...die. It is with sinners now, as it was with Israel in their plague from the fiery flying serpents: "It came to pass, that if a serpent had bitten any man, when he looked on the serpent of brass, he lived :" for " as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness,...

...of Moses, when the Lord said unto him, " Make thee a serpent of brass, (which was a type of Christ,) and set it upon a pole , and it shall come to pass that when a serpent hath bitten any man, that he may look thereon and live," Num. xxi. 8. Even so now in...

...healing efficacy was communicated to the serpent of brass on the utterance of the words of God — " Every one that is bitten, when he looketh upon it shall live." To this treatise, wherein the literal sense was defended, as usual, against the metaphorical, (Ecolampadius,...

...today? "Lord, take away our problems." But God didn't do it their way. He had a better way. He told Moses: "Make thee a fiery serpent, and set it upon...is bitten, when he looketh upon it, shall live."" God wanted them to develop faith, but works were also important. They had to look Ithat was the works1,...

...serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and much people of Israel died.” Verse[sI 8[—91: “And the Lord said unto Moses, Make thee a fiery...come to pass, that every one that is bitten, when he booketh upon it, shall live. And Moses made a serpent of brass, and put it upon a pole, and it came...

...Spirit by which to do it! In Numbers 21, the people of Israel were dying from snakebite. God tells Moses, "Make thee a fiery serpent, and set it upon...that is bitten, when he looketh upon it, shall live." (21:8) If carving images is a sin, then God commanded Moses to sin. And what about the Temple? In I...

...in the wilderness. People who had been bitten were told to look at a model of a serpent on a pole: "Make thee a fiery serpent, and set it upon a pole:...that is bitten, when he looketh upon it, shall live" (cf John 3:14, 15). Faith was present (at least in some): "Moses made a serpent of brass, and put it...

...the healing art the serpent theme is of course very ancient. Moses' brazen serpents24 are an example: "Make thee a fiery serpent, and set it upon a pole: and it shall come to pass that everyone . . . when he looketh upon it, shall live." The possession of special medicinal powers by...

...and suffering I cut the cords that bind you to earth. In this, I give you, Me. Look and Live March 23 ...Make thee a fiery serpent, and set it upon a pole: and it shall come to pass, that everyone that is bitten, when he looketh upon it, shall live (Numbers 21:8). .No man looking back is...

...to pass that whenever a serpent shall bite a man, every one bitten that looks upon it shall live. 9 And Moses made a serpent of brass, and put it upon a signal; and it came to pass that whenever a serpent bit a man, and he looked on the brazen serpent,...