THE RED HEIFER
“Now the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying, this is the ordinance of the law which the Lord has commanded, saying: speak to the children of Israel, that they bring you a red heifer without blemish, in which there is no defect and on which a yoke has never come.
You shall give it to Eleazar the priest, that he may take it outside the camp, and it shall be slaughtered before him; and Eleazar the priest shall take some of its blood with his finger, and sprinkle some of its blood seven times directly in front of the tabernacle of meeting” – Num. 19:1-4.
JESUS OUR RED HEIFER
The heifer in our quote is our Lord Jesus in an Old Testament shadow form. A heifer is a young (female) cow that has not brought forth before. You know, in the Bible, the male is symbolic of the active and ceremonial and the female stands for the passive and practical.
In other words, in going to the Cross, the Lord Jesus has to be passive and not active. He has to surrender Himself without a fight, like a lamb led to the slaughter who does not oppose it – Is. 53:7.
