This message examines the second episode of Israel's failure noted by Paul, namely the "matter of Peor" in which the sons of Israel were compromised in their devotion to Yahweh and drawn to the Baal of Peor through the influence of Balaam and the overtures of the women of Moab and Midian. This episode formed a kind of bookend with the golden calf event, which may have perhaps been a consideration in Paul's selection of it: The golden calf episode occurred at the beginning of the wilderness period and initiated Israel's idolatry; the present one came at the very end of that period and put an exclamation point on the nation's idolatry. Whatever Paul's reason, the "matter of Peor" was another critical milestone in Israel's failure to fulfill its sonship and so its Abrahamic mission to the world.
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