{"id":1457,"date":"2025-07-12T07:26:33","date_gmt":"2025-07-12T12:26:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/h4you.org\/?p=1457"},"modified":"2025-07-12T15:02:56","modified_gmt":"2025-07-12T20:02:56","slug":"39-in-dying-we-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/h4you.org\/index.php\/2025\/07\/12\/39-in-dying-we-live\/","title":{"rendered":"39 – In Dying We Live"},"content":{"rendered":"

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By Terance Clark \u00a0 \u00a0 July 11, 2025 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a08 Minute Read<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

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This Weeks Passage: Numbers 19:1 – 22:1<\/o:p><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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There are so many things that are difficult to understand when reading scripture and this week has what Jewish sages consider to be one of the hardest of all.\u00a0 There are numerous stories wrapped up in this weeks parashah.\u00a0 So, I’m going to attempt to bring several together.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Death Begins the Transition into the Land<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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This week God provides some direction for us when dealing with the pain of death.\u00a0 There is a sub-plot that occurs in chapter twenty that is not mentioned, but we’re supposed to know it has occurred.\u00a0 Thirty-eight years has passed since chapter 18 and all of the generation has died and now the transition into the land begins and the transition starts with Miriam dying.\u00a0 Right after she dies there is no water again.\u00a0 Miriam was the conduit for all that had occurred.\u00a0 She started the whole process when Moses was a baby and she has been by his side the entire time.\u00a0 It is said that there was a well that provided the water for Israel during those years and as Mariam died the well stop giving water.\u00a0 It was a moment for God to allow the important role she played to be understood with the stopping of the water.\u00a0 It provided a picture of the flow of death and mourning as we see Moses and Aaron no doubt mourning over the loss of their sister.<\/span><\/p>\n

Not only this but we can see this like a symbol of what occurs in death as the flow of water stops it is not permanent but helps us to see life through the lens of the community.\u00a0 Life must go on and the flow of water also was to go on but that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t stop to recognize and mourn the life that has passed.\u00a0 As a community, its important to understand that no one generation will complete the goal of the community.\u00a0 It will pass to the next generation and then the next and with each one taking the community further and deeper than the previous one.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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God Provides the Remedy for Contact<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Jews have a saying that God provides the remedy before the problem and we see the remedy in chapter 19 with a strange law concerning the red heifer.\u00a0 It’s a purification ritual for if you come in contact with the dead and then wanted to come into the Sanctuary or presence of God.\u00a0 What makes it difficult to understand is that it purifies the unclean but also makes the clean impure.\u00a0 There is no other law like it and really one that no one can fully comprehend.\u00a0 We’ve already talked about the importance of coming into the presence of God in an impure state.\u00a0 This is not sin, this is contamination from the world.\u00a0 Death cannot stand in the presence of God so if one came in contact with the dead in any way they had to be purified or they could not come into the temple.\u00a0 God gave them this purification process that the priest performed that could only be done with the red heifer.\u00a0 It’s a pure red cow that doesn’t have any adjacent black hairs.\u00a0 A person had to be purified this way and we see numerous times in the New Testament of people being purified through this process.\u00a0 (John 11:55, Acts 21:6) and even in the writer of Hebrews is referring to it in Hebrews 9:13-14.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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“God provides the remedy before the problem<\/span><\/strong><\/em>“<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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Death is not just contact with a corpse.\u00a0 There are several things that bring us into contact with death.\u00a0 The biggest being a women’s menstruation process.\u00a0 She is purging out an egg which could have been a life that in essence has died and that is why women had to separate themselves during that process.\u00a0 Different types of sicknesses like leprosy is the death of the flesh and required purification once healed.\u00a0 Sexual diseases or different types of discharges all have a death process that had to be avoided.\u00a0 Why is this important?\u00a0 Because death is the last enemy to be defeated and we often fail to fully understand its affect on humanity and our ability to stand before God without a purification process.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Jesus is the Remedy<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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The process that the priests took to prepare the red heifer for purification of others made the priest unclean and in need of purification.\u00a0 So what purifies the impure makes those who are pure impure and in need of purification.\u00a0 Even Solomon with all of his wisdom confesses in Ecclesiastes 7:23 that he couldn’t comprehend it.\u00a0 The red heifer sacrifice occurred outside of the sanctuary on the Mount of Olives.\u00a0 The red heifer was led from the temple to outside the city where the sacrifice was made.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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“He died in order to save others from death<\/span><\/strong><\/em>“<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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Jesus too was led outside the city to sanctify the people by through His own blood.\u00a0 He suffered outside the gate as well just as Hebrews 12:12-13 says let us go out to Him outside the camp.\u00a0 Jesus who became unclean in order to clean.\u00a0 He died in order to save others from death.\u00a0 He took on mortality and uncleanness by becoming human and through his ministry of healing took on impurities and uncleanness, our transgressions and the sin of the nations.\u00a0 He ultimately took on death in order to cleanse us from death.\u00a0 I hope you see the connection this week to the red heifer and the process.\u00a0 It’s elaborate, It’s detailed, and a bit overwhelming, and yet in the end God once again satisfies His own requirements of making us pure and in a position to come into His presence.\u00a0 Miriam, then Aaron and finally Moses all died.\u00a0 The people mourned and the next generation took the land with new leaders and vision, that is the progression of life.\u00a0 There is no way to live without dying and in dying we live.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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