Sexual Immorality: Satan's Bait

A fisherman goes to a spot where he can find the type of fish he wants to catch. He selects the bait and casts his line into the water. He waits patiently, and when the fish bites, he snaps the hook into the fish’s jaw and reels in his catch.

 In a similar way, people can be caught. For example, the Israelites had almost reached the Promised Land when they camped on the Plains of Moab. The king of Moab promised to give a man named Balaam a lot of money if he would bring a curse on Israel. Eventually, Balaam found a way to make the Israelites bring a curse on themselves. He carefully chose the bait. He sent young Moabite women into the Israelite camp to seduce the men.​—Numbers 22:1-7; 31:15, 16; Revelation 2:14.
 Did Balaam’s bait work? Yes. Thousands of Israelite men committed “sexual immorality with  the daughters of Moab.” They also began to worship false gods, including a disgusting sex god, the Baal of Peor. As a result, 24,000 Israelites died right at the border of the Promised Land.​—Numbers 25:1-9.

Why did so many Israelites fall for Balaam’s plan? They were thinking only of their own selfish pleasure, and they forgot all that God had done for them. The Israelites had many reasons to be loyal to God. He had freed them from slavery in Egypt, fed them in the wilderness, and brought them safely to the border of the Promised Land. (Hebrews 3:12) Still, they were seduced by sexual immorality. The apostle Paul wrote: “Neither let us practice sexual immorality, as some of them committed sexual immorality, only to fall.”​—1 Corinthians 1
 Today, we are living in the last days and the promised God's kingdom is very close. So in a way, we are like the Israelites at the border of the Promised Land. (1 Corinthians 10:11) The world we live in today is even more obsessed with sex than the Moabites were. This obsession can easily affect God’s people. In fact, the bait that the Devil uses most effectively is sexual immorality.​—Numbers 25:6, 14;2 Corinthians 2:11; Jude 4.

We need to examine ourselves to know our preference __ to enjoy some selfish pleasure that will last only a short time, or live forever in happiness in the  God's kingdom?’ If we wish to live forever in the promised God's kingdom we must resist Satan's bait and “Flee from sexual immorality”—1 Corinthians 6:18.

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