Red Heifer Ceremony: The Key to the Third Temple and Israel’s Prophetic Future
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The article discusses the significance of the red heifer in biblical prophecy, highlighting an event in January 2024 where Christian and government leaders gathered to pray for the nation. The red heifer, necessary for the purification ceremony before the construction of the Third Temple, is a key element in fulfilling biblical prophecy. Rabbi Tsaki Mamo and evangelical Christian Byron Stinson explain the search for a perfect red heifer, the land for the ceremony, and the potential significance of the event. With the red heifers now in Israel and gold for the temple possibly secured, the path to fulfilling prophecy seems closer than ever.
By Dave Robbins
According to ngpr.org: “On January 31, 2024, Christian and government leaders gathered at the Museum of the Bible to pray for the nation and ask God to forgive us of our sins.”[i]
The following is an excerpt from the interview concerning the red heifers, between Dr. Jim Garlow, Byron Stinson and Ytshak (Tsaki) Mamo. It includes new information I was not aware of before this interview. Please see my editorial for the most recent update on the red heifer ceremony.
Jim: Byron, shall we start with you? Byron is an evangelical Christian from Texas. Ytshak (Tsaki) Mamo is an orthodox Jew from Jerusalem.
Byron: Hello, everybody. How are you? I have really good news today and I’m so happy to be here. Could I have that first slide please? What we see here are the red heifers necessary for the Messiah to come. Well, let me ask you something. When Israel was scattered for 2,000 years in the land, was it necessary that Israel, Judah, the tribe of Judah and the lion would return to the land? Was that necessary? Is it necessary that on the Temple Mountain of God that there be a temple we worship Him there as it says in Micah 4? Is that necessary that we build the land? The first step on the red heifers is that we are going to move toward building that temple. This is the first step and it has to happen. But my friends, I want to tell you, all of you in the nations, you need to know something. God had a plan. He put His people Judah into the nations to suffer because they didn’t obey Him. Here we are today, we’re seeing today we’re doing the same thing but thankfully we have leaders in Judah that love us. They’ve reached across to us and they want to help lead us. They’re reading their word and they’re reading their Bible. In the Bible, it says find a red heifer. So, they called me and I didn’t go find a red heifer for me; I found the red heifer for every one of you. Because the fathers of faith said speak to the children in the lands and bring us a red heifer so that we might do this ceremony that leads to honoring our Father on the Temple Mountain. Amen!? Is this where we want to honor Him? At the mountain where He called for us to honor Him? Yes! And when we do that, it’s going to break chains, it’s going to open things, it’s going to bring us back to the faith that we want to be. My friend, Rabbi Ytshak, called me in Texas and he said Byron, we need to find the red heifer. He said we need to look into Numbers 19 and we need to do what the Lord said, what God said. That’s what we did. Tsaki can you tell us about Numbers 19 and what that means?
Rabbi Tsaki: Shalom. Thank you, Jim. Thank you, Byron. You know it’s a strange commandment that actually more than 2,000 years nobody deal with. And when we start to make a research, we found that there is a red angus. If you are a farmer from Kansas, Texas, you will know exactly what is this. I called my friend Byron, and I told him, listen, we are looking for red … as it is in the Bible, Numbers 19. You have to find a red heifer without blemish, without white or black hair, that never yoked and let bring it to Jerusalem, not as a sacrifice. The red heifer is not sacrifice; the red heifer is a ceremony. We use the red heifer; we burn it together with hyssop and other things and then mix the ash with water from the spring and then we can became to be pure. What is pure, what is unpure, it’s complicated to understand. But I will just give the easy explanation is that if you connected, if you touch, if you was in the room with a dead (person) which means out of life, you became to be unpure. The only way to be pure again is to get a little sprinkling of red heifer water.
We start to make the search in Dallas. We put an advertisement in the magazine of a farmer and all over Texas, Kansas and other places. Thank God we found more than 20. Then we brought some rabbis from Israel to check each cow, every hair, if it’s white, red, if it’s black because again two hair, white or black, and you cannot use it as a red heifer. So, you can see on the screen how they’re checking, taking time. We became to be a farmer even if we are from the city. Oh, you are from Kansas, ok. So maybe you have a red heifer. (Responding to Jim)
To bring them to Israel, we need a special license because by the agricultural rules, a lot of congressmen will have been here so maybe they can explain why, by agricultural rules not anyone can get permission to bring live cows from United States to Israel. So, we got permission to bring five pets. That’s what was on the license. (Byron: These are our pet cows right here.) And here you can see the big box of the little pets thanks to American Airlines a year ago. September 15 was the date that they arrived, five red heifers. Today they are in Shiloh, ancient Shiloh if somebody visiting Israel so you know. Ancient Shiloh was the place that the tabernacle tent was 369 years and you know the second step was the temple. So, to say now we have a big visitor center that actually educates people, teaches people what is the meaning of red heifer, what is the meaning of pure, what is the meaning of the temple and this is our mission today. There is another important rule in this commandment, is that the cow had to be in the third year. Only then you can make the ceremony. So, if there is any mathematics here, so you can understand that we are very close to their third years of these cows which mean that with the help of God, we will get the permission from God and from the people to make the ceremony and then we can be pure. And again, the meaning to be pure, first of all, is the meaning that we allow to get inside of the temple. Even today there is a lot of Jewish people that visit in the Temple Mount; they don’t get inside to the area of the temple. They just visit outside of this area. At the moment that we have the option to be pure, we can get inside.
So, everybody here is asking me, so you’re going to blow the Dome of the Rock? The answer is no. I’m going to wait. Eight years ago, sorry that I’m saying here Jim, eight years ago nobody believed; I don’t want to say nobody, but most of the people didn’t believe that Christian can be friend with Jewish. I don’t know what will happen but I believe that God, the house of God is the house of all the nations. I believe that the Muslim will come to us and say please take off the Dome of the Rock and build your temple. Because you know the Dome of the Rock is actually the point exactly (this is debatable). It’s called the rock because this is the rock that all the world established from. This is the holy of the holy place. And this is the place that we will build the temple.
Jim: Ok, let me bring up the picture now. Let’s have them bring up the picture of the red heifer bridge. The red heifer bridge which there’s no archaeological evidence of its existence because it was probably wood. But they’d build it each time that they had a red heifer ceremony to bring it across. How many, is it believed, red heifer ceremonies have taken place and what one … the last one was 2,200 years ago and what is this one in numerical terms?
Rabbi Tsaki: My mind is of a big rabbi who lived 700 years ago. He wrote that there was nine red heifer. The first one was made by Moses, the second made by King Solomon, and another seven made at the Second Temple time 2,000 years ago as you mentioned. And then if Maimonides is right, the 10th will be done by the Messiah. So, I believe that we are in the days of the Messiah. I mean you have to be blind not to see the Messiah surround us. And when exactly will be the date, I still not know. But I believe it can be happen.
Jim: Now we’re to the 10th one potentially, not a sacrifice but a cleansing ceremony. Now we have to have particular land. We’re going to shift to this part that has not been discussed publicly in any venue. We have to have land and that land has to be at a certain elevation and a certain location. And what is that?
Rabbi Tsaki: By Numbers 19 again, we have to read the Bible and we have to read the Torah and to see. It’s written that it had to be at the front of the holy of the holy. So, at the tabernacle time, Moses, it was easy for him. He had the tent and he just find the door. Today, as I mentioned before, we know where is the place of the holy of the holy. It’s on the Dome of the Rock. Ok, this is a view from Mount of Olive, okay a big cemetery, a Jewish cemetery. By the tradition who buried in the Mount of Olives would be the first one that would wake up at the redemption time. But you can see the Dome of the Rock. So, we have to be in a place that we can see the holy of the holy. And actually, it had to be the same height that we can be at the same level of the temple.
Jim: However, buying land there is impossible because if an Arab Muslim sells to a Jew, he or she gets killed. So, that’s hardly an option. But somehow God supernaturally helped you buy what?
Rabbi Tsaki: Don’t ask me why; don’t ask me how and specific don’t ask me why I succeed. I don’t know. I just say a miracle, ok, not any other explanation.
Byron: Actually, 12 years ago you said maybe we build a red angus steakhouse up here when we were getting it, remember that?
Rabbi Tsaki: So, we succeed to buy a little piece of land at one dunam which mean a quarter of an acre. And as you can see here, this is further from the mountain; ok so it’s at the same level of the temple as the front of the holy of the holy place. So, we have the cows, we have the land, we are ready.
Jim: The Israeli government approved you to bring your five pets which you never kept in your front yard like most people do. They’re in Shiloh and they’ve qualified. One of the reasons they qualified at that time was, I’m a farm kid from Kansas, you put an ear clip on a new calf immediately. But it was COVID, the veterinarians weren’t going out and so all these were born without ear clips. They weren’t blemished in any way, tarnished. Now we have these heifers, they’re now back in Israel. You now have the land. They have to be two years and one month old or two years and three months old. And they will hit that date when?
Rabbi Tsaki: Close, very close, in the next few weeks.
Jim: The next few weeks?
Rabbi Tsaki: Yes.
Jim: This red heifer ceremony, what does it mean to you as an Orthodox Jew? What does it mean, Byron, to you as a Christian evangelical? Let’s go with him first. What is the significance of this event for the Jewish people?
Rabbi Tsaki: First of all, it’s a commandment. We believe we have 613 commandments, and we have to try to do what we can to make the commandments of God. So, this is first. King Solomon said, (speaks Hebrew) I said I am the clever guy in the world, but I don’t understand, I don’t understand. Why red? Why to burn, why to mix, why to sprinkle, I don’t understand.
But this is God’s commandment, and we have to do what God give us to do. Second, as we mentioned, this is a way to next level, spirituality life. We are here today in iPhone time. Everything is text, everything is moving, everything is, you know you have to be … and there is other level that we don’t know it and not exactly understand. And this is the level of the temple and the key to get to the temple is the red heifer.
Jim: Byron, you guys are best buddies.
Byron: We are best buddies. Love this man. We’ve walked the land 17 years together doing projects all over Israel. And the whole time he knows that I am a believer in Yeshua, that His blood is what was spilled for my sin. That’s who I am. He hasn’t seen that yet, and so we made an agreement a long time ago. We agree on 95% of everything we do; so, on the 5% where we can’t quite come together, we’re just going to love each other and wait till the Messiah comes. When He gets here, we’re going to ask to see His passport. If it has two stamps, we were right, ok? If it only has one, he’s right. But we’re going to accept the Messiah and we need the Messiah to come, right?
For me, the red heifer is red for the blood of Jesus Christ. That’s why it’s red. It’s large and then there’s a small worm that goes into this so it’s the Alpha and the Omega. There are the cedars of Lebanon which are huge and it’s got the little … smallest tree in the world, the hyssop which is the Alpha and Omega again. I see Christ in this. I know for me, what changed me, where I went from wanting to follow after all the lusts in my heart and doing the things that I shouldn’t do, was when I accepted and believed in Jesus’ blood, a spiritual high happened inside of me and I’ve been following that now. I’m 69 years old so I’ve been following that since I was just a child.
For the fathers of faith, this is what they do. They are following every Word of God. And you know if you were kicked out of your land for 2,000 years and you came back to your land and God said follow every word that I’ve written down, you would want to follow every word too. Thank God the Father has put this in our father of faith’s hearts to lead us in this. What God is doing is He is bringing us together; He is unifying us to make us best friends. In the Book of Malachi, in the last chapter, it says that if the fathers and the children don’t learn to love each other, there’ll be a curse on the land. My friend, the Jewish fathers are in the land already. They’ve come back to the covenant of Abraham that was promised that this land would come into the hands of believers. We are grafted into that and it’s our responsibility from the nations to come and support our fathers and to love our fathers because we are the children scattered in the lands. That’s what I see. Amen.
Jim: Byron is a very successful businessman. He has invested millions into Israel, all kinds of projects,… Guys, we’re hurting on time so I’m going to condense this down here. We’ve got to get to the next thing on here which is pretty amazing. Let’s try to do this in just a couple of minutes if we can. The Third Temple. You got a call from a country you’ve never been to, asked to go there. What was the country and why on Earth did you go all the way there?
Rabbi Tsaki: Why? I don’t know. What is the country? Its name is Papua, New Guinea. Anybody heard about this country? I never heard about it. A year ago, I got a phone call from a good friend. He told me listen you must come to visit in Papua, New Guinea. I said where is this? And then I found out it’s a 25-hour flight from Israel. Ok, let’s fly. I arrived to Papua, New Guinea and I find myself with a minister and a prime minister, amazing Prime Minister Mr. James Marape. He’s the prime minister of this island and he told me something very special. You know we have some discussion and then he told me listen, the next few months I will be 50. And in this birthday, I want to give present; I don’t want to get. I want to open embassy in Israel. So, I told him open embassy in Jerusalem. And thank God, in September five months ago, Mr. Marape with a lot of delegation and a member of parliament and ministers arrived to Jerusalem and opened embassy in Jerusalem, the fifth embassy in Jerusalem after the States (United States). And then he told me that he wanted to appoint me to be the honorary consul of Papua, New Guinea. Ok, thank you very much! I’m honored, very good.
But what is the reason that I’m visiting Papua, New Guinea? Why do I have to be a honorary consul of Papua, New Guinea? I didn’t understand. Then in one visit I met a good friend, he’s the minister of the police of Papua, New Guinea, Mr. Peter Tsiamalili and he told me I want to share with you something. First, let’s go back. If you open Google, Papua, New Guinea is the rich country in the world in gold. They don’t use it so much; they don’t use it to open mining but it’s absolutely 100% they have a lot of gold. And then Minister Peter told me listen you have to go with me to see the tribe, one of the tribe and the chief of the tribe told me we know, we believe it’s a legend going from father to son that King Solomon brought the gold to the temple from Papua, New Guinea. What? Nonsense. But then I opened the Bible (1 Kings 10:1-2, 10) and I start to make a kind of research not so clever. In Kings, chapter 10, we read about Queen Sheba. Queen Sheba was from, where is Sheba? Ethiopia. And she brought 120 talents of gold to King Solomon. But then you can read that the total, the next verse say the total talents of gold that arrived to King Solomon was 666 talents. (1 Kings 10:11, 14, 22) So, where came another 400 talents of gold? And then it became to be more stranger in verse 22 it’s written that King Hiram that he’s from Tyre (Hebrew – ṣōr). Tyre (Hebrew – ṣōr) is in Lebanon, the Middle East, the Mediterranean Sea. He sent his sailor to Ezion-Geber. Ezion-Geber is the Red Sea, it’s Eilat. Why Hiram have to send his sailor to Eilat? Then it’s written that it took him three years to go and back to bring the gold from Ophir. If he fulfill it from Ethiopia, why it’s taking three years? It’s hard to take three months, six months. Lazy sailor, drunk sailor – one year, not three years. And why King Solomon, that he was so clever, need Hiram sailor to help him? Because it was a special shipment. And then, and this is something very strange, what is the name of the tribe in Papua, New Guinea? Ophir, just one letter change. Because the gold arrived from Ophir. Ophir, Ophir. What is the name of the country that’s next to Papua, New Guinea? Solomon Islands. And then the chief told me listen we have our heritage; we have our tradition that we are going to bring the gold to the Third Temple. And they already signed, let’s say signed the MOU that we will open mining gold in this land. And 33% will go to the people who live in the country, 33% will go to the mine company to make business, and 33% will go to the temple. So, thanks to Mr. Marape, the prime minister, and to Minister Peter and other ministers that helped and involved in this project. We have the gold for the temple in the next few months.
Jim: When he told me this one month ago, he wouldn’t let me tell anybody except my wife. Now he’s telling the whole world. This is big news. Yeah, you can clap right now.
That’s ok.
Rabbi Tsaki: The clap is to the people of Papua, New Guinea.
Jim: Well, we’re clapping for the Lord who’s orchestrating an awful lot of things that we’re trying to figure out right now. Pretty amazing!
This content was published with permission from Dr. Jim Garlow and Byron Stinson.