Snake on a Stick

In Numbers 21 there's a story of the Israelites disobeying God and finding themselves in a mess.  A plague breaks out, people are getting sick, so God tells Moses in verse 8:  "Make a snake and put it up on a pole; anyone who is bitten can look at it and live"  Huh?  So Moses makes a bronze snake, puts it on a pole, and sure enough, the people who look at it lived.  So here's the picture.  That snake represents our enemy, like the serpent who talked to Eve in the tree.  Now all that the enemy attacks us with, like this plague, was nailed to the cross of Calvary.  As when Jesus died on the cross He took up our infirmities, our sins, our sickness, our poverty, and he destroyed those things so that they would have no power over us.  This snake on a pole was a prophesy of what Christ would do to the powers of the enemy.  When life has become a plague to you, well maybe you just need to take a look and remember what Christ provided for you on the cross.  He gave it all for you, his death, so that you might have life, and life more abundantly.