Last September, five red heifers arrived in Israel amid great fanfare, because some Jews and Gentiles believe red heifers are a key element leading to the building of the Third Jewish Temple.<\/p>\n
The heifers are now in a secure, undisclosed location in Israel. Plans include moving them, sometime soon, to a visitor\u2019s center in Shiloh, where the tabernacle of the Lord once stood for nearly 400 years.<\/p>\n
The book of Numbers explains that ashes of the red heifer are used to purify priests for their service in the Temple:<\/p>\n
“Now, the\u202fLord\u202fspoke to Moses and Aaron, saying, \u2018This\u202fis\u202fthe ordinance of the law which the\u202fLord\u202fhas commanded, saying: Speak to the children of Israel, that they bring you a red heifer without\u202fblemish, in which there\u202fis\u202fno\u202fdefect\u202fand\u202fon which a yoke has never come.\u202f You shall give it to Eleazar the priest, that he may take it\u202foutside the camp, and it shall be slaughtered before him \u2026 its offal shall be burned \u2026 for the water of\u202fpurification; it\u202fis\u202ffor purifying from sin.\u2019\u201d (Numbers 19:1-5)<\/p>\n
These red heifers are now between 1 \u00bd and 2 years old. To replicate the ceremony mentioned in the Bible, they need to be at least 3 years old. And within that time span, they cannot have a blemish or anything that would disqualify them for the ceremony, even one white or black hair.<\/p>\n
According to those working on the project, the ceremony of the red heifer needs to be performed on the Mount of Olives, and in a place that would have looked directly into where the Temple stood. The land directly east of the Temple Mount, purchased 12 years ago, meets both of those standards.<\/p>\n
Rabbi Yitshak Mamo owns that land on the Mount of Olives. Mamo\u00a0is with\u00a0Uvne Yerusalim, a group that preserves Israel’s history and works to educate future generations.<\/p>\n
Concerning the\u00a0specifics of the land, he\u00a0told CBN News, \u201cIt had to be exactly at the front of the place that the priest that made this ceremony can see the Holy of the Holy Place.\u201d<\/p>\n
Rabbi Mamo added, \u201cAnd we hope that in a year and a half from today, we can make here in this area the ceremony of the red heifer that actually will be the first step to the Temple.\u201d<\/p>\n
He says the ceremony needs priests who have not been defiled by touching anything dead.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Temple Institute actually have, nine pure priests,\u201d the rabbi explained.\u202f \u201cThey didn\u2019t born in hospital, okay? They born at home.\u202fBecause they are priests. So anyway, they don’t go to any cemetery. And the parents keep them in a situation that they will not get to any cemetery, not going to other, any problematic place.\u201d<\/p>\n
He added, \u201cAnd they are pure, and they are waiting.\u202f So, we have the priest, we have the red heifer, we have the land.\u202f We have everything ready. We just need to wait another one and a half year.\u201d<\/p>\n
Byron Stinson from\u00a0Boneh Israel<\/a>\u00a0helped find the red heifers in the United States.<\/p>\n \u201cSo we believe that it’s very likely that the ceremony would happen somewhere in the area of Passover, 2024,\u00a0out to the possibility of Shavuot, 2024,\u201d Stinson said. \u201cSomewhere in that timeline, the cows would be old enough and it would be the proper timeline for that ceremony.\u201d<\/p>\n Stinson believes this would be the first possibility for such a ceremony in 2,000 years, and that the process toward building a Third Jewish Temple began when the Jewish people started their return to the Promised Land from the four corners of the world, culminating with Israel becoming a nation.<\/p>\n \u201cAnd then in 1948, in one day, they were reborn as a nation, and nobody said that could happen.\u202fAnd then, you move forward, and Israel continues to be this strong nation and all of these prophecies start fulfilling,\u201d he said. \u201cThere’s so many now being fulfilled, is just incredible. The evidence of what God is doing with Jerusalem is the center of that. And the Temple is the center of Jerusalem, and so how can it happen and how will it happen?\u202f I don’t think anyone really knows for sure.\u201d<\/p>\n Read more at: www2.cbn.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Last September, five red heifers arrived in Israel amid great fanfare, because some Jews and Gentiles believe red heifers are a key element leading to the building of the Third Jewish Temple. The heifers are now in a secure, undisclosed location in Israel. Plans include moving them, sometime soon, to a visitor\u2019s center in Shiloh, … Continue reading Prophetic Anticipation Builds: Unblemished Red Heifers for Temple Ceremony Soon Come of Age<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":21347,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-watching"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/watching-300x100-300x100-1.jpg","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8fAkI-6jR","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24295"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24296,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24295\/revisions\/24296"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}