Seventh Day Baptist
Christian Education Council
PO BOX 1678
Janesville, WI 53547
—Deuteronomy 4:1-8, 12-13
by: Jasmine Lynch.
Numbers 25 gives a chilling account at Peor of the consequence of disobeying God’s commandments. Plagues afflicted twenty-four thousand and the leaders who offended God were hanged in the sun. Even more gruesome was the method used to stay God’s wrath (Numbers 25:7-8). Deuteronomy 4:3-4 reminded the Israelites of that event: “Your eyes have seen what the LORD did at Baal Peor; for the LORD your God has destroyed from among you all the men who followed Baal of Peor. But you who held fast to the LORD your God are alive today, every one of you” (NKJV). Commit to covenant obedience to avoid God’s wrath.