The Red Heifer’s Ashes: The Ultimate Messianic Prophecy

Some 3,500 years ago, God commanded the newly liberated Hebrew slaves to offer a unique burnt offering to deal with the defilement of death. The ritual created the ashes of a red heifer, some hyssop, scarlet wool, and a piece of cedar which were to be kept outside the Tabernacle and later the Temple. These ashes were then to be added to fresh water and sprinkled on anyone needing cleansing before they could enter the holy places. Over the next 1,500 years, only nine heifers needed to be sacrificed because the ashes of each could last hundreds of years.

No one knew why it was necessary but its greatest mystery lay in why it defiled the very High Priest and the Levite who offered it. However, when the Romans razed the Temple in Jerusalem in 70 AD, the ashes and their mystery became purely academic... until 1967 when Israel regained Jerusalem and the Temple Mount. Heightening the expectation of many Orthodox Jews today, one of their most revered sages Moses Maimonides taught that at the time of the tenth red heifer offering, Messiah would come! Few seem to have noticed, however, that in 30 AD, Jesus fulfilled the red heifer ritual, and is still fulfilling it today.

In 1975, Graeme began studying what Jesus taught on the road to Emmaus on the day of His resurrection and later in Jerusalem. Over the decades, he found that every element of the red heifer ritual is explained in earlier events, the festivals and rituals that God gave Moses, and later prophecies to David, Isaiah, and Ezekiel, which were then explained by Jesus and Paul. Graeme then found this remarkable hermeneutical approach provides the keys to unlocking the Book of Revelation.