Read: Numbers 30-31
A vow was a promise to either do or give something to God. Most of the time the wife stands for the Bride of Christ. So if we promise the Lord something, it has to go through his approval first before he will hold us responsible for fulfilling it. If we get overzealous in our pledge, the Lord will step in and release us from it. If he doesn’t then we are obligated to fulfill it. This is true in the natural also. Our husbands are our heads and our coverings. I remember one time making a financial pledge to a ministry and when my husband heard what I had pledged, he told me we couldn’t fulfill the obligation so I had to go to the ministers and remove my vow. It was embarrassing to me, but I learned a valuable lesson about talking to him first when it had to do with our finances and not being so quick to make a decision. Wisdom can wait and pray about it and hear the word of the Lord.
God told Moses to take revenge on the Midianites since they caused Israel to sin by idolatry. The Israelites attacked and killed the kings and Balaam but kept the women and children alive. Moses was irate. Weren’t these the ones that seduced Israelite men to sin? He told the priests to kill all the men and women that had had sex with the men and only keep the virgins alive. Homosexuality was a practice in their worship as was fornication and adultery. The priests did this.
All the metals they had gotten were to be purified by fire to cleanse the idolatry spirit from them and to melt the occult words and forms from them. The priests were to be pictures of the set apart ones of the New Testament. They were always the ones that were to do the right thing and purify the others. We are to be priests on the earth and we are to bring the presence of God everywhere we go. Our garments are to be pure and holy and our testimony is to honor God.
We can see by the number of cattle they rescued that this battle was huge. Just the sheep was 675,000!
Lord, help us to represent your priesthood on the earth.
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