The Lifted Up Snake
A devotion on Numbers 21:9
Moses made a serpent of bronze, and set it on the pole. If a serpent had bitten any man, when he looked at the serpent of bronze, he lived.
–Numbers 21:9
From a strictly literary standpoint, the Bible is a beautiful story, fitted like a puzzle, tied together by foreshadowing and metaphor.
In the earliest books, many thousand years prior to the introduction…