True Health Care Holding Up the Serpent

As recognizable as the white lab coat, black bag, and stethoscope, the staff entwined with serpent are universally understood as the symbol of medicine. From hospitals, ambulances, and pharmacies to medical device manufacturers and physicians’ offices—the staff and snake are everywhere. Hailed as the staff from Greek Mythology as the Rod of Asclepius, but our emphasis on it is not the mythological but the actual event that is revealed to us in the Bible in which Jesus mentions that HE too must be lifted as this serpent was.  The one from mythology is like Gilgamesh, a twisting of God’s word, and that is exactly what serpents do; they are twisted, and they twist the word of God and add confusion to what is meant to be God’s love story to us all. Numbers 21:9 KJV (777 Linked with Judgement 9) (9)  And Moses made a serpent of brass, and put… Read moreTrue Health Care Holding Up the Serpent