Numbers
31 Judgment of Midian
The
Midianites joined the Moabites in hiring Balaam to curse Israel and afterwards
seduced the people to idolatry and licentiousness. Midian in the wilderness is
a type of the world. For the child of
God there is to be a spiritual separation from the world today. One of Moses’ last official act was the war
against the Midianites. God commands
Moses to make war against them. He is
going to avenge Israel. They are to deal
very harshly with them. Moses sent out twelve thousand men to go to war – one
thousand from each tribe. The holy
instruments, the articles of furniture in the tabernacle, were to go along,
indicating that this was a spiritual warfare. The kings of Midian were slain,
and then the death of Balaam, the prophet. God is giving them a victory over
the Midianites.
In
the Millennium, Israel, which is having such great problems today, will be put
in the land and they will have peace.
God
gave them a tremendous victory- they did not even lose one man. (v.49). There was a great problem with the children
of Israel. God had taken them out of
Egypt in one night. But it took God
forty years to get Egypt out of them.
And even now, after going into idolatry, they still brought the
Midianite women into their camp. The
problem is worldliness. It is not wrong
for us to be in the world- that is where God placed us- the issue is whether
the world is in us, in our hearts and in our lives.
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J.
Vernon McGee Commentary and Nelson’s Quick Reference Commentary
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