The Bronze Serpent: Lifted Up for Healing - the Whole Trajectory, Pole to Throne

Explore fully → thehyperlinkedbible.com/go/bronze-serpent God's cure for snakebite was a snake - "Make a fiery serpent and mount it on a pole ... When anyone who is bitten looks at it, he will live" (Numbers 21:8). It is the strangest remedy in the Bible, and it was a picture of the cross fifteen hundred years before the cross. This is the whole Bronze-Serpent trajectory walked stage by stage across eleven texts: from a pole in the wilderness to a throne in the new creation - "Just as Moses lifted up the snake in the wilderness, so the Son of Man must be lifted up, that everyone who believes in Him may have eternal life" (John 3:14-15). Professor Westminster walks the live study page with you, tracing the "lifted up" thread from Moses' pole, to Isaiah's exalted Servant, to the Son of Man on the cross - and pressing it home to the heart. Every stage opens the text on screen, verse by verse. Explore the whole map yourself at the link above. CHAPTERS 0:00 - Introduction 2:01 - Stage 1: Judgment for Sin (Numbers 21:4-6) 3:46 - Stage 2: The Remedy Provided (Numbers 21:7-9) 5:52 - Stage 3: The Type Misused (2 Kings 18:4) 8:13 - Stage 4: Looking to the One God (Isaiah 45:22) 10:00 - Stage 5: The Servant Lifted Up (Isaiah 52:13) 11:44 - Stage 6: Christ Lifted Up (John 3:14-15) 13:27 - Stage 7: Made to Be Sin (2 Corinthians 5:21) 15:05 - Stage 8: Became a Curse for Us (Galatians 3:13) 16:46 - Stage 9: Lifted Up to Draw All (John 12:32-33) 18:58 - Stage 10: Looking to Jesus (Hebrews 12:2) 20:54 - Stage 11: Death Swallowed Up (Revelation 21:4) 22:31 - Closing prayer - the life verse (2 Corinthians 3:18) THE THREAD The lexeme thread carried across the canon - the "lifting up" spine: in Numbers the sign is only mounted (sim H7760 on a nes H5251, a raised pole) and the dying are told to look (ra'ah H7200); the exaltation-word enters only later, when Isaiah says the Servant will be "raised and lifted up" (rum H7311, Isaiah 52:13), and Jesus lays that word onto Moses' pole - "so must the Son of Man be lifted up" (hupsoo G5312, John 3:14; again John 12:32). Alongside it: nachash "serpent" (H5175) → ophis (G3789), and ra'ah "look" → pisteuo "believe" (G4100) → aphorao "fix the eyes" (G872). Method: Typology - the bronze serpent is a designed type of Christ (John 3:14, His own word), escalating from a snakebite healed for a day to eternal life for the world. From The Hyperlinked Bible. Scripture is the Berean Study Bible (BSB). #BronzeSerpent #LiftedUp #Typology #BiblicalTheology #Jesus #Bible #OldTestament #Numbers21 #John3 #Isaiah53 #TheCross #BibleStudy #ReformedTheology #SeeingChristInTheOldTestament #TheHyperlinkedBible