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If you have your Bible, today we're going to go into the scripture. I would like you to follow with me. If you don't have a physical Bible, you can

open the U-Version Bible app and receive notes there as well. In John chapter 3, verse 14,

it's a very famous verse, verse 16 that we all know, but I'm going to read two verses before verse 16.

It says the following.

And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the son of God be lifted up, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have

everlasting life or eternal life and in verse 16 you know for God so loved the world that he gave

his only begotten son that whoever believes in him should not perish but have everlasting life

if we go to numbers 21 where the originated, I'm just going to read

two verses, Numbers 21 and verse 8 and verse 9. Then the Lord said to Moses, make a fiery serpent

and set it on a pole and it shall be that everyone who is bitten when he looks at it shall live so moses made a bronze

serpent put it on the pole and so it was if a serpent had bitten anyone when he looked at the bronze

serpent he lived now we know from the bible you don't have to be a theologian, but if you read anything or heard anything about the Bible, you know that there are different typologies or similarities or shadows of who Jesus is. A lamb, a lion. The Holy Spirit sometimes is viewed as a dove, fire, wind, oil. But in here,

Jesus himself speaks to a religious man and he compares himself to a serpent, a snake.

From the beginning in the Bible, in the first few pages of the Bible, you meet a serpent

and he is not symbol of Jesus.

He is symbol of the devil.

Snakes are devils.

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