Look to JESUS and be saved

 "Who led you through that great and terrible wilderness, in which were fiery serpents and scorpions and thirsty land where there was no water; who brought water for you out of the flinty rock; 
Deuteronomy 8:15
GOD leads us through the wilderness of this our earthly life where the enemy is like a fiery serpent and a prowling lion. He keeps us and protects us as we walk in faith.

 And the people spoke against God and against Moses: "Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? For there is no food and no water, and our soul loathes this worthless bread." So the LORD sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and many of the people of Israel died. Therefore the people came to Moses, and said, "We have sinned, for we have spoken against the LORD and against you; pray to the LORD that He take away the serpents from us." So Moses prayed for the people. Then the LORD said to Moses, "Make a fiery serpent, and set it on a pole; and it shall be that everyone who is bitten, when he looks at it, shall live." So Moses made a bronze serpent, and put it on a pole; and so it was, if a serpent had bitten anyone, when he looked at the bronze serpent, he lived. 
Numbers 21:5-9
When the people sinned by speaking against GOD and His servant Moses, the serpents were released to gain entry to the people to bite them. When we sin we give room for the serpent to harm us. In fact all of us are born in sin, bitten by the serpent, prone to eternal death.

 "No one has ascended to heaven but He who came down from heaven, that is, the Son of Man who is in heaven.  "And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up,  "that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life. 
John 3:13-15 
The only way to escape eternal death and inherit eternal life is by looking to the LORD JESUS Who died on the cross for the sin of mankind.

 "Now is the judgment of this world; now the ruler of this world will be cast out.  "And I, if I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all peoples to Myself."  This He said, signifying by what death He would die. 
John 12:31-33

The serpent on the pole points to JESUS on the cross.
What were the reactions of the people who looked at the serpent on the pole?
What are reactions as we look at JESUS on the cross?
Firstly, I see the Consequence and Result Of my Sin that gave room to the Serpent.
Then as I am Convicted of my sin and Repent Of my sin, I see my Saviour and find Salvation!

The very moment JESUS was lifted up and died on the cross, the dynamics in the heavenlies changed.
The activities in the spiritual realm are revealed in the following scripture.
And war broke out in heaven: Michael and his angels fought with the dragon; and the dragon and his angels fought, but they did not prevail, nor was a place found for them in heaven any longer. So the great dragon was cast out, that serpent of old, called the Devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world; he was cast to the earth, and his angels were cast out with him. Then I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, "Now salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of His Christ have come, for the accuser of our brethren, who accused them before our God day and night, has been cast down. "And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, and they did not love their lives to the death.  "Therefore rejoice, O heavens, and you who dwell in them! Woe to the inhabitants of the earth and the sea! For the devil has come down to you, having great wrath, because he knows that he has a short time."

Revelation 12:7-12 

 Who shall bring a charge against God's elect? It is God who justifies. Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, and furthermore is also risen, who is even at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us. 
Romans 8:33-34

 But He, because He continues forever, has an unchangeable priesthood. Therefore He is also able to save to the uttermost those who come to God through Him, since He always lives to make intercession for them.

Hebrews 7:24-25

The place of the accuser of the brethren before GOD has now been replaced, thankfully, by the Intercessor Who is the risen CHRIST! Praise GOD!! What a victory for mankind!!!

 "Look to Me, and be saved, All you ends of the earth! For IAm God, and there is no other. 
Isaiah 45:22

 Therefore we also, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.
Hebrews 12:1-2