The Biblical View of the Cross

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It was already prophesied in the Bible that, after the crucifixion, the cross would be publicly used within churches.

Long long ago, the Israelites went through the desert and bypassed the land of Edom. 

The people grew impatient along the way and spoke against God and against Moses. 

Then God’s wrath came upon them. 

He sent venomous snakes to bite the people of Israel, and many died. 

After hearing Moses’ prayer, however, God ordered him to make a bronze snake to deliver the Israelites. 

Num. 21:8-9 『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." So Moses made 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.』

The bronze snake itself had no power; it could not make the Israelites live. 

It was only God’s word that allowed the Israelites to live: "Anyone who is bitten can look at it [the bronze snake] and live." 

The Israelites burned incense to the bronze snake up to the time of King Hezekiah, falsely believing that the bronze snake had saved them. 

2 Kings 18:4 『He removed the high places, smashed the sacred stones and cut down the Asherah poles. He broke into pieces the bronze snake Moses had made, for up to that time the Israelites had been burning incense to it. (It was called Nehushtan.)』 

※"Nehushtan" means "a piece of bronze."

The Israelites, who had been bitten by a snake, could live by looking at the bronze snake. 

This history is a shadow and reveals that mortal spirits, who were deceived by Satan, can live by looking at Jesus Christ—by his precious blood of sacrifice. 

John 3:14 『"Just as Moses lifted up the snake in the desert, so the Son of Man must be lifted up, that everyone who believes in him may have eternal life."』

Just as the bronze snake had no power to give life, the cross itself, on which Jesus died, has no power to give us life. 

We can be saved only by the words of God—"The precious blood of Christ is the only thing that can give you life." 

The Israelites burned incense to the bronze snake for almost a thousand years after Moses. 

This abominable act is a shadow, the reality of which is seen in all of the people who worship the cross—a mere instrument of capital punishment—forgetting the power of Jesus’ precious blood, the power of the Passover. 

We must not set up any image to worship God, because God is spirit. 

The sacred law of the new covenant is the only way to worship God, and it is the true symbol of salvation. 

Deut. 27:15 『Cursed is the man who carves an image or casts an idol—a thing detestable to the LORD, the work of the craftsman’s hands—and sets it up in secret.』

Jer. 10:3-5 『For the customs of the peoples are worthless; they cut a tree out of the forest, and a craftsman shapes it with his chisel. They adorn it with silver and gold; they fasten it with hammer and nails so it will not totter. Like a scarecrow in a melon patch, their idols cannot speak; they must be carried because they cannot walk.』 

The cross is mere an idol and cannot give us salvation. It is a tree that is cut out of the forest and shaped by a craftsman’s chisel. 

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