WHEN the children of Israel were being led of God through the wilderness, they continually murmured against Him. At one time He sent fiery serpents, a type of sin and Satan to bite them so that many died. When Israel acknowledged their sin God told Moses to set a brazen serpent on a pole, and caused everyone who looked upon the serpent to live if he had been bitten. This was a beautiful type of the way the Lord Jesus gives eternal life to any sinner who by faith looks to Him who died for sinners.
There came a time when the Israelites began to worship the brazen serpent, burning incense to it. That was very wicked because God only is to be worshiped. The serpent was only a piece of brass through which God worked.
Hezekiah, trying to allow God His rightful place in his kingdom, had the serpent broken up and destroyed.
Surely all who read “Messages of the Love of God” know that it is only those who by faith look to the Lord Jesus Christ Himself, that have eternal life, and have their sins forgiven.
“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 perish, but have everlasting life.” John. 3:14, 15.
“LOOK UNTO ME, AND BE YE SAVED, ALL THE ENDS OF THE EARTH: FOR I AM GOD, AND THERE IS NONE ELSE.” Isaiah 45:22.
ML 09/24/1933