THE RED HEIFER

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>>>>> "Fretwell" == Fretwell  <Fretwell@AOL.COM> writes:

    Fretwell>      It tells of the red heifer being slain outside the
    Fretwell> camp, being burned to ashes.  Cedar, hyssop and scarlet
    Fretwell> were to be thrown into the fire, and hence, would be in
    Fretwell> the ashes.  (I don't know what that means, but there IS
    Fretwell> a meaning, I am sure.)  

These are the same items prescribed for use in the cleansing of the
leper, also in Numbers, or was it Leviticus?  (I am at work now, and
not near my library.)  The cleansing of the leper is a very strong
type of repentence, baptism, and Holy Ghost infilling.  The scarlet
represents blood, the hyssop represents purging, or cleansing.  Hyssop
was a small woody shrub related to wormwood.  It was used as a
vermifuge -- to clean parasitic nematodes and cestodes (worms, hence
wormwood) out of the intestinal tract.  David said "purge me with
hyssop."  The cedar was an aromatic wood, and could either represent
the incense associated with prayer, or it could represent the wood of
the cross -- the burden we must bear -- "My yoke is easy, and my
burden is light."  The heifer being a female is unique among
sacrifices.  Jesus got his human flesh from his mother, so perhaps the
female is to emphasize that the flesh must die out.

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