Education Week, Day 3, 2nd Hour, Patrick Degn, The Sacrifice of the Red Heifer

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Education Week, Day 3, 2nd Hour, Patrick Degn

Sacrifice of the Red Heifer

 Redemption is through the blood of the Lamb, not through our own works.  Cain brought the wrong offering.

Napoleon Hill - No such thing as a free lunch.

Question: What is the Price of Redemption?

The work "Priesthood" is synymous with "Jesus Christ".

The tabernacle drawn out East to West:

1. the Ash Pit (price of redemption), Christ endows me with ability to repent and go the door (gate)

2. the Alter of Sacrifice (west of the east gate)

3. Lavar of Washing

4. Lamp Stead (Gives me light to rule  my day)

5. Shew Bread

6. Incense Altar (Prayers)

7. Ark

Hebrew 10:19-22

v.19 having boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus.  We are not to be shy.

v.20 by a new a living way...through the veil, that is to say, his flesh; - The highway out of the sea (the world) enables us to go from the world into Zion.  The veil of the temple is the flesh of Jesus Christ.  You must go the through his flesh.

v.22 Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith...(a new and living way is a fresh thing, still living) and consecrated.

Number 19

Hebrews 9:13-17

v.13 For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh: [absolves ritual uncleaness]

v.14 How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God? [ashes to bring us to the reality of the blood]

v.16 For where a testament is, there must also of necessity be the death of the testator. [the death of the testator is necessary.  He must be cut, and bleed and die.]

v.17 For a testament is of force after men are dead:otherwise it is of no strength at all while the testator liveth. [We have new covenant with Him and his death]

Ezekial 43:21

21 Thou shalt take the bullock also of the sin offering, andhe shall burn it in the appointed place of the house,without the sanctuary.

There is a designated, appointed place outside the tabernacle.  This is the ash pit.

Seth was appointed to take the place of Abel.

The only animal slain at the Ash pit is the red heifer.

North indicates lost.  I die on the north side of the alter because of the price paid on the east.  "All slain to the north of the brazen alter of sacrifice (Leviticus).

Sacred place - Female cow, red heifer, most precious of all offerings.  Slain on the Day of Atonement - Miphkad.  Numbers 19:1-6

1 And the Lord spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying,

2 This is the ordinance of the law which the Lord hath commanded, saying, Speak unto the children of Israel, that they bring thee a red heifer without spot, wherein is no blemish, and upon which never came yoke:

3 And ye shall give her unto Eleazar the priest, that he may bring her forth without the camp, and one shall slay her before his face:

4 And Eleazar the priest shall take of her blood with his finger, and sprinkle of her blood directly before thetabernacle of the congregation seven times:

5 And one shall burn the heifer in his sight; her skin, and her flesh, and her blood, with her dung, shall he burn:

6 And the priest shall take cedar wood, and hyssop, and scarlet, and cast it into the midst of the burning of the heifer.

Never came yoke means never been mounted by a male bull.

The sacrifice is done outside the camp.  He slay her with its face east toward God.  The heifer if place south (toward the covenant people) and the head is turned east to the temple and is then slain.  Blood is sprinkled seven times toward the temple.

Animal blood sprinkled before the Lord is like the Hosanna Shout.  Similar to the sacrifice of the Heifer.

Seven things offered (perfection) rather than five things (grace).  My four + the priest's 3.  Covenants always made in three.  We (the heifer) offers skin, flesh, dung and blood.  The priest offers cedar, hyssop, and scarlet.  Interesting that the four are present agents.  One is amazing (flesh).  The other three are the worst things to offer.  Who represents the red heifer?  A sweet savor offering (smells like BBQ) doesn't have skin and hair and blood.  This offering smells bad.

the red heifer represents Adam or each of us.

The priest mixes in  cedar wood, hyssop and scarlet ( Ex12:22, Lev 14, John 19:29).  In the offering, priest includes some of his nature.  The cedar is very expensive, durable, valuable, last forever, eternity, used by kings.  The hyssop grows on the walls of the temple.  It is a mystery.  Nobody knows now what it is.  The scarlet is the token of redemption.  Put in the window at Jericho.  Token on blood. Psalm 22:1, vs 6 "I am a worm and no man despised (this is the worm that you extract scarlet from.  It climbs up the wall and on the third day the egg sacks burst open and leaves a scarlet mark on the wall.

So, my four things that I offer and his three things that He offers are cast into the fire in the ash pit.  Ashes are produced.  The ashes represent the sins gathered up - purified for sin.

Numbers 19:11-22 - the ashes are used to purify ritual uncleanness on the 3rd and 7th day.  3rd day purified and on the 7th day pronounced clean.

A person that walks into the temple complex unclean (been around death) having the stench of death will be excommunicated.

Purified living waters plus the ashes of the heifer.  Doctrine of Christ

Bethphage - priestly city outside the camp.  Jesus was probably brought to Bethpage and was tried there.  According to the Mishna, only nine red heifers  had been offered from Moses to Jesus.  Very precious ashes.  Mythna Altar - the ash pit.

All ashes were carried to the ash pit.  Water washed the ashes to the Kidron Valley.  The blood of the sacrifices mixed with the ashes  East (ashes), West (Blood).

Jesus was at Gethsemane, he was led by the priest as was the Red Heifer. He was judged and then led to be sacrificed as was the Red Heifer.  He was probably crucified near the ash pit Mythna Altar east of the temple.  That would make sense.

Blood, red heifer, led by the priests. Red heifer bride and church. Ephesians 5:32. Paul says

32 This is a great a mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church. {You give Christ everything.  He injects his goodness.}

C.S. Lewis (Mere Christianity, 1960) -  about building a palace.  All that he requires of you is that you trust him and his priesthood.  He will find areas that are inconsistent.  You cannot do it on your own.You go to the end of all you can do which is relying only on His Merits.

I die in the waters of baptism.

The purchase price = everything.

Jesus part = everything.

He is Time.  He is Space.  His Grace is sufficient for me.

Water, cutting and dung are also used in grafting.  Isaiah 61.  This is our offering to be water, cut and dunged.  He requires you to trust in Him.

1 The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me; because the Lord hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound;

2 To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all that mourn;

3 To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the Lord, that he might be glorified.

4 ¶And they shall build the old wastes, they shall raise up the former desolations, and they shall repair the waste cities, the desolations of many generations.

5 And strangers shall stand and feed your flocks, and the sons of the alien shall be your plowmen and your vine dressers.

6 But ye shall be named the Priests of the Lord: men shall call you the Ministers of our God: ye shall eat the riches of the Gentiles, and in their glory shall ye boast yourselves.

7 ¶For your shame ye shall have double; and for confusion they shall rejoice in their portion: therefore in their land they shall possess the double: everlasting joy shall be unto them.

8 For I the Lord love judgment, I hate robbery for burnt offering; and I will direct their work in truth, and I will make an everlasting covenant with them.

9 And their seed shall be known among the Gentiles, and their offspring among the people: all that see them shall acknowledge them, that they are the seed which the Lord hath blessed.

10 I will greatly rejoice in the Lord, my soul shall be joyful in my God; for he hath clothed me with the garments of salvation, he hath covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decketh himself with ornaments, and as a bride adorneth herself with her jewels.

11 For as the earth bringeth forth her bud, and as the garden causeth the things that are sown in it to spring forth; so the Lord God will cause righteousness and praise to spring forth before all the nations.

We can be transformed into trees of righteousness by believing in Jesus Christ and offering ourselves to be dunged, cut and watered.