Numbers 19
HERE we find a new sacrifice; it was for the cleansing of one who had in any way become unfit to come into the tabernacle—God’s dwelling place. Many things may happen to defile the believer, but the precious blood of Jesus cleanses from all sin.
The red heifer had to be without spot or blemish, and it could not have been under a yoke; these tell of Jesus, the spotless, holy One of God, never under the mastery of sin, but led out without the camp to be a sacrifice for the sins of others.
There were thrown into the fire which consumed the body, cedar wood; hyssop and scarlet; —all picturing man from the highest to the lowest; earthly glory too, for there is nothing in the natural man, that God can accept, it is put under judgment by fire.
The blood is not re-applied; the heifer’s ashes, and running water, were enough for the cleansing of the defiled one, the blood having been applied once for all in the type when the people met God. There is restoration of communion. in this chapter.
ML 03/16/1924