Numbers
Chapter
25
1~~
And Israel remained {in the plains of Moab} at Shittim,
and
the people began to play the harlot {fornication}
with
the daughters of Moab.
2~~
They invited the people to the sacrifices of their gods
{'fornication' - Phallic Cult - sex connected with religion
and Idolatry}
and
the people did eat, and bowed down to their gods.
{Note:
Per Revelation Chapter 2:14 - Doctrine of Balaam}
14~~"But I {Jesus} have a few things against you {those in the
cosmic system}, because you have there {in Pergamum} those
{believers} that adhere to/hold the doctrine of Balaam, who kept
teaching/inculcating Balak to set a trap {cast a stumbling block}
before the citizens of Israel . . . namely, to eat things sacrificed
to idols, and to fornicate."
Balaam
figured out that he could not curse Israel, but he could earn his
fee by tempting the believers to go into the Cosmic System - Sexual
Lust! - Phallic Cult with the beautiful Moebite women.}
{Note: Also see II Peter 2:15. The 'way of Balaam' is to find the weakness in another believer and exploit him by means of the cosmic system - in his case, using the sexual lust draw of the Phallic Cult. (and Jude 11 - the 'error of Balaam' - the love for money!)}
3~~And
Israel joined himself to Baalpeor {Idol Worship}
and
the Lord was angry {anthropopathism} against Israel.
4~~And
the Lord said unto Moses,
"Take
all the heads of the people,
and
hang them up before the Lord against the sun,
that
the fierce anger of the Lord may be turned away from Israel."
{Note: Everyone who partook in the Idolatry was EXECUTED! Capital Punishment!}
5~~And
Moses said to the judges of Israel,
"Execute
every one of your men that were joined unto Baalpeor."
6~~And,
behold, one of the children of Israel came
and
brought unto his brethren
a
Midianitish woman in the sight of Moses,
and
in the sight of all the congregation of the children of Israel,
who
were weeping before the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.
7~~And
when Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest,
saw
it, he rose up from among the congregation,
and
took his own javelin in his hand.
8~~And
he went after the man of Israel into the tent,
and
thrust both of them through, the man of Israel,
and
the woman through her guts.
So
the plague was stayed from the children of Israel.
9~~And
those who died
were
twenty and four thousand {24,000 killed at once!}.
10
And Jehovah/God spoke unto Moses, saying, 11~~
Phinehas,
the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest,
has
turned My anger/wrath away from the children of Israel,
while
he was zealous for My sake among them,
that
I consumed not the children of Israel in My anger.
12~~Why
say, 'Behold, I give unto him My covenant of reconciliation.'
{Note:
This means through Phinehas, the grandson of Aaron, would run the
priesthood that offered sacrifices of reconciliation between man and God.}
13~~And
he shall have it, and his seed after him,
even
the covenant of an everlasting priesthood . . .
because
he was zealous for his God,
and
made an atonement for the children of Israel.
14
Now the name of the Israelite that was slain,
even
that was slain with the Midianitish woman,
was
Zimri, the son of Salu,
a
prince of a chief house among the Simeonites.
15
And the name of the Midianitish woman
that
was slain was Cozbi,
the
daughter of Zur.
He
was head over a people, and of a chief house in Midian.
16
And Jehovah/God spoke unto Moses, saying, 17
"Vex
the Midianites, and smite them. 18
For
they vex you with their wiles,
wherewith
they have beguiled you in the matter of Peor,
and
in the matter of Cozbi,
the
daughter of a prince of Midian, their sister,
who
was slain in the day of the plague for Peor's sake.
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