Parture
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I don't know where man must be lifted up as a serpent. You've misunderstood something somewhere along the way. By looking up to the serpent on the pole God said they would be healed. In like manner Jesus said those who receive Him would be born-again. Pretty simple.In John 3:14 Jesus refers to Moses lifting the serpent in the wilderness. The reference is to Numbers 21:9. The serpent Moses was raising was one made by Moses to stem the plague of serpents God sent on the congregation. Later in the OT, I don't know the reference of the top of my head, a prophet goes to correct some people worshipping the serpent Moses had made. (Something like that anyway.) So when Jesus says man must be lifted up as that serpent I really do not know what he is trying to say.