We don’t always see it nor pay attention to it, but at the end of a game of football the referee will hold the football above his head. This is the signal that the game is completed.

Jesus was lifted up and crucified on a cross. This was the completion of his life on earth as a living human being. Jesus death was his sacrifice for all of us human beings to be saved and to have eternal life. All we must do is to look upon him and call out his name to be saved from our lives of sin of which we are all guilty.

The Bible talks about this lifting up of Jesus. It goes back also to Moses and his time.

Numbers 21: 4-9 They traveled from Mount Hor along the route to the Red Sea, to go around Edom. But the people grew impatient on the way; they spoke against God and against Moses and said, “Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? There is no bread! There is no water! And we detest this miserable food!”

Then the Lord sent venomous snakes among them; they bit the people and many Israelites died. 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.

The Lord said to Moses, “Make a snake and put it on a pole; anyone who is bitten can look at it and live.” 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, they lived.

Notice that the snakes were not taken away. The people had to continue to live with the problem they had brought on with their sins. Yes, as long as we live on earth we will continue to have problems. But we must continually look to Jesus for help to live.

John 3: 14-15 And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man (Jesus) be lifted up, so that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life.