God sent firey serpents among the people because of their sin and many Israelites died when they were bit by them. After the people repented and asked for forgiveness...God asked Moses to make a bronze serpent and set it on a standard (or pole)...so that if any person was bit, all they had to do was look upon the serpent and their life would be spared.
Its interesting to me that God didn't remove the serpents from the land. This would have been another solution to the problem of the people getting bit. Instead he asked Moses to create something to which people 'look upon' if they were bit.
And if they were bit...and looked up this image above... they were saved.
The cross has the same saving power for us. There will always be sin in our lives. We need to recognize the sin in our lives as a deadly poisonus snake bite and immeditely turn and look to the cross...for HE died to save us from these sins.
How many snake bites do you have? Turn to the cross.
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