Typology · Foundational
Manna and the Brazen Serpent
Bread from heaven that Israel came to despise, and a serpent of brass lifted up for the dying: two wilderness provisions Jesus applied to Himself, the true Bread from heaven lifted up on the cross.
The lesson walks through the topic one card at a time. The full study is the complete written article, with its sources.
What you'll learn
1
What the manna was, how God gave it, and what its daily gathering taught Israel
2
How Jesus applies the manna to Himself in John 6 and the serpent in John 3, and what it means to eat and to look
3
Why the serpents came, and how the brass, the pole, and the serpent's likeness point to the cross
4
Why Hezekiah broke the serpent Moses made, and why John 6 calls for faith rather than a sacrament
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