Why God Told Moses to Make a Snake to Save the People From Snakes
This simple 66-page guide has helped thousands of believers finally understand God’s Word with clarity, confidence, and renewed faith — even in life’s darkest moments.
The Israelites were dying in the desert, and God told Moses to do something that made absolutely no sense.
They had rebelled against God again. In response, venomous snakes were sent into the camp. People were being bitten. People were dying. They cried out to Moses to pray for them, to ask God to take the snakes away.
God did not take the snakes away.
Instead, He gave Moses a very specific, very strange instruction.
Moses made a serpent out of bronze and lifted it high on a pole. And whoever looked at the bronze serpent was completely healed.
Most Christians read that story in Numbers 21 and find it bizarre. Why would God use a snake to heal them? The snake is the ultimate symbol of the curse. It is the symbol of sin, of the fall in the garden, of the very venom that was killing them.
Why would God tell them to look at the symbol of their own sin to be saved?
Fourteen hundred years later, Jesus answered that exact question.
He was talking to Nicodemus in the middle of the night, and He said: "Just as Moses lifted up the snake in the wilderness, so the Son of Man must be lifted up, that everyone who believes may have eternal life in him."
Jesus was comparing Himself to the bronze serpent.
Because on the cross, Jesus did not just die for our sins. The Bible says He became sin for us.
He took the curse upon Himself. He became the very thing that was killing us. And just like the Israelites in the desert, we do not have to earn our healing. We do not have to perform a ritual. We do not have to fix ourselves first.
All we have to do is look at the One lifted up on the pole, and live.
Most Christians have read the book of Numbers and gotten bogged down in the censuses and the wandering. They read the story of the bronze snake and think it is just a weird ancient miracle.
They have no idea they are looking at one of the most profound prophecies of the crucifixion in the entire Old Testament.
The Night Everything Changed
That is the problem I discovered three years ago sitting in a room with my Bible study group.
I have been teaching Scripture for 18 years. And one Wednesday night I asked my group why God used a bronze snake to heal the Israelites.
Silence.
They looked at each other, looked at their Bibles, looked at their notes. One person said it was just a test of obedience. Nobody knew about the connection to Jesus. Nobody had connected the symbol of the curse to Christ becoming the curse for us. Nobody understood that looking at the bronze snake was the exact same mechanism as looking to the cross for salvation.
They had read it. They had highlighted it. They had heard it preached from pulpits for years. And they had no idea what they were actually reading.
That night after everyone left I sat alone in that empty room for a long time. My wife found me there at 11 PM still sitting in the dark.
"What is wrong?" she asked.
"I don't think anyone in my Bible study actually understands what we are studying."
"Isn't that normal? Honey, you have studied for years. They have jobs, families, responsibilities."
"That is the problem. I keep expecting them to study like I do. But they can't. They don't have time."
She sat down next to me. "So what are you going to do?"
The next morning I opened my computer and started writing. Every single book of the Bible. Sixty-six pages. One page per book. Who wrote it. When. Why. What was happening in the world at the time. The main themes. How it fits into the larger story.
Not a sermon. Not a devotional. Just the context.
It took me three months.
What Happened When They Finally Understood
The next Wednesday I brought those 66 pages to Bible study and put a copy at every seat.
"Before we open our Bibles tonight," I said, "I want you to read the page on Numbers. Just read it. Then we will study."
I watched them read. Then I said, "Okay. Now open your Bibles to chapter 21."
One woman looked up at me practically with tears in her eyes. "I have read this story my entire life and thought it was so strange. But it's the Gospel. They were dying from the venom, and they just had to look at the pole to live. We are dying from sin, and we just have to look at the cross. I have never seen it so clearly."
A man across the table said quietly, "Jesus became the curse. That's why it was a snake. He took the worst of what we are upon Himself. I never saw it."
Another woman said, "I always thought I had to do something to earn God's forgiveness. But the Israelites didn't do anything. They just looked. I have never felt the weight of grace like this before."
At the end of the night one of the older men came up to me. He had been in my Bible study for six years and a Christian for forty.
"Pastor," he said quietly, "I have been reading my Bible my whole life. And I feel like I have only just now actually started to understand it. Thank you."
I went home that night and told my wife what happened. "They got it. For the first time, they actually got it."
Since then hundreds of people have told me the same thing. "This is the first time I have ever understood what I was reading."
What You Have Been Missing
Did you know that the book of Lamentations is actually a highly structured acrostic poem, written by Jeremiah as he sat weeping over the burning ruins of Jerusalem?
Did you know that when Paul wrote Philippians, the most joyful letter in the New Testament, he was chained to a Roman guard facing possible execution?
Did you know that the book of Hebrews was written to Jewish Christians who were facing such intense persecution they were tempted to abandon Jesus and go back to the old sacrificial system?
Context changes everything. Every single time.
I call it the Bible Study Guide. It has 66 pages. One for every book of the Bible. Written in plain language. No seminary terms. No complicated theology. Just the context that makes everything you have already read suddenly land with the full weight God intended.
Salvation has never required performance. It has only ever required a look. But you cannot fully appreciate the simplicity of that grace if you do not understand the story behind it.
This guide was created to help you understand it.
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That is exactly what this guide was created to do.
It is 66 pages. One dedicated page for every book of the Bible. Each page is carefully laid out to give you exactly what you need to approach Scripture with clarity and confidence.
Who wrote the book. When it was written. Why it was written. What was happening in the world at the time. The key themes God intended to deliver. And at the bottom of every page, practical steps to apply what you are reading to your real life today.
Not vague spiritual advice. Real, actionable steps.
Romans. Paul’s letter to a divided church laying out the foundation of salvation by faith.
John. Written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God.
James. What it actually means to follow Him. Not just say you do.
Revelation. The end of everything. The final judgment. The eternity waiting on the other side of this life.
Every book laid out the same way. Clean, simple, consistent. Once you have used it for one book you instantly know how to approach the next. Your brain begins to recognize the rhythm and that familiarity builds real confidence.
Written in plain language. No seminary terms. No complicated theology. Just the context you need so that when you open your Bible you are not guessing. You are understanding.
Because here is what I know after six years of watching people face death. The questions they ask in those final moments are not complicated. They are simple. Is there something after this? Does any of it mean anything? Was God there?
This guide gives you the foundation to find those answers yourself. Not from a nurse. Not from a pastor. From the Word itself.
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If you have ever sat in church nodding along while feeling completely lost inside…
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