GOD'S WORD TODAY

Numbers 21:8

Make a fiery serpent and set it on a standard; whoever has been bitten and then looks at it shall live.

---- Mine, Satan, who is evil incarnate, took the form of a serpent and entered the Garden of Eden to exact vengeance on God by separating Him from His best loved creation, man and woman. Satan again enters the desert attacking God's chosen people by tempting them to turn against Him who led them from slavery into freedom causing them to die. When Moses pleaded with Him God gave him the remedy, the antidote that would destroy the consequences of sin, death, and would heal, and restore to life anew. Here is a foreshadowing of the Cross and an indication of how God would once and for all save and restore all men and women from every age, tribe, race, nation, and language. 

Taking upon Myself all the sin, the iniquity, and the punishment that was the consequence of sin I became sin. Impaled on the standard of the Cross and raised above the earth, all who have sinned need only raise their eyes to Me in sorrow, contrition, and repentance in order to be saved. I came not to condemn the sinner but to reconcile all sinners to My Father through the instrument that until then, was a symbol of shame and defeat changing it forever into a symbol of My triumph and victory of Satan, sin and death.