“They fought against Midian, as the Lord commanded Moses, and killed every man.  Among their victims were Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur and Reba—the five kings of Midian. They also killed Balaam son of Beor with the sword.”-Numbers 31:7-8 We’re in the midst of studying about the Israelite slaughter of the Midianites. And again, I need to […]

“Moshe said to the people, “Equip men from among yourselves for war. They are to go and fight Midyan, in order to carry out Adonai’s vengeance on Midyan.  You are to send to the war a thousand men from every one of Israel’s tribes.” So out of the thousands of people in Israel, a thousand […]

I don’t know if you’ve realized it yet, but there is a divine pattern set down in Scripture concerning how God doles out punishment and vengeance. The divine pattern can be expressed in this one phrase: TO THE JEW FIRST, AND THEN THE GENTILE. We mustn’t lose sight of this. The Lord always deals with […]

In my last post, I talked about how some folks have difficulty accepting that a God of love would singlehandedly order the extermination of an entire race of people. I went on to explain that because people have difficulty accepting this harsh characteristic of God, they create this false and totally man-made doctrine that says […]

Before we get into our text study of Numbers 31, there’s a major elephant in the room concerning the contents of this chapter that needs to be addressed. It concerns the fact that we’re dealing with a tremendous amount of killing and bloodshed in this chapter. Not only are we dealing with a tremendous amount […]