Bronze Snake Erected- February 10
By ariegel. Filed in Daily Bible Reading |
I have never understood why the Lord had Moses make the bronze snake…to me it seemed like an idol….I know the people just looked at it- they did not worship it, but still. Anybody have any thoughts?
Sunday, February 28th 2010 at 10:19 am |
The brazen serpent had been carefully preserved, as a memorial of God’s goodness to their fathers in the wilderness; but it was idle and wicked to burn incense to it. All helps to devotion, not warranted by the word of God, interrupt the exercise of faith; they always lead to superstition and other dangerous evils. Human nature perverts every thing of this kind. True faith needs not such aids; the word of God, daily thought upon and prayed over, is all the outward help we need.
Matthew Henry
Saturday, February 13th 2010 at 4:30 pm |
Yes, he destroyed it because people began to worship the object, not just look at it as a reminder of what it symbolized. I know this is a “jump out there”, but I’m thinking that is why many do not agree with the “objects” that the Catholic religion incorporates?
Saturday, February 13th 2010 at 1:30 pm |
Dennis is right on about he typological use of the snake – looking forward to Jesus death. There is another Old Testament place where “Moses Bronze Snake” is mentioned. Its in 2Kings 18:4… King Hezekiah destroys it…
Can you guess why?????
Take a look and see for yourself!!!!
Thursday, February 11th 2010 at 4:51 pm |
I think that believing in God is the Key, not Moses using an Idol. In John 3:14-15, right before the famous John 3:16 verse, John uses the analogy of this act, to show that, like the Isrealites seeing Moses lift up a bronze snake and living, our belief in the resurrected Christ is how we gain eternal life.