Jesus must be lifted up so that we can see the truth and have a chance to reject the lie
When the people are murmuring in the wilderness, dreaming of returning to captivity and oppression, God sends the seraph, the “dragons” to lead them to a change of mind, a metanoia, a repentance. Moses makes a bronze serpent and lifts it up - so that people, looking up, changing their vision, their perspective, by viewing a bronze serpent, like the one on Pharaoh’s headdresss and…
