"WATERS OF SEPARATION"

Numb 19:9-13  And a man [that is] clean shall gather up the ashes of the heifer, and lay [them] up without the camp in a clean place, and it shall be kept for the congregation of the children of Israel for a water of separation: it [is] a purification for sin. And he that gathereth the ashes of the heifer shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the even: and it shall be unto the children of Israel, and unto the stranger that sojourneth among them, for a statute for ever. He that toucheth the dead body of any man shall be unclean seven days. He shall purify himself with it on the third day, and on the seventh day he shall be clean: but if he purify not himself the third day, then the seventh day he shall not be clean. Whosoever toucheth the dead body of any man that is dead, and purifieth not himself, defileth the tabernacle of the LORD; and that soul shall be cut off from Israel: because the water of separation was not sprinkled upon him, he shall be unclean; his uncleanness [is] yet upon him.

Numb 19:17-20  And for an unclean [person] they shall take of the ashes of the burnt heifer of purification for sin, and running water shall be put thereto in a vessel: And a clean person shall take hyssop, and dip [it] in the water, and sprinkle [it] upon the tent, and upon all the vessels, and upon the persons that were there, and upon him that touched a bone, or one slain, or one dead, or a grave: And the clean [person] shall sprinkle upon the unclean on the third day, and on the seventh day: and on the seventh day he shall purify himself, and wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and shall be clean at even. But the man that shall be unclean, and shall not purify himself, that soul shall be cut off from among the congregation, because he hath defiled the sanctuary of the LORD: the water of separation hath not been sprinkled upon him; he [is] unclean.

Hebr 13:10-14  We have an altar, whereof they have no right to eat which serve the tabernacle. For the bodies of those beasts, whose blood is brought into the sanctuary by the high priest for sin, are burned without the camp. Wherefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people with his own blood, suffered without the gate. Let us go forth therefore unto him without the camp, bearing his reproach. For here have we no continuing city, but we seek one to come.

Death is in the world and has entered the world.

Roma 5:12  Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:

• The first day of the week was when Adam and Eve sinned.
• The beginning point was the Adam day.

• The first day of the week, we touched death.

• Ashes of red heifer.
• Person was unclean if they touched death.
• Red Heifer slain outside city of Jerusalem.
• One burn the heifer.
• Priest take cedar and hyssop (largest to smallest) and scarlet and throw it into fire.
• Another takes the ashes and put s them in clean place and keeps them there for waters of separation.
• If touched death, unclean seven days
• Purify self with ashes on third day and on seventh he shall be clean.

• Take running water and put it in a vessel.
• (Heb. LIVING WATERS.)
• Put ashes into vessel, also.
• Sprinkle water on house and people affected.
• Sprinkle on person third day.
• And on seventh day.
• And on seventh day at evening he shall be clean.
• But the one who did not get sprinkled is unclean and put out of the camp.

• Red Heifer indicates death.
• Red.
• Blood.
• Sacrifice.
• Jesus fulfilled all the sacrifices  of the Old Testament.
• God laid Adam's life down in that first day and Eve came froth of the rib God extracted from Adam.
• And those two people, Adam and Eve, were the ones who brought sin and death into the world.
• Rather than eat life, they ate death.
• Now all of humanity has touched death.
• So God sought to edit out the entire events that occurred between that point when Adam lied down and the coming of Jesus, and "spliced" out that period of time and had the death of Jesus replace the lying down of Adam.
• And instead of a rib taken to make Eve, we see blood and water come from Jesus' side to make the church.
• And on the first day when Adam and Eve were made with the events of the "operation" of God on the side of Adam to take the rib, God's mind instead saw Christ die.
• The first day of the week, in God's mind, when man touched death, Christ died to redeem us.
• And on the third day, Christ arose.
• The third day after a man touched sin, he had to be sprinkled with waters of separation.
• And this had to occur again on the seventh day,

John 6:53-54  Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, ye have no life in you. Whoso eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day.

• Adam lost access to LIFE in the Garden of Eden when he was cast out and barred from the way of the tree of life (Gen 3:24).
• The way to get life from Eden into us again is to receive flesh and blood of Jesus.
• This speaks of His death on the cross.

Notice in the following instances that God supplied water of LIFE to His people in the wilderness.

Exod 17:6  Behold, I will stand before thee there upon the rock in Horeb; and thou shalt smite the rock, and there shall come water out of it, that the people may drink. And Moses did so in the sight of the elders of Israel.

Psal 105:41  He opened the rock, and the waters gushed out; they ran in the dry places [like] a river.

1Cor 10:4  And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Christ.

• Drink from the rock.
• Rock Is Christ.
• Water and Blood came from Jesus on the cross.
• The Rock was Smitten.
• There is Power behind the rock in Rephidim that supplied the water was Christ who went with them.

• A living stone provides LIFE to others.

1Pet 2:4  To whom coming, [as unto] a living stone, disallowed indeed of men, but chosen of God, [and] precious,

Reve 22:1  And he shewed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb.

• We feed our souls and flesh regularly, but must also feed our spiritual parts since we were made both spirit and flesh.

• This thought of God and the Lamb shows the whole picture of Cross.
• It shows Oneness, too!
• It shows the Father in a sacrificial body that had to be broken in death so the Father could flow out as a river of life.

• God is Spiritual.
• So God manifested in flesh and that flesh broke in death so the river of life could flow out.
• It still flows today.
• Whole manner for it to flow forth.
• This is not talking about end of the world, because we read in Rev 22:.


Reve 22:17  And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him that heareth say, Come. And let him that is athirst come. And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely.

• That is incorrect.
• The whole point in Revelation 22:17 was that the river is to supply man with life.
• And we read that right now we can come and drink of this water, immediately after we read that a River flows from the throne of God and the Lamb for us to drink.

• Water always represented SPIRIT.
• Wind, too.
• Currents, and flowing.


Reve 21:6  And he said unto me, It is done. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely.

• This, too, is significant.
• Drink from it.
• After Jesus cried "it is finished" on the cross, He died and the soldier pierced his side and out came water and blood.
• Living water.
• Blood is LIFE of the flesh.
• Living things have blood in them.
• And if water has blood in it then it is LIVING WATER.
• This living water is now supplied.
• We are now back to the opportunity Adam had in the Garden.

John 19:30  When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, It is finished: and he bowed his head, and gave up the ghost.

John 19:34  But one of the soldiers with a spear pierced his side, and forthwith came there out blood and water.

• The bitter vinegar speaks of death.

• The water, with clots of blood, can be accounted for only the previous rupture of the heart and the flow of blood into the pericardium, or outer sack of the heart, where it would separate very rapidly into water and clots of blood.
• Hence, it seems certain that the immediate physical cause of the death of Christ was rupture of the heart.

• I believe something went past the pain and the suffering, and His heart burst in intense passion for the church that would now be born.
• As Eve came from Adam's side, and Adam was driven to her to become one again with her, Christ knew what would result from the death on the cross.
• The very thing that mankind awaited since Adam was thrown from the garden.
• Finally now!!!
• After thousands of years, once again, man and God are to meet in the same sanctuary.

• The beautiful veil with purple and red and blue and gold, embroidered with cherubims.
• The way to the tree of Life was barred by the cherubims since Adam was thrown out.
• Why?
• God wanted to bring man back again.
• A beautiful gateway was made.
• Only the best for the return.
• And when jesus died on the cross and blood and water flowed from His side, the veil in the temple ripped wide open.
• The entrance back into eden was made possible.
• Eden, with its river of life and fruit of Life was brought back to memory again when Jesus died and the veil with cherubims that barred the way of life was opened.

• He kept it preserved.
• He did not want to lose it but bring man over the threshold into the sanctuary again with Him.
• That way was the cross.
• When Jesus said He is the way, He meant the way to the Father again.
• He is the door.

Matt 5:6  Blessed [are] they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.
 
• How do you eat righteousness?
• How do you drink righteousness?

• The blood washes your sins and righteousness flows into you at the same time.
• Blood of Jesus is the life of Jesus.
• It cleans and gives you His life, too.


Psal 36:9-10  For with thee [is] the fountain of life: in thy light shall we see light. O continue thy lovingkindness unto them that know thee; and thy righteousness to the upright in heart.

• Draw out righteousness and loving kindness to those who know thee.
• Draw out righteousness to the upright in heart.

Notice that Righteousness is associated with LIFE.

• There is the place of no death.
• We must hunger and thirst after righteousness.
• Righteousness is something Jesus said we eat and drink.
• He was referring to His flesh and blood as communion symbolizes.
• Eating communion represents how believing the Gospel causes His righteousness to be inside us.
• We seek first the Kingdom of God and HIS righteousness.
• His life.
• Eating righteousness is saying the same thing as eating fruit of Life.
• God wants us to have this fruit of life in us as much as He did in Adam's day.
• And Jesus shows that by saying we must "hunger" and "thirst" after righteousness.
• In the Garden was both a River of Life and Fruit of Life.
• Spiritual drink and food.

• And Adam would get it by eating the fruit of life.
• Same plan stands today.
• Life is to be put in us.
• But it is through Jesus Christ now.
• The way of righteousness is LIFE.
• We are told to eat righteousness and drink it.
• And Jesus continually said that His flesh is bread and His blood is wine.
• Communion shows the putting into ourselves the bread and wine of Jesus flesh and blood.

Reve 16:17-20  And the seventh angel poured out his vial into the air; and there came a great voice out of the temple of heaven, from the throne, saying, It is done. And there were voices, and thunders, and lightnings; and there was a great earthquake, such as was not since men were upon the earth, so mighty an earthquake, [and] so great. And the great city was divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell: and great Babylon came in remembrance before God, to give unto her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of his wrath. And every island fled away, and the mountains were not found.

But there is an IT IS DONE for the believers!

When the unclean, "death-touched," sinner believes in Christ's death as us on the cross for our salvation, the third day when Christ rose from the grave experiences another "editing" of time in God's mind with other individuals.

• First God took Christ back, in a sense, to the first day when sin entered by Adam and touched all humanity.
• And instead of Adam lying down, Christ was laid in death on the first day.
• And instead of the woman taken from a rib, the Church was taken from the blood and water that poured from Christ's side.
• Three days after Jesus died, he rose again.
• You are taken back and said to have risen the third day with Him.
• You applied the death, burial and resurrection of the Lord to yourself on the third day as symbolized by the sprinkling of the waters of separation on the "death-touched" man the third day.

• The last day of the week is the seventh day.
• This represents the end of the world and the end of time.
• When you are sprinkled with the waters of separation, you are separated from death.
• What was in those waters?
• The death of the red heifer.
• In other words, another's death freed the Hebrews from death.
• By sprinkling the Hebrew with ashes of a red heifer in living water, the distinction was that this person has the death of the sacrifice offered instead as his own death, so as to have paid the penalty of being cast out of the congregation.

The living waters (running water) in which the ashes were put, represent the Holy Ghost
 

CEDAR, SCARLET, HYSSOP

...And the priest shall take cedar wood, and hyssop, and scarlet, and cast [it] into the midst of the burning of the heifer.

A man who touched death could only be cleansed if he was sprinkled by the waters of separation on the third day and the seventh day, and was then considered clean on the seventh day.

What does this mean?

If you have had the sprinkling of Christ's death applied to you by faith that He died as you, and repented (death to old life with Christ) been baptized in water in Jesus' name (Buried with him in death) and filled with the Holy Ghost ((Acts 2:38) - resurrected with him), on that third day when Jesus sacrifice was made "atonable", then one the seventh day, at the end of time, you are clean!

• You have been separated from death and shall dwell with God for eternity.
• Jesus sacrifice was not valid until He rose from the dead the third day.
• Look throughout the Bible for events that happened on a third day and note the foreshadowing of the Lord's resurrection and blessing associated with it.