Numbers 25.
IF BALAAM’S and Balak’s plans to stop the people of God from going on to their promised home by cursing them, failed, another scheme was more successful; the people were led into sin and idolatry. They made themselves one with the world about them, forgetting that God’s first work was to separate them from the ungodly. So judgment falls upon the people, for God deals first with those that are His, and afterwards, perhaps long afterwards, with the world. (1 Peter 4:17, 18) He commends the faithful Phinehas.
He is “not unrighteous to forget” work for Him (Hebrews 6:10), and the Lord Jesus in the last chapter of Revelation, speaking of His coming, says,
“My reward is with Me, to give every man according as his work shall be.”
Those who are Christ’s should seek to be faithful to Him, whatever be the present cost.
ML 05/04/1924