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In the News (Thu 16 Feb 12)

  
  Rod Dreher on Religion & War on National Review Online
As Gorenberg explains, the ashes of a flawless red heifer — an extremely rare creature — were required by the ancient Hebrews to purify worshipers who went into the Temple to pray.
He called the red heifer "a four-legged bomb" that could "set the entire region on fire." Muslim leaders worried about the red heifer too, as they would see an attempt by Jews to take over the Temple Mount as a sign of the Islamic apocalypse.
If this is a real red heifer, and strict Orthodox rabbis have declared her worthy of sacrifice, then a lot of Jews in Israel will take that as a sign that a new phase of history is about to begin.
www.nationalreview.com /dreher/dreher041102.asp   (1515 words)

  
 Significance of the Red Heifer
The red heifer was to be "without spot" and without a yoke typifying Christ's voluntary coming to redeem us and His sinless character even though He took our sins as His own.
The red heifer, sacrificed outside the camp, was the gospel of Jesus Christ hanging upon the cross for the lost race.
The heifer having been slain in a most solemn manner, the priest, clothed in pure white garments, took the blood in his hands as it issued from the body of the victim and cast it toward the temple seven times.
gospel-herald.com /finneman/red_heifer.htm   (2790 words)

  
 Red Heifer born in Israel   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Red Heifer born in Israel - in what I am sure will be celebrated as another great sign and a wonder, a red heifer was born in Israel.
After the heifer's owner contacted the Temple Institute, on Friday, April 5th, 2001, Rabbi Menachem Makover and Rabbi Chaim Richman traveled to the farm where the heifer is located, to inspect and validate her status.
The rabbis found her to be kosher and were satisfied that this heifer could indeed be a candidate to be used in the process of purification described in the book of Numbers, chapter 19.
www.awitness.org /news/april_2002/red_heifer_israel.html   (389 words)

  
 Prophecy Central: Red Heifer
The birth of a red heifer (cow) in a farm in the religious youth village of Kfar Hasidim (near Haifa) has excited sectors in the religious community.
"The red heifer is one of the most important signs that we are living in a special time," says Gershon Solomon, head of a group dedicated to rebuilding the ancient Jewish Temple, destroyed by the Romans.
Shore said pure red heifers seem to have died out in Israel since the post-temple period, and that it is rare to see a red heifer without white or fl spots.
www.bible-prophecy.com /redheifer.htm   (1699 words)

  
 frontline: apocalypse!: readings: forcing the end...
A breed known as the Red Angus is as red as an Irish setter.
To Shore's amazement, the rabbis pronounced Melody a qualified red heifer, despite the fact that he had begun to notice a few stray white hairs around her tail and udder, and her eyebrows, which had started out red, had turned fl.
No red heifer, it was said, had been born in Israel since the destruction of the Temple.
pbs.org /wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/apocalypse/readings/forcing.html   (7997 words)

  
 The Red Heifer
Seven days before the red heifer was to be killed, the priest appointed to perform the task was separated and kept in the Temple where he was daily sprinkled with the ashes of the previous red heifers.
Into this the red heifer was thrust, and bound, with its head towards the south and its face looking to the west, the priest standing east of the sacrifice, his face, of course, also turned westwards.
When we look carefully at the mysterious sacrifice of the "red heifer," it becomes obvious that it is a remarkable portrayal of the only true "sin-offering" of all time, the sacrifice of Jesus Christ, who died for us on the Mount of Olives, in full view of the assembled Jewish leadership, almost 2,000 years ago.
www.hope-of-israel.org /redheifr.htm   (1312 words)

  
 red heifer --  Encyclopædia Britannica   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
After the blood of the red heifer had been sprinkled by a priest, the carcass was totally immolated with cedarwood,...
Red Grange made football history as a halfback at the University of Illinois from 1923 to 1925.
Red Bird was born near Prairie du Chien, Wis. As miners moved into the area in the 1820s, the Winnebago began digging up lead to sell to the traders.
www.britannica.com /eb/article?tocId=9062943   (896 words)

  
 Are Some US Christian Extremists Trying To Breed 'Red Heifers'?
The red heifer returning is a sign of the end -- not someting "loonie Christians" are trying to 'produce.' A red heifer was bred recently in Israel and announced to the world.
Your webmaster neglected to mention that the red heifer story is now being used by the loonie Jews as justification to support the new American/Jewish settlements around Jerusalem and the extermination of all Arabs in the occupied West Bank.
A red calf is not the result of a rare genetic anomaly-- such as the one that produces white Buffalo-- so the trait would have to surface in the population with some small regularity to survive.
www.rense.com /general24/hef.htm   (1332 words)

  
 The Red Heifer
A heifer is a young female bovine (cow) prior to the time that she has produced her first calf.
The red heifer provided a means for the congregation of Israel to purify themselves for presentation to God.
Of a variety believed extinct for centuries, the red heifer is seen by some as the missing link needed for religious Jews to rebuild their ancient Temple in Jerusalem.
arksearch.com /naredhef.htm   (4074 words)

  
 THE RED HEIFER AND THE 3RD TEMPLE
The birth of a red heifer in Israel is being hailed by religious Jews as a divine sign that work can soon begin on building the Third Temple in Jerusalem.
The heifer will be slaughtered and burned, and its ashes made into a liquid paste and used in a ceremony which religious Jews believe they must undergo before they can enter the old Temple site in Jerusalem to start building a new structure.
Since Herod's Temple was destroyed by the Roman emperor Titus in AD 70, no flawless red heifer has been born within the biblical land of Israel, according to rabbinical teaching.
www.angelfire.com /wv/wwwcg/heifer.html   (490 words)

  
 Messiah and the Red Heifer (No. 216)
The appearance of a red heifer is believed by some Israeli religious groups to be a sign from God that it’s time to rebuild the Jewish Temple of Jerusalem, destroyed by the Romans nearly 2,000 years ago.
The heifer was burnt and cedar hyssop and scarlet wool were bound together and thrown into the fire and the beast was then beaten with rods and crushed with stone hammers and stone sieves.
This tenth heifer symbolised the sacrifice of Messiah and the dedication of the new Temple in 30/31 CE built not of human hands but with the Holy Spirit and which was composed of blocks of living stones.
www.ccg.org /english/S/p216.html   (5103 words)

  
 Bible Study - The Red Heifer
A red heifer was used in a purification ceremony beginning at the time of The Tabernacle In The Wilderness.
And you shall give her to Eleazar the priest [see Levites], and she shall be taken outside the camp and slaughtered before him; and Eleazar the priest shall take some of her blood with his finger, and sprinkle some of her blood toward the front of the tent of meeting seven times.
And the heifer shall be burned in his sight; her skin, her flesh, and her blood, with her dung, shall be burned; and the priest shall take cedarwood and hyssop and scarlet stuff, and cast them into the midst of the burning of the heifer."
www.keyway.ca /htm2000/20001010.htm   (792 words)

  
 Red heifer   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
The birth of a red heifer in Israel is being hailed by religious Jews as a sign from God that work can soon begin on building the Third Temple in Jerusalem.
For the sacrifice of the "red heifer" was a forerunner to the ultimate sacrifice of Messiah which could do so much more than "purify the flesh".
Melody is kosher and qualified as of this moment as a candidate for the red heifer sacrifice.
members.aol.com /jc3000/immanuel/redheif.htm   (1759 words)

  
 Red Heifer   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
The ritual of purification using the Ashes of the Red Heifer is one of the least understood of Hashem's commandments.
It is the powdered form of the Red Heifer, the ashes, that is mixed with water to purify the children of Israel.
Afterwards a female heifer sprung forth; and with it another heifer: one of them was fl, and one was red.
www.vendyljones.org.il /redheifer.htm   (1465 words)

  
 NJJN - The red heifer and God’s presence   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
The red heifer ritual, which is read as an extra Torah reading this week, is presented as an antidote for the problem of ritual impurity (tuma) that results from corpse contamination.
The traditional understanding of the paradox of the red heifer is that while the immolated heifer’s ashes, mixed with water and sprinkled on those who are impure, purifies them, those who prepare the potion themselves become ritually impure in the process.
Milgrom recounts the midrash in which Rabbi Yohanan deflects a gentile’s questioning of the red heifer rite only to admit to his more persistent Jewish students that “the corpse does not have the power by itself to defile, nor does the mixture of ash and water have the power by itself to cleanse.
www.njjewishnews.com /njjn.com/31104/torahheifer.html   (717 words)

  
 Red heifer born in Israel
Red Heifer Born in Israel (IsraelNN.com) In these days of difficulty for the Land of Israel, there is encouraging news as well...
Red heifers are a dime a dozen in many parts of the world.
The heretofore unseen red heifer is finally born allowing the reclaimation of the temple mount and the end of the world to take place.
www.freerepublic.com /focus/news/662602/posts   (2757 words)

  
 Donmeh West - Sabbatai Zevi and the Mystery of the Red Heifer
Then Eleazar the priest is to take some of the victim's [i.e., the slaughtered red heifer's] blood on his finger and sprinkle this blood seven times toward the entrance to the Tent of Meeting.
The heifer must then be burned in his presence; hide, flesh, blood, and the dung too must be burned.
We see here another expression of the "Red Heifer" whose ashes are also "scattered on water", to be "drunk" by (or actually sprinkled on) sinners for their redemption.
www.donmeh-west.com /redheifer.shtml   (2154 words)

  
 Holy Cow? The Red Heifer - Chuck Missler - Koinonia House
The birth of a red heifer (cow) on a farm in the religious youth village of Kfar Hasidim (near Haifa) has excited sectors in the Israeli religious community.
The Talmud claims that the red heifer sacrifice was the only one of God's commands that King Solomon, the wisest man who ever lived, claimed he did not understand.
Just as the red heifer was sacrificed "outside the camp," in contrast to all other sacrifices that took place in the Tabernacle or Temple, Jesus was sacrificed outside the city of Jerusalem, on the very spot, we believe, on which Abraham offered Isaac two thousand years earlier.
www.khouse.org /articles/1997/15   (1415 words)

  
 DM: Biblical mystery of the red heifer affects farmer in Mississippi   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Instructing that the heifer be slain and burned, God continued, "And a man that is clean shall gather up the ashes of the heifer...
Then he read God's command in Numbers 19 regarding the red heifer, and he knew he was the farmer who could provide the animal.
Lott, who has a few Red Angus on his small farm in Canton but keeps most of his cattle at a partnership-run operation in Nebraska, took Richman with him to churches across the Deep South to rally support for their joint cause.
dm.olemiss.edu /archives/98/9807/980723/980723ED3atkins.HTML   (735 words)

  
 The Red Heifer
The red heifer was to atone for the Golden Calf.
To remove the possibility of the Jew committing such a sin again, G-d created the Red Heifer as a means of removing one's familiarity with this species.
The answer may be that by creating self contradictory laws in the Red Heifer (it purifies one who is ritually impure, and contaminates one who is pure) one is distanced from a simple understanding of this aspect of the Red Heifer.
www.mesora.org /redheifer.html   (600 words)

  
 MIRACULOUS BIRTH OF A RED HEIFER THAT IS ACCEPTABLE FOR RITUAL SACRIFICE IS A GREAT SIGN OF THE CLOSE APPEARANCE OF ...
This red heifer possesses these characteristics now, and great effort is being expended to ensure that the animal does not develop any physical imperfections, or that she might be deliberately damaged in some way.
The Red Heifer was to be slaughtered and burned in her third year.
This Red Heifer could be sacrificed during one of these momentous religious events, probably as part of the opening celebrations of the new Temple.
www.cuttingedge.org /news/n1067.html   (6085 words)

  
 The Red Heifer Sacrifice
Verse 2 tells us that the cow is to be red, "without defect, in which there is no blemish.." and it is to be a cow which has never had a yoke upon it.
As we read in Numbers 19, the Red Heifer is to be taken to a place outside the camp, verse 3, and be slaughtered there.
The altar of sacrifice and place of burning for the Red Heifer was at or near the top of the Mount of Olives.
www.haydid.org /redcow.htm   (1591 words)

  
 The Red Heifer, by Rabbi Chaim Richman
As Israel moves closer towards the building of the Third Temple, only one thing is missing...the ashes of the Red Heifer, required by the Bible for purification.
The renewal of the red heifer has captured the attention of millions, but reliable information has never before been available from an authentic Jewish standpoint.
The red heifer of Numbers 19 has brought together a group of Christian ministers and Israeli rabbis that love God.
www.templemount.org /heifer.html   (1106 words)

  
 The Red Heifer is Here
The Red Heifer affords the opportunity to build the Jewish Temple, which as of this day (07-03-2002) does not exist.
Numbers 19:9 And a man that is clean shall gather up the ashes of the heifer, and lay them up without the camp in a clean place, and it shall be kept for the congregation of the children of Israel for a water of separation: it is a purification for sin.
Numbers 19:10 And he that gathereth the ashes of the heifer shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the even: and it shall be unto the children of Israel, and unto the stranger that sojourneth among them, for a statute for ever.
jesus-is-the-way.com /RedHeifer.html   (1261 words)

  
 Rapture Utopia –– Red Heifer, beat back The Beast tribulation NOW
According to the Bible prophecies found in such passages as Revelation 11:1-2, Daniel 9:27 and II Thessalonians 2:3-4, we are shown by God’s Word that during the closing 7 years of this age the Jews will rebuild their historic Temple and restore their system of sacrificial worship.
The heifer had to be without blemish and the requirement for accepting it as truly being red was extremely stringent.
The one element still needed is the ashes of the Red Heifer.
scari.org /rapture.now.too.html   (822 words)

  
 Highlights of Moshiach: Moshiach And The Red Heifer
In the Holy Temple era, a red heifer was burned and then mixed with water, used for a special mitzvah-process for purifying those who came in contact with a dead human body.
Likewise, the actual performance of the 10th red heifer will be done by a kohain, whereas the directives and instructions for it will be given by the King Moshiach.
Thus, the ash of the red heifer which purifies from defilement by a corpse - alludes to the redemption from exile.
www.sichosinenglish.org /books/highlights-of-moshiach/18.htm   (1660 words)

  
 BEWARE THE RED HEIFER
Red Heifer Days,” which recounts the theological significance of this event — and its ominous implications for the future of the region:
kay, so now we get to the part about the red heifer: it turns out that, although no religious Jew is allowed on the Temple Mount, there’s a loophole — it’s okay if he or she is first purified in the ashes of a pure red heifer.
As Dreher points out, the world media covered this as a joke, but in reality the red heifer is the theological and political equivalent of a suitcase nuke waiting to go off.
www.antiwar.com /justin/j041502.html   (1954 words)

  
 Red Heifer's Birthdate Aligns with 20th Century Biblical Signs, How soon the Rapture and the Third Temple!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Red Heifer's Birthdate Aligns with 20th Century Biblical Signs, How soon the Rapture and the Third Temple!
Consider the miraculous birth of the tenth red heifer born between August 16 to September 13, 1996, and how its birth aligns to John Zachary's prophetic research.
The birthdate of the red heifer appears to support John Zachary's biblical research since it could be sacrificed as early as August, 1998.
www.harvardhouse.com /prophetictech/redheifer.htm   (501 words)

  
 Red Heifer
The food at the Red Heifer, a new kosher steakhouse in Bethesda, was worlds better.
In simple terms, keeping kosher means animals are butchered and salted in a certain way and only cuts from the front half are eaten; meat and poultry products are never mixed with dairy; and everything must be rabbi-approved, from the soy margarine used in place of butter to the wine list.
Judging by the steady stream of diners--including Homeland Security secretary Tom Ridge, trailing a small army of Secret Service agents--the Red Heifer appears to be filling a need for the kosher community.
www.washingtonian.com /dining/Profiles/redheifer.html   (714 words)

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