These verses are on my mind today as we remember Jesus on this Good Friday
“So Moses made a bronze snake. He put it up on a pole. Then anyone who was bitten by a snake and looked at the bronze snake remained alive.”
“But the servant was pierced because we had sinned.
He was crushed because we had done what was evil.
He was punished to make us whole again.
His wounds have healed us.”
“Moses lifted up the snake in the desert. In the same way, the Son of Man must also be lifted up. Then everyone who believes may have eternal life in him.””
“It was now about noon. Then darkness covered the whole land until three o’clock. The sun had stopped shining. The temple curtain was torn in two. Jesus called out in a loud voice, “Father, into your hands I commit my life.” After he said this, he took his last breath.”
It is amazing to me how God foreshadowed this all the way back in the desert, thousands of years earlier. I think there are nearly 25 or 30 other references to Jesus’ death on a cross in the Original Testament.
And it is amazing to me that our wonderful God chose self-sacrifice to overcome our evil. I am grateful. May the whole earth be covered with the knowledge of him, just like the waters cover the sea.
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