Bad Timing x 10

Turn to Numbers chapter 25. The Israelites have just been taken to task for picking up Moabite women. Screwing around with these women had been combined with worshipping their idols and if you know anything about Creator God and what He thinks about worshipping idols, well, to say that He was ticked off would be an understatement.

Now, in reality, this was no small thing. Even most 21st century atheist relativists would draw the line at people sacrificing their children as live burn offerings to Baal of Peor. That’s what these “people of God” had begun to do. It’s not like these Moabite women were going to be giving it up for nothing. The men had to pay something, and pay they did. The Israelite men’s thinking went something like, “Hey, everybody else is doing it. How bad can it be? And besides, she’s helping me become a very spiritual person.”

The situation was not good and to get their attention, God had sent a plague of some kind that was working it’s way through the Israelite camps.

“So Moses said to Israel’s judges, “Each of you must put to death those of your men who have joined in worshipping the Baal of Peor.” vs 6.

The people were at the meeting tent when this was announced. They were weeping with sorrow over how far off track they had wondered yet again. They’re repenting of their grievous sins, and in walks an Israelite guy with this Moab women that he’d just picked up. These two were on the way to his tent for a nooner and as he’s walking by this crowd of people he said, “Ehhh folks, whazup?” He didn’t stick around to hear the answer because, well, you know. He had other things on his mind

Bad timing!

So this guy was in his tent with this woman and they’re humping away so intently that they didn’t even hear Phinehas, the son of Eleasar who was the son of Aaron who was the priest as he entered their tent. And this guy Phinehas was jacked up something fierce. So angry was this dude that he drove his spear hard enough to go through the Israelite guy and right into the woman who was underneath him. (everybody used the missionary position back then).

Both of them were killed and the plague stopped.

Talk about bad timing!

The next time you’re on your way to have some illicit sex and you see a crowd of sorrowful people? Stop and find out if it has anything to do with you.