There is a passage of scripture that tells of Jesus revealing to two men about how all the things concerning him in the Old Testament are linked to him.
Luke 24:27
And beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, he explained to them what was said in all the Scriptures concerning himself. I always think that would have been a cool night. Why? Because of stuff like this:
Numbers 21:4-9 Then they set out from Mount Hor by the way of the Red Sea, to go around the land of Edom; and the people became impatient because of the journey. The people spoke against God and Moses, "Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? For there is no food and no water, and we loathe this miserable food." The LORD sent fiery serpents among the people and they bit the people, so that many people of Israel died. So the people came to Moses and said, "We have sinned, because we have spoken against the LORD and you; intercede with the LORD, that He may remove the serpents from us." And Moses interceded for the people. Then the LORD said to Moses, "Make a fiery serpent, and set it on a standard; and it shall come about, that everyone who is bitten, when he looks at it, he will live." And Moses made a bronze serpent and set it on the standard; and it came about, that if a serpent bit any man, when he looked to the bronze serpent, he lived.
John 3:13-16
No one has ascended into heaven, but He who descended from heaven: the Son of Man. "As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up; so that whoever believes will in Him have eternal life. For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life. That rules. John 3:16 is way cooler when set beside the account in Numbers 21.
Also, the whole idea of “Look upon the Lord, believe, and be saved” is way cool (as well as true). My mind wanders to the Roman centurion who stood at the cross claiming “Surely, this man was the Son of G-D” (Mark 15:39). Sometimes you have to embrace the simplicity of the salvation that comes from G-D.
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@Lynnjynh9315 They did. It was destroyed for that reason (2Kings 18:4)
Word.
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Gideon made a golden Ephod in the book of Judges, for what to him seemed like a good reason, to worship G-d. But, a verse or two later the people are standing around idolizing it.Goes to show that people will idolize anything I guess.
@crevis05 I think we also skip over John 3:17 a lot too.