<TITLE>16. Par 168-183</TITLE>L-168 Oh, let me get that, that little thing there before we get into tomorrow night's service. The Brass Serpent, as the smitten Rock last night, as we ended up on the smitten Rock; the Brass Serpent was Jesus Christ.
You say, "A Serpent?" Yes.
The serpent represented sin already judged. God judged the serpent in the garden of Eden, in the 3rd chapter of Genesis and the 14th verse; God already passed judgment upon the serpent. Oh, he was beautiful and walked upright; he was the most subtil of all the beasts of the field. But God judged him, and put him down on his belly for the rest of his days, on his belly, judged.
And Christ was our sins judged. Amen. You see it? Beautiful. My sin, your sins, justly should go to hell and be punished for our sins. But Christ took our place. The serpent, that's why it represented Christ.

L-171 Brass, the serpent being made out of brass, meant Divine judgment. Now, the serpent was sin already judged, and the brass meant Divine judgment.
Like the brazen altar, the altar was made out of brass that burnt the bodies of the sacrifice. Exodus, 17th chapter you'll find it, then, you that's putting down your Scriptures...
Now, they taken the beast, they washed it (perfect type, baptism), brought it in, put their hands on it, confessed their sins, cut the throat. The blood was--blood poured, and the meat burnt, at the blood on the sacrifice block, on the altar, brazen altar, where the sins were repudiated, where they--where the just God required entire separation. And the Divine judgment of God with the fire burnt up the sin-sacrifice. Hallelujah.
God's Divine judgment was upon Jesus Christ.

L-174 Look, Divine judgment again in the days of Elijah, show that that's Divine judgment. Eli... It come a time when there was nothing; the people had got away from God. And Elijah went upon the mountain, and he prayed. He come before the king and said, "Not even dew will fall from heaven till I call for it." And for three years and six months, dew didn't even come on the earth.
And when it come to the place, Elijah said, "Let us prove Who is God, the fiery God." Our God is a consuming fire. "Let the God that answers by fire..."
That's what I say tonight. Let the God that answers by Fire, the Holy Ghost and Fire, let Him be God.

L-177 Now, they put the... Watch, he went up after they had brought the fire out of heaven, and so forth, and had consumed the sacrifice, they looked up to the sky, and it looked like brass. What was it? Divine judgment over all the nation.
And brother, sister, if you'll look around today, you'll see the color of brass again: Divine judgment coming upon a nation: judgment, the fiery serpent, fiery serpents, Divine judgment in there.

L-179 Now, watch, he lifted up this pole that had the--the serpent on it, made out of brass. And whosoever looked upon that serpent, got healed of their diseases.
What a beautiful picture tonight of Jesus Christ. He said, "As Moses, just as Moses lifted up the brass serpent in the wilderness..." Here it is, now get it. If you're sick, you will find out what will heal you. As Jesus said, "As Moses lifted up the brass serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of man be lifted up." The same reason in a compound reason, "He was wounded for our transgressions, with His stripes we're healed."
They were murmuring against God, and against Moses, and were bitten by serpents. The serpent taken care of a twofold application: the first was to forgive their sin, and to heal their sickness.
And Jesus was lifted up that He might forgive our sin and heal our sickness.

L-183 Next in the road after that, come Balaam the hireling prophet come down to stop Israel. Oh, my. We'll get into that tomorrow night, how that that fellow... And a dumb mule had to speak and rebuke him. A preacher out of the will of God, and his mind on money, go down there, and a mule had to rebuke him down there, a dumb mule. If God can speak through a dumb mule, surely He could through a man. Yes, sir.


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