The children of Israel had come up out of Egypt. They got into the wilderness, begin to murmur. God sent fiery serpents among them and bit them, they were dying, by the thousands. And then He made an atonement, a brass serpent. Oh, how beautiful! That brass serpent, speaking of judgment, “Divine judgment, and sin already judged.” Genesis 3:14, God had already judged the serpent. And then in Exodus 17, we find that brass speaks of Divine judgment, the brazen altar. Then, also, in the days of Elijah, we found out that the skies were brass. Brass always is a symbol of Divine judgment.

Israel and the Church #5, 1953-03-29, Jeffersonville, IN, §44