Dans John 3:14, Jésus a dit, et comme Moïse éleva le serpent dans le désert, quand même, le Fils de l’homme doit être élevé: afin que quiconque croit en Lui ne périsse pas, mais avoir la vie éternelle. Why was the serpent of brass on the pole a foreshadowing of Jesus’ death on the cross?
Why were the people of God attacked by fiery serpents?
And they journeyed from mount Hor by the way of the Red sea, to compass the land of Edom: and the soul of the people was much discouraged because of the way. And the people spake against God, and against Moses, Wherefore have ye brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? for there is no bread, neither is there any water; and our soul loatheth this light bread. And the Lord sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and much people of Israel died.Therefore the people came to Moses, et dit, We have sinned, for we have spoken against the Lord and against thee; pray unto the Lord, that he take away the serpents from us. And Moses prayed for the people. And the Lord said unto Moses, Make thee a fiery serpent, and set it upon a pole: and it shall come to pass, that every one that is bitten, when he looketh upon it, shall live. And Moses made a serpent of brass, and put it upon a pole, and it came to pass, that if a serpent had bitten any man, when he beheld the serpent of brass, he lived (Nombres 21:4-9)
God led His people in a way they didn’t want to go, Et à cause de ça, they became discouraged. They were not satisfied; donc, they murmured and complained against Moses and God and came with the familiar ‘why’.
The Israelites were not satisfied and were not excited about God’s plan and all the things that were coming. They didn’t trust the Lord and relied on His words, but they were dissatisfied with God’s plan, God’s leading, and God’s provisions.
They complained about not having bread and water and they loathed the light bread, which God provided for every day.
Due to all their complaining and murmuring and speaking against God and Moses, they brought mischief (mal) sur eux-mêmes.
Because of the fact that God’s people turned against God, God turned against His people and took away His protection and gave them up to their ruler; Le serpent, l'adversaire de Dieu, to whom the people listened and were led.
When God sent fiery serpents among the people and the people were bitten by the serpents and many died, the spiritual was revealed in the natural.
The wicked have sharpened their tongues like a serpent
Do ye indeed speak righteousness, O congregation? o ye judge uprightly, O ye sons of men? Ouais, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh the violence of your hands in the earth. The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies. Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear; Which will not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming never so wisely (Psaumes 58:1-5)
Deliver me, Oh Seigneur, from the evil man: preserve me from the violent man; Which imagine mischiefs in their heart; continually are they gathered together for war. Ils ont aiguisé leur langue comme un serpent; vipères’ le poison est sous leurs lèvres. Sela (Psaumes 140:1-3)
God’s people were not transformed and had not renewed their minds with the words and commandments of God and had not delighted themselves in the law and made the law of God their own
Instead of submitting to God and being led by His words and by His will, the people were led by the will and the nature of the devil aka the serpent, and turned against God and sinned against God through their words.
The serpent of brass was lifted by Moses in the wilderness
But the Israelites repented of their sins, that they had spoken against the Lord and against Moses, and they asked Moses to pray unto God that He would remove the serpents from them.
Moses prayed to God for the people, and God heard Moses’ prayer and answered his prayer, and brought deliverance for the people.
God commanded Moses to make a fiery serpent and put it on a stake. Moses obeyed the words of God and made a serpent of brass and put the brass serpent on a pole, so that the serpent of brass was lifted in the wilderness.
Everyone that was bitten and looked upon the serpent of brass would live
Everyone that was bitten by a serpent and looked upon the serpent of brass on the pole, didn’t die, but lived.
And so God brought salvation (guérison) through the serpent of brass and those, who believed and obeyed the words of God and looked upon the serpent of brass, stayed alive.
Why did God command Moses to make a serpent of brass? The serpent is the father of (déchu) humanité. The generation of fallen man has the evil nature of the devil (serpent).
The serpent of brass on the pole, would remember the people of their rebellious behavior and their sin, how they spoke against God and Moses, and the fiery serpents and how God brought salvation (guérison) à ceux, who obeyed His words and looked upon the serpent of brass on the pole.
The moment, when the serpent became the father of mankind
Although Adam walked with God in the garden of Eden, there came a moment when Adam became disobedient to God and believed the words of the devil, which had come to him through the serpent and through Eve, above the words of God and obeyed the words of the devil by eating from the forbidden fruit.
Through his obedience to the devil (serpent), he yielded to the devil and death entered and his spirit died (and came under the authority of death) and lived in the power of the devil.
Through his deed of disobedience to God, Adam had fallen from his position and was (spirituellement) separated from God and had become an adversary of God.
The serpent, le diable, had become the father of fallen man and everyone, qui naîtrait de la postérité de l'homme, would be born as a sinner and live in the power of the devil and darkness.
From that moment sin and death reigned as king in the lives of fallen mankind (pécheurs).
But God had already a plan of redemption for fallen mankind, to deliver mankind from the power of the devil, and sin and death. God promised that the seed of the woman would bruise the head of the serpent and the serpent would bruise his heel (Genèse 3).
Cependant, this didn’t happen immediately, but it took a long time, before God sent His Son Jesus Christ out of love to the earth to deliver fallen mankind from the power of the devil and reconcile man back to Himself (Lire aussi: What does it mean the head of the devil was bruised because the heel of Jesus was bruised?)
Jesus came to the earth to redeem the sinners from the power of the serpent
Voir, Mon serviteur agira avec prudence, Il sera exalté et exalté, and be very high. As many were astonied at thee; Son visage était si gâché plus que n’importe quel homme, et sa forme plus que les fils des hommes: C’est ainsi qu’il répandra beaucoup de nations; les rois lui fermeront la bouche: car ce qui ne leur avait pas été dit, ils le verront; et ce qu’ils n’ont pas entendu, ils le considéreront (Isaïe 52:13-15)
Qui a cru à notre rapport? et à qui le bras du Seigneur est révélé? Car il grandira devant lui comme une plante tendre, et comme une racine d’un sol sec: Il n’a ni forme ni beauté; et quand nous le verrons, il n’y a pas de beauté que nous devrions désirer. Il est méprisé et rejeté des hommes; Un homme de chagrin, et connaissant le chagrin: et nous lui cachâmes pour ainsi dire nos visages; Il était méprisé, et nous ne l’avons pas estimé. Certes, il a porté nos chagrins, et porta nos chagrins: cependant nous l’estimions frappé, épris de Dieu, and afflicted. But He was wounded for our transgressions, Il a été meurtri pour nos iniquités: le châtiment de notre paix était sur lui; et c’est par ses meurtrissures que nous sommes guéris.
Nous tous, comme des brebis, nous nous sommes égarés; Nous avons tourné chacun à sa propre voie; et le Seigneur a fait retomber sur lui l’iniquité de nous tous. Il était opprimé, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not His mouth: Il est amené comme un agneau à l’abattoir, et comme une brebis devant ses tondeurs est muette, so he openeth not His mouth.
Il a été tiré de prison et d’un jugement: and who shall declare his generation? car il a été retranché du pays des vivants: for the transgression of My people was He stricken.
And He made his grave with the wicked, et avec les riches dans sa mort; parce qu’Il n’avait pas fait de violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth.
Pourtant, il a plu au Seigneur de le meurtrir; Il l'a mis en peine: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, Il verra sa postérité, Il prolongera ses jours, et le plaisir du Seigneur prospèrera entre ses mains. He shall see of the travail of his soul, et sera satisfait: by His knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; car il portera leurs iniquités.
C'est pourquoi je lui partagerai une part avec les grands, et il partagera le butin avec les forts; parce qu'il a répandu son âme jusqu'à la mort: et il fut compté parmi les transgresseurs; et Il a porté le péché de beaucoup, et il a intercédé pour les transgresseurs (Isaïe 53)
And so Jesus came in the likeness of man to earth to redeem man from the power of the serpent (le diable).
Jesus became equal to mankind and was tempted in all things, mais sans péché, so that Jesus could become the Substitute for fallen mankind. Because if Jesus would not become equal to mankind, and had to be tempted in all things, Jesus couldn’t take the place of mankind and couldn’t become the Substitute for mankind and bear the sins and iniquities of mankind (Isaïe 53, Hébreux 2:14-18 (Lire aussi: The peace restored between fallen man and God et Jésus était-il pleinement humain?)).
Jésus, the Son of Man, was lifted on the cross
Jesus was scourged in such a horrible way, that his face was so marred and His appearance was no longer human. Then Jesus was lifted on the cross. Jesus carried all the sins and iniquities of mankind, which the Lord had laid upon Him, and was made sin and became a curse on the cross (Lire aussi: Pourquoi Jésus a-t-il été crucifié sur une croix en bois? etUn chrétien peut-il vivre sous une malédiction?)
Although Jesus did the will of God and pleased the Father, and this was all part of God’s redemptive work for fallen mankind, the people esteemed Jesus stricken, épris de Dieu, et affligés (Oh. Isaïe 53:4)
Jesus finished His work on the cross, entered Hades to take the power of death and Hell (Hadès) and redeem the prisoners of death, and rose from the dead with the keys of Hell and death (Révélation 1:18).
Jesus was highly exalted by the Father
Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: But made Himself of no reputation, and took upon Him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men: Et être trouvé dans la mode en tant qu'homme, He humbled himself, et je suis devenu obéissant jusqu'à la mort, même la mort de la croix. C'est pourquoi Dieu l'a aussi hautement exalté, and given him a name which is above every name: Qu'au Nom de Jésus tout genou devrait fléchir, des choses au paradis, et les choses sur terre, et les choses sous la terre; Et que chaque langue confesse que Jésus-Christ est Seigneur, à la gloire de Dieu le Père (Philippiens 2:5-11)
Après 40 Jours, Jésus est monté au ciel, where Jesus was highly exalted by the Father and took place on the throne at the right hand of the Father, above all principality, pouvoir, pourrait, et la domination (Éphésiens 1:19-21).
Tout le monde, who believes in Jesus Christ and His redemptive work and repent and become born of water and Spirit, shall no longer live in the power of the devil (serpent) and the power of sin and death, in disobedience to God, but shall be transferred from the power of the devil to the Kingdom of God, où Jésus-Christ est Roi et règne, and shall be reconciled with God and be made righteous and inherit eternal life.
Through the disobedience of man to God, the serpent became the father of fallen man, but through the obedience of Jesus Christ to the Father, and Jesus being lifted on the cross, man would be reconciled with God and God would become the Father of the new man (Romains 5 et 6).
The serpent of brass points to Jesus Christ, Who brings salvation and eternal life
Et comme Moïse élevait le serpent dans le désert, de même le Fils de l’homme doit être élevé: Afin que quiconque croit en lui ne périsse pas, mais avoir la vie éternelle. Car Dieu a tant aimé le monde, qu'il a donné son Fils unique, afin que quiconque croit en lui ne périsse pas, mais ayez la vie éternelle. Car Dieu n’a pas envoyé son Fils dans le monde pour condamner le monde; mais que le monde soit sauvé par Lui. Celui qui croit en Lui n’est pas condamné: Mais celui qui ne croit pas est déjà condamné, parce qu’il n’a pas cru au Nom du Fils unique de Dieu (John 3:14-18)
Jesus didn’t come to the earth to condemn mankind, but to save mankind. Because every man is fallen, every man is a sinner and is affected by evil (nature pécheresse), autrement dit, is bitten by the serpent, and therefore every man needs salvation. God has provided for the salvation of mankind through His Son Jesus Christ. Jesus came and gave (et donne encore) man a choice for life or death.
Because as the serpent of brass was lifted in the wilderness by Moses, brought deliverance from death, and gave life to those, who believed in the words of God and looked upon the serpent, quand même, does Jesus Christ, who was lifted on the cross on Calvary, brings deliverance from the power of the serpent (le diable), la mort, and darkness and gave eternal life to those, who believe in Him and become born again in Him.
And so Jesus became the Substitute, Deliverer, Saviour, Healer, Author, and Lord of the new man, who submits to the Word and listens to Jesus and obeys and does His words and lives in the will of the Father.
'Soyez le sel de la terre’
