Simple Salvation
The Bible says: “Therefore the people came to Moses,
and said, We have sinned, for we have spoken against the LORD, and against thee; pray unto the LORD, that he take away the
serpents from us. And Moses prayed for the people. And the LORD said unto Moses, Make thee a fiery serpent, and set it upon
a pole: and it shall come to pass, that every one that is bitten, when he looketh upon it, shall live. And Moses made a serpent
of brass, and put it upon a pole, and it came to pass, that if a serpent had bitten any man, when he beheld the serpent of
brass, he lived.” Numbers 21:7-9 (KJV)
A simple act of looking up at the serpent
of brass would heal those who otherwise would perish. The Bible then says in John 3:14-17 (KJV) “And as Moses lifted
up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up: That whosoever believeth in him should not perish,
but have eternal life. For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should
not perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through
him might be saved.”
Salvation is such a simple thing. There is only one way an
individual can be made fit for heaven and that is by faith in Jesus Christ. Physically one would be healed by looking up at
that brass serpent. Spiritually, one is saved by looking up at Christ Jesus who is able and desires to be our Redeemer. Yet,
there were those so stiff-necked they would not look upon the brass serpent and perished so there will be those who refuse
Christ Jesus’ free gift of eternal life and shall be in torments forever.
Seems like if there is any way to mess things up man can indeed mess things up. Whatever happened to that brass serpent?
The answer is found in 2 Kings 18:4 (KJV) “He removed the high places, and brake the images, and cut down the groves,
and brake in pieces the brasen serpent that Moses had made: for unto those days the children of Israel did burn incense to
it: and he called it Nehushtan.”
We are to worship our Creator, Redeemer and Sustainer God alone!
Daily Chronological Bible Reading: Numbers 21-22
