THE DOWNFALL WITH THE MOABITE WOMEN 1) Since Balaam could not curse the children of Israel, he offered Balak a wicked suggestion and that is to make them stumble by offering them the Moabite women as whores. Then God's wrath befall them (Rev 2:14; Jude 11), and in effect, the people committed adultry with the daughters of Moab [1] in Shittim (meaning reply). As if the people returned God's love by insubordination. They committed adultry, offered sacrifices for idols and worshiped their gods [2]. Origen depicts in the Moabite women, the bounds to the secular philosophies, lacking sanctification, that pull the believer away from God's word. 2) The leaders of the people were negligent by disobeying God's command to kill and hang the Moabites against the sun, a sign of the grant day of judgement where every sin will surface up in the presence of the "Suof righteousness." 3) Phinehas wan Israelite man bring a Midianite woman to his brethren in the sight of all the congregation by the door of the Tabernacle. So he pierced him and the girl with a spear killing them both. The plague was stopped after it had killed 24,000, a symbolic picture of God's jealousy over His holies. It portrays the hideousness of the sin of adultry in the eyes of God, as well as God's divine work in man's spiritual life through baptism. He did not allow this to happen as a personal vendetta, but with honest feelings and jealousy towards God's holies in order to permit the destruction of the sin from its roots. Phinehas represents "the death of Christ" who aimed his arrow towards us to kill the old sinful mortal in us that is, the sin that overpowered us, and so we become a holy altar for God. The slaying of the man and the woman together refers to the destruction of both the sinful soul and body. 4) If God disciplines his sons, He also disciplines those who trample them. He ordered a total destruction of all the Medianites because of their evil entrapment that they pitched to cause God's children to perish.
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