“And 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 eternal life.” (John 3:14-15)
A man named Nicodemus, a Pharisee, came to Jesus one night, recognizing Jesus as a teacher come from God. Jesus told the man that he must be born again. Then Jesus related a story from the Bible book of Numbers, a story this Pharisee would know well.
In the days of Moses, the Israelites had crossed the Red Sea and were in the wilderness. They complained because they had gotten tired of the food God was supplying. God sent a plague of poisonous snakes among the people. The people were bitten and those who were bitten were dying. Moses asked God what to do. God told him to make a serpent of brass, put it on a long pole and lift it up so everyone could see it. Those who looked on the brazen serpent were healed.
Then Jesus informed this night time visitor that the Son of man, Jesus, must be lifted up as that serpent had been lifted up those many hundreds of years before.
We have all been bitten by the old serpent, the devil. God has provided a cure. Jesus, God’s Son, was lifted up, as we know, on the cross of Calvary, that whoever looks believing, will be saved. Have you accepted Him by faith?
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