Tuesday 23 October 2012

Revelation 2:12-17



"While Israel was staying in Shittim, the men began to indulge in sexual immorality with Moabite women."
{Numbers 25:1}  (NIV1984)  

As you read through Numbers this verse strikes crossways. We have just read the wonderful provision of God for His people. He turned curses into blessings! We have just read that the enemies of God’s people are terrified of us! Then we turn the page and read that the God’s men engaged in sexual immorality, and the false worship that accompanies the sex. What is going on? Are these two events connected? Or are they randomly placed beside each other? 

Much in the Old Testament is left unexplained, but our Lord explains in Revelation 2:14, exactly what is happening in this text: Balaam advised Balak to entice the men of God into sexual sin so that God Himself would strike down the men. The Lord identifies this evil attack as still going in in the New Testament church. 

The plan of our adversary has not changed! The attack is against the young men, inciting and stirring up their passions and leading them into sexual sin and into the judgement of God. The devil can’t touch us, so he leads us into sin so that God deals with us. Friend, in our culture this odious plan is being implemented against the ladies as well. Let us not fall prey to our adversary! Let us the people of God, watch and pray lest we fall. 

May we pay heed to the wise words in this children’s song:

O be careful little eyes what you see
O be careful little eyes what you see
There's a Father up above
And He's looking down in love
So, be careful little eyes what you see
{Be Careful Little Eyes, Isaac Lewis}

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