The movement toward the image does not terminate in it as image, but tends toward that whose image it is.

Now let us look at the instruction God gave to Moses in the Book of Numbers 21:8-9 “…and Yahweh replied, make a fiery serpent and raise it as a standard. Anyone who is bitten and looks at it will survive. Moses then made a serpent out of bronze and raised it as a standard and anyone who was bitten by a serpent and looked at the bronze serpent survived”.

If it is absolutely forbidden to make any images in the literal sense of it as we see in Exodus 20:1-6, then God would not have commanded Moses to make an image, and of a snake at that. It follows therefore that God did not totally have complain over the use of images but rather the negative motives behind the use. 

If it is ABSOLUTELY forbidden to make ANY IMAGES in a literal sense in the Old Testament, why then was the instruction to make several graven images in the form of cherubs, flowers and even of a snake?