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The Bible readings for Friday 20 and Saturday 21 July are -- Num 19:9-21:9; Ps 36:1-6; Pro 8:25-26; Mk 15:22-47.
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posted by Ps John @ 8:55 AM
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Hi and welcome. Ashfield Baptist Church is a "caring community church sharing God's love". We are very diverse in our nationalities, backgrounds and ages, but united in our desire to grow spiritually and to reach out and help others. Our vision is "to be a body of Christ-like people living out the great commandment and the great commission in the Holy Spirit's power". This blog is mainly for people connected with Ashfield Baptist Church. It has been set up as an "info & chat space" as we start the "THRU IN 2" challenge. This is our program for reading the Bible right through during 2007 & 2008. Many are using the Every Day With Jesus Bible which also has daily devotions from Selwyn Hughes. As we read through the Bible together over these two years, we can use this blog to share insights, stories, reflections, questions etc. The goal is to grow spiritually together. So leave your comments. Together we can help each other grow. Blessings. Ps John. To leave a comment about the readings for a particular day, or to view the comments of others, just click on "comments" at the bottom of the post.
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It was a strange thing to get Moses to do. God told him to make a bronze snake and put it on a pole. If anyone who had been bitten by a snake looked at the bronze image they would recover and live. I would have thought that it was not only strange but dangerous in view of Israel's propensity to worship idols.
In his conversation with Nicodemus (Jn 3), Jesus says that the Son of Man will be lifted up just as Moses lifted up the snake in the wilderness. Further, he says that all who believe in him will have eternal life.
The parallel is undeniable, but the symbolic type has puzzled me for ages. Satan is represented as a snake (as in Gen 3) so how does Jesus fulfil the symbol of the snake on the pole? I don't claim to adequately comprehend the mystery, but maybe at least part of the answer lies in this -- that the serpent on the pole in the wilderness symbolises the defeat of Satan, just as Jesus on the cross is an image, paradoxiacally, of the ultimate victory over Satan, sin and death.
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