{"id":14334,"date":"2019-03-26T06:38:03","date_gmt":"2019-03-26T13:38:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hoshanarabbah.org\/blog\/?p=14334"},"modified":"2019-03-26T06:38:03","modified_gmt":"2019-03-26T13:38:03","slug":"yeshua-touch-me-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hoshanarabbah.org\/blog\/2019\/03\/26\/yeshua-touch-me-not\/","title":{"rendered":"Yeshua: &#8220;Touch me not&#8221;\u2014An allusion to the red heifer?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hoshanarabbah.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Red_Heifer_5525874227.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14335\" src=\"https:\/\/hoshanarabbah.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Red_Heifer_5525874227.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1752\" height=\"1400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hoshanarabbah.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Red_Heifer_5525874227.jpg 1752w, https:\/\/hoshanarabbah.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Red_Heifer_5525874227-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/hoshanarabbah.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Red_Heifer_5525874227-768x614.jpg 768w, https:\/\/hoshanarabbah.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Red_Heifer_5525874227-1024x818.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/hoshanarabbah.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Red_Heifer_5525874227-375x300.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1752px) 100vw, 1752px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>John 20:17,<i> Touch me not.<\/i><\/b> <i>Touch<\/i> is the Greek word <i>haptomai <\/i>meaning \u201cto fasten one\u2019s self to, adhere to, cling to,\u201d and can be used to refer to touching in a carnal and passionate way as between a man and a woman.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps Yeshua didn\u2019t want his disciples to cling to him as a wife clings to her husband, since, in a spiritual sense, they (and us) were\/are only betrothed and not yet married to him yet. (The marriage of the saints to Yeshua will occur at his second coming.)<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, Yeshua had not yet ascended to heaven where he would be accepted by his Father as the perfect, unspotted, undefiled and sinless sacrificial Lamb of Elohim. If a sinful human had touched him, this may have ceremonially defiled his state of perfect cleanliness.<\/p>\n<p>In the Torah, for example, if a man touched a dead human carcass, he would become ceremonially unclean and need cleansing (Num 19:11\u201313). This pertained to the law of the blemish-free red heifer through which a person could be cleansed from ritual defilement if they had touched a dead body (Num 19:1\u201310; Heb 13:10\u201312).<\/p>\n<p>The red heifer was a prophetic picture of the sin-free Yeshua dying on the cross to cleanse spiritually dead humans from their sin. 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