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The Brazen Serpent as a Symbol of Jesus Christ

… The narrative surrounding the brazen serpent in the Old Testament is mentioned six times in the … this was a common theme in the ancient Near East. Serpents represented deities who would spit fire as … in the wilderness (see verses 4–5). The Lord then sent “fiery serpents” ( nahashim seraphim ) among the people of …

The Influence of the Figure of Moses in the Book of Mormon

… did straiten them in the wilderness” (v. 41) by sending fiery flying serpents among them. [14] Yet God prepared a simple way for …

Masks of Oriental Gods: Symbolism of Kundalini Yoga

… the present context being to the figure of a coiled female serpent—a serpent goddess not of “gross” but of “subtle” … right testicle to left nostril, whose energy is “solar, fiery,” and, like the solar heat of the tropics, desiccating …

Moses 4: The Fall—Doctrinal Perspectives and Insights

… Father had for Adam and Eve—and has for each of us. The Serpent and Subtlety The objectives of the devil having been … the seraphim around the divine throne in Isaiah 6, the “fiery serpent”/“seraph” ( śārāp ) on the pole in Numbers 21, and the “fiery serpents” ( hannĕḥāšîm haśśĕrāpîm ) that bit the people [35] …

“A Prophet . . . Like unto Thee”

… of these phrases and also references to Moses’ brass serpent in the Book of Mormon, New Testament, Joseph … healing power to those who had been bitten by the flying fiery serpents (see Numbers 21:6–9). Direct references to this …

A Latter-day Saint Reading of Isaiah

… noun is formed denotes in its verbal aspect to burn or be fiery. [13] Knowing this, Latter-day Saints should have no … languages.) The seraphim, in Isaiah 6:2, however, are not serpents, nor are they mythological beings. [14] That they …

The Tree of Knowledge as the Veil of the Sanctuary

… the confusion that later ensues in the dialogue with the serpent, and sets the stage for the transgression of Adam and … at the sacred center of the heavenly temple, was that of a fiery winged serpent. [31] This idea gives new meaning to the … In God’s Image 1 , 247–48. Consistent with the idea of serpents as Seraphim guarding the celestial throne is the …

Symbolic Action as Prophecy in the Old Testament

… would come upon Babylon (see Jeremiah 51:58–64); and the serpent of brass pointed to Jesus Christ and His Atonement … up at the serpent and were healed of the poison of the fiery serpents and thereby retained physical life, “even so as many …

An Undeviating Course

… like the children of Israel, who were afflicted with fiery serpents. Moses instructed them to keep their eyes …

December, 1848

… they shall speak with new tongues; they shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not … envy: They shall lament in their need As they meet the fiery deluge. You, the one who is sleeping, &c. Marlais …