SEPTEMBER 20, 2022 Numbers 20:7-8 Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, “Take the rod; you and your brother Aaron gather the congregation together. Speak to the rock before their eyes, and it will yield its water; thus you shall bring water for them out of the rock, and give drink to the congregation and their animals.” Even […]
SEPTEMBER 19, 2022 Numbers 20:2-3 Now there was no water for the congregation; so they gathered together against Moses and Aaron. And the people contended with Moses and spoke, saying: “If only we had died when our brethren died before the Lord!” Immediately after the death of Miriam, the congregation gathered against Moses and Aaron, this time complaining about the […]
SEPTEMBER 18, 2022 Numbers 19:18 A clean person shall take hyssop and dip it in the water, sprinkle it on the tent, on all the vessels, on the persons who were there, or on the one who touched a bone, the slain, the dead, or a grave. Looking at things strictly from an Old Testament view, the ashes of the […]
SEPTEMBER 17, 2022 Numbers 19:18 A clean person shall take hyssop and dip it in the water, sprinkle it on the tent, on all the vessels, on the persons who were there, or on the one who touched a bone, the slain, the dead, or a grave. Thus far, we have looked at the waters of purification in relation to […]
SEPTEMBER 16, 2022 Numbers 19:14-15 This is the law when a man dies in a tent: All who come into the tent and all who are in the tent shall be unclean seven days; and every open vessel, which has no cover fastened on it, is unclean. It would be one thing to encounter a corpse out in the open; there is a […]
SEPTEMBER 15, 2022 Numbers 19:13 Whoever touches the body of anyone who has died, and does not purify himself, defiles the tabernacle of the Lord. That person shall be cut off from Israel. He shall be unclean, because the water of purification was not sprinkled on him; his uncleanness is still on him. Continuing in the vein we were discussing in the […]
SEPTEMBER 14, 2022 Numbers 19:11-12 He who touches the dead body of anyone shall be unclean seven days. He shall purify himself with the water on the third day and on the seventh day; then he will be clean. In this passage we see the primary purpose for the ashes of the Red Heifer and waters of purification — […]
SEPTEMBER 13, 2022 Numbers 19:9-10 Then a man who is clean shall gather up the ashes of the heifer, and store them outside the camp in a clean place; and they shall be kept for the congregation of the children of Israel for the water of purification; it is for purifying from sin. And the one who gathers the ashes of the heifer shall […]
SEPTEMBER 12, 2022 Numbers 19:4 Eleazar the priest shall take some of its blood with his finger, and sprinkle some of its blood seven times directly in front of the tabernacle of meeting. It is obvious in the passage that Eleazar wasn’t the one who slaughtered the heifer or else he would have been rendered “unclean,” […]
SEPTEMBER 11, 2022 Numbers 19:3 You shall give it to Eleazar the priest, that he may take it outside the camp, and it shall be slaughtered before him. As we continue discussing the message embedded within the rites of the Red Heifer, it is clear that the primary intent is to point us to Messiah and […]
SEPTEMBER 10, 2022 Numbers 19:1-2 Now the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying, “This is the ordinance of the law which the Lord has commanded, saying: ‘Speak to the children of Israel, that they bring you a red heifer without blemish, in which there is no defect and on which a yoke has never come.’” Some commentators believe that, in the Red Heifer rites, more than one message […]
SEPTEMBER 9, 2022 Numbers 19:1-2 Now the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying, “This is the ordinance of the law which the Lord has commanded, saying: ‘Speak to the children of Israel, that they bring you a red heifer without blemish, in which there is no defect and on which a yoke has never come.’” In the previous devotion, we quoted the book of Job and elaborated on […]
