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So in the wilderness, back in Numbers 21, the people spoke out against God, complaining that he freed them from slavery in Egypt. Then the Lord sent serpents among the people, and eventually God tells Moses to make a bronze serpent and lift it up among the people, and if they were bit by a serpent, they could look upon the bronze serpent that Moses made and be healed.
Here is Jesus, in John 3, saying that he is the bronze serpent -- he will be lifted up among the people, and he will save the people from the things that plague them and bring them to death. He will be lifted up, the real hero, and he will deliver the people.
The Old Testament is all pointing ahead to Jesus, we just have to know where and how to look!
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