“Is the iniquity of Peor too little for us, from which we are not cleansed until this day, although there was a plague in the congregation of the LORD,
Joshua 22:17 KJV
Joshua records as the elders of Israel spoke to the two and a half tribes that wanted to settle on that side of the Jordan river, saying, haven’t we had enough trouble from the terrible sin we committed at Peor? There a plague came upon us even though we belong to Yahweh. To this day, our conscience is stained and we still suffer from our atrocious deeds. The terrible sin of Peor was building an altar to some other god which released an epidemic killing twenty four thousand. At this moment, the unity of the children of Israel was at stake and the centralisation of Yahweh’s worship at Shiloh where the tabernacle was. But when the two and a half tribes explained that they will worship Yahweh alone and not other gods, the rest of the elders and the high priest settled the matter peaceably. In the secular culture that we live in, let’s not conform to it. There is only One God Who sent His Son to die for all mankind. There is no other. Let’s bow at the Name of Jesus for worthy is the Lamb that was slain to take away the sin of the world. Amen!
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