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The Symbol of The Serpent

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« on: February 02, 2007, 09:46:16 am »

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The **** of The Bronze Serpent
(Numbers 21, 4-20)


4 They traveled from Mount Hor along the route to the Red Sea, [c] to go around Edom. But the people grew impatient on the way; 5 they spoke against God and against Moses, and said, "Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the desert? There is no bread! There is no water! And we detest this miserable food!"

6 Then the LORD sent venomous snakes among them; they bit the people and many Israelites died. 7 The people came to Moses and said, "We sinned when we spoke against the LORD and against you. Pray that the LORD will take the snakes away from us." So Moses prayed for the people.

8 The LORD said to Moses, "Make a snake and put it up on a pole; anyone who is bitten can look at it and live." 9 So Moses made a bronze snake and put it up on a pole. Then when anyone was bitten by a snake and looked at the bronze snake, he lived."

From there they continued on to Beer, the well where the LORD said to Moses, "Gather the people together and I will give them water."

17 Then Israel sang this song:
"Spring up, O well!
Sing about it,

18 about the well that the princes dug,
that the nobles of the people sank—
the nobles with scepters and staffs."
Then they went from the desert to Mattanah, 19 from Mattanah to Nahaliel, from Nahaliel to Bamoth, 20 and from Bamoth to the valley in Moab where the top of Pisgah overlooks the wasteland.


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21:8 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.

21:9 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.
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Later we can follow the destruction of Israels Holy Serpent and the destruction of the neighbouring traditions from the old culture as well. Destroying the old order of Asherah and El, the old "Allfather" - paved the way for a subculture where the mere traditions that legitimated El and Aserah - called Jahve ("highest royals") - became a deity, as such. Soon it became The One and Only deity, which was to be the "faith" for the "New Israel". And ONLY for Israel. Eventually making The-One-and-Only-True-Deity a "supreme force". As the old cultures of the Roman`s and later the Arabs fell apart they took philosophical refugee in the same symbol, calling it "God" and later "Allah". By then "the people of Israel" was ready to become the "one-and-only" people of this super-natural entity.

But first - they all had to override the old laws and traditions - that evidently tied their people into a historical context of origins, causes and consequences. The Jews had already "cleaned the tables" - as they already had drastically changed The Law of Moses. Extinguishing the rites and processions that honored this very past was radically changing the history and the traditions within The House of Iseael. It is still evident in the bible;
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