Numbers 25:1-5

Let's finish up in Numbers 25:1-5. Israel has always been easily seduced.

There is that lure of sex again. I don't know why this did not dawn on me at first, but it does not say "the men." It says, "the people began to commit harlotry with the women of Moab." How where the women involved? Was it lesbianism? No, I think it was temple prostitution. The women saw, the men saw, and they both were involved.

Why did He add that? When else do you hang someone? Do you do it at night? Do you do it at midnight? You always—well, I don't hang people, but I assume you do it during the daytime. But it says, "out in the sun." This was a direct jibe at the sun god they worshipped: "Hang these people that worshipped him right out in front of the sun god; let's see what he's got."

How does God feel about those that celebrate Christmas, especially those that know better? He says, "Kill the ones joined to Baal of Peor."

Numbers 25:1-5

Those people, the Moabites, the Midianites, the Canaanites were doing that in their ignorance. They were sincere in what they were doing. They were sincerely wrong, but Israel should have known better because they had truth from God.

Israel fell to idolatry through fornication. The physical fornication produced spiritual fornication, which was idolatry.