Red Heifer Disqualified

A few weeks ago we learned about a perfect red heifer that was born in America and was a candidate to serve as THE red heifer for a future Third Temple that is being planned for Jerusalem.

You can see the original post we did on the heifer here;  http://thetrumpetblows.blogspot.com/2014/08/check-out-red-heifer.html

This week we found out that the heifer had sprouted some less-than-perfect hairs and it has been disqualified.

Several months ago the Temple Institute was delighted to announce the birth of a perfect red heifer in the USA. This heifer was a proper and fitting candidate for the ‘ordinance of the red heifer’ (Numbers Ch. 19), which is a prerequisite for the restoration of purity and the ultimate resumption of the Divine service in the Holy Temple. The heifer was born to friends of the Temple Institute, who promptly notified the Institute and communicated their intentions to raise the animal in strict accordance with the requirements of Biblical law and ultimately, to donate the heifer to the people of Israel through the Institute.

The news of the red heifer’s birth generated tremendous interest internationally and created palpable excitement for many who understood the historical and spiritual significance of the event and its propitious repercussions for Israel and all mankind.

The Temple Institute began to make preliminary arrangements for the shipment of the heifer to Israel, as well as provisions for the heifer’s care upon arrival.

Unfortunately upon recent inspection it has become clear that Talia, as she is affectionately known, has become disqualified for use for the ordinance of the red heifer and is now unfit according to Biblical law. This is on account of a change of pigmentation in a patch of skin, as well as the appearance of white hairs in the affected area. Changes of this nature are not uncommon occurrences in the bovine world as a heifer matures, a fact that contributes to the rarity of finding a perfectly pure, kosher red heifer.

Here;  http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Blogs/Message.aspx/6154#.U_TBMPldX5N

The Jews will keep looking for the the red heifer and planning to build the Third Temple....while we followers of Christ will keep listening for the trumpet call that will summon us into the sky to meet our Savior in the air.

1 Thess. 4
16 For the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. 17 After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord forever. 18 Therefore encourage one another with these words.