Leviticus 6:18 KJB
A man or a woman could make a vow to be a Nazarite before the Lord. The name of this vow was prophetic because Jesus would be raised to adulthood in the city of Nazareth. Matthew 2:23 (KJB). Just as Jesus was pure and holy, the Nazarite vow happened to be an attempt by an ordinary sinner to be pure and holy before God. The Nazarite could not be pure and holy, but they could make that attempt. The attempt itself happened to be prophetic that the human race needed a human to come to them who would be pure and holy.
The Nazarite took several vows that they thought would help them to be pure and holy. One of those vows was that they would never let a razor cut their hair. Long hair was a sign to God and others that they were a Nazarite. The Apostle Paul wrote that it was a shame for a man to have long hair, but he did not say that it was a sin. I Corinthians 11:14 (KJB). He probably meant hair that was as long as a woman's hair. The Apostle Paul was always concerned with any appearance to others that might detract from a Christian's witness. I Corinthians 10:31 (KJB).
Moses, who wrote Numbers, indicated that a day would come in the life of a Nazarite when he or she would realize that they could not be pure and holy before God. On that day, the Nazarite had to bring a sin offering and a burnt offering to the priest who would sacrifice them so that God would forgive the Nazarite for their sins. Many people seem to believe that they can be right with God simply because they try to be a good person, but a day will come when God will make them realize that they cannot avoid sin, and that they need to repent and put their trust in Christ their Savior who was pure and holy for them, and who has made a sin offering and a burnt offering for their salvation. All living humans still alive in the flesh who repent and accept Christ as their Savior will be forever saved by being washed clean of all their sins and evil with the blood that Jesus shed on the cross. Matthew 26:28; I John 1:7 (KJB). But Jesus will forever save the rest of humanity with His burnt offering sacrifice when He visits them "on the earth, and under the earth," and He causes them all to repent and come to faith in Him as their Savior so that He can use His fiery wrath against evil to separate their repentant, living souls and spirits from their dead and evil natures so that He can recreate their souls and spirits with new bodies to live forever on His recreated earth, and He will cast their dead and evil natures into the eternal lake of fire. Revelation 5:11-14; Matthew 13:36-43; I Corinthians 3:11-15; Revelation 20:11-15; Revelation 21:1-5 (KJB). Jesus will make them realize that they are sinners when they die, and He has to judge them and send their souls and spirits to one of the regions of death, the Sea, Death, or the burning Hell. Hebrews 9:27; Revelation 20:13 (KJB).
When the Nazarite came to the realization that he or she was a sinner, and they could not make themselves pure and holy before God, then they had to give up their vow of separation from sin and evil. They had to shave their heads because that symbol of their separation had now become a symbol of their sins and evil. They had to burn their hair in the fires of the peace offering at the Tabernacle to symbolize that they had now found peace with God. Only the separated hair of the Nazarite was burned. Numbers 6:18 (KJB). When Jesus died on the cross, He dismissed His Spirit who descended into Hell to make a burnt offering sacrifice for all living humans who do not become saved by grace. The Spirit left behind there all of the sins and evil of all living humans that Jesus bore on the cross who did not become saved by His grace. Psalms 16:9-11; Acts 2:25-31 (KJB). Jesus will visit all of those living humans in the end of the world, and He will cause them all to repent and believe in Him as their Savior so that He can use His fiery wrath against evil to separate their dead and evil natures from their good and living natures that He created and loves. Christ will recreate their repentant souls and spirits with new bodies to live forever on His recreated earth, and He will cast their dead and evil natures into the eternal lake of fire. Christ will burn only their sins and evil natures, not any of His living humans who are forever alive to Him and whom He can never lose. Luke 20:38; Ecclesiastes 3:14; Revelation 5:11-14; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 20:11-15; Revelation 21:1-5; II Peter 3:9-13 (KJB).
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