“Nehushtan”

[Hezekiah] removed the high places, and brake the images, and cut down the groves, and brake in pieces the brasen serpent that Moses had made: for unto those days the children of Israel did burn incense to it: and he called it NEHUSHTAN. —2 Kings 18:4

Hezekiah obeyed the second commandment forbidding “any graven image” (Ex. 20:4). He was an energetic iconoclast (image breaker).

This included what some would call “a holy relic.” The brazen serpent God used to heal His people 700 years earlier had become an idol (Num. 21:5-9).  Jews were looking at the pole instead of looking at the God of the pole.

Hezekiah called this brazen serpent “Nehushtan.”  “Nehushtan” means “a piece of brass.” Hezekiah bluntly called it what it really was—a piece of scrap metal… a hunk of junk—nothing more.  Therefore he smashed it.

We need more preachers who will quit “pussy-footing around” and call sin  what it is!

• Drunkenness is not alcoholism, it is SIN.
• Abortion is not woman’s rights, it is SIN.
• Gambling is not “gaming,” it is SIN.
• Sodomy is not an alternative lifestyle, it is SIN.
• Evolution is not science, it is SIN.
• Fornication is not sexual liberty, it is SIN.
• Profanity is not freedom of speech, it is SIN.
• Pornography is not artistic expression, it is SIN.
• Pluralism is not “multiculturalism,” or freedom of religion, it is SIN.

It’s time to “tell it like it is” and call sin by it’s real name—SIN.