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Numbers 25
Numbers 25:1 And Israel abode in Shittim, and the people began to commit
whoredom with the daughters of Moab.
2 And they called the people
unto the sacrifices of their gods: and the people did eat, and bowed
down to their gods.
3 And Israel joined himself unto Baal-peor:
and the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel.
4 And the
Lord said unto Moses, Take all the heads of the people, and hang them up
before the Lord against the sun, that the fierce anger of the Lord may
be turned away from Israel.
5 And Moses said unto the judges of
Israel, Slay ye every one his men that were joined unto Baal-peor.
6 And, behold, one of the children of Israel came and brought unto
his brethren a Midianitish woman in the sight of Moses, and in the sight
of all the congregation of the children of Israel, who were weeping
before the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.
7 And when
Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, saw it, he
rose up from among the congregation, and took a javelin in his hand;
8 And he went after the man of Israel into the tent, and thrust both
of them through, the man of Israel, and the woman through her belly. So
the plague was stayed from the children of Israel.
9 And those
that died in the plague were twenty and four thousand.
10 And the
Lord spake unto Moses, saying,
11 Phinehas, the son of Eleazar,
the son of Aaron the priest, hath turned my wrath away from the children
of Israel, while he was zealous for my sake among them, that I consumed
not the children of Israel in my jealousy.
12 Wherefore say,
Behold, I give unto him my covenant of peace:
13 And he shall
have it, and his seed after him, even the covenant of an everlasting
priesthood; because he was zealous for his God, and made an atonement
for the children of Israel.
14 Now the name of the Israelite that
was slain, even that was slain with the Midianitish woman, was Zimri,
the son of Salu, a prince of a chief house among the Simeonites.
15 And the name of the Midianitish woman that was slain was Cozbi, the
daughter of Zur; he was head over a people, and of a chief house in
Midian.
16 And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,
17 Vex
the Midianites, and smite them:
18 For they vex you with their
wiles, wherewith they have beguiled you in the matter of Peor, and in
the matter of Cozbi, the daughter of a prince of Midian, their sister,
which was slain in the day of the plague for Peor's sake.
• Exactly 2520 years from the exile of
Benjamin, Iceland became an independent nation.
•
The first tribe to be conquered by the
Assyrians was Manasseh, in 745 B.C. Exactly
2520 years later America became a nation on
July 4, 1776.
(Leviticus. 26: 28-46) God warned Israel that if they persisted in continually
breaking His Laws, not only would curses come upon them.
He would punish them for seven times, (a time being 360 years, seven times would
be 2520 years) and would banish them from the land of Palestine and scatter them
among the heathens (like lost sheep)
• Study the book: Abrahamic Covenant,
(A study outline of the identity of God's people) By E. Raymond Capt -
page 25
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