Remember How You Were Tempted

Note from today’s Bible reading: Numbers 31-32

Near the end of Moses’ life, God instructed him to send the Israelites to war against the Midianites (Numbers 31:1-2). This was to “execute the Lord’s vengeance on Midian” (Numbers 31:3) because of how they had deceived the Israelites and brought a plague upon them (Numbers 25:17-18).

When they went, they “killed every male” (Numbers 31:7) but “captured …