RED HEIFER & FIERY SERPENTS
- Feb 18
- 3 min read
DELIVERANCE FROM FIERY SERPENTS:
Keeping Your Eyes on Yahusha for True Consciousness!
The wilderness the training ground where our hidden rebellions are exposed, our fleshly arrogance is seared away, and our consciousness is recalibrated. In Numbers 21, we encounter one of the most mysterious accounts in Scripture - the plague of fiery serpents and the bronze remedy. This event serves as a blueprint for New Covenant Deliverance and the overcoming of evil behaviour!
THE FRUSTRATION OF BACK-TRACKING
After defeating a Canaanite king, Israel expected a straight path to the Promised Land. Instead, they were instructed to turn south - back toward the Red Sea.
The Conflict: They avoided Edom to respect blood ties and bypassed Philistine territory because they weren't yet ready for war.
The Reaction: To the fleshly mind, this looked like regression. A month of scorching, rugged travel on a 'dead-end highway' triggered a spiritual collapse.
When we feel like we are 'backtracking in life', our impatience often turns into an accusation against Yahusha. We begin to loathe the 'manna' - the daily, miraculous provision of Yahusha - because it isn't the 'exotic meat' of our earthly desires.
FIERY SERPENTS & INNER VENOM
As the people spoke against Yahuah and Moses, 'fiery serpents' were unleashed among them. In Hebrew, two specific words define these creatures:
Nakash (H5175): The serpent/snake - the ancient symbol of the whispering deceiver.
Saraph (H8314): Meaning 'fiery' or 'burning'.
Interestingly, Saraph is the same word used in Isaiah 6 for the SERAPHIM - the fiery beings who stand above the throne of Alahim. Fire in Scripture serves two purposes: it either 'purifies' the set-apart or 'consumes' the rebellious. For Israel, the venom was the physical manifestation of their internal poisonous thinking and heart-condition - the 'burning' of their own resentment and complaint.
LOOKING UP TO THE LIFTED ONE!
When the people matured enough to recognise their sin, they turned to the mediator.
The solution Alahim provided was radical:
“Make a brazen replica of a fiery serpent and attach it to a pole.”
NEW COVENANT CONNECTION
Yahusha explicitly linked this event to His own mission:
"Just as Moses lifted up the brazen serpent in the wilderness, the son of Man must be lifted up in the same way." - John 3:14
SHADOW (Numbers 21) | REALITY (The Torture Stake) |
Dying from physical venom. | Dying from the spiritual poison of sin. |
A serpent (the curse) was lifted. | Yahusha became the curse for us (Gal 3:13). |
Healing through looking up in repentance. | Deliverance through repentance & trusting-belief. |
The Brazen Serpent - called Nehushtan - did not have power in its metal. Healing flowed only through obedience and focused trust. IT WAS A TEST OF CONSCIOUSNESS: Would they look at their wounds, or would they look at the provision of Yahuah?
DELIVERANCE BEHAVIOURAL TRAINING
Today, we are in a 'spiritual wilderness, being trained to overcome the 'serpents' of our own nature and behaviour - fueled by desires and demon-thoughts :
Complaint and Bitterness: The venom that dries up spirit inspiration.
Self-Pity: The 'hiss' of the ego demanding its own way.
Demonic Influence: The fiery whispers that drive us to distraction.
Modern psychology always fails because it attempts to treat the 'bite' (behaviour) but ignores the 'serpent' (demon-thoughts). It tries to medicate the symptoms of a poisoned consciousness without leading the person to the only One who can cleanse the spirit.
TRUE CONSCIOUSNESS: The Hebrew 'Taher'
To be delivered is to be made 'Clean' (Taher). This means to be bright, pure, and uncontaminated.
"Let’s cleanse ourselves from all the defilements of the flesh and spirit, perfecting set-apartness in the fear of Yahusha." - 2 Corinthians 7:1
True consciousness is not 'mindfulness' of self; it is being in an obedient Covenant relationship with Yahusha. It is the act of bringing every thought captive and refusing to allow the venom of the world to infect the temple of our heart-portals.
WHERE IS YOUR GAZE?
The wilderness journey is essentially a school of focus. If you fix your eyes on the difficulty of the road, the 'backtracking', 'trials', 'consequences' or the 'lack of water', you invite the serpents to bite. But if you fix your eyes on the Lifted One, the venom loses its power.
The Deliverance Vein Requires:
Repentance: Acknowledging the 'wicked thing' of speaking against Yahusha's leading.
Impaling the Ego: Recognising that our behaviour is the battlefield.
The Upward Look: Total reliance on the Torture Stake of Yahusha as our only source of life. The demon-serpents are real, and their bite is painful when we let them into our ear-gates - but Yahusha allows them in the wilderness to test us and drive us toward looking to the Pole for our only sanity, consciousness and healing.
Stop looking at the snakes at your feet.
LOOK UP TO YAHUSHA ALAHIM THE LAMB ... AND LIVE !
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