" The serpent of brass was not kept in Moses's tent; it was
lifted high, for all to see it. God, who knew His people's sin, and had
sent those fiery serpents to bite them, had Himself told Moses to make that
serpent of brass, and those who were bitten had only to look at it and
live. If they looked at their own hurt, or at each other, or at Moses--all
was of no avail; but "it came to pass that if a serpent had bitten any man,
when he beheld the serpent of brass, he lived."
God--who knew that every one of us born into this world is born away from
Him, and with the dreadful poison of sin, like the serpent's bite, in
us--gave His only begotten Son to be lifted up, that "whosoever believeth
in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life." And He tells us
to look at Him and live, just as the poor sinful people, dying of the
serpent's bite, looked at the serpent of brass, and their deadly wound was
healed. God has told us to look straight to His Son, dying for sin, dying
in our stead; but it is not our looking that saves us, it is the blessed
Saviour whose name is called Jesus, "for He shall save His people from
their sins."
I must not forget to tell you that many of the extinct animals whose
skeletons are to be seen in museums belonged to the class of Reptiles.
We read that "God created great whales"--or sea monsters--and remains have
been found of enormous lizard-like creatures. One has been called the
Fish-lizard; it seems to have had a crocodile's head, with a body like that
of a small whale.
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