Numbers 25-28
How awesome would it be for God to tell the leader of your people that you were as zealous as he was? What would it take for God to say that about someone? Should we emulate the one that God said that about?
When the Israelite men sinned against God by taking the Moabite women and bowed down to the Moabite god Baal or Peor, God ordered Moses to take care of the problem. So Moses told the judges to to take care of the problem. At that moment, one of the Israelite men was seen taking a Midianite woman into his tent. Phinehas saw this happen, so he jumped up and left the assembly, grabbed his spear, went into the tent and thrust his spear through the man and into the woman. It was at this point that God commended Phinehas for being as zealous as he was in ensuring the purity of the Israelites... and he stopped the plague which had killed 24,000 people.
What is today's equivalent for Phinehas' action? How would God have us be zealous for him?
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