Jesus in Numbers
”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.”. Isn’t that amazing? The serpents were the ones that bit the people and the antidote was a serpent again. In much the same way, people were who sinned and brought sin into the world and the Lord had to send a person as well, in the face of Jesus Christ, to get rid of sin and completely free us from its bondage. John 3:14-16 says: ”Just as Moses lifted up the snake in the desert, so the Son of Man must be lifted up, that everyone who believes in him may have eternal life. For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.”. The interesting thing was that the children of Israel could not understand the symbol and type of this snake, and they even began to worship it in later generations. It became their idol. How stupid can sometimes people be! Look at 2 Kings 18:4 “He removed the high places, smashed the sacred stones and cut down the Asherah poles. He broke into pieces the bronze snake Moses had made, for up to that time the Israelites had been burning incense to it. (It was called Nehushtan)”. Can you believe that? They had actually kept that very snake for hundreds of years, when its only purpose was to point to the coming Savior. And finally, Numbers calls Jesus: A Star: ”I see him, but not now; I behold him, but not near. A star will come out of Jacob; a scepter will rise out of Israel. He will crush the foreheads of Moab, the skulls of all the sons of Sheth.”. Maybe that was the star that led the magi to Jesus, who knows? God Bless You! Nikola
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