Nehustan the Bronze Serpent of Sin

Numbers 21:5 KJV 1900

And the people spake against God, and against Moses, Wherefore have ye brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? for there is no bread, neither is there any water; and our soul loatheth this light bread.

Numbers 21:8 KJV 1900

And 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.

Numbers 21:9 KJV 1900

And Moses made a serpent of brass, and put it upon a pole, and it came to pass, that if a serpent had bitten any man, when he beheld the serpent of brass, he lived.

John 3:14 KJV 1900

And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up:

John 3:15 KJV 1900

That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

2 Kings 18:4 KJV 1900

He removed the high places, and brake the images, and cut down the groves, and brake in pieces the brasen serpent that Moses had made: for unto those days the children of Israel did burn incense to it: and he called it Nehushtan.

Nehushtan, the bronze serpent wrapped around a pole that Moses built so that if the people looked upon it and beheld their ungrateful rebellious sin, they would live. God had sent fiery vipers upon them so thousands of them died.

This was also a prophetic look ahead as Christ who had no sin became as the most evil sin...actually in the spirit taking all the sin of the world upon Himself. So that even His Father could not look upon Him.

We must behold what our sin did to Christ on that Cross and how it deformed Him.

Now multiply that by billions, and you might begin to see how hideous he must have become in the real realm of the spiritual world.

Jump ahead to John 3.14-15. Now you see that this was a prophetic act that Moses performed in the Wilderness...

Even to the degree that Moses made an idol so that if anyone looked upon the hideous serpent on the pole, he lived.

Sadly, because of how great this miracle was, the people of Israel came to worship the serpent on the pole. 2 Kings 18.4!