smh
Thanks for proving you do not understand the word of God.
The people in Moses day could chose. if they did, they lived, if they did not they died.
The people in Moses day could chose. if they did, they lived, if they did not they died.
Go follow your hypocrite of a God.
I agree totally. The UNBITTEN LIVING
were drawn by the Father to the Cross of Christ (bronze serpent on pole) when they saw all the dead laying around them and they chose wisely so that they wouldn't up like their dead brethren. The non-elect, bitten DEAD certainly had no power to look at the pole.
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You're so blinded by your presuppositions you cannot understand the passage at all. God USED the [non-elect] dead
to draw the unbitten to himself. It was the dead that moved and frightened the living to go to Moses in the first place!
This is some of the Typology of this narrative:
John 6:37
37 All that the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will never drive away.
NIV
And,
John 6:44
44
"No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him, and I will raise him up at the last day.
NIV
God can draw men to his Son by all manner of Providences. In this story, it was a chain of events. First the flagrant disobedience of the Hebrews, then God punishing their disobedience by sending venomous serpents to kill many of them, causing great fear among those God preserved from being bitten so that they could ask for Moses' help, then Moses being obedient to God's specific salvific instructions, then God sending snakes again to bite those who had appealed to Moses earlier, and then finally the newly bitten were fearful again and driven to look to the snake on the pole.
And,
John 12:32
32 But I, when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all men to myself."
NIV
And this is precisely what happened in the camp! God drew all the living to himself who had not been bitten, then he caused snakes to bite them which further caused the living to look to the Bronze Serpent.
And,
Matt 22:31
32'I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob'? He is not the God of the dead but of the living."
NIV
The narrative proves this graphically. God gave the Dead (non-elect) no opportunity to be saved.
And,
Prov 16:4
4 The LORD works out everything for his own ends —
even the wicked for a day of disaster.
NIV
Those who were bitten and died are illustrative of this truth. These represented the non-elect -- the clay pottery God MADE for common use (Rom 9:21).
And,
2 Peter 2:8-9
8(for that righteous man [Lot], living among them day after day, was tormented in his righteous soul by the lawless deeds he saw and heard)— 9 if this is so, then the Lord knows how to rescue godly men from trials and to hold the unrighteous for the day of judgment, while continuing their punishment.
NIV
And in contrast to the preceding passage, God knew how to
rescue the goldy (elect) in the camp by preserving them from feeling his wrath as described earlier...and even more importantly by actually saving them. And, of course, God made these clay pots for noble use (Rom 9:21), just as Lot himself was made.
God could have punished everyone in the camp by sending snakes to bite all of them at one time but he didn't. He spared his elect, so that they could seek him out through Moses.