Mt Nebo

Mount Nebo is part of the famous Moa’b mountain range and is overlooking the Dead Sea, Jordan Valley, and Jerusalem. Mount Nebo is considered one of the most important religious and historical places in Jordan. It has been approved by the Vatican Church as a Holy Shrine for the Christian Pilgrims.

The mountain is religiously significant since Moses spent many of his last days, and the last moments of his life here, preaching the fear of God and obedience to His statutes to the Israelites and glorifying God.






Mt. Nebo - Moses and the brass serpent

One of the most striking features when you stand on Mt. Nebo is the iron structure that looks like a cross with a snake wrapped around it. Undoubtedly this refers to the account of the Israelites in the Sinai who complained against God to Moses and were beset by fiery serpents that killed many people. The only antidote was to look upon the brass serpent that Moses crafted and set upon a pole. What a marvelous foreshadowing of Christ the Savior whom the Christian must look upon and have faith upon to be saved from this body of death.

Numbers 21:3-9

3: And the LORD hearkened to the voice of Israel, and delivered up the Canaanites; and they utterly destroyed them and their cities: and he called the name of the place Hormah.
4: And they journeyed from mount Hor by the way of the Red sea, to compass the land of Edom: and the soul of the people was much discouraged because of the way.
5: And the people spake against God, and against Moses, Wherefore have ye brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? for there is no bread, neither is there any water; and our soul loatheth this light bread.
6: And the LORD sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and much people of Israel died.
7: Therefore the people came to Moses, and said, We have sinned, for we have spoken against the LORD, and against thee; pray unto the LORD, that he take away the serpents from us. And Moses prayed for the people.
8: And the LORD said unto Moses, Make thee a fiery serpent, and set it upon a pole: and it shall come to pass, that every one that is bitten, when he looketh upon it, shall live.
9: And Moses made a serpent of brass, and put it upon a pole, and it came to pass, that if a serpent had bitten any man, when he beheld the serpent of brass, he lived.