Numbers 35:16-34
In its prophetic aspect, the city of refuge for the manslayer shelters the Jewish people who have crucified their Messiah without appreciating the scope of their crime (Luke 23:34). They have since that time been kept providentially by God far from their inheritance, until the end of the present dispensation, that is to say so long as Christ is priest after the similitude of Aaron.
In fact it is the entire human race which is guilty of the death of the Son of God. But, in His infinite mercy, God has provided man with a refuge from His own wrath, and this refuge is no other than the Victim Himself. Jesus is the One who delivers us "from the wrath to come" (1 Thessalonians 1:10).
Represented in this chapter at the same time by the victim and by the city of refuge, Christ is also represented in a third way, by the high priest whose death gave the signal for a return to the inheritance in complete safety (v. 28).
V. 31 states that no ransom (satisfaction), however great it might be, could be substituted on the man-slayer’s behalf for the means of salvation that the LORD had provided. Neither silver nor gold (1 Peter 1:18), nor any works whatever (Ephesians 2:9) can take the place of the shelter the sinner has found in Jesus Christ. "Neither is there salvation in any other . . ." (read Acts 4:12).