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Saturday, March 18, 2017

Fiery Serpents

Bible Questions Answered:
“God sent fiery serpents to kill his people?...”
Cally/ Oceanside, California U.S.A.

Bible Answer:

Bible Texts:

Numbers 21:4-9 NLT (The Bronze Snake)
4 Then the people of Israel set out from Mount Hor, taking the road to the Red Sea to go around the land of Edom. But the people grew impatient with the long journey,
5 and they began to speak against God and Moses. “Why have you brought us out of Egypt to die here in the wilderness?” they complained. “There is nothing to eat here and nothing to drink. And we hate this horrible manna!”
6 So The Lord sent poisonous snakes ("fiery serpents" KJV) among the people, and many were bitten and died.
7 Then the people came to Moses and cried out, “We have sinned by speaking against
The Lord and against you. Pray that The Lord will take away the snakes.” So Moses prayed for the people.
8 Then The Lord told him, “Make a replica of a poisonous snake and attach it to a pole. All who are bitten will live if they simply look at it!”
9 So Moses made a snake out of bronze (Brass speaks of judgment) and attached it to a pole. Then anyone who was bitten by a snake could look at the bronze snake and be healed!

It was God's intentions that His people march into the promised land through Kadesh-barnea, but the people rebelled against The Lord, and refused.
Now marching through the Sinai dessert, in their rebellion, they became discouraged, and began to complain.

It would do all well to understand, God is not simply a God of blessing, but of judgment as well!
Deuteronomy 28:
Blessings 1-14
Cursing 15-47

Isaiah 30:18 KJV
And therefore will The Lord wait, that He may be gracious unto you, and therefore will He be exalted, that He may have mercy upon you: for The Lord is A God Of Judgment: blessed are all they that wait for Him.

Malachi 2:17 KJV
Ye have wearied The Lord with your words. Yet ye say, Wherein have we wearied Him? When ye say, Every one that doeth evil is good in the sight of The Lord, and He delighteth in them; or, Where is
The God Of judgment?

Numbers 21:6,7 NLT
6 So The Lord sent poisonous snakes ("fiery serpents" KJV) among the people, and many were bitten and died.
7 Then the people came to Moses and cried out, “We have sinned by speaking against
The Lord and against you. Pray that The Lord will take away the snakes.” So Moses prayed for the people.

Why were the people turning to Moses and The Lord? They were, because of the fiery serpents!

Psalm 119:67 KJV
Before I was afflicted I went astray: but now have I kept thy Word.

Jonah 2:5-7,10 KJV
5 The waters compassed me about, even to the soul: the depth closed me round about, the weeds were wrapped about my head.
6 I went down to the bottoms of the mountains; the earth with her bars was about me for ever: yet hast thou brought up my life from corruption, O Lord my God.
7 When my soul fainted within me I remembered the Lord: and my prayer came in unto thee, into thine holy temple.
10 And The Lord spake unto the fish, and it vomited out Jonah upon the dry land.

Is God, unkind in His judgment?

Hebrews 12:5-13 NLT
5 And have you forgotten the encouraging words God spoke to you as His children? He said,
My child, don’t make light of The Lord’s discipline, and don’t give up when He corrects you.
6 For The Lord disciplines those He loves, and He punishes each one He accepts as His child.”
7 As you endure this divine discipline, remember that God is treating you as His own children. Who ever heard of a child who is never disciplined by its father?
8 If God doesn’t discipline you as He does all of His children, it means that you are illegitimate and are not really His children at all.
9 Since we respected our earthly fathers who disciplined us, shouldn’t we submit even more to the discipline of The Father of our spirits, and live forever?
10 For our earthly fathers disciplined us for a few years, doing the best they knew how. But God’s discipline is always good for us, so that we might share in His holiness.
11 No discipline is enjoyable while it is happening—it’s painful! But afterward there will be a peaceful harvest of right living for those who are trained in this way.
12 So take a new grip with your tired hands and strengthen your weak knees.
13 Mark out a straight path for your feet so that those who are weak and lame will not fall but become strong.

Is God, unkind in His judgments, no, for it is because of His great love, that He tries to stop wayward man, and turn him to the right, the way of blessing and life!

I Corinthians 10:9-13 KJV
9 Neither let us tempt Christ, as some of them also tempted, and were destroyed of serpents.
10 Neither murmur ye, as some of them also murmured, and were destroyed of the destroyer.
11 Now all these things happened unto them for examples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come.
12 Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall.
13 There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is Faithful, who will not suffer (allow) you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.

Numbers 21:8,9 NLT
8 Then The Lord told him, “Make a replica of a poisonous snake and attach it to a pole. All who are bitten will live if they simply look at it!”
9 So Moses made a snake out of bronze (Brass speaks of judgment) and attached it to a pole. Then anyone who was bitten by a snake could look at the bronze snake and be healed!

Looking at the fiery serpent, awakened the lethargic consciences of the people, for looking at the serpent, no doubt reminded them of the poisonous biting criticism they had given Moses, and The Lord, who so lovingly had provided for them.

James 3:2-18 NLT
2 Indeed, we all make many mistakes. For if we could control our tongues, we would be perfect and could also control ourselves in every other way.
3 We can make a large horse go wherever we want by means of a small bit in its mouth.
4 And a small rudder makes a huge ship turn wherever the pilot chooses to go, even though the winds are strong.
5 In the same way, the tongue is a small thing that makes grand speeches.
But a tiny spark can set a great forest on fire.
6 And among all the parts of the body, the tongue is a flame of fire. It is a whole world of wickedness, corrupting your entire body. It can set your whole life on fire, for it is set on fire by hell itself.
7 People can tame all kinds of animals, birds, reptiles, and fish,
8 but no one can tame the tongue. It is restless and evil, full of deadly poison.
9 Sometimes it praises our Lord and Father, and sometimes it curses those who have been made in the image of God.
10 And so blessing and cursing come pouring out of the same mouth. Surely, my brothers and sisters, this is not right!
11 Does a spring of water bubble out with both fresh water and bitter water?
12 Does a fig tree produce olives, or a grapevine produce figs? No, and you can’t draw fresh water from a salty spring.
True Wisdom Comes from God
13 If you are wise and understand God’s ways, prove it by living an honorable life, doing good works with the humility that comes from wisdom.
14 But if you are bitterly jealous and there is selfish ambition in your heart, don’t cover up The Truth with boasting and lying.
15 For jealousy and selfishness are not God’s kind of wisdom. Such things are earthly, unspiritual, and demonic.
16 For wherever there is jealousy and selfish ambition, there you will find disorder and evil of every kind.
17 But the wisdom from above is first of all pure. It is also peace loving, gentle at all times, and willing to yield to others. It is full of mercy and the fruit of good deeds. It shows no favoritism and is always sincere.
18 And those who are peacemakers will plant seeds of peace and reap a harvest of righteousness.

LOOK AND LIVE

I’ve a message from The Lord, hallelujah!
This message unto you I’ll give,
’Tis recorded in His Word, hallelujah!
It is only that you “look and live.”

Chorus
“Look and live,” my brother, live,
Look to Jesus now, and live;
’Tis recorded in His word, hallelujah!
It is only that you “look and live.”

I’ve a message full of love, hallelujah!
A message, O my friend, for you,
’Tis a message from above, hallelujah!
Jesus said it, and I know ’tis true.

Life is offered unto you, hallelujah!
Eternal life thy soul shall have,
If you’ll only look to Him, hallelujah!
Look to Jesus who alone can save.

I will tell you how I came, hallelujah!
To Jesus when He made me whole—
’Twas believing on His name, hallelujah!
I trusted and He saved my soul.

Author: William A. Ogden, 1887
Public Domain

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Prayer:

Matthew 10:32 KJV
Everyone who acknowledges Me publicly here on earth, I will also acknowledge before My Father in heaven.

John 6:37,47 KJV
37 “...him that cometh to Me I will in no wise cast out.”
47 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on Me hath everlasting life.