Red Heifer Redo 3 - Clean until Even

1) Unclean until even
Genesis 1:5 And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
Genesis 8:11 And the dove came in to him in the evening; and, lo, in her mouth was an olive leaf pluckt off: so Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth.
Ex 16:13-14 ¶ And it came to pass, that at even the quails came up, and covered the camp: and in the morning the dew lay round about the host. And when the dew that lay was gone up, behold, upon the face of the wilderness there lay a small round thing, as small as the hoar frost on the ground.
Ex 27:21 In the tabernacle of the congregation without the vail, which is before the testimony, Aaron and his sons shall order it from evening to morning before the LORD: it shall be a statute for ever unto their generations on the behalf of the children of Israel.
Exodus 12 - The Passover
Ex 12:6 And ye shall keep it up until the fourteenth day of the same month: and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening.
Ex 12:8 And they shall eat the flesh in that night, roast with fire, and unleavened bread; and with bitter herbs they shall eat it.
Ex 12:10 And ye shall let nothing of it remain until the morning; and that which remaineth of it until the morning ye shall burn with fire.
Ex 12:29 ¶ And it came to pass, that at midnight the LORD smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh that sat on his throne unto the firstborn of the captive that was in the dungeon; and all the firstborn of cattle
Deuteronomy 16:6-7 But at the place which the LORD thy God shall choose to place his name in, there thou shalt sacrifice the passover at even, at the going down of the sun, at the season that thou camest forth out of Egypt. And thou shalt roast and eat it in the place which the LORD thy God shall choose: and thou shalt turn in the morning, and go unto thy tents..
6. Genesis 8:11 And the dove came in to him in the evening; and, lo, in her mouth was an olive leaf pluckt off:
so Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth. Being unclean until even - start the day within
the camp.
Joseph of Arimathaea went to claim the body of Jesus when even had come.

When one was unclean they could not enter the camp of the congregation. When clean at even the judgment of God was abated and they could begin the day clean and among the people. At even those cleansed with ashes of the red heifer, cedar, hyssop scarlet and running water could be in a clean tent and look to the day of rejoining the camp of the congregation.


Question What other ceremony were cedar, hyssop, scarlet, running water, along with a sacrifice seen?
See Leviticus 14 The cleansing of a healed leper.
Read verses 1-8 Also seen a earthen vessel, female lamb, blood applied
This is also a picture of Christ dealing with sin on the cross
Leviticus 13 & 14 being healed and cleansed form sin, The red heifer those once cleansed form sin being kept pure in a sinful world.

Next 2 Lessons: Leviticus 13 & 14, Think about how this ties in with when they entered into the promised land, today, the Seven Year Tribulation, Millennial Kingdom and The New Heaven & New Earth.