Read: Numbers 25-26
Revelation 2:14 explains how Balaam caused Israel to sin. “But I have a few things against thee, because you have them that hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balac to cast a stumbling block before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed unto idols, and to commit fornication.” Second Peter 2:15 says that Balaam loved the wages of unrighteousness. That make me wonder what the wages of unrighteousness? Money, position, power, friends, spiritual gifts of the occult. Balaam usually got paid for his prophecies and his ability to reach into the spirit world and gain information. This time Balak refused to pay him. He must have been ticked off enough to give him strategy. I wonder if he got paid for his strategy.
Today, we see what that strategy was. He sent the Moabite women to seduce the men of Israel into having sex with them. Once they had their heart, or their britches, these women brought them into their worship of idols. They brought a plague on the people and 24,000 were killed. It was stopped when Phinehas, the priest thrust a sword through the man and the woman. Because of his zeal for the Lord, the plague was stopped. So, what does that mean to us today? We cannot allow idol worship in our hearts. If it creeps in, then we need to take the sword of the Spirit, the Word of God and declare it over our lives and let it divide and conquer the sin. If we are confronted with mixture, New Age, political correctness, etc., we stop it with the Word of God. It is our weapon and it will stop the wrong doctrine from spreading. The woman’s name was Cozbi which means “false”. How appropriate.
Lord, teach us the truth of your Word so we won’t be seduced into the world’s teaching.
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