BRAGADAYJAH 456

BRAGADAYJAH 456

After many had died from the sting of serpents, the people turned to Moses and confessed that they had sinned in that they had spoken against the Lord and against Moses.  Therefore, said they, pray for us unto the Lord that he may take the serpents away from us.  And of course Moses sought the Lord on their behalf.

And so the Lord told Moses to make a fiery serpent and set it upon a pole; and it will come to pass that everyone who is bitten, when he looks upon the brazen serpent he shall live.

And Moses made a serpent of bronze and put it upon a pole and it came to pass that if anyone was bitten, when he looked upon the serpent, he lived.

In this context, the serpent symbolized sin judged; the bronze was also symbolic of the bronze alter where sin was judged and the bronze laver of self- judgment where one symbolically washed away his sin. And of course the bronze serpent is a type of Christ who became sin for us.

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