Numbers 25:1-3 ” While Israel was staying in Shittim, the men began to indulge in sexual immorality with Moabite women, who invited them to the sacrifices to their gods. The people ate and bowed down before these gods. So Israel joined in worshipping the Baal of Peor.”

When the world can’t eliminate the witness of God’s people through direct conflict, it often tries to neutralize their powerful witness by absorbing them into the world view. The pagan god Baal allegedly gave the rain and revived vegetation each Spring…which as farmers themselves, the Israeli men would have found beneficial to have ties to. Adherents of Baal worship were taught to act out magical rituals in order to insure earth’s fertility…again, something the Israeli men would have desired. Finally, the worship of Baal included sexual orgies, homosexuality, and even child sacrifice…all being enticing and seductive lures in which to cause Israel to fall into sin…committing both physical & spiritual adultery.

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