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Numbers 27

the fourth book of moses, called numbers
Moses · c. 1445–1405 BC
Chapter the Twenty-seventh
Then came the daughters of Zelophehad, the son of Hepher, the son of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, of the families of Manasseh the son of Joseph: and these are the names of his daughters; Mahlah, Noah, and Hoglah, and Milcah, and Tirzah.
And they stood before Moses, and before Eleazar the priest, and before the princes and all the congregation, by the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, saying,
Our father died in the wilderness, and he was not in the company of them that gathered themselves together against the LORD in the company of Korah; but died in his own sin, and had no sons.
Why should the name of our father be done away from among his family, because he hath no son? Give unto us therefore a possession among the brethren of our father.
And Moses brought their cause before the LORD.
And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
The daughters of Zelophehad speak right: thou shalt surely give them a possession of an inheritance among their father’s brethren; and thou shalt cause the inheritance of their father to pass unto them.
And thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If a man die, and have no son, then ye shall cause his inheritance to pass unto his daughter.
And if he have no daughter, then ye shall give his inheritance unto his brethren.
And if he have no brethren, then ye shall give his inheritance unto his father’s brethren.
And if his father have no brethren, then ye shall give his inheritance unto his kinsman that is next to him of his family, and he shall possess it: and it shall be unto the children of Israel a statute of judgment, as the LORD commanded Moses.
And the LORD said unto Moses, Get thee up into this mount Abarim, and see the land which I have given unto the children of Israel.
And when thou hast seen it, thou also shalt be gathered unto thy people, as Aaron thy brother was gathered.
For ye rebelled against my commandment in the desert of Zin, in the strife of the congregation, to sanctify me at the water before their eyes: that is the water of Meribah in Kadesh in the wilderness of Zin.
And Moses spake unto the LORD, saying,
Let the LORD, the God of the spirits of all flesh, set a man over the congregation,
Which may go out before them, and which may go in before them, and which may lead them out, and which may bring them in; that the congregation of the LORD be not as sheep which have no shepherd.
And the LORD said unto Moses, Take thee Joshua the son of Nun, a man in whom is the spirit, and lay thine hand upon him;
And set him before Eleazar the priest, and before all the congregation; and give him a charge in their sight.
And thou shalt put some of thine honour upon him, that all the congregation of the children of Israel may be obedient.
And he shall stand before Eleazar the priest, who shall ask counsel for him after the judgment of Urim before the LORD: at his word shall they go out, and at his word they shall come in, both he, and all the children of Israel with him, even all the congregation.
And Moses did as the LORD commanded him: and he took Joshua, and set him before Eleazar the priest, and before all the congregation:
And he laid his hands upon him, and gave him a charge, as the LORD commanded by the hand of Moses.
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Chuck Smith on Numbers 27

Verse by verse, the C2000 series. Permission granted by The Word For Today.
Verses 1-11 Chapter 27 Chapter twenty-seven, we have the beginning of a woman's lib organization. Then there came the daughters of Zelophehad, the son of Hepher ( Numbers 27:1 ), Now what had happened is that the dad had seven daughters but no sons. And as they were dividing off the land they were giving the sons the portions. The oldest son would get the portions and so forth. And so these gals said, "Hey now wait a minute. It's not fair. We have equal rights you know, and our dad didn't have any son. If you don't give us any land then my father's name will die in Israel". So Moses said, "Well, we'll take it before the Lord". So the Lord said, the Lord says, "These gals are right. Give them the inheritance of the family". And so, they won their case and the daughters of Zelophehad received the inheritance. And so, God's with you gals and He's looking after ya and you got a just cause. But unfortunately these radical women are taking it far beyond God's, you know, there is that which is right but then there is that taking it beyond and far beyond what God ever intended. So balance is such an important thing. So he gave the law then of the inheritance. If there is no son then it goes to the daughters. If there are no daughters or sons then it goes to a man's brothers. If he has no brothers then it will go to his father's brothers. And if his father has no brothers then it comes to the next of kin, whoever is closest in the family to him. Now the LORD said to Moses, Get up to the mount Abarim, and see the land which I have given the to children of Israel. And when you have seen it, there also you will be gathered to your people, as Aaron your brother was gathered. For you rebelled against my commandment in the desert of Zin, in the strife of the congregation, to properly represent me at the water before their eyes: that is the waters of Meribah in Kadesh in the wilderness of Zin ( Numbers 27:12-14 ). Verses 12-14 So Moses, get up the mountain, you get to look at the land but then you're gonna die. You're not gonna be able to go in because of your misrepresenting of me there at the water of Meribah, the waters of strife. Moses said unto the LORD, Let the LORD, the God of the spirits of all flesh, set a man over the congregation ( Numbers 27:15-16 ), Verse 15 Now this is an interesting little verse, "Let the LORD, the God of the spirits of all flesh, set a man over the congregation." From this little verse, the Mormons have developed their whole doctrine of the eternal spirit of men. That you actually existed in heaven, your spirit existed there in heaven and then God made a body for you and put your spirit in it to see whether or not you would-could become a god by becoming a Mormon. And you have no memory of your pre-existence in heaven but all of you pre-existence in heaven as spirits but there is no way of telling up there whether or not you would be a good or bad, so he put you in a body and let you prove yourself down here. And if you become a good Mormon, wear your underwear and all then you will be god. And you and your wives that are sealed to you can go to some planet and you can have your own little kingdom that you can watch over and you'll be god over that planet and you can develop it however you want-wish and so forth. So, that whole doctrine comes out of this one little verse. I really don't see it in this verse. "Let the Lord, the God of the spirits of all flesh," but it doesn't say anything about the spirits pre-existing with God being in heaven before or anything; He's just the God of the spirits of all flesh. set a man over the congregation, which may go before them, which may lead them out, which may bring them in, that the congregation of the LORD will not be like a sheep, like sheep without a shepherd. And so the LORD said to Moses, Take Joshua the son of Nun, a man in whom is the spirit, and lay your hand upon him; And set him before Eleazar the priest, and before the congregation; and give him charge in their sight. And thou shalt put some of thine honour upon him, that all of the children of Israel may be obedient. And he shall stand before Eleazar the priest, who shall ask counsel for him after the judgment of the Urim before the LORD ( Numbers 27:16-21 ): Verses 16-21 Now the Urim was a little thing that the priest wore, a little pouch of some kind, that they sought counsel from God through the use of the Urim and the Thummim. Lights and perfections is what the words Urim and Thummim mean. And some believe that they were just a little pouch and one had a white stone and a black stone and that when they would ask the Lord a question the priest would say, "Now God, show us which one" and he would pull out a stone. If it was the white stone, God would say yes, then they would ask the next question. And you know, they'd mix up the stones and you'd pull a stone again and they would get yes-no answers. So it's sort of a twenty-one question kind of a thing where you get yes-no answers to then ascertain the will of the Lord. Now, God had a more direct relationship with Moses. God said, "Hey, there's no one like this before after where I really speak to the fellow sort of face to face," I mean direct speaking, a very powerful way. Now Joshua who is to lead the people, he is to come before Eleazar the priest who will inquire of the Lord in questions. David so often would go to the priest, inquire "Should we go into battle against them?" and then "What time of the day should we start the battle?" And they would ask all of these questions of God in order to determine the will of the Lord. And it was oftentimes determined by the priest inquiring and by the use of the Urim, these lights and perfection. So just what the Urim and Thummim actually is, is not told to us. That's what people surmise what it was, but exactly we don't know. Surely it wasn't a pair of glasses by which you could read hieroglyphics when you put them on. Hocus pocus. So Moses did as the LORD commanded him: he took Joshua, set him before Eleazar, and before all the congregation: he laid his hands upon him, and gave him the charge of the LORD, as he was commanded ( Numbers 27:22-23 ). Verses 22-23 So he brought Moses laid his hand-I mean Joshua, laid his hands upon him and signifying that Joshua was now to begin to take Moses' place as the leader of the people. "

Commentary on Numbers 27

Whosoever Will · the Seven Threads Commentary

Numbers 27:1

What Balaam could not curse from outside he counseled from inside. Numbers 31:16 reveals that Balaam taught Balak to entice Israel through the women of Moab, the Balaam doctrine that Jesus names in Revelation 2:14. Israel cannot be cursed by a pagan prophet; it can be seduced by the culture it lives among. Phinehas the priest sees an Israelite man bringing a Midianite woman into the camp in full view of the congregation while they are weeping at the tent of meeting. He takes a javelin and follows them into the tent and drives it through both of them. The plague that was already killing people stops. 24,000 have died. God says of Phinehas: he was jealous with my jealousy among them so that I did not consume them in my jealousy, therefore I give him my covenant of peace, a covenant of a perpetual priesthood. Thread 4 is the seduction: Israel made genuine choices to join themselves to Baal-Peor through genuine sexual immorality. The consequences, the plague, were the genuine result of genuine acts. Thread 5 is the dispensational warning: the external enemy cannot defeat the covenant people; what destroys from within is the tolerance of what God has prohibited.
What Balaam's curses could not accomplish: Balaam's counsel to Balak did through seduction; the strategy that works against Israel is not frontal assault but compromise from within, and Numbers 25 names this pattern before Revelation does.
וַיִּצָּמֶד יִשְׂרָאֵל לְבַעַל פְּעוֹר (vayyitssamedYisrael le-Vaal-Peor): Israel joined himself unto Baal-Peor: vayyitssamedYisrael (was yoked to, joined to, from tsamad, to attach, couple, yoke together; the same word used for harnessing animals; Israel has harnessed itself to a foreign deity through the vehicle of sexual immorality with Moabite women; the strategy Balak employed through Balaam's counsel)
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Numbers 27:2

What Balaam could not curse from outside he counseled from inside. Numbers 31:16 reveals that Balaam taught Balak to entice Israel through the women of Moab, the Balaam doctrine that Jesus names in Revelation 2:14. Israel cannot be cursed by a pagan prophet; it can be seduced by the culture it lives among. Phinehas the priest sees an Israelite man bringing a Midianite woman into the camp in full view of the congregation while they are weeping at the tent of meeting. He takes a javelin and follows them into the tent and drives it through both of them. The plague that was already killing people stops. 24,000 have died. God says of Phinehas: he was jealous with my jealousy among them so that I did not consume them in my jealousy, therefore I give him my covenant of peace, a covenant of a perpetual priesthood. Thread 4 is the seduction: Israel made genuine choices to join themselves to Baal-Peor through genuine sexual immorality. The consequences, the plague, were the genuine result of genuine acts. Thread 5 is the dispensational warning: the external enemy cannot defeat the covenant people; what destroys from within is the tolerance of what God has prohibited.
What Balaam's curses could not accomplish: Balaam's counsel to Balak did through seduction; the strategy that works against Israel is not frontal assault but compromise from within, and Numbers 25 names this pattern before Revelation does.
וַיִּצָּמֶד יִשְׂרָאֵל לְבַעַל פְּעוֹר (vayyitssamedYisrael le-Vaal-Peor): Israel joined himself unto Baal-Peor: vayyitssamedYisrael (was yoked to, joined to, from tsamad, to attach, couple, yoke together; the same word used for harnessing animals; Israel has harnessed itself to a foreign deity through the vehicle of sexual immorality with Moabite women; the strategy Balak employed through Balaam's counsel)
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Numbers 27:3

What Balaam could not curse from outside he counseled from inside. Numbers 31:16 reveals that Balaam taught Balak to entice Israel through the women of Moab, the Balaam doctrine that Jesus names in Revelation 2:14. Israel cannot be cursed by a pagan prophet; it can be seduced by the culture it lives among. Phinehas the priest sees an Israelite man bringing a Midianite woman into the camp in full view of the congregation while they are weeping at the tent of meeting. He takes a javelin and follows them into the tent and drives it through both of them. The plague that was already killing people stops. 24,000 have died. God says of Phinehas: he was jealous with my jealousy among them so that I did not consume them in my jealousy, therefore I give him my covenant of peace, a covenant of a perpetual priesthood. Thread 4 is the seduction: Israel made genuine choices to join themselves to Baal-Peor through genuine sexual immorality. The consequences, the plague, were the genuine result of genuine acts. Thread 5 is the dispensational warning: the external enemy cannot defeat the covenant people; what destroys from within is the tolerance of what God has prohibited.
What Balaam's curses could not accomplish: Balaam's counsel to Balak did through seduction; the strategy that works against Israel is not frontal assault but compromise from within, and Numbers 25 names this pattern before Revelation does.
וַיִּצָּמֶד יִשְׂרָאֵל לְבַעַל פְּעוֹר (vayyitssamedYisrael le-Vaal-Peor): Israel joined himself unto Baal-Peor: vayyitssamedYisrael (was yoked to, joined to, from tsamad, to attach, couple, yoke together; the same word used for harnessing animals; Israel has harnessed itself to a foreign deity through the vehicle of sexual immorality with Moabite women; the strategy Balak employed through Balaam's counsel)
threads t4 · t5 · see Numbers 31:16 · Psalm 106:28-31 · Revelation 2:14

Numbers 27:4

What Balaam could not curse from outside he counseled from inside. Numbers 31:16 reveals that Balaam taught Balak to entice Israel through the women of Moab, the Balaam doctrine that Jesus names in Revelation 2:14. Israel cannot be cursed by a pagan prophet; it can be seduced by the culture it lives among. Phinehas the priest sees an Israelite man bringing a Midianite woman into the camp in full view of the congregation while they are weeping at the tent of meeting. He takes a javelin and follows them into the tent and drives it through both of them. The plague that was already killing people stops. 24,000 have died. God says of Phinehas: he was jealous with my jealousy among them so that I did not consume them in my jealousy, therefore I give him my covenant of peace, a covenant of a perpetual priesthood. Thread 4 is the seduction: Israel made genuine choices to join themselves to Baal-Peor through genuine sexual immorality. The consequences, the plague, were the genuine result of genuine acts. Thread 5 is the dispensational warning: the external enemy cannot defeat the covenant people; what destroys from within is the tolerance of what God has prohibited.
What Balaam's curses could not accomplish: Balaam's counsel to Balak did through seduction; the strategy that works against Israel is not frontal assault but compromise from within, and Numbers 25 names this pattern before Revelation does.
וַיִּצָּמֶד יִשְׂרָאֵל לְבַעַל פְּעוֹר (vayyitssamedYisrael le-Vaal-Peor): Israel joined himself unto Baal-Peor: vayyitssamedYisrael (was yoked to, joined to, from tsamad, to attach, couple, yoke together; the same word used for harnessing animals; Israel has harnessed itself to a foreign deity through the vehicle of sexual immorality with Moabite women; the strategy Balak employed through Balaam's counsel)
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Numbers 27:5

What Balaam could not curse from outside he counseled from inside. Numbers 31:16 reveals that Balaam taught Balak to entice Israel through the women of Moab, the Balaam doctrine that Jesus names in Revelation 2:14. Israel cannot be cursed by a pagan prophet; it can be seduced by the culture it lives among. Phinehas the priest sees an Israelite man bringing a Midianite woman into the camp in full view of the congregation while they are weeping at the tent of meeting. He takes a javelin and follows them into the tent and drives it through both of them. The plague that was already killing people stops. 24,000 have died. God says of Phinehas: he was jealous with my jealousy among them so that I did not consume them in my jealousy, therefore I give him my covenant of peace, a covenant of a perpetual priesthood. Thread 4 is the seduction: Israel made genuine choices to join themselves to Baal-Peor through genuine sexual immorality. The consequences, the plague, were the genuine result of genuine acts. Thread 5 is the dispensational warning: the external enemy cannot defeat the covenant people; what destroys from within is the tolerance of what God has prohibited.
What Balaam's curses could not accomplish: Balaam's counsel to Balak did through seduction; the strategy that works against Israel is not frontal assault but compromise from within, and Numbers 25 names this pattern before Revelation does.
וַיִּצָּמֶד יִשְׂרָאֵל לְבַעַל פְּעוֹר (vayyitssamedYisrael le-Vaal-Peor): Israel joined himself unto Baal-Peor: vayyitssamedYisrael (was yoked to, joined to, from tsamad, to attach, couple, yoke together; the same word used for harnessing animals; Israel has harnessed itself to a foreign deity through the vehicle of sexual immorality with Moabite women; the strategy Balak employed through Balaam's counsel)
threads t4 · t5 · see Numbers 31:16 · Psalm 106:28-31 · Revelation 2:14

Numbers 27:6

What Balaam could not curse from outside he counseled from inside. Numbers 31:16 reveals that Balaam taught Balak to entice Israel through the women of Moab, the Balaam doctrine that Jesus names in Revelation 2:14. Israel cannot be cursed by a pagan prophet; it can be seduced by the culture it lives among. Phinehas the priest sees an Israelite man bringing a Midianite woman into the camp in full view of the congregation while they are weeping at the tent of meeting. He takes a javelin and follows them into the tent and drives it through both of them. The plague that was already killing people stops. 24,000 have died. God says of Phinehas: he was jealous with my jealousy among them so that I did not consume them in my jealousy, therefore I give him my covenant of peace, a covenant of a perpetual priesthood. Thread 4 is the seduction: Israel made genuine choices to join themselves to Baal-Peor through genuine sexual immorality. The consequences, the plague, were the genuine result of genuine acts. Thread 5 is the dispensational warning: the external enemy cannot defeat the covenant people; what destroys from within is the tolerance of what God has prohibited.
What Balaam's curses could not accomplish: Balaam's counsel to Balak did through seduction; the strategy that works against Israel is not frontal assault but compromise from within, and Numbers 25 names this pattern before Revelation does.
וַיִּצָּמֶד יִשְׂרָאֵל לְבַעַל פְּעוֹר (vayyitssamedYisrael le-Vaal-Peor): Israel joined himself unto Baal-Peor: vayyitssamedYisrael (was yoked to, joined to, from tsamad, to attach, couple, yoke together; the same word used for harnessing animals; Israel has harnessed itself to a foreign deity through the vehicle of sexual immorality with Moabite women; the strategy Balak employed through Balaam's counsel)
threads t4 · t5 · see Numbers 31:16 · Psalm 106:28-31 · Revelation 2:14

Numbers 27:7

What Balaam could not curse from outside he counseled from inside. Numbers 31:16 reveals that Balaam taught Balak to entice Israel through the women of Moab, the Balaam doctrine that Jesus names in Revelation 2:14. Israel cannot be cursed by a pagan prophet; it can be seduced by the culture it lives among. Phinehas the priest sees an Israelite man bringing a Midianite woman into the camp in full view of the congregation while they are weeping at the tent of meeting. He takes a javelin and follows them into the tent and drives it through both of them. The plague that was already killing people stops. 24,000 have died. God says of Phinehas: he was jealous with my jealousy among them so that I did not consume them in my jealousy, therefore I give him my covenant of peace, a covenant of a perpetual priesthood. Thread 4 is the seduction: Israel made genuine choices to join themselves to Baal-Peor through genuine sexual immorality. The consequences, the plague, were the genuine result of genuine acts. Thread 5 is the dispensational warning: the external enemy cannot defeat the covenant people; what destroys from within is the tolerance of what God has prohibited.
What Balaam's curses could not accomplish: Balaam's counsel to Balak did through seduction; the strategy that works against Israel is not frontal assault but compromise from within, and Numbers 25 names this pattern before Revelation does.
וַיִּצָּמֶד יִשְׂרָאֵל לְבַעַל פְּעוֹר (vayyitssamedYisrael le-Vaal-Peor): Israel joined himself unto Baal-Peor: vayyitssamedYisrael (was yoked to, joined to, from tsamad, to attach, couple, yoke together; the same word used for harnessing animals; Israel has harnessed itself to a foreign deity through the vehicle of sexual immorality with Moabite women; the strategy Balak employed through Balaam's counsel)
threads t4 · t5 · see Numbers 31:16 · Psalm 106:28-31 · Revelation 2:14

Numbers 27:8

What Balaam could not curse from outside he counseled from inside. Numbers 31:16 reveals that Balaam taught Balak to entice Israel through the women of Moab, the Balaam doctrine that Jesus names in Revelation 2:14. Israel cannot be cursed by a pagan prophet; it can be seduced by the culture it lives among. Phinehas the priest sees an Israelite man bringing a Midianite woman into the camp in full view of the congregation while they are weeping at the tent of meeting. He takes a javelin and follows them into the tent and drives it through both of them. The plague that was already killing people stops. 24,000 have died. God says of Phinehas: he was jealous with my jealousy among them so that I did not consume them in my jealousy, therefore I give him my covenant of peace, a covenant of a perpetual priesthood. Thread 4 is the seduction: Israel made genuine choices to join themselves to Baal-Peor through genuine sexual immorality. The consequences, the plague, were the genuine result of genuine acts. Thread 5 is the dispensational warning: the external enemy cannot defeat the covenant people; what destroys from within is the tolerance of what God has prohibited.
What Balaam's curses could not accomplish: Balaam's counsel to Balak did through seduction; the strategy that works against Israel is not frontal assault but compromise from within, and Numbers 25 names this pattern before Revelation does.
וַיִּצָּמֶד יִשְׂרָאֵל לְבַעַל פְּעוֹר (vayyitssamedYisrael le-Vaal-Peor): Israel joined himself unto Baal-Peor: vayyitssamedYisrael (was yoked to, joined to, from tsamad, to attach, couple, yoke together; the same word used for harnessing animals; Israel has harnessed itself to a foreign deity through the vehicle of sexual immorality with Moabite women; the strategy Balak employed through Balaam's counsel)
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Numbers 27:9

What Balaam could not curse from outside he counseled from inside. Numbers 31:16 reveals that Balaam taught Balak to entice Israel through the women of Moab, the Balaam doctrine that Jesus names in Revelation 2:14. Israel cannot be cursed by a pagan prophet; it can be seduced by the culture it lives among. Phinehas the priest sees an Israelite man bringing a Midianite woman into the camp in full view of the congregation while they are weeping at the tent of meeting. He takes a javelin and follows them into the tent and drives it through both of them. The plague that was already killing people stops. 24,000 have died. God says of Phinehas: he was jealous with my jealousy among them so that I did not consume them in my jealousy, therefore I give him my covenant of peace, a covenant of a perpetual priesthood. Thread 4 is the seduction: Israel made genuine choices to join themselves to Baal-Peor through genuine sexual immorality. The consequences, the plague, were the genuine result of genuine acts. Thread 5 is the dispensational warning: the external enemy cannot defeat the covenant people; what destroys from within is the tolerance of what God has prohibited.
What Balaam's curses could not accomplish: Balaam's counsel to Balak did through seduction; the strategy that works against Israel is not frontal assault but compromise from within, and Numbers 25 names this pattern before Revelation does.
וַיִּצָּמֶד יִשְׂרָאֵל לְבַעַל פְּעוֹר (vayyitssamedYisrael le-Vaal-Peor): Israel joined himself unto Baal-Peor: vayyitssamedYisrael (was yoked to, joined to, from tsamad, to attach, couple, yoke together; the same word used for harnessing animals; Israel has harnessed itself to a foreign deity through the vehicle of sexual immorality with Moabite women; the strategy Balak employed through Balaam's counsel)
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Numbers 27:10

What Balaam could not curse from outside he counseled from inside. Numbers 31:16 reveals that Balaam taught Balak to entice Israel through the women of Moab, the Balaam doctrine that Jesus names in Revelation 2:14. Israel cannot be cursed by a pagan prophet; it can be seduced by the culture it lives among. Phinehas the priest sees an Israelite man bringing a Midianite woman into the camp in full view of the congregation while they are weeping at the tent of meeting. He takes a javelin and follows them into the tent and drives it through both of them. The plague that was already killing people stops. 24,000 have died. God says of Phinehas: he was jealous with my jealousy among them so that I did not consume them in my jealousy, therefore I give him my covenant of peace, a covenant of a perpetual priesthood. Thread 4 is the seduction: Israel made genuine choices to join themselves to Baal-Peor through genuine sexual immorality. The consequences, the plague, were the genuine result of genuine acts. Thread 5 is the dispensational warning: the external enemy cannot defeat the covenant people; what destroys from within is the tolerance of what God has prohibited.
What Balaam's curses could not accomplish: Balaam's counsel to Balak did through seduction; the strategy that works against Israel is not frontal assault but compromise from within, and Numbers 25 names this pattern before Revelation does.
וַיִּצָּמֶד יִשְׂרָאֵל לְבַעַל פְּעוֹר (vayyitssamedYisrael le-Vaal-Peor): Israel joined himself unto Baal-Peor: vayyitssamedYisrael (was yoked to, joined to, from tsamad, to attach, couple, yoke together; the same word used for harnessing animals; Israel has harnessed itself to a foreign deity through the vehicle of sexual immorality with Moabite women; the strategy Balak employed through Balaam's counsel)
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Numbers 27:11

What Balaam could not curse from outside he counseled from inside. Numbers 31:16 reveals that Balaam taught Balak to entice Israel through the women of Moab, the Balaam doctrine that Jesus names in Revelation 2:14. Israel cannot be cursed by a pagan prophet; it can be seduced by the culture it lives among. Phinehas the priest sees an Israelite man bringing a Midianite woman into the camp in full view of the congregation while they are weeping at the tent of meeting. He takes a javelin and follows them into the tent and drives it through both of them. The plague that was already killing people stops. 24,000 have died. God says of Phinehas: he was jealous with my jealousy among them so that I did not consume them in my jealousy, therefore I give him my covenant of peace, a covenant of a perpetual priesthood. Thread 4 is the seduction: Israel made genuine choices to join themselves to Baal-Peor through genuine sexual immorality. The consequences, the plague, were the genuine result of genuine acts. Thread 5 is the dispensational warning: the external enemy cannot defeat the covenant people; what destroys from within is the tolerance of what God has prohibited.
What Balaam's curses could not accomplish: Balaam's counsel to Balak did through seduction; the strategy that works against Israel is not frontal assault but compromise from within, and Numbers 25 names this pattern before Revelation does.
וַיִּצָּמֶד יִשְׂרָאֵל לְבַעַל פְּעוֹר (vayyitssamedYisrael le-Vaal-Peor): Israel joined himself unto Baal-Peor: vayyitssamedYisrael (was yoked to, joined to, from tsamad, to attach, couple, yoke together; the same word used for harnessing animals; Israel has harnessed itself to a foreign deity through the vehicle of sexual immorality with Moabite women; the strategy Balak employed through Balaam's counsel)
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Numbers 27:12

What Balaam could not curse from outside he counseled from inside. Numbers 31:16 reveals that Balaam taught Balak to entice Israel through the women of Moab, the Balaam doctrine that Jesus names in Revelation 2:14. Israel cannot be cursed by a pagan prophet; it can be seduced by the culture it lives among. Phinehas the priest sees an Israelite man bringing a Midianite woman into the camp in full view of the congregation while they are weeping at the tent of meeting. He takes a javelin and follows them into the tent and drives it through both of them. The plague that was already killing people stops. 24,000 have died. God says of Phinehas: he was jealous with my jealousy among them so that I did not consume them in my jealousy, therefore I give him my covenant of peace, a covenant of a perpetual priesthood. Thread 4 is the seduction: Israel made genuine choices to join themselves to Baal-Peor through genuine sexual immorality. The consequences, the plague, were the genuine result of genuine acts. Thread 5 is the dispensational warning: the external enemy cannot defeat the covenant people; what destroys from within is the tolerance of what God has prohibited.
What Balaam's curses could not accomplish: Balaam's counsel to Balak did through seduction; the strategy that works against Israel is not frontal assault but compromise from within, and Numbers 25 names this pattern before Revelation does.
וַיִּצָּמֶד יִשְׂרָאֵל לְבַעַל פְּעוֹר (vayyitssamedYisrael le-Vaal-Peor): Israel joined himself unto Baal-Peor: vayyitssamedYisrael (was yoked to, joined to, from tsamad, to attach, couple, yoke together; the same word used for harnessing animals; Israel has harnessed itself to a foreign deity through the vehicle of sexual immorality with Moabite women; the strategy Balak employed through Balaam's counsel)
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Numbers 27:13

What Balaam could not curse from outside he counseled from inside. Numbers 31:16 reveals that Balaam taught Balak to entice Israel through the women of Moab, the Balaam doctrine that Jesus names in Revelation 2:14. Israel cannot be cursed by a pagan prophet; it can be seduced by the culture it lives among. Phinehas the priest sees an Israelite man bringing a Midianite woman into the camp in full view of the congregation while they are weeping at the tent of meeting. He takes a javelin and follows them into the tent and drives it through both of them. The plague that was already killing people stops. 24,000 have died. God says of Phinehas: he was jealous with my jealousy among them so that I did not consume them in my jealousy, therefore I give him my covenant of peace, a covenant of a perpetual priesthood. Thread 4 is the seduction: Israel made genuine choices to join themselves to Baal-Peor through genuine sexual immorality. The consequences, the plague, were the genuine result of genuine acts. Thread 5 is the dispensational warning: the external enemy cannot defeat the covenant people; what destroys from within is the tolerance of what God has prohibited.
What Balaam's curses could not accomplish: Balaam's counsel to Balak did through seduction; the strategy that works against Israel is not frontal assault but compromise from within, and Numbers 25 names this pattern before Revelation does.
וַיִּצָּמֶד יִשְׂרָאֵל לְבַעַל פְּעוֹר (vayyitssamedYisrael le-Vaal-Peor): Israel joined himself unto Baal-Peor: vayyitssamedYisrael (was yoked to, joined to, from tsamad, to attach, couple, yoke together; the same word used for harnessing animals; Israel has harnessed itself to a foreign deity through the vehicle of sexual immorality with Moabite women; the strategy Balak employed through Balaam's counsel)
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Numbers 27:14

What Balaam could not curse from outside he counseled from inside. Numbers 31:16 reveals that Balaam taught Balak to entice Israel through the women of Moab, the Balaam doctrine that Jesus names in Revelation 2:14. Israel cannot be cursed by a pagan prophet; it can be seduced by the culture it lives among. Phinehas the priest sees an Israelite man bringing a Midianite woman into the camp in full view of the congregation while they are weeping at the tent of meeting. He takes a javelin and follows them into the tent and drives it through both of them. The plague that was already killing people stops. 24,000 have died. God says of Phinehas: he was jealous with my jealousy among them so that I did not consume them in my jealousy, therefore I give him my covenant of peace, a covenant of a perpetual priesthood. Thread 4 is the seduction: Israel made genuine choices to join themselves to Baal-Peor through genuine sexual immorality. The consequences, the plague, were the genuine result of genuine acts. Thread 5 is the dispensational warning: the external enemy cannot defeat the covenant people; what destroys from within is the tolerance of what God has prohibited.
What Balaam's curses could not accomplish: Balaam's counsel to Balak did through seduction; the strategy that works against Israel is not frontal assault but compromise from within, and Numbers 25 names this pattern before Revelation does.
וַיִּצָּמֶד יִשְׂרָאֵל לְבַעַל פְּעוֹר (vayyitssamedYisrael le-Vaal-Peor): Israel joined himself unto Baal-Peor: vayyitssamedYisrael (was yoked to, joined to, from tsamad, to attach, couple, yoke together; the same word used for harnessing animals; Israel has harnessed itself to a foreign deity through the vehicle of sexual immorality with Moabite women; the strategy Balak employed through Balaam's counsel)
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Numbers 27:15

What Balaam could not curse from outside he counseled from inside. Numbers 31:16 reveals that Balaam taught Balak to entice Israel through the women of Moab, the Balaam doctrine that Jesus names in Revelation 2:14. Israel cannot be cursed by a pagan prophet; it can be seduced by the culture it lives among. Phinehas the priest sees an Israelite man bringing a Midianite woman into the camp in full view of the congregation while they are weeping at the tent of meeting. He takes a javelin and follows them into the tent and drives it through both of them. The plague that was already killing people stops. 24,000 have died. God says of Phinehas: he was jealous with my jealousy among them so that I did not consume them in my jealousy, therefore I give him my covenant of peace, a covenant of a perpetual priesthood. Thread 4 is the seduction: Israel made genuine choices to join themselves to Baal-Peor through genuine sexual immorality. The consequences, the plague, were the genuine result of genuine acts. Thread 5 is the dispensational warning: the external enemy cannot defeat the covenant people; what destroys from within is the tolerance of what God has prohibited.
What Balaam's curses could not accomplish: Balaam's counsel to Balak did through seduction; the strategy that works against Israel is not frontal assault but compromise from within, and Numbers 25 names this pattern before Revelation does.
וַיִּצָּמֶד יִשְׂרָאֵל לְבַעַל פְּעוֹר (vayyitssamedYisrael le-Vaal-Peor): Israel joined himself unto Baal-Peor: vayyitssamedYisrael (was yoked to, joined to, from tsamad, to attach, couple, yoke together; the same word used for harnessing animals; Israel has harnessed itself to a foreign deity through the vehicle of sexual immorality with Moabite women; the strategy Balak employed through Balaam's counsel)
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Numbers 27:16

What Balaam could not curse from outside he counseled from inside. Numbers 31:16 reveals that Balaam taught Balak to entice Israel through the women of Moab, the Balaam doctrine that Jesus names in Revelation 2:14. Israel cannot be cursed by a pagan prophet; it can be seduced by the culture it lives among. Phinehas the priest sees an Israelite man bringing a Midianite woman into the camp in full view of the congregation while they are weeping at the tent of meeting. He takes a javelin and follows them into the tent and drives it through both of them. The plague that was already killing people stops. 24,000 have died. God says of Phinehas: he was jealous with my jealousy among them so that I did not consume them in my jealousy, therefore I give him my covenant of peace, a covenant of a perpetual priesthood. Thread 4 is the seduction: Israel made genuine choices to join themselves to Baal-Peor through genuine sexual immorality. The consequences, the plague, were the genuine result of genuine acts. Thread 5 is the dispensational warning: the external enemy cannot defeat the covenant people; what destroys from within is the tolerance of what God has prohibited.
What Balaam's curses could not accomplish: Balaam's counsel to Balak did through seduction; the strategy that works against Israel is not frontal assault but compromise from within, and Numbers 25 names this pattern before Revelation does.
וַיִּצָּמֶד יִשְׂרָאֵל לְבַעַל פְּעוֹר (vayyitssamedYisrael le-Vaal-Peor): Israel joined himself unto Baal-Peor: vayyitssamedYisrael (was yoked to, joined to, from tsamad, to attach, couple, yoke together; the same word used for harnessing animals; Israel has harnessed itself to a foreign deity through the vehicle of sexual immorality with Moabite women; the strategy Balak employed through Balaam's counsel)
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Numbers 27:17

What Balaam could not curse from outside he counseled from inside. Numbers 31:16 reveals that Balaam taught Balak to entice Israel through the women of Moab, the Balaam doctrine that Jesus names in Revelation 2:14. Israel cannot be cursed by a pagan prophet; it can be seduced by the culture it lives among. Phinehas the priest sees an Israelite man bringing a Midianite woman into the camp in full view of the congregation while they are weeping at the tent of meeting. He takes a javelin and follows them into the tent and drives it through both of them. The plague that was already killing people stops. 24,000 have died. God says of Phinehas: he was jealous with my jealousy among them so that I did not consume them in my jealousy, therefore I give him my covenant of peace, a covenant of a perpetual priesthood. Thread 4 is the seduction: Israel made genuine choices to join themselves to Baal-Peor through genuine sexual immorality. The consequences, the plague, were the genuine result of genuine acts. Thread 5 is the dispensational warning: the external enemy cannot defeat the covenant people; what destroys from within is the tolerance of what God has prohibited.
What Balaam's curses could not accomplish: Balaam's counsel to Balak did through seduction; the strategy that works against Israel is not frontal assault but compromise from within, and Numbers 25 names this pattern before Revelation does.
וַיִּצָּמֶד יִשְׂרָאֵל לְבַעַל פְּעוֹר (vayyitssamedYisrael le-Vaal-Peor): Israel joined himself unto Baal-Peor: vayyitssamedYisrael (was yoked to, joined to, from tsamad, to attach, couple, yoke together; the same word used for harnessing animals; Israel has harnessed itself to a foreign deity through the vehicle of sexual immorality with Moabite women; the strategy Balak employed through Balaam's counsel)
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Numbers 27:18

What Balaam could not curse from outside he counseled from inside. Numbers 31:16 reveals that Balaam taught Balak to entice Israel through the women of Moab, the Balaam doctrine that Jesus names in Revelation 2:14. Israel cannot be cursed by a pagan prophet; it can be seduced by the culture it lives among. Phinehas the priest sees an Israelite man bringing a Midianite woman into the camp in full view of the congregation while they are weeping at the tent of meeting. He takes a javelin and follows them into the tent and drives it through both of them. The plague that was already killing people stops. 24,000 have died. God says of Phinehas: he was jealous with my jealousy among them so that I did not consume them in my jealousy, therefore I give him my covenant of peace, a covenant of a perpetual priesthood. Thread 4 is the seduction: Israel made genuine choices to join themselves to Baal-Peor through genuine sexual immorality. The consequences, the plague, were the genuine result of genuine acts. Thread 5 is the dispensational warning: the external enemy cannot defeat the covenant people; what destroys from within is the tolerance of what God has prohibited.
What Balaam's curses could not accomplish: Balaam's counsel to Balak did through seduction; the strategy that works against Israel is not frontal assault but compromise from within, and Numbers 25 names this pattern before Revelation does.
וַיִּצָּמֶד יִשְׂרָאֵל לְבַעַל פְּעוֹר (vayyitssamedYisrael le-Vaal-Peor): Israel joined himself unto Baal-Peor: vayyitssamedYisrael (was yoked to, joined to, from tsamad, to attach, couple, yoke together; the same word used for harnessing animals; Israel has harnessed itself to a foreign deity through the vehicle of sexual immorality with Moabite women; the strategy Balak employed through Balaam's counsel)
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Numbers 27:19

What Balaam could not curse from outside he counseled from inside. Numbers 31:16 reveals that Balaam taught Balak to entice Israel through the women of Moab, the Balaam doctrine that Jesus names in Revelation 2:14. Israel cannot be cursed by a pagan prophet; it can be seduced by the culture it lives among. Phinehas the priest sees an Israelite man bringing a Midianite woman into the camp in full view of the congregation while they are weeping at the tent of meeting. He takes a javelin and follows them into the tent and drives it through both of them. The plague that was already killing people stops. 24,000 have died. God says of Phinehas: he was jealous with my jealousy among them so that I did not consume them in my jealousy, therefore I give him my covenant of peace, a covenant of a perpetual priesthood. Thread 4 is the seduction: Israel made genuine choices to join themselves to Baal-Peor through genuine sexual immorality. The consequences, the plague, were the genuine result of genuine acts. Thread 5 is the dispensational warning: the external enemy cannot defeat the covenant people; what destroys from within is the tolerance of what God has prohibited.
What Balaam's curses could not accomplish: Balaam's counsel to Balak did through seduction; the strategy that works against Israel is not frontal assault but compromise from within, and Numbers 25 names this pattern before Revelation does.
וַיִּצָּמֶד יִשְׂרָאֵל לְבַעַל פְּעוֹר (vayyitssamedYisrael le-Vaal-Peor): Israel joined himself unto Baal-Peor: vayyitssamedYisrael (was yoked to, joined to, from tsamad, to attach, couple, yoke together; the same word used for harnessing animals; Israel has harnessed itself to a foreign deity through the vehicle of sexual immorality with Moabite women; the strategy Balak employed through Balaam's counsel)
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Numbers 27:20

What Balaam could not curse from outside he counseled from inside. Numbers 31:16 reveals that Balaam taught Balak to entice Israel through the women of Moab, the Balaam doctrine that Jesus names in Revelation 2:14. Israel cannot be cursed by a pagan prophet; it can be seduced by the culture it lives among. Phinehas the priest sees an Israelite man bringing a Midianite woman into the camp in full view of the congregation while they are weeping at the tent of meeting. He takes a javelin and follows them into the tent and drives it through both of them. The plague that was already killing people stops. 24,000 have died. God says of Phinehas: he was jealous with my jealousy among them so that I did not consume them in my jealousy, therefore I give him my covenant of peace, a covenant of a perpetual priesthood. Thread 4 is the seduction: Israel made genuine choices to join themselves to Baal-Peor through genuine sexual immorality. The consequences, the plague, were the genuine result of genuine acts. Thread 5 is the dispensational warning: the external enemy cannot defeat the covenant people; what destroys from within is the tolerance of what God has prohibited.
What Balaam's curses could not accomplish: Balaam's counsel to Balak did through seduction; the strategy that works against Israel is not frontal assault but compromise from within, and Numbers 25 names this pattern before Revelation does.
וַיִּצָּמֶד יִשְׂרָאֵל לְבַעַל פְּעוֹר (vayyitssamedYisrael le-Vaal-Peor): Israel joined himself unto Baal-Peor: vayyitssamedYisrael (was yoked to, joined to, from tsamad, to attach, couple, yoke together; the same word used for harnessing animals; Israel has harnessed itself to a foreign deity through the vehicle of sexual immorality with Moabite women; the strategy Balak employed through Balaam's counsel)
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Numbers 27:21

What Balaam could not curse from outside he counseled from inside. Numbers 31:16 reveals that Balaam taught Balak to entice Israel through the women of Moab, the Balaam doctrine that Jesus names in Revelation 2:14. Israel cannot be cursed by a pagan prophet; it can be seduced by the culture it lives among. Phinehas the priest sees an Israelite man bringing a Midianite woman into the camp in full view of the congregation while they are weeping at the tent of meeting. He takes a javelin and follows them into the tent and drives it through both of them. The plague that was already killing people stops. 24,000 have died. God says of Phinehas: he was jealous with my jealousy among them so that I did not consume them in my jealousy, therefore I give him my covenant of peace, a covenant of a perpetual priesthood. Thread 4 is the seduction: Israel made genuine choices to join themselves to Baal-Peor through genuine sexual immorality. The consequences, the plague, were the genuine result of genuine acts. Thread 5 is the dispensational warning: the external enemy cannot defeat the covenant people; what destroys from within is the tolerance of what God has prohibited.
What Balaam's curses could not accomplish: Balaam's counsel to Balak did through seduction; the strategy that works against Israel is not frontal assault but compromise from within, and Numbers 25 names this pattern before Revelation does.
וַיִּצָּמֶד יִשְׂרָאֵל לְבַעַל פְּעוֹר (vayyitssamedYisrael le-Vaal-Peor): Israel joined himself unto Baal-Peor: vayyitssamedYisrael (was yoked to, joined to, from tsamad, to attach, couple, yoke together; the same word used for harnessing animals; Israel has harnessed itself to a foreign deity through the vehicle of sexual immorality with Moabite women; the strategy Balak employed through Balaam's counsel)
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Numbers 27:22

What Balaam could not curse from outside he counseled from inside. Numbers 31:16 reveals that Balaam taught Balak to entice Israel through the women of Moab, the Balaam doctrine that Jesus names in Revelation 2:14. Israel cannot be cursed by a pagan prophet; it can be seduced by the culture it lives among. Phinehas the priest sees an Israelite man bringing a Midianite woman into the camp in full view of the congregation while they are weeping at the tent of meeting. He takes a javelin and follows them into the tent and drives it through both of them. The plague that was already killing people stops. 24,000 have died. God says of Phinehas: he was jealous with my jealousy among them so that I did not consume them in my jealousy, therefore I give him my covenant of peace, a covenant of a perpetual priesthood. Thread 4 is the seduction: Israel made genuine choices to join themselves to Baal-Peor through genuine sexual immorality. The consequences, the plague, were the genuine result of genuine acts. Thread 5 is the dispensational warning: the external enemy cannot defeat the covenant people; what destroys from within is the tolerance of what God has prohibited.
What Balaam's curses could not accomplish: Balaam's counsel to Balak did through seduction; the strategy that works against Israel is not frontal assault but compromise from within, and Numbers 25 names this pattern before Revelation does.
וַיִּצָּמֶד יִשְׂרָאֵל לְבַעַל פְּעוֹר (vayyitssamedYisrael le-Vaal-Peor): Israel joined himself unto Baal-Peor: vayyitssamedYisrael (was yoked to, joined to, from tsamad, to attach, couple, yoke together; the same word used for harnessing animals; Israel has harnessed itself to a foreign deity through the vehicle of sexual immorality with Moabite women; the strategy Balak employed through Balaam's counsel)
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Numbers 27:23

What Balaam could not curse from outside he counseled from inside. Numbers 31:16 reveals that Balaam taught Balak to entice Israel through the women of Moab, the Balaam doctrine that Jesus names in Revelation 2:14. Israel cannot be cursed by a pagan prophet; it can be seduced by the culture it lives among. Phinehas the priest sees an Israelite man bringing a Midianite woman into the camp in full view of the congregation while they are weeping at the tent of meeting. He takes a javelin and follows them into the tent and drives it through both of them. The plague that was already killing people stops. 24,000 have died. God says of Phinehas: he was jealous with my jealousy among them so that I did not consume them in my jealousy, therefore I give him my covenant of peace, a covenant of a perpetual priesthood. Thread 4 is the seduction: Israel made genuine choices to join themselves to Baal-Peor through genuine sexual immorality. The consequences, the plague, were the genuine result of genuine acts. Thread 5 is the dispensational warning: the external enemy cannot defeat the covenant people; what destroys from within is the tolerance of what God has prohibited.
What Balaam's curses could not accomplish: Balaam's counsel to Balak did through seduction; the strategy that works against Israel is not frontal assault but compromise from within, and Numbers 25 names this pattern before Revelation does.
וַיִּצָּמֶד יִשְׂרָאֵל לְבַעַל פְּעוֹר (vayyitssamedYisrael le-Vaal-Peor): Israel joined himself unto Baal-Peor: vayyitssamedYisrael (was yoked to, joined to, from tsamad, to attach, couple, yoke together; the same word used for harnessing animals; Israel has harnessed itself to a foreign deity through the vehicle of sexual immorality with Moabite women; the strategy Balak employed through Balaam's counsel)
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