Dispelling Fear Around the Red Heifer Sacrifice

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Courage is a foundational character trait of all other character traits.

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How big is your God?

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Your God always has to be bigger than your problem and your fears.

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It's midnight in America and we are going to be talking about some amazing prophetic things

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that are happening right now as the clock is getting closer and closer to midnight.

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And with me today, I have a powerful pastor, a friend of mine, Pastor Phil Hotsenpiller.

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Welcome to Charisma Connections and I am looking forward to having this conversation with you.

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Thank you for being here.

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Oh, thank you so much and thank you to Charisma for publishing the book.

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You've been nothing but excellent all along the journey and I'm excited to get this message out.

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I think you are too and it's relevant.

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It's hot right now in terms of the topics and we go right from the word of God

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so people can just be assured that you're going to be able to examine it yourself,

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take your Bible in one hand, take the Midnight in America book in the other and go for it.

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You know, some of the things that I have bookmarked already is this prophetic clock.

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And on this prophetic clock around the nine o'clock mark, you talk about the red heifers

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and I want to transition right now to talk about this red heifer sacrifice.

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There's a lot of things that are happening around this red heifer

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and a lot of people are questioning and really there's a lot of fear about anything and time related.

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Let's talk about the red heifer and a little bit later we're going to talk about fear and how to deal with that.

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It's so obscure in most people's minds that it doesn't even seem relevant and yet it's so relevant for end times.

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So if you can imagine the original temple that Solomon built and then you have the Herod temple.

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So it's up on a hill and there was what's called the heifer bridge that ran over to around the Mount of Olives.

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And right below the Mount of Olives was an altar and they would sacrifice a red heifer there

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and then they would burn it and they would transport in the ashes in order for the cleansing of the temple.

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Now why a red heifer? Well, because of Numbers chapter 19 verse 2 the instruction was to find a heifer

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that was without blemish, meaning no gray hair, black hair, white hair, and it didn't have any other blemishes

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and it could never have carried a yoke. So it had to be three years of years younger.

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But after the destruction of the temple in 70 AD, basically the red heifer disappeared.

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It was an anomaly of nature and there was no reason for it because there was no temple.

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And so when you begin to study, okay, so if they don't have a temple they don't need the red heifer,

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but now they found the red heifer, a Texas rancher actually said, Shazam, I believe I have some down here.

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They examined them last year and then they transported them into Israel, into the airport.

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They had a special ceremony. In order to bypass all the customs they classified them as a pet.

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That way it wasn't livestock get held up and then they put him in isolation.

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And in isolation they were further watched by the rabbis to ensure that they were without blemish

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and indeed they found out they were. And just this month on the 27th of March, actually of last month,

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they had a conference in Shiloh with Orthodox Jews and they too were able to see and experience what was going on.

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So the thing that makes it so intriguing is that you cannot have the cleansing of the temple

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without the ashes of the red heifer. So they would burn them down until they were white

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and then they would mix them with pure water which was called living water.

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And you remember Jesus made a reference to the living water. He said water is not going to do it.

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You got to have living water and the cleansing that comes from the blood,

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and of course the red heifer symbolizing the blood of Christ, I believe for us today.

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Now let me take you back one more thing and then we can jump in. There's just so much here.

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This is one of the hottest topics right now, but I want to read something for you because it's so fascinating.

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It says here, Maimonides, the Jewish rabbi wrote, he lived about, I think he died in 1204 AD.

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Here's what he wrote, from the time of Moses until the destruction of the second temple in 70 AD,

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only nine red heifers have been used to prepare the purifying waters.

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The tenth red heifer was, when found, will be sacrificed when the king is ready to appear.

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So he wrote a thousand years ago, when the tenth heifer comes and is sacrificed, the Messiah will come.

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We know the Messiah is Jesus Christ himself.

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And so we see that not only is this part of Scripture, it's a part of Jewish writings,

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and it's so significant that we're living in a day when this happens.

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Now one more link and then we're going to jump into this.

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There's been a number of, and you can Google this very easily, legacy news has got it all over it,

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where they've actually got the testimony, the words from Hamas fighters saying,

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part of the reason for the attack was they call them the red cows, because they know what that means.

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That means that they're going to rebuild the temple.

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That means something that the Dome of the Rock has to be removed.

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The Jewish mosque has to be removed off the Temple Mount.

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This is war for them. This is the real deal.

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Yeah. So this is a big deal.

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And as you made mention to it, the attack on October 7th, one of the reasons was because of these red cows,

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these red heifers. And yes, the Dome of the Rock, that needs to be removed in order for the temple to be built there.

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And so that's basically, in a lot of ways, that's fighting words right there.

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Just everything that's just demonstrated, it's going to lead to war.

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And we know that in Revelation, there's big wars that are talked about.

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But there's also this peace as well that's going to come with the Antichrist as well.

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So let's just kind of bring these things together.

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Well, let's talk about, Jesus said, there will be wars and rumors of wars.

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So not every war is a biblical prophetic war. There are going to be a lot of them.

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Because why? Because man is inhumane and man is sinful.

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And those things just happen. Some of them, however, are tied to prophecy.

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So if we look at the Dome of the Rock has to be moved, and I believe it does, for the temple to be rebuilt,

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then how do we get rid of it? Well, we go to a prophetic event that I talk about, and that's in Ezekiel 38 and 39.

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And this is the invasion by some nations against Israel. And it says they got ancient names like Gog and Magog and Rosh and Tubal.

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And that's actually ancient. That would be modern day Russia.

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And then it's got another one called Persia. That's modern day Iran. Gomer is Germany. Togarmah is Turkey.

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And then it talks about Ethiopia. But this is Ethiopia, the north, the Saudi Arabian Peninsula.

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And all of those armies are Muslim. They're largely, Germany is a Muslim army because of immigration,

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because of Eastern bloc countries. Russia is largely their army as that as well.

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So imagine it says that God intervenes, he brings about victory, and four-fifths of all the soldiers, the foreign invaders, die.

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Now imagine that. And it says, and here's a little thing we don't want to miss. It says every wall in Jerusalem will fall.

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When God says every I believe in, okay, every wall, that means the wall that holds up the Dome of the Rock, the Wailing Wall,

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all those walls that surround it will fall down. And I believe it will slide down into the Kidron Valley.

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And now the entrance of the man of peace, the Antichrist. He will come and make a covenant with Israel.

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And he will say, look, you're going to rebuild your temple, okay, because you're not going to have the Islamic opposition.

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You're going to rebuild it. I'm going to make a covenant with you of peace.

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And that covenant of peace will be broken, we know according to scripture, 1st Thessalonians 2, 4,

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when he declares himself to be God and takes his seat in the temple of God.

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And this is how we know. John wrote the Revelation in 90 AD. So he wrote after the destruction of the temple.

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There was no temple. But he's envisioning a rebuilt temple and Antichrist taking over.

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And then the parallel verse would be Revelation 13 where he declares himself to be God, demands worship,

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and then institutes the mark of the beast, thus ushering in the great tribulation,

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the last three and a half year period of tribulation on the earth.

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Wow. There's a lot to digest there. And it all kind of starts with these red heifers.

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When do you think that this sacrifice might happen?

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You know, I don't have any thought on it, but it seems to be imminent. It seems to be,

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I can't imagine them not using it as a time where it's going to be significant on Jewish calendar.

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But remember, the most significant thing is not when they burn it, is the fact if they burn it and when they burn it.

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So they're going to have the ashes. Now, what a lot of people don't know, and I just want to go back,

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all the temple instruments are already built. Yeah. OK. All the temple furnishings are done.

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The building blueprints are completely done. And there's 500 priests that are genetically been identified

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from the tribe of Levi who have been trained to carry out the order of the temple.

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And the high priest has already been appointed by the Sanhedrin to be the high priest of the temple.

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So what remains? Well, building the temple is one thing and the Ark of the Covenant and the ashes, the red heifer.

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Well, we got one of those out of the way. Red heifer is here. You know, so now you've only got those two things that are coming.

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And I think they could come very quickly. The war in Gaza is, I think, is really a powder keg.

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It's something that could explode beyond what we are currently seeing. We'll watch it.

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We'll see what's going to happen. But I would keep my eye on Russia, Iran, Germany and Turkey mainly. Amen.

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So how are you as a pastor dealing with people that are afraid of this?

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Because obviously fear is a big part of the end times and a lot of people look at the end times and say, what do I do?

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I can't stop this. How do you help people that are stricken with fear?

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It's a little bit different than people that are just afraid but stricken with fear. They can't move.

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Well, let me go back. When I was a student at Oxford, my professor was at one time a part of the biological warfare department for Great Britain.

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And he would tell me some stories and some things that they had developed.

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And I looked at him one day and he was also an Anglican priest. And I said, Kerr, I don't understand how on earth do you sleep at night knowing what you know?

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He said, it's simple, my boy. I believe in a sovereign God. And I think we make our problems bigger than our God.

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Do we think somehow that the eclipse or do we think that the movement of a despotic ruler in the world or a nuclear attack is bigger than God?

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Are we going to trust in God? Are we going to trust in the circumstances that surround us?

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I always just push people back. How big is your God? Your God always has to be bigger than your problem and your fears.

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And remind everyone that God has not given us a spirit of fear but of love, power and a sound mind.

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So fear is not just an emotion, it's also a spirit, a demonic spirit that brings about unrest in our soul so that we do not trust in the Lord himself.

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In terms of just answering people, I get all the time, you think the Lord's coming back, should I have children?

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I hear that from young couples. I said, yeah, have a lot of them. Why not?

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Trust in God. Raise up an army for Jesus. Live your life. You can't live your life wondering about what's going to happen.

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Is the sky going to fall in? What's going to take place?

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And I think if you can do that, if you can live with strength in your moment.

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You know, Winston Churchill said, courage is the foundational character trait of all other character traits.

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Because from it, every other character trait comes out of.

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If I have courage, then I don't worry about my future. If I have courage, I don't worry about my job.

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If I have courage, I don't worry about what I say and don't say and who I'm going to offend or anything else.

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I just live with courage. And courage is foundational for everything we do.

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And it's really the other side of the coin of faith. They work hand in hand together.

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Yeah. Pastor Phil, would you pray for our people that have been watching this, that they would have that courage, that faith over fear?

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Yeah. Amen. Father, I just pray for everyone listening to this program.

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I pray, God, that you will guard them with your with power and authority from on high, that you would break off every spirit of fear,

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that you would give strength from the inner man, that you would absolutely give them a voice in the midst of struggle and difficulty and challenges,

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and that you would give them hope beyond understanding and give them a peace beyond understanding. In Jesus' name. Amen.

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Amen. And Amen. Pastor Phil Hotsenpiller, thank you so much for joining us today here on Charisma Connections.

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And I just want to let everybody know you can get your copy of the book at mycharismashop.com.

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And that's that's available for you now. You can get it anywhere books are sold, Amazon as well.

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And Pastor, thank you so much for joining us. I really appreciate it.

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And I look forward to our next time that we get to talk together. Thank you so much, John. God bless.