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CHRIST IN THE
OLD TESTAMENT

Before Bethlehem, Jesus intervened often in this world. This series presents some of those occasions, along with “types” of Christ: people and objects who represent Him and His qualities.

MOSES LIFTS THE
BRONZE SNAKE,
JUST AS JESUS
WAS TO BE LIFTED

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The people grew impatient on the way; they spoke against God and against Moses, and said, “Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the desert? There is no bread! There is no water! And we detest this miserable food!”

Then the LORD sent venomous snakes among them; they bit the people and many Israelites died. The people came to Moses and said, “We sinned when we spoke against the LORD and against you. Pray that the LORD will take the snakes away from us.” So Moses prayed for the people.

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.

JOHN 3

Jesus answered, “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.”

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PETER PAUL RUBENS
"The Brazen Serpent"

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TINTORETTO
"Moses with Bronze Serpent during the Plague of Snakes"

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ANTHONY VAN DYCK
"Moses and the Brazen Serpent"

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FEODOR BRUNI
"Moses and the Brazen Serpent"

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SEBASTIEN BOURDON
"Moses and the Brazen Serpent"

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JAMES TISSOT
"The Brazen Serpent"

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GUSTAVE DORÉ
"The Brazen Serpent"

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JULIUS SCHNORR VON CAROLSFELD
"The Brazen Serpent"

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LUCA GIORDANO
"Moses and the Brazen Serpent"

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SIMON VOUET
"The Brazen Serpent"

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WILLIAM BLAKE
"Moses Erecting the Brazen Serpent"

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FRANCESCO CAMPORA

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JOHN HALL
"Moses with His Rod and His Brazen Serpent"

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CHARLES LE BRUN
"The Brazen Serpent"

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JOHANN KÖNIG
"The Brazen Serpent"

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BENJAMIN WEST
"The Brazen Serpent"

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DOUGLAS RAMSEY
"The Uplifted Serpent"

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"Moses and the Brass Serpent"

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MICHELANGELO
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H. HUGHES
"Moses and the Bronze Serpent"

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GIOVANNI FANTONI
"Brazen Serpent Monument"

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[Red Badger]

A few centuries later King Hezekiah eventually had the brass serpent destroyed because it had become like an idol to the people of Israel, as people were burning incense to it............

[No name given]

Just inspiring and beautiful.

[Hebrews 11:6]

Nehushtan became an idol.....................

[Red Badger]

Israelites certainly had a lot of problems with idol worship.

Golden Calf, Burning their children to Molech, Asherah poles, Temple prostitutes.................

[Maudeen]

Yep. . .Keep your eyes on JESUS!

[Hebrews 11:6]

Yep!

[Hebrews 11:6]

In a larger sense, did they not make the Law into an idol?

[Red Badger]

Correct, and just like an idol, it could not save you................

[Hebrews 11:6]

Their Stumbling Block.......................

1 Corinthians 1:23: "but we preach Christ crucified, to Jews a stumbling block and to Gentiles foolishness,"

[chuckles]

"Israelite's certainly had a lot of problems with idol worship."

Everybody has problems with idol worship. Israel was just featured in the Bible as God's people to teach others what God required to please Him.

In Gen 48, Jacob, who was renamed "Israel", adopted 2 Gentile children from Joseph as his own sons in order to give them access to the Promised Land. Joseph was a type and shadow of Jesus who married an Egyptian woman and produced 2 Gentile children. Gentiles can only be adopted into Israel through the blessing of the cross to qualify for a home in the Promised Land. Jesus will marry a Gentile Bride that comes through the blessing of the cross in order to go to Heaven. As far as I know, there is no examples of a covenant made with a Gentile in Scripture. You must be adopted by "Israel" to qualify for property in the Kingdom. Israel is the example needed for study to follow the teachings God wants us to learn. God is not a respecter of persons. Everybody is judged on the same principles. Idol worship is a problem with all peoples. Look to the cross to be healed and see that Jesus became sin on the cross for our salvation.

[Big Red Badger]

‘I Am a Jealous God’
‘I Am Who I am’
.
All Glory and Honor to Our God
King of the Universe.
God’s Only Son, the
Lamb that takes Away
The Sin of the World is
Worthy of Our Praise and Worship!
Amen

[SisterK]

Snakes! Why did it have to be snakes?!

[Hebrews 11:6]

Calm down, Indy. God’s in complete control....

[chuckles]

Jesus became sin while on the cross. The snakes represent that.

Look to the cross and become healed.

[SisterK]

or He took on all of our sin
our sins were nailed to the cross