The Soul of John 3.16 began in Numbers 21.8
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Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament 2095 רָאָה
Some of these appear in the definitions above. Five, however, are of special importance. (1) rāʾâ designates the saving, understanding, believing acceptance of the Word of God as delivered by his accredited messengers. In Isa 6:10 to see with the eyes is to hear God’s Word, to understand it, and to turn to him.
Then the Lord said to Moses, “Make a fiery serpent, and set it on a pole; and it shall be that everyone who is bitten, when he looks at it, shall live.”
Then they journeyed from Mount Hor by the Way of the Red Sea, to go around the land of Edom; and the soul of the people became very discouraged on the way. And 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 our soul loathes this worthless bread.” So the Lord sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and many of the people of Israel died.
Therefore 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.
Then the Lord said to Moses, “Make a fiery serpent, and set it on a pole; and it shall be that everyone who is bitten, when he looks at it, shall live.” So Moses made a bronze serpent, and put it on a pole; and so it was, if a serpent had bitten anyone, when he looked at the bronze serpent, he lived.
“Make the heart of this people dull,
And their ears heavy,
And shut their eyes;
Lest they see with their eyes,
And hear with their ears,
And understand with their heart,
And return and be healed.”
And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up,
And I will put enmity
Between you and the woman,
And between your seed and her Seed;
He shall bruise your head,
And you shall bruise His heel.”
So the Lord God said to the serpent:
“Because you have done this,
You are cursed more than all cattle,
And more than every beast of the field;
On your belly you shall go,
And you shall eat dust
All the days of your life.
And I will put enmity
Between you and the woman,
And between your seed and her Seed;
He shall bruise your head,
And you shall bruise His heel.”
To the woman He said:
“I will greatly multiply your sorrow and your conception;
In pain you shall bring forth children;
Your desire shall be for your husband,
And he shall rule over you.”
Then to Adam He said, “Because you have heeded the voice of your wife, and have eaten from the tree of which I commanded you, saying, ‘You shall not eat of it’:
“Cursed is the ground for your sake;
In toil you shall eat of it
All the days of your life.
Both thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for you,
And you shall eat the herb of the field.
In the sweat of your face you shall eat bread
Till you return to the ground,
For out of it you were taken;
For dust you are,
And to dust you shall return.”
And Adam called his wife’s name Eve, because she was the mother of all living.
Also for Adam and his wife the Lord God made tunics of skin, and clothed them.
Then the Lord God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of Us, to know good and evil. And now, lest he put out his hand and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever”—therefore the Lord God sent him out of the garden of Eden to till the ground from which he was taken. So He drove out the man; and He placed cherubim at the east of the garden of Eden, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to guard the way to the tree of life.
Looking upon the bronze serpent in order to live. In John 3.14, the word is hupuzo as shown below. Relate this to 2nd birth. We all have been bitten by the serpent in our own personal wilderness of sin. To live again, we must behold the Lamb lifted up on the bloody cross, who became the very image of evil, the serpent in the Garden...and in His death & resurrection, fulfilled Genesis 3.15.
Some of these appear in the definitions above. Five, however, are of special importance. (1) rāʾâ designates the saving, understanding, believing acceptance of the Word of God as delivered by his accredited messengers. In Isa 6:10 to see with the eyes is to hear God’s Word, to understand it, and to turn to him.5312. ὑψόω hupsóō; contracted hupsṓ, fut. hupsṓsō, from húpsos (5311), height. To heighten, raise high, elevate, lift up. Trans.:
(I) Particularly of the brazen serpent and also of Jesus on the cross (John 3:14; 8:28; Sept .: of water, Gen. 7:17; of a wall, 2 Chr. 33:14; of hands, Dan. 12:7). Hence Jesus is further said to be lifted up from the earth and exalted to heaven (with allusion to His death on the cross John 12:32, 34); exalted to the right hand of God.1
Sept Sept (Septuagint)
1 Zodhiates, S. (2000) The complete word study dictionary: New Testament. electronic ed. Chattanooga, TN: AMG Publishers.
11 Culver, R.D. (1999) “2095 רָאָה,” Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament. electronic ed. Edited by R.L. Harris, G.L. Archer Jr., and B.K. Waltke. Chicago: Moody Press.