RomeSweetHome wrote:
Also In Exodus 25:18 God commands Moses to MAKE TWO STATUES OF ANGLES. how weird......
And again, you don't post the verse(strike 3, you're out!) Go to
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Exodus 18-22
18 And make two cherubim out of hammered gold at the ends of the cover. 19 Make one cherub on one end and the second cherub on the other; make the cherubim of one piece with the cover, at the two ends. 20 The cherubim are to have their wings spread upward, overshadowing the cover with them. The cherubim are to face each other, looking toward the cover. 21 Place the cover on top of the ark and put in the ark the Testimony, which I will give you. 22 There, above the cover between the two cherubim that are over the ark of the Testimony, I will meet with you and give you all my commands for the Israelites.
First of all, not angels, but Cherubims.
If you look at how they are positioned over the ark they are guardians.
Not things to be worshipped, just to act as Guardians of the tablets.
RomeSweetHome wrote:
What about when God commanded Moses to MAKE A STATUE of a Snake? weird....
Hmmm, this time no vague reverence at all...
Numbers 21:4-9
4 They traveled from Mount Hor along the route to the Red Sea, [3] 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.
God commanded mozes, to make a snake, don't ask me why, but he did, and mozes obeyed and the people were healed.
There are theories that the pole with the snake looked like a cross.
A stiff snake or slightly swirling put on a pole so it would resemble a cross...
I don't know if this is true, but that are the theories.
For me it has the following meaning personally, it just came to me.
The snake impierced on the stick resembles the victory over death. Satan, the cause of us to die, pierced on a stick, pierced to death, so that we can live.
Anyone who sees that Satan(death) has been deveated will be saved.
It is kinda like looking to the cross.
Anyone who looks upon the cross and realizes that Satan has been defeated already, will live.
Michael