So yesterday i was listening to talk radio *dont ask me why... i'm weird* and i heard these two REALLY SMART doctors... and they were talking about the medicine field *all my friends probably would have shut off the radio within 2 minutes... but idk... i felt i was supposed to listen* and suddenly one said "why is the symbol for medicine a snake on a stick??? Where in the *(^ did that come from???" and the other one was liek... "idk... i think like egyptians or something..." and they were talking about how it scares the crap outta some people... walking into a doctor's office and seeing a snake on a stick... and i realized... DANG i'm SMARTER THAN THESE DOCTORS!!!! i realized... they werent christian *from the first 2 minutes... they were dissing God loveRs* and I KNEW why the snake on the stick was the symbol of medicine....
MOSES! shbam... yeah.. MOSES!!!!! ok remember guys back in the day when all the people of isreal were complaining after they got outta egypt... they were all like " we shuolda stayed in slavery... blah blah blah" and they were TOTALLY Ungrateful to God... for rescuing them... *the grass is always greener on the other side... * and so God sent an illness to them... and they would die and it was reallllly bad... and so moses cried out to God and what did god send to him for healing??? he said... "mount a snake on a pole and whoever looks at it will be saved" or somethin like that. so moses did. the snake on the stick is a symbol of HEALTH... of healing of the power of God... and our forefathers realized that *better than most of the stinky government today might i add....* and they made it the symbol... And THAT"S a symbol from old testament to new.
All ye people who were in Grissom's class last year... *old testament* it was "how is jesus present in this story?????" uhm well... the snake is kinda like HIM... he was mounted on a "stick" and he brought... not physical but spiritual health and salvation to all who look to HIM in their daily lives... all those who are sick and tired and worn... LOOK TO HIM... and depend on him... live the life of him... and you'll be saved...
I've decided to put the bible passage in here for all you people who dont think i'm telling the truth:
NUMBERS 21:4-9
"They traveled from Mount Hor along the route to the Red Sea, to go around Edom. But the people grew impatient on the way; they spoke against God and against Moses, and said, "Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the desert? There is no bread! There is no water! And we detest this miserable food!
Then the Lord sent venomous snakes among them; they hit the people and many Isrealites died. The people came to Moses and said, "We sinned when we spoke against the Lord and against you. Pray that the Lord will take the snakes away from us." So Moses prayed for the people.
The Lord said to moses, "make a snake and put it up on a pole; anyone who is bitten can look at it and live." So Moses made a bronze snake and put it up on a pole. Then when anyone was bitten by a snake and looked at the bronze snake... he lived."
Actually i just realized somethin else... "anyone who is bitten by a snake and looks at the bronze snake lives" weeeeelllll... *(another picture of JESUS!!!!)* God made himself one of us. the snake is sin... and Jesus is the bronze snake... so he's like... the perfect one... yet he was sacrificed. the bronze snake never hurt anyone... but the other 'snakes' of this world do... and so yeah. anyways...
COMMMENT GUYS>>> THIS WAS KINDA>>> WEIRD>>> BUT SO TRUE!!!!
-bri
