Christ the Healer

The Type of the Brazen Serpent

In Numbers  21:9, we read the Israelites all being healed by looking at the brazen serpent,  which was lifted up as a type of the  Atonement.  If healing was not to be in the Atonement,  why were these dying Israelites required to look at the type of the  Atonement for bodily healing?  Since both healing and forgiveness came through the type of the Atonement,  why not to us through  Christ on the Cross? 
As their curse was removed by the lifting up of the  brazen serpent,  so Paul tells us ours is removed by the lifting up of Christ.  Galatians  3:13
Amen

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