THE SERPENT IN THE WILDERNESS The Bronze Serpent

THE SERPENT IN THE WILDERNESS The Bronze Serpent As A Type of Christ

OLD TESTAMENT TYPE & ANTITYPE What is type / antitype? It is a Biblical principle in which a place (Jerusalem), person (Adam), event (flood), institution (sacrifices, feasts), office (prophet, priest, king), or object (tabernacle, brazen serpent) becomes a pattern by which later places, events, or persons are interpreted.

OLD TESTAMENT TYPE & ANTITYPE The “type” (Rom. 5: 14) is the original OT place, person, or event, and the “antitype” (Heb. 9: 24; 1 Pet. 3: 21) is the later, NT copy that fulfills the former

THE SERPENT IN THE WILDERNESS NUMBERS 21: 4 -9 *** JOHN 3: 14 -15 Sin of the people (vv. 4 -5) Penalty for sin: death (v. 6) Need for salvation expressed (v. 7) Sin of the people (John 1: 10 -11; 3: 19) Penalty for sin: death (Jn. 8: 24, 34, 44) Need for salvation expressed (Jn. 3: 3 -

THE SERPENT IN THE WILDERNESS NUMBERS 21: 4 -9 *** JOHN 3: 14 -15 Remedy: serpent lifted up (v. 8) Look and live (v. 9) Remedy: Christ lifted up (Jn. 12: 3233) Look and live (Jn. 3: 14 -16; 14: 6)

LIFTING UP THE SERPENT AND THE SAVIOR Discouragement gives rise to complaining and complaining gives rise to sin (1 Cor. 10: 9; Phil. 2: 14) Sin bites like a serpent (1 Cor. 15: 56)

LIFTING UP THE SERPENT AND THE SAVIOR The destroyer and deliverer are the same (Rom. 11: 22) God’s way (“look”) often does not make sense (Isa. 55: 8)

LIFTING UP THE SERPENT AND THE SAVIOR Simple acts of obedience (“look”) are important (Mt. 28: 20) The need to look and live: sinners (1 Cor. 1: 23) and saints (Heb. 12: 1 -2)

LIFTING UP THE SERPENT AND THE SAVIOR Don’t lose sight of the true meaning of God’s plan (2 Kings 18: 4) The true meaning of preachers (1 Cor. 3) The true meaning of the L. S. (1 Cor.