I think there is a bigger picture here.
You find the cross in the outer court of the Temple services. You find in Rev 11 two groups, in verse 1 the group is in the Temple. In group 2 found in verse 2 you find those still in the outer court. I have to ask... what did those in verse 1 know that had them move on from the milk of the gospel to the meat found in the Temple? This thread is all about the milk of the gospel... but once you have grasp the concept of "saved by grace" then what? What did those who moved into the Temple find out? Maybe this...
All Outer Court Vessels are Bronze
Bronze also means the judgment of all the sins of mankind. Go back to the time when the fiery serpents were biting and killing the people. That day that Moses put a serpent up on the pole and if the people would look upon it they would live. It was made out of bronze. People may not realize the connection between the brass objects in the outer court, but Yeshua pointed to it and said that it pointed to Him. He was made like sin so that when you who look to Him for salvation and you also may be saved from the serpent’s bite … so that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have everlasting life.
It was not the graven serpent that healed but the faith that if you looked upon it as the God told Moses to tell the people to do that healed them, by faith they knew God would heal them if they obey and God did the healing. Just as Yeshua who was a curse on the tree, and many believed that He was the son of God are still healed today. They looked up Yeshua repent and believe. They are fully forgiven and healed. Those who look upon the pole and see Yeshua, the innocent guiltless lamb, made sin for us represented by the serpent, will get a glimmer of what Yeshua was telling them. Proof of His right, to say that He can save us, is in the power of the resurrection. No mere mortal is capable of resurrect their own body, cut off as we had been from the Tree of Life, only a God can do this. Only because Yeshua is God Himself can this be so.
As it happened later, people missed the message and worshiped the serpent on the pole and it had to be torn down. Today the pole needs to be torn down. Do not miss this message and worship the serpent. Satan is one brazen, bold, deceitful, conniving, instigator of malicious devious lies. Understand how repentance in your heart brings the promises of God to your life, and healing of your mind and body from the bites of Satan.
