Numbers 25
- First the Israelites commit sexual immorality with the daughters of Moab!
- Second, the women invite the Israelites to the sacrifices of their gods!
- Third, the Israelites eat and bow down to their gods!
- Fourth, God becomes enraged with the Israelites!
- Fifth, God tells Moses to hang the leadersup before God in broad daylight to stop God’s anger!
- Sixth, an Israelite comes with a Midianite woman before Moses and all the assembly of the Israelites!
- Seventh, Phineas the son of Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest pierces both the man and the woman with a spear through her genital parts!
- Eighth, Phineas’ action stops the scourge on the Israelites after the death of 24,000 Israelites!
- Thus Phineas saves the lives of many Israelites!
- And God gives him his covenant of peace, to him and to his offspring after him, because he tolerated no rivalry toward his God and he made atonement for the people of Israel!
- Then God tells Moses to harass the Midianites and strike them down according to what they did to them!
- Do you have an idea of what God is going to do when he cleans this world?
- And you call the Israelites a special people, don’t you?
- Think about Phineas: the Bible is about relationships between God and faithful men!
- Phineas reacted fast and God made a covenant of peace with him and his offspring after him!
- What another powerful event we should all remember!