<TITLE>06. Par 49-55</TITLE>L-49 On the journey when they were coming through the wilderness, the children of Israel, they got to--to making light and chatting against God and against Moses, and they sinned. And serpents come in, begin to sting them and bite them. And they're dying, and none of their remedies would help them. And the people died by the thousands. And God made a type of Christ. He made a--had Moses to make a brass serpent and put it on the stick. Now, that was a type of Christ (Is that right?), the snake.
Now, you might wonder, some of you children in the Gospel, "Why would a snake represent Christ?" Well, because the snake, the serpent itself, was--represented sin already judged. God judged the snake in the garden of Eden. He took--give him his judgment there, took his legs off of him, and made him down from human form, and put him on a--on a--on a level... Well, he was not... See, the--the snake to begin with was not a reptile. The Bible said, "He was a beast, and the most subtil of all the beasts of the field." He walked like a man and everything, "the most subtil." But the curse cursed him, and taken away his--his--his subtleness, or his--his beauty, and throwed him onto the ground, and put him on his belly to crawl.

L-52 And now, the serpent on the pole, represented sin already judged. And it was made out of brass. Now, brass represents Divine judgment, not earthly judgment or mental judgment, but Divine judgment. See? The brass altar, that... The altar, where the sacrifices was burnt was made of brass: the brazen altar, and means that it was Divine. There's where the Divine price was paid, at the brass. And a... Mo...
And for instance, Elijah, when he went out, "And the--the skies was just like brass," he said... Divine judgment upon the people, because they'd went away from God in the days of Ahab. And Gehazi went up to look and see what the skies looked like, and he come down there and says, "It looks like brass." (See?), Divine judgment.
Revelations 1, Jesus was seen, or the Church, rather, of the Bride of Christ, seen Him standing in the Seven Golden Candlesticks, and the feet was made of brass. Which brass is the Divine judgment of the Church, out upon the world. See? The Divine judgment...

L-55 The serpent, the brass, speaking of it... Now, watch. It was lifted up, and on the pole represented the cross. Now, three things. Now, watch. It was lifted up for what purpose? That they would be forgiven of their snake, or forgiven of their sins, and healed of their snakebites. Is that right? And ever who looked, lived; who refused to look, died. Now, you cannot deal with sin in no way; you can't deal with sin in any way, without dealing with Divine healing. You just can't do it. There's no way of preaching the Gospel without Divine healing. You can't do it. That's right.
Now, looky here. For instance, if here was a man, and he was standing here, and he was just a hitting me as hard as he could with his fist, well now, to get rid of that man hitting me with the fist, is not necessary to cut his arm off. See? Or maybe he's kicking me with his foot. There's no need of cutting his foot off. Now, the only thing to do is kill the man from the head. Is that right? If you kill the head, you kill the arm, you kill the foot, and you kill all the rest of--of the body (Is that right?) if you kill it from the head.


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