Humble thoughts, reflections, and/or summaries from readings of God's word. "For if any one is desirous simply to know those things which it has pleased God to reveal, that is the man who accurately knows what it is to be truly wise. " Calvin
Thursday, May 6, 2010
In Numbers 25, the Lord sent a plague upon the Israelites, killing 24,000 as a result of their immorality and participating in Moabite sacrifices to the Baal of Peor. A grandson of Aaron, Phinehas, turned the Lord's anger away from the Israelites by his zeal for God's honor. God said to Moses, "Therefore tell him (Phinehas) I am making my covenant of peace with him. He and his descendants will have a covenant of a lasting priesthood, because he was zealous for the honor of his God and made atonement for the Israelites."
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