Melchizedek 3 - Torah Vayera - what really happened to Yitz'chak? 8 Nov 2014

Melchizedek 3 - B’re’shiyt 22 - Yitz’chak - 8 Nov 2014

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Sh’ma

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8 Nov 2014  ~  15 Cheshvan 5775

Torah parashah Vayera - He Appeared 

B’re’shiyt 18:1-22:24  

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Once again we are not going to do the B’re’shiyt word study by Brad Scott... we will get back to that though!

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Shabbat shalom!

How’s your week been??

Mine was difficult....  i am guessing most of yours was as well.

I know it was a full moon week.

You know i often take note and say something like - “there was a shift” or “something changed”...

Well this week, it seems to me that the dark got darker.

I did a short search of the scriptures for “darkness” - 

“Darkness” is in the scriptures a lot.  

Tesloniqyah alef /I Thessalonians 5:5

“You are all the children of Light, and the children of the Yom;  we are not of the night, or of the darkness.”

I just want to share this observation - that everything was so hard.... and in my words... “the dark got darker”....

because... what i am learning is....

“Things being hard” - is a neon sign that i used to miss...  that shouts loudly....

“This is the time to worship!  This is the time make tefillah /pray!  This is the time to seek the face of YHWH!!!”

I have forever seen injustice in the world....  but now i am learning to see it and then look at YHWH....and not let the injustice, and even the righteous anger consume me....  

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I went to a very interesting building this week to get finger prints in order to be approved for coaching...  

it was very strange...  

I walked into a large / hollow lobby with marble tile floors and walls. 

The receptionist sat behind a huge desk... probably 10 meters or more wide... and the front was so high i didn’t see her at first!

There i was getting my finger prints done... and someone else came in who had to go talk with someone...  she had to push a button to unlock the hall way!!!

There i was thinking ..

What were they expecting that this place is so locked up?

Why is it like this?

and .... 

remember the “left behind” series that we used to read??... we know that they have the tribulation and who is taken all wrong...  but my point is... in that story - the people who decided to become “christians” after the believers were taken...they were living in a very hostile world... operating below the surface....  doing what they needed... but we very cautious about what they said to whom etc....

and it hit me.... we are living in a world like that now and we are the ones who are different!

Praise YHWH!!!

Why would i bring all of this up??

Because we have to be transformed by the renewing of our minds!!

Romans 12:2 

“And be not conformed to this olam hazeh (present world): but be transformed by the ongoing renewing of your mind, that you may discern what is that tov, acceptable, and even the perfect, will of YHWH.”

amein...

And this last verse....

Romans 12:2 

“And be not conformed to this olam hazeh (present world): but be transformed by the ongoing renewing of your mind, that you may discern what is that tov, acceptable, and even the perfect, will of YHWH.”

Is exactly where we are going today.....

in this pursuit to understand the Melchizedek priesthood....

I am going to share from a teaching that Matthew Nolan did at Sukkot.

I present this to you... b/c i believe it is the truth... it only makes sense.... 

but let me tell you ....  up front....  don’t stay and listen if you don’t truly want to be transformed by the renewing of your mind... 

Because this teaching does not fit in with what those of us who grew up in the church were taught.

I have been studying this teaching and pondering it and asking YHWH about it and i feel i am to bring it to you...

...not because I have all of the answers... to what i know will be your many questions...

but because i do not

and because as I study the little Hebrew i understand... it finally makes sense -

- not only of what it says in Hebrew... but what we know about the Scriptures being “monked with” / changed....

and because it is how the Torah works....  YHWH shows us something that is a type and shadow  - a prophecy ... and then HE does it...

And because with this part of the Scriptures understood as i am going to tell you - it finally makes sense of things ... 

Remember i am not telling you i have all of the answers...

and maybe this is not all correct... but this is what i am coming to understand - based on Torah.  

wow...

Here we go...  buckle up. 

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The Torah parashah for today is 

Vayera - He Appeared 

B’re’shiyt 18:1-22:24 

The part that i want to focus on today is

B’re’shiyt /Genesis  22

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But before we start that i want to point out one thing that is not related...

In B’re’shiyt 18... YHWH / 3 men have come to Avraham... and he has Sarah make a meal...

B’re’shiyt 18:8 

“And he took butter, and milk, and the calf that he had prepared, and set it before them; and he stood by them under the eytz, and they did eat.”

We know the Jewish teaching is that this was a long meal.. and the dairy was not served with the meat... 

... but that is not what it says...  

(I will be the first to remind you that what it says in English  - or even the masoretic text - is sometimes not correct.)

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I want to read what is known in Jewish circles as 

Avraham’s Akediah

Read 

B’re’shiyt 22 

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First let’s consider some geography/topography... 

According to Chuck Missler...

Mt Moriah is a ridge line between the Mt of Olives and Mt Zion.

It is bordered by:

 the Kidron Valley on the east, 

the Hinom Valley on the south,

and the Tyropean Valley on the west.

If we approach the Mount as Avraham did, from Beersheva to the south, 

we begin at about 600 meters above sea level, and climb to its peak, 

which is about 777 meters above seal level.

Many years later, David would purchase the threshing floor of Arunah where Solomon would eventually build the Temple.

(A threshing floor was located where a prevailing wind would facilitate the separation of the grain from the chaff.) 

In this case, it was at about 741 meters above seal level, just below the peak.

The peak of the Mount is at a place just outside the city wall (of Jerusalem) to the north.

According to Chuck Missler....

It’s a place you can still visit today, just above an Arab bus station outside the Damascus Gate.

It is known as GOLGOTHA   !!!

Are you getting this?...

• ....That the place where Avraham took his son to offer him as a sacrifice.... 

• ....is the same place where YHWH offered His Bienah ... His plan for restoration. !!!

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Now with this in mind.... 

let’s go to Matthew Nolan’s ...

The first thing i am going to say is that we have been learning that the church has it’s bibles based on the Masoretic text of the Tanakh.  

When we know that the Septuagint was translated years before Y’shua was even born... directly from the text of the Tanakh that Y’shua used!!

The Masoretic text was written between the 7th and 10 centuries CE!!

and we know that the Masoretic text was “monked” with!

Meaning that it has been proven that at least 134 times, the Masoretic text changed references to the Messiah Y’shua !!

Yirmeyahu /Jeremiah 16:19 

“O YHWH, my strength, and my stronghold, and my refuge in the Yom of Tribulation, the gentiles shall come to You from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Surely our ahvot (fathers) have inherited only lies, only vanity, and things in which there is no profit.” 

(The foot note  of this verse in the RSTNE Scripture says...”in non- Hebraic lifestyles.”)

-Ok...all that said and from teachings before....

... we know that the Scriptures need to be studied very closely and taken back to as much of original as possible.

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Another thing we know is that our Messiah Y’shua has risen from the dead!  :)  

But many many persons do not believe in the resurrection.

We also know that traditional Judaism does not believe in the resurrection.

I am going to suggest to you that the translators of the Masoretic text / Judaism has hidden the revealed resurrection in the Book of the Covenant of Promise.

Matthew Nolan said...

“Judaism insists that there is NO precedence of human sacrifice ... and that YHWH never thought of vicarious / substitutional atonement.”

So... we are at an important point that i must say...

I have always said... 

The christian end of the spectrum is messed up 

and the Jewish end of the spectrum is messed up...

We knew to move away from the teachings of christianity 

(Notice i did not say teachings of the Word!)

But we didn’t know how the Jewish end is messed up other than them not believing in Messiah Y’shua.

But that is the point we must start with...

Judaism doesn’t believe what we believe...!!

They don’t believe in Messiah

and how crazy is it that christianity uses Masoretic texts...  translated by Jews who don’t believe in Messiah!!

We should be using the Septuagint - because it is much more ancient and true!

(Suggest - Brenton’s Septuagint with Apocrypha)

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How do ancient Jews explain the absence of Yitz’chak?  

We are going to come back to that question... 

but first let’s go to...

Ivrim / Hebrews 11:17-19 

Let’s start with Complete Jewish Bible - a RABBINIC text...

“By trusting, Avraham, when he was put to the text, offered up Yitz’chak as a sacrifice.  Yes, he offered up his only son, he who had received the promises, 18 to whom it had been said, ‘What is called your ‘seed’ will be in Yitz’chak.” 19 For he had concluded that God could even raise people from the dead! And, figuratively speaking, he did so receive him.”

Okay...now let’s look at 

Ivrim 11:17-19 in the RSTNE

“17 By emunah (faith or trust) Avraham, when he was tried, offered up Yitz’chak: and he that had received the promises offered up his only brought-forth son.

18 Of whom it was said, That in Yitz’chak shall your zera (seed) be called:

19 Accounting that YHWH was able to raise him up, even from the dead; from where also he received him in a figure.”

-The foot note of the end of vs 19 “received him in a figure” says... 

“As a figure, or type of the coming Messiah who would die as opposed to Isaac”

• Let’s read this based on what it says... not what we were taught it means...

vs 17...  “offered up Yitz’chak: and he that had received the promises offered up his only brought-forth son.”

hmmm

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Let’s go to the end of the story a moment...

B’re’shiyt 22: 19

“So Avraham returned to his young men, and they rose up and went together to Beer-Sheva; and Avraham dwelt at Beer-Sheva.”

Where is Yitz’chak here?

In fact he isn’t even talked about at his mother’s death/funeral etc.

Is it POSSIBLE...  

ponder on this for a bit...

Is it POSSIBLE that Yitz’chak didn’t return with Avraham

 because he died.... ???

yes that is what i said...

Is it possible that...

...Yitz/chak didn’t return with Avraham

... because he died...

 - as prophecy of Y’shua’s death on the same hill?

Yitz’chak isn’t mentioned from the time Avraham comes down from the Mt... until  - B’re’shiyt 24:62...

and interestingly enough He is at the well of Lachai-Roei - “The Well of Living Water” or “the Well of the Living One”.

Read 

B’re’shiyt 24:62- 64

Do you see that place there in verse 64?.... 

the RSTNE says 

“and when she saw him she was lifted from off the camel”

The Complete Jewish says... 

“she quickly dismounted”

But the Hebrew Interlinear says... 

“she is falling from the camel”.  !!!

hmmm...  maybe I’d fall off too if i believed someone dead...  was walking toward me....

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But this is just the beginning...

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Now let’s go back to our earlier question...

How do ancient Hebrews /Jews explain Yitz’chak’s absence???

One Jewish sage wrote  that Yitz’chak stayed in Gan Eden / Paradise for three years before he shows up again in the Scriptures.

Another midrash on B’re’shiyt 24:36 depicts Yitz’chak as descending from heaven to claim his bride.

(What picture does this remind you of??!!!!)

Now i will be the first to tell you - these are just some guy’s opinions.

and Yes that is true...

...but isn’t it interesting to see that Jewish scholars from about 285 CE explain this this way!??

hmmm

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Now let’s go to the key verse...

B’re’shiyt 22:16

“And said, ‘By Myself have I sworn, says YHWH, because you have done this thing, and have not withheld your son, your only son.”

Well, Janet, how is this verse the KEY verse ??

Here we have to go back to Hebrew... (of course! :) )

= The English “you have done”

In ... “because you have done this thing and have not withheld your son, your only son.”

In Hebrew “you have done” is  “ASAH” 

ASAH is an ayin, a shin, and a hey.

This word means  = 

to make or create... 

 it is A DEED FULLY DONE  and is in past tense.  !!!

With that understanding...

What B’re’shiyt 22:16 - better translated would say something close to....

“because you did this completely - giving your only son”

hmm

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Now let’s go back to something else...

B’re’shiyt 22:12

“And He said, Lay not your hand upon the lad, neither do anything to him; for now i know that you fear Elohim, seeing you have not withheld your son, your only son from me.”

...Now i will be the first to say right here... “oh come on...  it SAYS right here... ‘lay not your hand upon the lad... neither do anything to him’.”

--“neither do anything” / “neither do thou” in English is ASAH = a completed work in past tense. (Strong’s 6213)

--“upon” in English is = “el” in Hebrew 

and it is = aleph and a lamed 

This word means... 

to, toward, concerning, according, at, against, limit is actually entered, and in addition to.

--The first “son” in this verse

as in “not withheld your son”

in Hebrew it is “ben” - and ben can be translated as...

= “Son, male child, grandson, children, youth, young men, people, a member 

and ...

“of lifeless things”

B’re’shiyt 22:13

“And Avraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and saw behind him a ram caught in a thicket by its horns; and Avraham went and took the ram, and offered it up for a burnt offering instead of his son.”

I always understood this meant - So Avraham untied the very much alive Yitz’chak and helped him off the altar...  

and killed the ram INSTEAD OF and burned the ram.

So what is the big deal here??

Now this really starts to get in over my head... so i am going to tell you what Matthew Nolan taught here...

and i am going to assume... that i just don’t know enough Word yet to get it...  ... so let’s hear this teaching... as a potential correct teaching but we don’t understand it for sure yet...  but pray and study!!!

so...

Back to 

B’re’shiyt 22:12

“And He said, Lay not your hand upon the lad, neither do anything to him; for now i know that you fear Elohim, seeing you have not withheld your son, your only son from me.”

“What if the angel of YHWH is stopping a BURNT OFFERING??!!”

“There would be a slaying and ...

then there would be a burning.... and the burning is until it is totally consumed”

Ivrim /Hebrew 11 said...

Ivrim 11:17-19 in the RSTNE

“17 By emunah (faith or trust) Avraham, when he was tried, offered up Yitz’chak: and he that had received the promises offered up his only brought-forth son.

18 Of whom it was said, That in Yitz’chak shall your zera (seed) be called:

19 Accounting that YHWH was able to raise him up, even from the dead; from where also he received him in a figure.”

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So all this said...

we might say.../ believe....

Avraham offered up his son...and the Melach stopped the BURNING.

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Matthew Nolan also said... that

Y’shua was hung on a tree... the same tree as the two other guys...

and there you have it - a Menorah...  the tree trunk as the center and six arms raised...  = 7 branches.

Matthew Nolan said... they went around the tree and broke the legs of the two guys but when they got around to Y’shua - He was already dead....

and then - the Jewish people wanted to burn Y’shua’s body.

I have no idea how he knows this....  but again - I trust this teacher...so i am sharing this not as a DONE or PROVEN deal....

but it is time we start seeing the Word and what it says.. for what makes sense... etc!!

Joseph of Arimathea   took the body of Y’shua down before it was burned.

(I realize that the scripture says - buried not burned ...  so we have to study this part!)

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Okay let’s back up and look at this...

WE know that YHWH always tells us before he does it.... so there is always a prophecy...

If we look at what i have just taught.... and we CONSIDER this...

We have Yitz’chak being taken...  carrying the wood ...

him being sacrificed - killed

dead...  

and then he resurrects  in order to marry his bride!!!!

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Another thing that occurs to me...

we have been taught that “Avraham had the FAITH/TRUST that YHWH COULD raise Yitz’chak from the dead”...

Well...

Do we have the FAITH/ TRUST to believe that YHWH actually did???

Why would we take the word /s of a group of people who do NOT believe in resurrection 

who do not believe in Messiah Y’shua??  !!!

What if it happened this way??

What if Avraham - was a way  more amazing man of TRUST than we ever ever considered...

and what if YHWH was more amazing that we can begin to fathom??

I do not understand the burning piece... but B’re’shiyt 22 does say that the RAM was “offered up for a burnt offering instead of his son.”

and you can say...

“well, YHWH would have never done human sacrifice... he hates it... that is what the pagans do to Molech.”

Yep, that  is what the pagans do to Molech... 

BUT I know that YHWH always tells us/ shows us before HE does something...  

and here we have a man slain and resurrected to marry his bride...

and i don’t believe in coincidence.

He is not talked about... after the akediah ....  until he comes to marry his bride.

Imagine if this is true... the TRUST Avraham had - to send Eliazer out to get the bride.

BUT... we learned in B’re’shiyt 15 that Avraham was NOT alseep - he was in a trance and while in the trance...

Avraham saw the things to come - the B’rit Chadashah tells us so!!

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Ivrim /Hebrews 11: 19 

“Accounting that YHWH was able to raise him up, even from the dead; from where also he received him in a figure.”

foot note...

“As a figure, or type of the coming Messiah who would die as opposed to Isaac.”

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Now i want to return to a couple of things

at the beginning of this teaching...

1. I suggested you fasten your seat belts....

i hope you are still in the seat.  :)

and i hope this inspires you to study - and either prove me wrong - based on original Torah... or prove me right.

because right now as i understand... there is a whole lot more truth to what i taught today than what i was taught it meant.

and 

1. Darkness is increasing....

but oh my goodness!!...  Baruch YHWH!!!....

i am just learning that the Elohiym i serve - is way way way more trustworthy than i had any idea!!!

and HIS LIGHT is getting brighter.

Yes the Torah says that in the end after the tribulation  - the sun will no longer shine....

but it also says that the light in the New Heaven - is YHWH himself.

THAT is the light I want!... 

and i believe when HE gives me pieces of understanding of His Word....  i get a little more of His light...

that’s what I’m running after

and i hate roller coasters but i will climb in and fasten the seat belt if it means i understand more of HIS emet...

because then i understand more of 

Who YHWH is 

and who He says that I am... 

so then i know how to live

and i can live - as He has called me to live...

... no matter what.

buckle up and go study!!

amein!!

The Red Heifer Sacrifice.... what it means....

The Red Heifer Sacrifice...

Parashah 39 - Chukkat (Regulations)

Shabbat June 15, 2013 ~ Tammuz 7, 5773

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Torah - B’midbar /Numbers 19:1- 22:1

Haftarah - Shof’tim /Judges 11:1-33

B’rit Hadashah - Yochanan/John 3:9-21; 4:3-30; 12:27-50; Mattityahu 21:1-17

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Sh’ma

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The Red Heifer Sacrifice....

Torah - B’midbar/Numbers 19:1- 10 cjb p 171

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You know, it seems since we have been studying our Hebrew roots... we find ourselves studying the Torah - meaning the first 5 books of the Tanakh a lot more than the rest of the book.

In part - this is because we have so much to learn there and this is the core .... the key to understanding all of the rest of the Word....  

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So we just read in B’midbar 19 - the story of the Red Heifer sacrifice...

So what has this got to do with anything??!!

I mean, when i was a kid, i was taught that these sacrifices were done away with and didn’t mean anything any more...  

But what i am learning now is that if i understand the stories in the first 5 books, i understand the rest a lot better!

So let’s learn about the Red Heifer sacrifice....

The Red Heifer - is a red cow....

If found 2 single white hairs on that heifer - that cow was disqualified.  

The hoofs even have to be red.  

No defect - no wart or boil etc... 

It has to be “perfect”. 

 If a yoke was ever put on it - it is disqualified.

.. if you put a blanket on it - it disqualifies it.. 

...can’t lean on it - or it is disqualified... 

...no work - ever.    

you could lead it and put a rope on it, only if it was to help it or save its life.

There have only been 7 or 9 red heifer sacrifices in the history of the world (depending on who you ask).

As you might suspect.... 

It is really difficult to find a red heifer that meets the qualifications.

Let’s think about a map of Isra’el now... 

particularly... 

the Mountains of Isra’el...

Mt Moriah 

Mt of Olives

Mt Tzion

Mt Moriah = in middle of three 

temple mount on this

The Kidron valley is on right of Mt Moriah

and on the right of that is Mt of Olives

Clear over on the left of Mt Moriah is  Mt Tzion - 

Mt Tzion is synonymous with all of Jerusalem . 

All of Jerusalem can be called “Mt Tzion”.

The Mt Olives is not just one mountain but it is a mountain range that runs entire side of Mt Moriah.

Let’s talk about Topography map...of Jerusalem....  about how much the land changes in height....

In the time of ancient Isra’el... they would go to the top of the hill and cut the top off and use that to shore up the lower side of the hill.. they put the castle NOT on top but near the top...

The enemy’s of Isra’el sacrifice on the “high places”- these are on the very top of the mountain.  

Never in Isra’el will you see a temple or synagogue that was / is placed on the top of the hill.

A synagogue is always 1/4 of the way down from the top.

Greek temples are always on the TOP = the “high places.”

Tuvia Sagiv - architect that lives in Isra’el...

He didn’t buy the idea that the temple was built where the dome of the rock is.... 

 So he flew over temple mount in helicopter and shot infrared waves.... so he could see it.  

What he saw is that the dome of the rock... is on TOP, 

 and the top is a hexagon shape... 

and we know for a fact through history - the goddess Ashterah... is a sort of hexagon shape symbol.

 Mr Tuvia Sagiv  found the foundations of the real temple in infrared!

and it is not under dome of the rock... 

 it is between the synagogue that is near there,  and the dome of the rock 

... so neither need to be destroyed to build the 3rd temple!!!!!

Nechemyah’s Temple...

Nechemyah / Nehemiah 3  cjb p 1132   - Each family chose to rebuild.... part of the wall and the gates...  

They started out with the sheep gate... 

and goes all the way around counter clockwise and ends up in 

Nechemyah 3:31 at the Miphqad Gate - 

 and says after him... a goldsmith made repairs... in front of the inspection gate...  

Notice that the wall begins with sheep gate and ends with sheep gate...

Who was the lamb slain?... Y’shua....

Y’shua  = the beginning and end, the alef and the tov.

So... what is the gate before the sheep gate?... 

  b/c that will be the last gate to open before Y’shua comes again. === The Inspection Gate = Miphqad Gate.

Why is this here?  

Because....

 Right before the very end - we will be inspected.

The Inspection Gate

Inspection =Mipqad in Hebrew Strong’s 4662 = to count an appointment  or a census or a designated spot  = The gate of the census!

The word mipqad is fromStrong’s 6485 = paqad = to oversee, muster, charge, care for, miss, deposit, judgment.

 When Y’shua comes back... there will be a census and he will dived the sheep and the goats.  

Where will this happen.... at the inspection gate.

Inspection gate - just north and just east of the Temple....  

From the Inspection gate..... there was a three teared bridge 

that went over to the Mt of Olives!  

A huge bridge!!   

A bridge built b/c the Mt of Olives and Kidron Valley is a cemetery

• So, because one couldn’t cross a grave - b/c you’d become ceremonially unclean....  
• They had to build a bridge so didn’t walk on death.  

Yechezk’el /Ezekiel 43:21   cjb p 699

“You are to take the bull which is the sin offering and have it burned up at the designated place of the house, outside the sanctuary.”

• Had to burn it in the appointed place..  outside the temple!!  

Not many things had to be burned outside the wall of Jerusalem...  in the “appointed place” 

(leprosy was dealt with outside the walls)

Mipqad = the appointed place... the appointed gate - the Inspection Gate.....used for the High Priest.

The Cohen Hagadol  -took the Red heifer and inspected  it again and finally - at the Inspection Gate.

Then the person assigned and the Cohen HaGadol and the guy to clean up the ashes ... (Probably others!)  would take it across the bridge to the Mt of Olives. 

The sacrifice (Killing)  did not have to be done by a priest.

Sh’mot /Exodus 38:25-26 cjb p 105   - “numbered” -numbering all the men of Isra’el... = a census.  

Numbered = Paquad = to number

Sh’mot /Ex 38:26  - Literal Translation: “ a bekah for a head, half a shekel, by the shekel of the sanctuary, for everyone passing over to those numbered, from a son of twenty years ad upward, ...”

 “Those numbered”.... (each person counted) 

in CJB = “for everyone”

The Hebrew word for “those numbered” (“everyone” in cjb ) is...

.... golgolet = skull, a poll/census, every man

At the end of time, every man will be numbered

By the first century this place was called.... “ golgotha”.  

- Yes this is where - the exact place --- Y’shua was sacrificed!

So.... when they did the census - this is where they would count the men/people. 

This was the main place or GATE people would come into Jerusalem through.  

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Okay so back to the Red Heifer....

So they would watch for a Red Heifer to be born... 

Inspect it... look for any flaws.

The Red Heifer had to be purchased with money from the Temple treasury.

It could not have more than 2 white hairs.

It had to have red hoofs.

It could never have a yoke on it - never do any work.

It could only be led if it was for its own good.

They would watch it grow... and always be sure that nothing disqualified it from being perfect for sacrifice.

Then when the time came for sacrifice...  

The person making the sacrifice would take the Heifer to the city gate called 

Mipqad the gate of Inspection...

and here they would inspect it again.

Then he would take the red heifer and cross out the gate and cross the bridge and go to the Mt of Olives.... with the Cohen Hagadol and others....

...where the altar was built for this sacrifice.

-There literally was an altar outside the gates of Jerusalem,

 where they did one single sacrifice - the Red Heifer Sacrifice.

This altar was considered  a “clean” place. 

Here, the person making the sacrifice took the Red Heifer and faced it due west toward the temple .. 

the head of the cow would be looking directly at/ “into” the temple..

then priests would open the doors of the Temple,

 and would open the curtain to the Holy of Holies... 

The Temple curtain around the Holy of Holies had to be open for the sacrifice to be valid.

(This altar outside the Temple was about 200 feet away...so could easily see inside the temple)

and the one making the sacrifice would kill/sacrifice the animal.

B’Midbar /Numbers 19:4  cjb p 171   “El’azar the cohen is to take some of its blood with his finger and sprinkle this blood toward the front of the tent of meeting seven times.”

For the sprinkling ... The one killing the cow would  right hand cut the neck of the cow, and the left hand caught some of the blood.

Then the Cohen HaGadol took the index finger of his right hand ... and 7 times sprinkled it towards  the doors of sanctuary...and toward the Holy of Holies.

Remember - he is about 200 feet away...so could easily see inside the temple.....

Blood is sprinkled 7 times  toward front of tabernacle...  the Holy of Holies.

Then the one doing the sacrifice would light the dead Red Heifer on fire.

After the fire is burning, he would take hyssop and cedar wood and wrap it in scarlet wool and throw it in the fire...

As soon as the Red Heifer was all burned up ... they would beat the bones and ashes, into fine ashes... 

and then take the ashes and put them in “a clean place” 

and leave them in the clean place for three days.

“A clean place”....

= newly hewn rock... rock not porous - so newly hewn and no dead bodies in there... It was a clean place and painted white...

They would leave them in this this “clean place” for three days.

After 3 days - they would go get the ashes, and mix them with living water 

...and then that water would be used to cleanse the things of the temple and 

• The priests were inaugurated into their position of service - only when they had ashes and water of a red heifer was sacrifice.

It didn’t matter that they were born into the role - the family line... 

they could only start their service after the cleansing of the red heifer sacrifice. 

You could be called  a priest from birth, but you could not start your ministry because you were defiled  and only cleaned by the red heifer sacrifice.

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Now you may think like i used to think, and think that was a pretty gross story that doesn’t make much sense...  

Well, the amazing thing is this....

The strongest and most amazing prophecies in the Word are the ones that are about Y’shua, 

because, as we are finding out - Y’shua fulfills them to a “T”!!

So let’s make the connections....

There were Red Heifers born in 1997 and one in 2002 -both disqualified...

The birth of a Red Heifer always makes big news in Isra’el... 

Because ... the Mishnah says “the next red heifer will bring 3 temple and Messiah.”

So red heifer born = celebration... 

When Y’shua was born.... the Heavenly Host Sang!

Red heifer watched for three years

Y’shua watched for 3 years of ministry.  

He had to have a 3 year ministry...

 b/c red heifer has to be watched for three years. 

 the night before Y’shua ‘s death... they brought him to Cohen HaGadol - the High Priest for “inspection”

... and then to golgotha....

and to get there... He  had to go through the Inspection Gate.

And what was going on at the Inspection Gate...

This is where he fell....The Gate of the Inspection - the “last counting...

 and here the yoke had to be removed or it would have disqualified him once he crossed through the gate, he had to be without a yoke

• because it was at that point - he was the Red Heifer sacrifice.

(I do not know why it was okay for him to carry stake at all.)

Red Heifer must be acquired through money from the temple treasury.  purchased by temple treasury...

The location of Y'shua was paid for from the Temple treasury to Judas  (30 pieces of silver)  

The Red Heifer must be without defect/ blemish

Y’shua was without blemish/ sin

--Why wouldn’t it be a white heifer??

Why RED??

In Bible sin is RED...  black is death.

Why,  if no blemish/sin - wouldn’t this be a white cow??

Rabbis can’t figure this out - 

They don’t know why the very sacrifice that cleanses all Isra’el ... makes those who do the sacrifice - unclean...

Why  a white cow?

Red represents sin and death 

white represents truth and life

What the rabbis don’t connect is that the cow had to be red 

• it is taking on all sins of Isra’el and so it can’t be white..

• you don’t burn something that is perfect...  

It’s a perfect cow......but it’s red... and that means it represents the sins of Isra’el.

So technically what is going on in the Red Heifer sacrifice is ...

 .....they were  burning sin outside the camp.

The Red Heifer was handed over to high priest for examination

Y’shua handed over to Kayafus for examination.

why did Y’shua have to be examined??...b/c that was exactly what the Red Heifer sacrifice - the sin sacrifice required.

led the cow outside the inspection gate to the Mt of Olives to be sacrificed...

There are no priestly qualifications on who burns the red heifer

... it didn’t have to be a priest.

The Romans had no priestly qualifications to crucify the Messiah...

if the Torah would have required a priest for the Red Heifer sacrifice

 - y’shua would have been disqualified as Red Heifer sacrifice...  b/c it was the Romans who did the killing of Y’shua.

The blood had to be sprinkled 7 times toward the temple

one for each day of the week and each millennium of creation (7k years!)

When Adam sinned, what happened?...

It caused all other men to be born into sin and into an unclean state... every generation for the next 7 thousand years = unclean...  

So the blood was offered toward the temple seven times to cover the sin of all man.

The curtain in the temple must be open during the sacrifice for the sacrifice to be valid!!

When Y’shua died.... the curtain of the Holy of Holies

-The same curtain that would have been open for the Red Heifer sacrifice....

But remember, there is no Levitical High Priest b/c Kayafus had disqualified himself when he tore his clothes at Y’shua’s trial...  

So Y’shua is the only high priest -  and he is from the from the line of Melchizedek - so there he is “overseeing” his own sacrifice....  and he can see right into the Holy of Holies.

thus validating his own sacrifice!!!!

The curtain around the Holy of Hoies was ripped by an earthquake...

How did that happen?....

Well, the stone on top holding the curtain that was around the Holy of Holies  was 30 tons....

So the earthquake happens.... the earth is shaking...

and 

30 tons of rock fell to the ground... 

that must have been a huge noise coming from the temple....

so of course everyone would have looked!! 

The Torah requires that the high priest has to LOOK into the Holy of Holies...  for the Red Heifer sacrifice to be valid....

when the rock falls... it catches Y’shua’s attention, and anyone else who is out there!

....  a major earth quake - doors open , 30 ton rock falls... curtain rips in half... and everyone is looking b/c it is such a huge earthshaking change...   

and another criteria is met by Y’shua’s sacrifice!!

So... when the curtain rips...

Y’shua is on the stake...  looking directly into the Holy of Holies....

into the face, the panim of YHWH

“before the Lord” = looking directly into his face

and his father turns his head....  

YHWH chooses to allow the Benah - the one who is the plan to bring the restoration - to remain on the stake and die.

Remember that YHWH is ecahd... so this is not two persons....   

this is that Y’shua was looking at the strength of YHWH - his own strength an couldn’t do anything but carry on with the sacrifice.

 Yah must turn his head b/c of the crimson red - Y’shua  has become sin...because He took on all our sins.  

His own strength and power and holiness must look away 

  Y’shua full of blood - ripped to shreds - nothing but blood...   Y’shua is RED.

The first sin sacrifice  -the cow - is red.

It is not until the ashes of the red heifer sacrifice are combined with living water that brings forth new life

Immersion is the combination of the death of Messiah and Living water

The took ashes of red heifer - and sit in clean place for three days and then put in living water - on the third day... and then on the 7th day the people are then declared clean.

baptism.. immersed into death of Y'shua .. connecting death of Y’shua with living water...

So - until you are mikvahed...  baptism with water and fire....  what fire??

what is the writer of Hebrews talking about? the red heifer sacrifice - burning - fire and water....

The death  of Messiah mixed with living water of Word and be baptized with his spirit ...

(Remember this is not in any certain order, based on Acts.)

Then the one doing the sacrifice -- took a piece of cedar wood, hyssop and a crimson wool and cast them into the fire of the sacrifice.

Y’shua was crucified on a cedar beam, was given sour wine (hyssop) and was forced to wear a crimson robe

how do they make crimson wool??

Where does wool come from?  -sheep!

So a red piece of wool would represent...

... the....“Blood of the lamb”

so the crimson robe is put on Y’shua  - is the lamb of God wearing lamb wool dyed red - representing the “blood of the lamb”

Look how clear YHWH makes things for us over and over!!!

He is the lamb of God that takes away the sins of the world... 

....crucified on the Mt of Olives - where the Red Heifer sacrifice was sacrificed.. 

looking into the holy of holies... 

-- satisfying every single step/ prophecy of the Red Heifer sacrifice and every scripture

Ashes of Red Heifer sacrifice were then gathered and taken to a clean place in newly hewn stone.

Y’shua was placed in a newly hewn stone of Joseph of Arimathea

the cow ashes were put in a mini tomb...

The ashes would be taken to a clean place until the 3rd day... then they were  mixed with living water and used for cleansing.

Y’shua/YHWH... rose on the 3rd day and came back as Ruach HaKodesh (Remember YHWH is echad!)

So.... the  death, burial and resurrection represent: 

the Yom Kippur sacrifice- sin

  the Pesach sacrifice - freedom for slavery and no firstborn death

the Red Heifer sacrifice...  a washing of sin that sets priests into their “office”/ role and priests.

you must be sprinkled by that gospel...

 when you are sprinkled on the “3rd day” - (His resurrection) - accepting Yah’s plan walking in his ways.. 

on the 7th day - 7000 years.... you will be mikvahed again but this time it will be directly by Him...

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• Ever wondered why he comes back on the Mt of Olives in Revelation??

... b/c that is the place of golgotha.. the counting of the census.. the inspection gate - the entrance of the city... 

Y’shua said “I am the way”....  to my Father...  No one goes to him except through me... 

where is Father in 1st century Hebrew??  

He is in the holy of holies... 

the bridge/gate -over the death across the valley.. and the counting of the censes starts...

and nobody goes across that valley unless you pass by HIM.  He will be doing the census.

The fist red heifer was in the 3rd Millennium and Y’shua is coming back at the beginning of the 7th Millennium.

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We know that depending who one asks... there have been either 7 or 9 Red Heifers....

If we assume that 7 is correct....

7 cows sacrificed  -   8 = new beginnings....  So Y’shua would have been the NEW BEGINNING!

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so the great mystery =  how can the the very ceremony that is designed to make people clean... make those who perform it unclean???

Galatians 3:10  For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse: for it is written cursed  is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book  of the law to do them....

if you break the Torah you are under a curse

and if you rely on Torah for  salvation - you are under a curse

The Torah is directions on how to live and if we keep them we live and are blessed... but the cleansing comes from the sacrifice - Y’shua!  

He came to get rid of the curse.. he became the curse...

the red heifer starts out perfect and it ends up totally unclean - that is why all at the sacrifice who touch that red heifer become unclean.....

this is the great paradox

In orthodox Judaism - this is the greatest mystery in all of scripture...

Rabbis even say Solomon knew all things but he did not know.... what /how is it that something so perfect could make all clean but the ones officiating the sacrifice become unclean.

Y’shua became unclean...  

he had to go three days..b/c three days was the number that it took for the red cow to go from unclean to clean...  

and guess what.... he shows up on the 3rd day wearing... a white robe 

b/c he had been mikvahed  

he was washed in the water of the Word...  

as he fulfilled  all prophecies of Messiah!

Those Words washed over him - he did them all!!

This will turn the lights on for us for Romans 11 cjb p 1415

 and Ephesians 2 cjb p 1460.

Ivrim/Hebrews 9:13-14  cjb p 1502 

“For if sprinkling ceremonially unclean persons with the blood of goats and bulls and the ashes of a heifer restores their outward purity 14 then how much more the blood of the Messiah who, through the eternal Spirit, offered himself to YHWH as a sacrifice without blemish, will purify our conscience from works that lead to death, so that we can serve the living Eloah (God).”

Are you getting this??!!!!!!!!!

You can’t know the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob -  and put together the connections we are making and not get excited!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Z’kharyah / Zechariah 14:4 cjb p 784  

“On that day his feet will stand on the Mt of Olives, which lies to the east of Yerushalayim and the Mt of Olives will be split in half from the east to west, to make a huge valley.”

Z’kharyah 14:16  cjb p 785

“Finally, everyone remaining from all the nations that came to attack Yerushalayim will go up every year to worship the king, Adonai-Tzva’ot, and to keep the festival of Sukkot. 

we have 7 feasts that we are supposed to honor... 

we have to learn and try and do our best...

someday at some point - it will be as it was in the days of Noach... 

Jim Staley thinks Noach’s family was protected  - that they were out Sukkoting  - must have been near the ark he built.... sukkoting... Following the instructions of YHWH......they were already out of the city when the lights got turned off....

His point is....

something will happen in the world and YHWH protects those who are already honoring him.

Keeping YHWH’s instructions goes from the abstract idea that “If we keep his instructions, we are blessed, to look - we might be doing what HE says and when we are doing that  - we are away from the danger!!

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Why  is the Red heifer so important for us today????

• 3rd temple is coming

 - Y'shua doesn’t return till 3rd temple is desecrated by the anti- messiah during the daily sacrifice.

• according to Torah - you can’t have temple service without a red heifer sacrifice b/c the red heifer is what makes the priests ceremonially clean - they can’t do what they do - unless they have been cleaned by the ashes and water from the red heifer....
• it is also what purifies the items used in Temple service.

so we should not be looking for them to be sacrificing lambs.. we should watch for the birth of the red Heifer...

Rabbi Chaim Richman...

the Mishnah says only 9 red heifers...  and the ashes were enough to do the cleansing for all the people of Isra’el and there is an idea that the 10th red heifer is associated with the rebuilding of the temple.

there is a kosher red heifer born  2010...  not disclosing the location...  probably more than one.

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We know that the temple furniture and the priestly garments are made and ready...

We know that nothing has to be torn down on the “Temple Mount” to build a new Temple in the exact spot.

We know that they are talking about building “Solomon’s Palace”... a place where the three major religions can worship together - on the Temple Mount....  and who knows what they will sacrifice there....

We also know that what could be built to do sacrifices in is Moshe’s Tabernacle....  and they say that is ready to go up as well and that would take 3 days to be up.

So we are not necessarily talking years and years....

Are we ready?

Are we watching?? 

Do we know the times and the Seasons (the Feasts of YHWH that prophecy HIS return (Yom Teruah - his return, Yom Kippur - the judgment, and Sukkot - the tabernacling/ Millennial reign)

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So we’ve talked about... the fact that 

Y’Shua is not just Red heifer sacrifice but 

He is also the Pesach lamb... the redemption of the firstborn -the sin of Adam...

.... the Yom Kippur sacrifice - sin of all of israel

There is one sacrifice left - the Red Heifer sacrifice...  

not just sin and first born,  

but the Red Heifer makes us clean from sin

 and gives us a white robe so can stand before Yah... 

Being clean from death is everything...

We don’t get why Y’shua died....

Christianity doesn’t understand why “Jesus” died....

He didn’t just die to forgive my sins and the sins of Isra’el

He didn’t just die to redeem the first born...the sin of Adam

He died to wash me - to clean me so that i can wear a white robe...

 so that i can stand before him....

you can’t put robe on just b/c there is a yom kippur sacrifice!

 I can’t put on the robe unless mikvahed...

(We also know that the bridegroom died so that he can remarry the bride.)

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-The Melchizedek ( we will talk about this more soon), 

Y’shua - was sacrificed in the exact same place  as the Red Heifer....

...cleaning all Isra’elites from birth ...to be priests...

You know, the “Kingdom of Priests”

.... The priests of the Temple... couldn’t enter into their calling until the sacrifice was made.  

-Once the sacrifice of Y’shua is made - on the same place - the altar outside the temple

• the clean place on Mt Olives
• - it institutes a new temple service - where everyone called to be Kings and Priests  
• ...but you can not operate in your role as a king and priests... until you are washed/ cleansed... made “clean” by the blood...

-When you accept the blood ---

---then you are in the calling of YHWH that He has called you to walk in....  

Like the priests of the temple - they couldn’t be in the job/ role of priest until they were cleansed by the Red Heifer ashes and living water!

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What’s more..... 

• You have to be a Cohen before you can offer a sacrifice. 

your sacrifice is how you live and how you die.... following his instructions/ Torah.

I am pretty sure... that the Cohen HaGadol - did not do the sacrifice of the Red Heifer...  but he had to preside over it for it to be valid...

and how did a cohen normally operate?

When the sacrifices in the Temple  were being done - the Cohen HaGadol  had to preside over them all....  and STAND the whole time... 

When all the ashes were burned up of even the last sacrifice - the Cohen HaGadol would say  “IT IS FINISHED” and sit down.

Then they were done for the day.

When Y’shua was on trial before Kayafus the levitical high priest... Kayafus tore his robes - which nullified his priestly position.  it took away his right to be a priest - forever - and he was going to die.

The point is - there was  no High Priest - but ONE to preside over the sacrifice of Mashiach on the stake... Y’shua himself... 

and as the earthquake happened - he would have seen into the Holy of Holies as the curtain ripped... 

and then he declared... just as the Cohen HaGadol would have done over the Red Heifer...

“IT IS FINISHED”

and then the Kingdom of Priests could then walk in their calling... if they receive the blood of the sacrifice that washes them....

We are called to be a kingdom of priests!!....

Look what all HE did ... not just to forgive us... but to release us into priesthood!

this is not just something i ‘have’ 

but something 

i do

i live!

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Amazing how He shows us and tells us and then HE does it... 

I am so thankful that HE has so  much grace for me.... that even though it is right there in front of me... until we dig around and learn things from a Hebrew perspective  - we don’t understand!  

I am so thankful we are learning!!

let’s start living like a kingdom of priests!

amein!