Jesus said in John 3:14 that He must be lifted up on a Cross just as Moses lifted up the bronze serpent on a pole in the wilderness (Numbers 21:4-9).
The serpent represents sin and bronze speaks of judgment. Jesus came in the likeness of sin to be judged on the Cross (Romans 8:3, Philippians 2:7-8).
Any man bitten by the serpent would not die when he looked to the bronze serpent (Numbers 21:9).
“Look to” is not the same as “look at”. When we look to someone or something, we are pinning all of our hopes on that object of gaze. It is the ONLY hope. Mankind has been bitten by sin. The only way to be healed is to look to Jesus.
Demand met supply on the Cross. It was the Law that lifted up Jesus on the Cross.
The Law was the demand. Jesus was the supply.
When demand meets supply, it is called equilibrium. When God met sin on the Cross, it is called evangelium (Gospel)! It is justice done.
When God places a demand on man, He also supplies the resources for fulfilment.
But when Satan puts a demand on us, he folds his arms and watches us fall. And when we are down, he will kick us some more.
Jesus is the only Source of salvation; the only cure for that sin bite (Acts 4:12; 13:38-39, Hebrews 5:9, 1 Peter 2:7).
Jesus Himself said that when the Son of Man is lifted up, all people will be drawn to Him (John 12:32). And all people includes both Jews and Gentiles and therein lies the wisdom of God to extend the Gospel to the Gentiles through the Jews’ rejection of the Gospel (Romans 11).
I read the signal to mean sign.
Jesus said the people will get no sign except the sign of Jonah (Matthew 12:38-42, Luke 11:29-32).
Jonah spent three days in the belly of the great fish; Christ was resurrected three days after His death.
Therefore, the sign of Jonah points to His death, burial and resurrection.
The above is an extract from the book entitled "Her Seed".
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