Where is Jesus? #3
Bible Teaching#3 #WhereIsJesus?**Compare John 3:14-15**
Numbers21:4 From Mount Hor they set out by the way to the Red Sea, to go around the land of Edom. And the people became impatient on the way. 5And the people spoke against God and against Moses, “Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? For there is no food and no water, and we loathe this wretched manna! **Read John6:30-35: This is a direct affront to Yeshua the Son of G-d.**
6Then the LORD sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people, so that many people of Israel died. 7And the people came to Moses and said, “We have sinned, for we have spoken against the LORD and against you. Pray to the LORD, that he take away the serpents from us.” So Moses prayed for the people. 8And the LORD said to Moses, “Make a fiery serpent and set it on a pole, and everyone who is bitten, when he sees it, shall live.” 9So Moses made a bronze serpent and set it on a pole. And if a serpent bit anyone, he would look at the bronze serpent and live.
“The serpent” The image of original sin (Genesis ch3): G-d makes Israel look at the serpent, and in this Way, confronts them with their own sin (Zechariah 12:10; John19:37). Without this honest acknowledgement of transgression before the L-rd, there can be no repentance; and no true healing(vs9)✝️❣️In the same Way, when we under the New Covenant, found the courage to “look at” - to acknowledge Yeshua on the cross, we were confronted with our own sin, which led to repentance.
Furthermore, in Galatians 3:13 we read: “Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us—for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who is hanged on a tree”—a powerful illustration of both the bronze snake on the pole - and its fulfillment: Christ’s crucifixion.
Bronze: Can also be symbolic of sin & transgression. (Exodus 27:1-7). The alter of burnt offerings (foreshadowing the Cross) along with everything else in the outer court of the Tabernacle, was overlaid entirely with bronze; We also see in Revelation 1:15, the feet of Yeshua as burnished bronze: Both these signify not only our fallen nature, but how G-d through His Son, has dealt with - conquered it. (Genesis 3:15)
Numbers 16:38-40: On more than one occasion, items connected to transgression against the L-rd were taken and hammered into the bronze of that altar, in the same way that our own transgressions were literally hammered into the hands and feet of Yeshua - because 1Peter2:24. One could argue that this alter ✝️ is fashioned out of the sins of the people: Neither it, nor the cross that it pointed to, would exist, except for our sin.
“For this is the will of my Father, that everyone who looks on the Son and believes in him should have eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.” John 6:40
But just as this event foreshadows the Cross, it is also a foreshadowing of another event: The final judgment - a powerful picture of the time when God truly will put the fiery serpent on a stake and judge him. And in this picture we see a clear warning: “…because the prince of this world is stands condemned .” See John 16:8-11
Just as Moses lifted up the snake in the wilderness, so the Son of Man must be lifted up, that everyone who believes may have eternal life in him.” 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. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.(John3:14-17)
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