THE ACCOUNT OF PHINEHAS
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Psalms 69:8... I have become a stranger to my brothers, And an alien to my mother's children;
Psalms 69:9
".... Because zeal for Your house has eaten me up, And the reproaches of those who reproach You have fallen on me......."
nkjv
As we are approaching the end of the ages, the church of today has been weakened with compromise and worldiness.
Satan has tried in all means to mingle into the church. Theres shortage of the presence of God in the church today, this because the thirst for God and the desire for God is gone.
Satan has managed to get into the church, through music,, i hear "Christian rap" "Christian rock" "Kapouka" , dressing,hairstyle and the talk of language .
Some gospel artistes of Kenya are in the business of using the name of God for money.
I was shocked to hear someone sing ""mungu nimekumiss sana " "my lover my lover" "God have written to you a love letter" "papa God".
All these terms adress God in a blashphemous way. People underate God and put Him in their own class.
One time i was watching a church service on t.v , it was saddening. Ladies in the church were dressed in "skinny clothes and others hipsters"
One Kenyan gospel artist had "dreadlocks" and another had "maw-hawk and dyed hair".
Trully God is Holy and cant stand at the sight of sin and worldliness
Habakuk 1:13 You are of purer eyes than to behold evil, and cannot look on wickedness. Why do You look on those who deal treacherously, and hold Your tongue when the wicked devours one more rightous than he?
Church leaders focus on their churches get filled up and how much offerings they'll generate.
The church has turned into business making place with itching gospel as just recently unmasked in Kenya.
Remember what Jesus said....
Mathew 21:12 Then Jesus went into the temple of God and drove out all those who bought and sold in the temple, and overturned the tables of the moneychangers and the seats of those who sold doves.
Mathew 21:13 And He said to them, "It is written, 'My house shall be called a house of prayer,' but you have made it a 'den of thieves.' "
There are two things that kill the church of today
1. Worldliness
2. Compromise
Theres alot of materialism , and compromise.
The true gospel of Holines is not preached, the gospel of compromising and baby-sitting and tapping is what is taught.
Teachings that pleases the crowds and lullabies
Paul says.....
2Timothy 4:3 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but according to their own desires, because they have itching ears, they will heap up for themselves teachers;
2Timothy 4:4 and they will turn their ears away from the truth, and be turned aside to fables.
From a point of view,, Paul knew of how these days will be, but Paul again says
2Timothy 4:1 I charge you therefore before God and the Lord Jesus Christ, who will judge the living and the dead at His appearing and His kingdom:
2Timothy 4:2 Preach the word! Be ready in season and out of season. Convince, rebuke, exhort, with all longsuffering and teaching.
nkjv
THE ACCOUNT OF PHINEHAS
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During the time Isralites were wandering in the desert, there was a man by the name Phinehas son of Eleazar, grandson of Aaron.
He was a zealous priest.
During the desert wandering, Phinehas killed Zimri,an Israelite, and Cozri, a Midianite woman, whom Zimri had brought into the camp
"Numbers 25"
This act ended a plague by which God had judged Israel for allowing Midianite women to corrupt Israel with idolatry and harlotry.
For such zeal Phinehas and his descendants were promised a permanent priesthood.
......Numbers 25:1 Then Israel remained in Acacia Grove, and the people began to commit harlotry with the women of Moab........
... 25:2 They invited the people to the sacrifices of their gods, and the people ate and bowed down to their gods.
25:3 So Israel was joined to Baal of Peor, and the anger of the LORD was aroused against Israel.
25:4 Then the LORD said to Moses, "Take all the leaders of the people and hang the offenders before the LORD, out in the sun, that the fierce anger of the LORD may turn away from Israel."
25:5 So Moses said to the judges of Israel, "Every one of you kill his men who were joined to Baal of Peor."
......... 25:6 And indeed, one of the children of Israel came and presented to his brethren a Midianite woman in the sight of Moses and in the sight of all the congregation of the children of Israel, who were weeping at the door of the tabernacle of meeting.............
25:7 Now when Phinehas the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, saw it, he rose from among the congregation and took a javelin in his hand;
25:8 and he went after the man of Israel into the tent and thrust both of them through, the man of Israel, and the woman through her body. So the plague was stopped among the children of Israel.
25:10 Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying: "Phinehas the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, has turned back My wrath from the children of Israel, because he was zealous with My zeal among them, so that I did not consume the children of Israel in My zeal.
nkv
In the account we see that,, an adulterer man goes to the presence of God with the woman he commited adultery with.
This clearly states of people commiting adultery and going to the church again in their sinfull life and of worldiness.
But here a man consumed with the zeal of God , killed the man together with the woman. As a result he saved the Isralites from destruction.
Lastly, my dear brethrens, we should work our salvation with the fear of God and teach people the truth, and God will save us and He will bless us .
May his grace be upon you all.
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