What's In Your Water? Part 5 Of 9

Numbers 19: 7-8

"The priest shall wash his clothes, he shall bathe in water, and afterward he shall come into the camp; the priest shall be UNCLEAN UNTIL EVENING.  And the one who burns it shall wash his clothes in water, bathe in water, and shall be UNCLEAN UNTIL EVENING". 
 

 

 

In the course of preparing the ashes of the red heifer, everyone involved was "UNCLEAN UNTIL EVENING:"  Did you ever come across this phrase wonder what it meant?  
Here it is in a nutshell.  

The Jewish priests offered both a morning and an evening sacrifice every day for 1500 years.  The morning one was offered at 9am.  Evening, Hebrew time, was 3 o'clock in the afternoon.  That's when they offered the evening sacrifice. 

THE EVENING SACRIFICE IS THE ONE THAT FINISHES.

When the Roman soldiers drove that first nail into our Savior's hand, know what time it was? PRECISELY 9AM.
 

At exactly 3PM--the time of the evening sacrifice--He cried out with a LOUD voice, "FINISHED!"  Jesus dismissed His spirit and died.
 

He is the PERFECT SACRIFICE THAT FINISHES!  He fulfilled both the morning and the evening sacrifices on that day!  No more sacrifices ever need to be offered, ever.

IT IS FINISHED!  

 

He is the First and the Last, the beginning and the end, the Author and the Finisher of our faith!  Today, you and I don't have to wait until evening to be clean because Jesus has shed His precious blood, the forever evening sacrifice.  His FINISHED WORK is behind us.  WE ARE FOREVER CLEAN!    

What was the work that He finished?  Jesus fulfilled ALL THE LAW. He Himself said, “Do not think that I came to destroy the Law.  I did not come to destroy (the law) but to FULFILL. For assuredly, I say to you, till heaven and earth pass away, one jot or one tittle will by no means pass from the law till all is FULFILLED.”  Matthew 5:17-18

Tell me, Church:  Have heaven and earth passed away?  No.....not that I've noticed anyway; and guess what?  ALL HAS BEEN FULFILLED.  Abba ripped that veil of the temple that separated us and now, when we accept His free gift of righteousness, we can have full and free fellowship with Him forever!!!
 

Many pastors of mainline churches miss it right here.  They mistakenly believe that we are still under the law because heaven and earth have not passed away.  They misunderstand what Jesus said, and I quote:  "till heaven and earth pass away, one jot or one tittle will by no means pass from the law TILL ALL IS FULFILLED."  I think they are confused by the "all was fulfilled" part.

ALL--meaning all the Law--WAS FULFILLED AT THE CROSS.  Not one jot or one tittle was overlooked.....and heaven and earth, as I said, are still with us.  That's why Paul was able to say in many places, "You are NOT under law, but under GRACE."

Contrary to popular Christian opinion, it is LAW which produces licentiousness.  Grace is the antidote for sin.  They have it backwards.  The devil was defeated at the cross AND the law was nailed to it!  

YOU CANNOT OUT SIN GOD'S GRACE.  It is GREATER than ALL our sin!

(For more on this this topic, follow these links:  

http://emmausrevelations.blogspot.com/2014/06/no-one-is-forgiven-little.html  

http://emmausrevelations.blogspot.com/2014/08/blank-check.html)

 

That was part of the purpose for Jesus' death on the cross.  He restored the law to it's pristine standard, left no stone unturned--no jot or title omitted--fulfilled ALL the law as 100% man, OVERpayed all the penalty for our sins and FULLY SATISFIED the justice of our Father.  

That's why He was able to cry "FINISHED!"  

That's why His Father had a legal basis to raise Him from the dead.

Ok, rant over.  Back to the red heifer.  Please proceed to part 6.

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