Numbers 19: "Beef Cattle Teaching Center"

So reads a sign near where we live. As a city boy, I can only imagine how they start teaching—”The reason you are called ‘Beef Cattle’ is…” The red heifer, the young bullock, the two turtledoves—and other animals—had no idea that they were born to die innocently for something that their slaughterers had done: SIN. But sin demands sacrifice—sacrifice that includes death. Every time we read about these animals, let us remember that they died because of someone else’s sin. And it continued until the Lamb of God allowed Himself to be led as a lamb to the slaughter. Let us be thankful, and let us be better people every day.