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 will see it and live (repent).

Now, hear what Jesus is saying in this Gospel. He will be lifted up and in that he will be forcing us to see the truth of Rome and its Empire. The World that is described in the Book of Revelations as the City of Abomination, a place of Merchants and Wealth, that is maintained by violence and slavery. And we, seeing the truth of the Innocent Lamb, will repent and live.

You can find a direct link to the video of the sermon here.