Moses, Jesus and the Serpent
Moses, Jesus, and the Serpent by [Servant7] Serpents seem to show up in Moses’s story a lot, which got me thinking, what might be the significance of this? well here are a few things I’ve found: “Then Moses said, “What if they will not believe me or listen to what I say? For they may say, ‘The Lord has not appeared to you.’ ” Then He said, “Throw it on the ground.” So he threw it on the ground, and it became a serpent; and Moses fled from it. But the Lord said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand and grasp it by its tail”—so he stretched out his hand and caught it, and it became a staff in his hand— “that they may believe that the Lord, the God of their fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has appeared to you.”” Exodus 4:1, 3-5 NASB1995 Catching a snake by its tail is insanely dangerous, serpent charmers usually pick up a serpent by its neck or head to prevent it from biting them, but God tested Abraham’s faith by having him ...