Comments on: Bronze Snake Erected- February 10

By: RobC

RobC — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 18:19:51 +0000

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

By: ariegel

ariegel — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 00:30:41 +0000

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?

By: Noah Largent

Noah Largent — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 21:30:45 +0000

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!!!!

By: Dennis

Dennis — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 00:51:25 +0000

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.