The Brazen Serpent – a miracle

Posted in Bible, Miracle, Religion on Friday, 13 May 2011

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When Moses leads the Israelites out of Captivity they travel from Mount Hor past the Red Sea towards Edom, and in this wilderness the people do little but curse Moses and complain of their ordeal, regretting their great escape from slavery and wishing to return to Egypt.

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The Brazen Serpent cures those poisoned by snakebites, by Harold Copping

So as usual God has to chasten them with a suitable punishment, and sends snakes into the barren land to torment His hungry and thirsty people. Many are fatally bitten, and panic and remorse spread throughout their encampments, so that eventually they are compelled to go to Moses and ask him to pray to God for an end to their ordeal. Moses does just that, and God tells him to

make 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 21:8 )

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