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Nehushtan
I was reading the other day back in the Old Testament, back during the days of king Hezekiah. In IIKings 18: 3-4 we read, "And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that David his father did. He removed the high places, and brake the images, and cut down the groves, and brake in pieces the brazen serpent that Moses had made: for unto those days the children of Israel did burn incense to it: and he called it Nehushtan". This brass serpent had came from the days of Moses. In Numbers 21:9-10 we read, "And the LORD said unto Moses, Make thee a fiery serpent, and set it upon a pole: and it shall come to pass, that every one that is bitten, when he looketh upon it, shall live. And Moses made a serpent of brass, and put it upon a pole, and it came to pass, that if a serpent had bitten any man, when he beheld the serpent of brass, he lived". It's amazing how the people had taken it and made a idol out of it. But Hezekiah broke it in pieces and called it "Nehushtan" i.e. just a piece of brass, for so it was, just brass, not an idol or god to worship. I suppose that if the actual cross of Jesus was still around or if the original manuscripts of the Bible were still around, that we would have folks, that would have the same problem, worship and veneration of these sorts of things. Men and women are to worship the true and living God, not a piece of brass, or of wood or of paper!
