WHAT HAPPENED TO THE BRAZEN SERPENT?
Raymond Elliott The children of Israel became very discouraged and impatient as they traveled from Mount Hor by the way of the Red Sea to compass the land of Edom. They began to speak against God and His servant Moses. Complaints could be heard as to why God had brought them out in the wilderness to perish. Because of this display of a lack of faith, fiery serpents were sent among the people and many of them died that day. The children of Israel cried to Moses to ask God for mercy and deliverance. God instructed Moses to make a fiery serpent and put in on a standard. Those individuals bitten by the serpents could look upon the brazen serpent that Moses had built and be spared from certain death (Numbers 21:4-9). This act of Gods grace and salvation from death was a type of that greater deliverance from eternal ruin and destruction. Jesus said, And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up, that whoever believes in Him should not perish b
