Numbers 19:5-6 And the heifer shall be burned in his sight. Its skin, its flesh, and its blood, with its dung, shall be burned. And the priest shall take cedarwood and hyssop and scarlet yarn, and throw them into the fire burning the heifer.
First of all, as many Christians are acutely aware, animal sacrifices for sin are no longer required. However, these things are still prophesied. After all, the antichrist needs a Temple to defile.
To be clear, the red heifer is the symbol or type. Jesus Christ is the real deal, the fulfillment.
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Samaria, Israel: Purification practice with heifer ashes and spring water mixture.
The ritual preparation of the red heifer follows precise steps laid out in the Bible and further elaborated by the Sages. The completely red cow, which must never have had a yoke placed upon it, is slaughtered and burned entirely—hide, flesh, blood, and dung—along with cedar wood, hyssop, and crimson thread. The ashes are then collected and mixed with spring water to create the mei niddah (waters of separation). This mixture is used in a specific sprinkling ritual: a kohen dips a bundle of hyssop into the water and sprinkles it on the impure person on the third and seventh days of their purification period. Only after this double sprinkling and the passage of seven days can someone defiled by contact with death enter the Temple precincts.
We do have a clarification regarding the remaining four heifers per the Berkowitz article from Israel 365 News.
The four remaining red heifers from Texas remain in Shiloh, their status as potential candidates for the actual ritual still intact despite the controversy.
https://israel365news.com/415922/water-for-red-heifer-ritual-preparedor-was-it
This also appears to be a reversal from August 2025 when the Temple Institute announced all 5 heifers to be disqualified.
https://israel365news.com/411214/temple-institute-announces-all-texas-red-heifers-disqualified
Apparently one of the cows from Texas had warts on its neck and a broken tail which disqualified it as a perfect sacrifice.
It would appear the sacrificial burning event in July 2025 was a practice trial.
Heifer burning practice started back in August of 2019.
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Which brings us to a video from January 2026 at Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz YouTube Channel
Larry Borntrager is a non-Jew who has been caring for the red heifers in Shiloh. On July 1, one of the red heifers was burned in Samaria. As the heifers do not have ear tags or brands, they can only be identified by someone who knows them intimately, and the only person who does is Larry. Some people claim that the cow with an injured and shortened tail was intended for the practice burning, but refused to get onto the truck. These people claim that a “perfect cow” boarded the truck instead, and that the practice of burning was actually kosher, using a cow suited for the red heifer ceremony. Larry explains which cow is missing and what was its status.
Check out the Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz YouTube post below on the issue.
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The innocent, shed blood of Jesus Christ on the cross is the fulfillment of forgiveness and the release from sin.
Hebrews 9:22 And according to the Law, one may almost say, all things are cleansed with blood, and without shedding of blood there is no forgiveness.
As the red heifer was and will be again sacrificed outside the city limits of Jerusalem, so was Jesus Christ. As the sacrifice of the red heifer is for the purification and consecration of the people of Israel, so was and is Jesus Christ.
Hebrews 13:12 Therefore Jesus also, that He might sanctify the people through His own blood, suffered outside the gate.
Christ’s sacrifice is not only for the people of Israel, but for all the people of the world. He is the sacrifice for all sin for all time.
1 John 1:7 but if we walk in the Light as He Himself is in the Light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus His Son cleanses us from all sin.
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For all things red heifer coverage dating back to 2014, click on the link below.
https://paulthepoke.com/?s=red+heifer
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