Zeal of Phinehas
Wednesday Evening Numbers 25:1-18 Numbers — With God in the Wilderness: “The Zeal of Phinehas” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III Please open your Bibles to Numbers 25. The last time we were in Numbers together, we were finishing the story of Balaam. And the last we heard of Balaam (or so we thought) was in these words in Numbers 24:25 — “Then Balaam rose and went back to his place.” And all of us all along had been a bit puzzled about this Balaam character because, for instance, in Numbers 24 he gives astounding prophecy that includes a prophecy of the coming Messiah, the star that will rise up out of Jacob — a prophecy that’s fulfilled in Matthew 2 when the wise men come to pay a visit to the Lord Jesus, having seen His star in the east, and they worship Him. It boggles our…