Yes. You read that correctly.
At the 100-day mark of the war, Abu Obeida, the military spokesman for the Hamas Al-Qassam Brigades, gave a televised speech about the Hamas efforts, as well as a reminder of the purposes of the war.
The speech was translated into English by the Palestinian Chronicle.
“We look back 100 days to remember the educated, the complicit, and the incapacitated among the world powers governed by the law of the jungle, reminding them of an aggression that reached its peak against our path (Al-Quds) and Al-Aqsa, with the start of its actual temporal and spatial division, and the “bringing of red cows as an application of a detestable religious myth designed for aggression against the feelings of an entire nation in the heart of its Arab identity, and the path of its prophet (the Night Journey) and Ascension to heaven.”
Right there, amid a very wordy discussion of perceived Israeli aggression against Al-Quds, the Muslim name for Jerusalem, andAl-Aqsa, the black-domed mosque on Temple Mount, lies a curious and telling statement: “The ‘bringing of red cows…”
The red cows being referred to are the five Red Angus heifers imported from Texas in September 2022 through a joint effort established between a Christian ministry, Boneh Israel, and The Temple Institute in Jerusalem.
ALL ISRAEL NEWS is one of the few Israeli media platforms to have covered the quite fascinating story of how these two groups beat the supposed 1-in-50,000 odds of finding a qualified heifer — advertising the need to Texas ranchers and then sending teams of rabbis from both Dallas and Israel to examine calves.
Their diligence paid off as they found not only one but five blemish-free red heifers, without more than two black or white hairs – even before having their ears tagged – a common practice in the livestock industry that would have disqualified them for ceremonial use. As of now, four of the heifers remain blemish-free and, according to Temple Institute rabbis, they hope to carry out the ceremony before Passover 2024.
Only nine heifers have been sacrificed since the time of Moses until the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 A.D. The Rambam, Maimonides, stated that the 10th Red Heifer ceremony would bring in the Messianic age. Likewise, Evangelical Christians who hold a futurist view of bible prophecy believe a Third Temple will be built and subsequently desecrated by the Antichrist before the return of Messiah Yeshua. Thus, for many in the religious Jewish community, as well as many Evangelicals, there has been a great deal of anticipation surrounding these ‘ladies’ in red. READ MORE
