Jesus= "Holy Serpent" based on John 3-14?

Question

John 3:14(from the Amplified) "And just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the desert(on a pole), so must(so it is necessary that) the Son of Man be lifted up (on the cross). [Numbers 21:9]

Matthew 10:16

Answer 1

At the command of God, Moses made a brazen serpent, and put it upon a standard.
Whoever then of the persons bitten by the poisonous serpents looked at the brazen serpent with faith in the promise of God, lived, i.e., recovered from the serpent's bite. The serpent was to be made of brass or copper, because the colour of this metal, when the sun was shining upon it, was most like the appearance of the fiery serpents; and thus the symbol would be more like the thing itself.
Even in the book of Wis. (Num_16:6-7), the brazen serpent is called “a symbol of salvation; for he that turned himself toward it was not saved by the thing that he saw, but by Thee, that art the Saviour of all.” It was not merely intended, however, as Ewald supposes (Gesch. ii. p. 228), as a “sign that just as this serpent hung suspended in the air, bound and rendered harmless by the command of Jehovah, so every one who looked at this with faith in the redeeming power of Jehovah, was secured against the evil, - a figurative sign, therefore, like that of St. George and the Dragon among ourselves;” for, according to this, there would be no internal causal link between the fiery serpents and the brazen image of a serpent. It was rather intended as a figurative representation of the poisonous serpents, rendered harmless by the mercy of God. For God did not cause a real serpent to be taken, but the image of a serpent, in which the fiery serpent was stiffened, as it were, into dead brass, as a sign that the deadly poison of the fiery serpents was overcome in this brazen serpent. This is not to be regarded as a symbol of the divine healing power; nor is the selection of such a symbol to be deduced and explained, as it is by Winer, Kurtz, Knobel, and others, from the symbolical view that was common to all the heathen religions of antiquity, that the serpent was a beneficent and health-bringing power, which led to its being exalted into a symbol of the healing power, and a representation of the gods of healing. This heathen view is not only foreign to the Old Testament, and without any foundation in the fact that, in the time of Hezekiah, the people paid a superstitious worship to the brazen serpent erected by Moses (2Ki_18:4); but it is irreconcilably opposed to the biblical view of the serpent, as the representative of evil, which was founded upon Gen_3:15, and is only traceable to the magical art of serpent-charming, which the Old Testament abhorred as an idolatrous abomination. To this we may add, that the thought which lies at the foundation of this explanation, viz., that poison is to be cured by poison, has no support in Hos_13:4, but is altogether foreign to the Scriptures. God punishes sin, it is true, by sin; but He neither cures sin by sin, nor death by death. On the contrary, to conquer sin it was necessary that the Redeemer should be without sin; and to take away its power from death, it was requisite that Christ, the Prince of life, who had life in Himself, should rise again from death and the grave (Joh_5:26; Joh_11:25; Act_3:15; 2Ti_1:10).
The brazen serpent became a symbol of salvation on the three grounds which Luther pointed out. In the first place, the serpent which Moses was to make by the command of God was to be of brass or copper, that is to say, of a reddish colour, and (although without poison) altogether like the persons who were red and burning with heat because of the bite of the fiery serpents. In the second place, the brazen serpent was to be set up upon a pole for a sign. And in the third place, those who desired to recover from the fiery serpent's bite and live, were to look at the brazen serpent upon the pole, otherwise they could not recover or live (Luther's Sermon on Joh_3:1-15). It was in these three points, as Luther has also clearly shown, that the typical character of this symbol lay, to which Christ referred in His conversation with Nicodemus (Joh_3:14). The brazen serpent had the form of a real serpent, but was “without poison, and altogether harmless.” So God sent His Son in the form of sinful flesh, and yet without sin (Rom_8:3; 2Co_5:21; 1Pe_2:22-24). - 2. In the lifting up of the serpent as a standard. This was a δειγματίζειν ἐν παρρησίᾳ, a èñéáìâåṍåéí (a “showing openly,” or “triumphing”), a triumphal exhibition of the poisonous serpents as put to death in the brazen image, just as the lifting up of Christ upon the cross was a public triumph over the evil principalities and powers below the sky (Col_2:14-15). - 3. In the cure effected through looking at the image of the serpent. Just as the Israelites had to turn their eyes to the brazen serpent in believing obedience to the word of the Lord, in order to be cured of the bite of the poisonous serpents, so much we look with faith at the Son of man lifted up upon the cross, if we would be delivered from the bite of the old serpent, from sin, death, the devil, and hell. “Christ is the antitype of the serpent, inasmuch as He took upon Himself the most pernicious of all pernicious potencies, viz., sin, and made a vicarious atonement for it” (Hengstenberg on Joh_3:14). The brazen image of the serpent was taken by the Israelites to Canaan, and preserved till the time of Hezekiah, who had it broken in pieces, because the idolatrous people had presented incense-offerings to this holy relic (2Ki_18:4).

Answer 2

I am answering this question because I think it's legitimate and not an attack on Jesus. The Bible says that the Old Testament is a type and a shadow of the things that were to come and did come to pass in the New Testament. Just as when Moses held the serpent up it saved the people, lifting up Jesus on the cross would save (and did save) the people. That's all, Steve. There is no sinister meaning or hidden secret.

My best wishes to you as you search for more of God.

Answer 3

Jesus is not a Holy Serpent.

The serpent that was lifted up (by Moses, for the protection of the Jews at that time) is a type / a fore-shadowing of Jesus being lifted up on the cross for our salvation.

Cordially,
John

Answer 4

That is not what that says. Any bible other than the KJV bible is not accurate.

John 3:14 And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up:

It means that we are to lift up Jesus in prayer, you idiot. To revere Him and praise Him.

Answer 5

better in the Greek language is "meizon" meaning "better" God the daddy is "better" than Jesus. those statements substantiate the trinity. enable me clarify actually the way it relatively works. think of which you're God. Now seem down at your abdomen button. Now think of that your abdomen button is the full universe+some. So God is extensive. Now think of understanding that there is not any way you could signify your self to your creations via fact of your length. Jesus is God. it is the 1st factor. Jesus can do each thing God can do. Jesus IS the God that created us. Jesus is the only variety that we (or any of God's different infants) can know via God's length. the two are one... Now the trinity is God with the daddy over all, in all, to all, and by all. he's everywhere. Jesus, the daddy, and the Holy spirit artwork jointly as one individual. The Holy Spirit is God everywhere... you could no longer get away God via fact each thing around us is made via God and is derived from God. each thing you notice around you became into made out of no longer something. each thing.

Answer 6

I thought Jesus meant "Son of Zeus". That's why I refuse to call the Savior by that name. When even more loosely translated Jesus means "the head of a horse"

Answer 7

ITS TALKING ABOUT JESUS BEING CRUCIFIED MOSES LIFTING THE SERPENT UP WAS IN REFERENCE TO JESUS BEING LIFTED UP ON THE CROSS

Answer 8

Yep, he became sin for us, upon him were laid the sins of the world. But as with the Numbers example, the people were deluged with snakes that were killing them and the act of faith that God required was to look to that snake on a pole, we must look to that man who took upon himself the world's sins for our salvation. As with the Syrian leper Naaman refusing the simple commands to dip in the Jordan river--and his servant saying "If he asked something hard, wouldn't you have done it?" We look to Jesus for our salvation from the punishment for our sins and failings because that is what God asks of us.

Answer 9

Study the scriptures deeper and you will see what it means ..God bless you !

Answer 10

Give proof of your interpretation.