What's In Your Water? Part 4 Of 9

Numbers 19:6

“And the priest shall take cedar wood and hyssop and scarlet, and cast them into the midst of the fire burning the heifer.”

 

(Priest prepares to put cedar, hyssop and scarlet into the fire)

This part of the law concerning the ashes of the red heifer must have really stumped Solomon.  Why, while the sacrifice was being burned, did the priest have to throw in these items and then burn everything until it was ASHES?  What a puzzle!

Solomon was actually quite knowledgeable about all kinds of trees according to 1 Kings 4.  But remember, he didn't have the Key:  Jesus.  He couldn't have known that cedar and hyssop represent His majesty and lowliness, respectively.

These three things also depict the greatest to the smallest of things in nature and scarlet the glory thereof.  When the priest threw them into the fire, symbolically all of the greatest to the smallest and the glory of man's righteous deeds were burned until they were reduced to ASHES.     

The Bible says that all our righteousnesses (plural) are as filthy rags in Isaiah 64.  These three items being burned to ash symbolize that, because we have died with Christ, we are dead to the world and the world unto us.  

The Apostle Paul himself said that he counted his past as dung, referring to his self-righteousness not only his misdeeds.  Before his conversion as you know, he was the epitomé of self-righteousness; a Pharisee of Pharisses.  He followed the law to the letter... or so he thought. All that he now counted as dung.

 

Anything that has been reduced to ashes CAN NEVER BE BURNED AGAIN, meaning the fire--the judgment--has already gone through it.  THERE IS NO JUDGMENT LEFT.
That's what happened to the sins of your a ENTIRE LIFE the moment you were born again:  THEY WERE REDUCED TO ASHES!  It's a picture of Romans 8:1.  It is why God can legally declare you righteous.  He CANNOT reprove you.  He cannot because you stand in the perfection of His Son.  His death was an OVERpayment!  God would be UNjust to Him if He punished you for the sins that Jesus already paid for 2,000 years ago.

Know what that means?  For the believer, ALL JUDGMENT--even death--is behind you!  Your physical body may cease to exist but you and I go on to live forever with Jesus, forever young, forever healthy, forever happy...FOREVER!

Please proceed to part 5.

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