Journey of the Sons
of God to the Promised Land
Today’s Focus: The
Spirit of Moab – Sin of Moab
Scripture: Numbers
22:1-3
Greetings Sons of
God:
Numbers 22:1-3: And the children of Israel set forward and
pitched in the plains of Moab on this side Jordan by Jericho. And Balak the son of Zippor saw all that
Israel had done to the Amorites. And
Moab was sore afraid of the people, because they were many: and Moab was
distressed because of the children of Israel.
First we see the children of Israel have set
up the nation in the plains of Moab.
Remember Moab is the spirit that mocks the need of fathers. The Scriptures say that Balak who is the king
of the Moabites (Numbers 22:4) was afraid of Israel. Now he looks out and see the children of
Israel and sees that they are many and understand they are in family units and
tribes. Now Balak, king of the Moabites
fears Israel and sends for Balaam to come curse Israel. Now Balaam’s name means “destroyer of the
people or confuser of the people”. Now
Balaam finds himself blessing Israel more than anything, even prophesying the
destruction of Balak and the Moabites.
But what Balaam suggests Balak to do is to get the children of Israel to
have sex and marry the Moabite women.
When the children of Israel did this, the Lord was angered because of
the mixing of the holy seed with the profane.
Spiritually you have the children of God becoming unequally yoked with
unbelievers. The Spirit of Moab is
present to eliminate and destroy the image and rule of father over the House of
God. The judgment of the Lord was very
brutal towards Israel for this sin. Over 24,000 people died due to this
transgression (Numbers 25).
In closing, the sin of Moab is to destroy the
rule and image of fathers. They
attempted to do this by getting those connected and arranged by their father’s
households to sin against God by mixing the holy seed with a unholy nation and
ultimately 24,000 were judged.
In the next message we will look at
overcoming the spirit of Moab.
Peace, Love and
Grace,
Calvin Calhoun, Jr.
