cool story

I've been reading through the bible again, its going slower then I would like. Between Monday and today I've read and reread the book of Numbers. I think my favorite story is that of Phinehas the son of Eleazar the son of Arron the high priest.

It comes in the twenty-fifth chapter of Numbers. In the previous chapter Ballam son of Beor had not of his own volition blessed the children of Israel then in an attempt to appease the wrath of Balak the king of Moab he told them that despite the fact that he cant curse the children of Israel he does know that if Moab can get Israel to sin then God will turn away from them. So he counsels the Moabites to have their beautiful women go and seduce the men of Israel and get them to worship Baal. This plan proved so drasticly succesful that God sent a plague among the Israelites and told Moses in verse four". ⁴And 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."

This blatant disregard for God's holy law was so outrageous to God that he commanded this, what we would consider harsh punishment. As the lawlessness increased so did the plague untill one day one of the Israelites, Zimri took a Moabitess Cozbi into the camp of Israel before Moses and the tent of meeting. Now Phinehas seeing this blatant disrespect for the Lord and Savuior of Israel took it upon himself to personally follow the two into their tent and spit them both through the belly upon a spear. Its important to understand that Phinehas was a young man and one who had no official position and was not one of the seventy elders that Moses had in verse five given permission to kill law offenders. The scriptures don't say how old Phinehas was but he couldn't have been much older then twenty at the oldest. He was probably seventeen or eighteen right around the age where kids like us are trying to figure out whether you turn the key to the left or right to start the car.

Think what you all want, but in my opinion not only is this story a reflection of what a godly upbringing but its also a challenge to me and to you that says "how much can God ask of us before we quit on Him"

I apologize for all the mispellings and grammatical errors in this post. just deal with it