Old Testament Events
The Bronze Serpent
Lifted Up for Healing
Description
When fiery serpents plagued Israel in the wilderness, God commanded Moses to make a bronze serpent and set it on a pole. Everyone who was bitten and looked upon the bronze serpent lived. Jesus explicitly identified this as a type of His crucifixion: '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.' The serpent represents sin; bronze represents judgment. Christ became sin for us and bore God's judgment. All who look to Him in faith are saved.
Key Verses
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.
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.
For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.
And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me.
Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth: for I am God, and there is none else.