They
Were Struck Down
I do not want you to be unaware,
brothers and sisters, that our ancestors were all under the cloud, and all
passed through the sea,…
Nevertheless, God was not pleased with
most of them, and they were struck down in the wilderness.
Now these things occurred as examples
for us, so that we might not desire evil as they did. Do not become idolaters
as some of them did; as it is written, “The people sat down to eat and drink,
and they rose up to play.” We must not indulge in sexual immorality as some of
them did, and twenty-three thousand fell in a single day. We must not put
Christ to the test, as some of them did, and were destroyed by serpents. And do
not complain as some of them did, and were destroyed by the destroyer. These
things happened to them to serve as an example, and they were written down to
instruct us, on whom the ends of the ages have come.
First Corinthians 10 describes a
spiritual disaster we can avoid. After the people of
If there are warning signs in our
lives today, it is time to run from self-destructive sin to the high ground of
God’s forgiving grace.
A warning
heeded is a disaster avoided.
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