Christians Help Jews Look for the Red Heifer

 We haven't blogged on this for quite a while but we just saw this great story about red heifers.

The Jews need a perfect red heifer to use in a ceremony and then burn it and use it's ashes to purify the priest before he can go into the temple.  Currently there is no temple and no red heifer.  But that could all change real soon!  And maybe the Christians in America will help the Jews find their perfect red heifer?

The Temple Institute has been working to reinstate the red heifer ceremony since 2015, and recently, a pro-Israel Christian organization decided to help out.

THE RED HEIFER PROGRAM

The Temple Institute launched its Red Heifer program about a decade ago, but even in Temple times, an animal that fulfilled the Biblical requirements was exceedingly rare. Failing to produce a suitable candidate from ranchers in Israel, The Temple Institute began investigating alternative sources for a red heifer. 

Last year, the Temple Institute was contacted by a cattle farmer in Commanche, Texas, who informed them that five red calves had been born on his ranch, about two and a half hours travel from Dallas. Normally, calves are ear-tagged when just a few days old. By a remarkable coincidence, these five calves were not tagged, and, also coincidentally, all were female. Any blemish disqualifies the calf, and a hole in the ear is just such a blemish.

The farmer explained that because of COVID, the employee who normally puts in the tags did not come to the farm when these five calves were born.

DEMANDING REQUIREMENTS

A team of rabbis from the Temple Institute flew out to inspect the calves. The requirements are incredibly demanding, requiring that there be no more than two non-red hairs on the entire calf.  It must also never have been used for any labor or have been impregnated. The heifer must be two years and one day old to be suitable for the ceremony. 

Sometimes, a calf that is perfectly red when it is young develops black or white hairs as it grows older or may develop a blemish. Sometimes, the colored hairs fall out or disappear. The Temple Institute decided to reinspect the calf at a later date. 

Two of the five untagged Heifers were extremely close to passing. One heifer had a very small white spot. Otherwise, it was perfect. The other had some hairs that could be red or black.

So the search continued. But Boneh Israel, an organization that connects Christian lovers of Israel to the Holy Land, stepped in. Based in Texas, Boneh Israel understood ranchers. They took out full-page ads in ranching magazines, explaining the situation to ranchers. They requested that any red calves be set aside.

THE BEST RED HEIFER HUNTER IN TEXAS

Byron Stinson is the team leader in America for Boneh Israel 

"I didn't set out to do this, but right now, I am probably the best red heifer hunter in Texas," Byron quipped. "The Bible says to bring a red cow to purify Israel, and I may not understand it, but I am just doing what the Bible said."

"The prophecies came true, and the Jews are back in Israel," Byron said. "Now they need to build a Temple. But it's like buying a really nice car. If you don't have the key, you aren't going anywhere. The red heifer is the key to making the Temple work like it's supposed to."

Byron had a unique understanding of the red heifer ritual, which purifies Jews from proximity to the dead.

"We are all living under the shadow of death," he said. "We desperately need to be restored to life in today's world. The red heifer is just to purify the Jews for serving in the Temple as a house of prayer for all nations, but we all need it."

Byron described the response of the ranchers, which has been overwhelmingly enthusiastic as many of them are Bible believers and one rancher who has already contacted him about a newly birthed red calf. 

Here;  Prophetic Partnership - Christians & Jews Search For Perfect Red Heifer (prophecynewswatch.com)

"Dennis, I still don't get it!  What's this all have to do with anything?"

It's showing us the nearness of the Great Tribulation.  The Jews HAVE to have a Temple in order to fulfill the prophecy of the Antichrist going into it.  Prophecy also says that the Jews will be sacrificing animals and the Antichrist will one day make them stop.  In order for them to sacrifice animals in an attempt to atone for their sin, they need to have a temple. And in order for priests to bring the blood into the Holy of Holies they have to be purified by the ashes of a perfect red heifer.  And the fact that all the materials are cut and ready to build the 3rd Temple and the priests are training using a mock temple and the hunt for the red heifer is in full swing....should make all of us realize that the Great Tribulation must be very close.  And if the Tribulation is close but we know the rapture comes BEFORE...are we looking up and saying, "Maybe tonight Lord?"  Are we ready and eager for the Bridegroom to appear??