyes at the level of the ground but raise them to the level of heaven.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment