Please read Numbers 25.
www.blueletterbible.org/nasb/num/25/1/s_142001
Meditate on verses 1-2 and Revelation 2:14.
While Israel remained at Shittim, the people began
to play the harlot with the daughters of Moab.
For they invited the people to the sacrifices of their gods,
and the people ate and bowed down to their gods.
“But I (Jesus) have a few things against you, because
you have there some who hold the teaching of Balaam,
who kept teaching Balak to put a stumbling block
before the sons of Israel, to eat things sacrificed
to idols and to commit acts of immorality.”
Balaam may not have spoken a curse against Israel, but he taught King Balak how to make the people sin. Numbers 25 is the graphic picture of God’s judgment being poured out on the Israelites. As the leaders were being executed for worshiping Baal and 24,000 Israelites were dying by plague, Zimri, the son of a prominent Israelite leader, had the audacity to publicly engage in sexual immorality with Cozbi, the daughter of a prominent Midianite leader. Phineas, the grandson of Aaron the priest, speared the couple to death as they committed their affair. God was very pleased with Phineas and pronounced a great blessing over him because he took an obvious stand for God and His holiness.
As you take God’s Word to heart, ask the LORD to not let you be a Balaam, causing people to sin. Ask God to make you a Phineas, making a bold stand for Christ and His Word.
Pray Numbers 25:12-13 over yourself and those for whom you stand guard as a faithful, prayerful watchman (Isaiah 62:6-7).
“LORD, as ________ and I act like Phineas, please
give us Your covenant of peace. Let it be for us and
our descendants, a covenant of a perpetual priesthood
because we are jealous for You, God.
You are our atonement, Jesus~”
The WATCHMAN on the WALL, 4 – Dr. Ron and Marsha Harvell
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