Numbers 19 – 21

Verse 19:20 ends the purity sacrifice and the ritual:

Those who don’t so purify themselves shall be cast out of the community because they have scorned and polluted My holy place. Since the cleansing water hasn’t been splashed on them, they are impure.

The Law in many instances makes sense, but other times it doesn’t. It shows how it’s really impossible for a person to follow and therefore shows the need for Jesus. I often wonder why God gave Israel a path to follow He knew they could not. Or is that where free will comes in and they could have followed, but chose not too?

Verse 20:3 starts another story where Israel complains about no water:

 It would have been so much better if we had simply died along with the rest of our relatives, Korah, Abiram, and Dathan, right in front of the Eternal One.

This was the event that caused Moses to lose his ability to go to the Promised Land. I still am not 100% sure I understand the nuance of what Moses did to cause God’s punishment other than he took or did not give credit to God when bringing forth water from the rock.

Verse 21:8 is the solution God gave the people to counteract his punishment for their continued lack of faith:

and He instructed Moses.

Eternal One: Make a venomous snake that looks like the ones tormenting the congregation, and put it on a pole. Everyone who gets bitten can simply look at your serpent and be healed.

 

We here this story and take it as an image of a snake used to counteract an infestation of snakes. When reading this it’s clear to see the use of the snake. Well the other day I had someone use this story as “proof” the Kundalini existed in the Bible and was God. Not to get too into this perceived analogy, but Kundalini stems from yogic philosophy as a form of shakti or “corporeal energy”. While seeming benign, this is represented by a serpent that controls one body through the spine. Now it doesn’t take much to figure out that the serpent in the garden is now being represented here. So the question is who is right … it Kundalini an agent of GOOD or EVIL or NEITHER?