Numbers 25

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, 1817For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God? 18And if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear? (1 Peter 4:17‑18)) He commends the faithful Phinehas.
He is “not unrighteous to forget” work for Him (Hebrews 6:1010For God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labor of love, which ye have showed toward his name, in that ye have ministered to the saints, and do minister. (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.