Was Jesus the anti-type of the "brazen serpent"?

hi Gary,the Hebrew children werecomplaining and never satified with what God had given them and taken them out of,even manna fron heaven was not good enough,so He sent fiery serpents among them, which bit or stung many to death. It is to be feared that they would not have owned the sin, if they had not felt the smart; but they relent under the rod. so God made pervision for their relief,8And 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.

The Jews themselves say it was not the sight of the brazen serpent that cured; but in looking up to it, they looked up to God as the Lord that healed them. There was a lot of gospel in this. Our Saviour declared,

Joh 3:14, 15, that as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so the Son of man must be lifted up, that whatsoever believeth in him, should not perish. Compare their disease and ours. Sin bites like a serpent, and stings like an adder. Compare the application of their remedy and ours. They looked and lived, and we, if we believe, shall not perish. It is by faith that we look unto Jesus,

Heb 12:2. Whosoever looked, however desperate his case, or feeble his sight, or distant his place, was certainly and perfectly cured. The Lord can relieve us from dangers and distresses, by means which human reason never would have devised. Oh that the venom of the old serpent, inflaming men's passions, and causing them to commit sins which end in their eternal destruction, were as sensibly felt, and the danger as plainly seen, as the Israelites felt pain

from the bite of the fiery serpents, and feared the death which followed! Then none would shut their eyes to Christ, or turn from his gospel. Then a crucified Saviour would be so valued, that all things else would be accounted loss for him; then, without delay, and with earnestness and simplicity, all would apply to him in the appointed way, crying, Lord, save us; we perish! Nor would any abuse the freeness of Christ's salvation, while they reckoned the price which it cost him.

Yes. The serpent was a type of Jesus Christ.

That is why He said,"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 parish, but have eternal life."

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Yes, the bronze serpent is an anti-type of Jesus, since Christ is hidden in types and shadows in the Old Testament. As the saying goes, "The old is in the new concealed; the new is in the old revealed." And Jesus Himself expounded to the two disciples on the road to Emmaus "in all the Scriptures the things concerning Himself, beginning at Moses and all the Prophets". (Luke 24:27)

God instructed Moses to make a bronze serpent and put it on a pole so that whoever among the Israelites who were bitten by snakes looked upon it, he would be healed and would live. (Numbers 21:9) "Bronze" is a picture of judgment, just like the bronze altar in the outer court of the temple of Solomon, on which the animal sacrifices were placed as burnt offerings. (1 Kings 8:64) The bronze altar, in turn, is a picture of the cross of Calvary, where Jesus became our perfect sacrifice by bearing God's punishment for all our sins.

Jesus made reference to the bronze serpent when He told Nicodemus, "And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life." (John 3:14-15) The serpent is a picture of Satan, since he appeared as a serpent in the garden of Eden. (Genesis 3) So the serpent on the pole is a foreshadowing that at the cross, Satan was also judged and defeated by Jesus, the Crusher of the serpent's head. Hallelujah!

"And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her Seed; He shall crush your head, and you shall bruise His heel." Genesis 3:15

"Now is the judgment of this world; now the ruler of this world will be cast out. And I, if I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all to Myself." This He said, signifying by what death He would die. (John 12:31-33)

At the cross, Jesus nailed the law or ten commandments, so that Satan would have no more weapon to condemn us because the law is the ministry of condemnation and death. (2 Corinthians 3)

"having wiped out the handwriting of requirements that was against us, which was contrary to us. And He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross. Having disarmed principalities and powers, He made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them in it." Colossians 2:14-15

The lesson for us today is that we know we have victory over sin, sicknesses and death through Jesus' finished work at the cross. (1 Corinthians 15:55-57) Just as the Israelites were healed and made whole by looking unwaveringly at the bronze serpent on the pole, today we are healed and made whole by meditating on and believing the truth of the gospel - that at the cross, Jesus bore our sicknesses and pain, and He was wounded for our transgressions, the punishment for our shalom (wholeness) was upon Him, and by His stripes or wounds, we have been healed and made whole. (Isaiah 53:4-6; 1 Peter 2:23-24)

Thanks for the Bible study. I have been blessed. God bless you, brother Gary.

As Moses raised the serpent in the wilderness, so the Son of Man is raised...doesn't sound "anti" anything....remember though, Hezikiah ordered the serpent torn down - and he supposedly was "right" with the Lord...

Jesus linked this event to himself. That seems pretty clear to me. He is the anti-type of the serpent in the wilderness.

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Maybe it was the first serpent in the sky god thingamajigger. You know? Like Cornocupious The home of Hon O' Plenty. That stuff was just to good to hang on the vine like that. Okay that was creepy. It was funny inside my head, though. I'm still chuckling. I flashed on Adam flinging the snake out of the garden. "Look Honey, a flying serpent." CRAP! Why didn't I think of that? Snake? What was I smoking that day? It was the day I learned about them 'shrooms and herbs. I didn't see Jesus and Suzanne that day? Was it the Sabbath? Oh well. Carry on!

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