From Parasha: Chukat

 

The Purity Paradox

Tags:  clean, cleanse, conscience, death, red heifer, sin, unclean

The writer of the book of Hebrews specifically mentions in Hebrews 9:13-14 the ashes of the red heifer. What is more, he attributes efficacy to them as regards cleansing the flesh. The passage compares the blood of Messiah to the ashes of the red heifer. If the ashes of the red heifer work on the outside (the flesh), how much more so does the blood of Messiah work on the inside (the conscience) from sin....
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Aaron the Peacemaker

Tags:  peacemakers, reconciliation, relationship, unity

Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God. (Matthew 5:9)...
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Balaam's Evil Plan

Tags:  ambition, covetousness, flesh, greed, idolatry, lust, materialism, power, provision, self-control

Let us behave properly as in the day, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in sexual promiscuity and sensuality, not in strife and jealousy. But put on the Lord Yeshua the Messiah, and make no provision for the flesh in regard to its lusts. (Romans 13:13-14)...
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Snake Bite

Tags:  forgiveness, provision, repentance

The problem with complaining is that God is listening....
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Lifted on a Miracle

Tags:  Rosh Hashanah, salvation

Does the serpent [set on the standard] have the power to kill or to give life? No. But so long as the Israelites lifted their eyes upward and submitted to their Father in Heaven, they were healed. If they did not, they would waste away. (m.Rosh Hashanah 3:8)...
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Baptized for the Dead

Tags:  first fruit, first fruits, Land of Israel

God’s sanctuary is supposed to be a place of life, not death. He forbids those polluted by death from entering. The sanctuary on earth is a reflection of the true sanctuary above. This teaches that before we can enter into God’s eternal presence, we must transcend our mortal state. Before entering the heavenly Temple, Yeshua exchanged His mortal flesh for the immortal. Just as a person could not enter the Tabernacle on earth until he had cleansed himself from the contamination of death, so too we cannot enter God’s eternal habitation until we leave our mortal flesh behind....
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Parah Adamah: The Red Heifer

Yeshua took on human life and human death, with all of its ritual contamination. But does the Master then remain in a state of ritual impurity? Does our uncleanness and iniquity cling to Him yet? Surely not. Yeshua stepped forth from the tomb like Adam in the garden, clothed in perfect purity. The unclean grave clothes, tainted with the contamination of death, He left behind Him....
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