Not a single man lost!

We learn from Num. 31 how God commanded Moses to avenge Israel of the Midianites, and how Moses deputed Phinehas to conduct the expedition with 144,000 Israelites, and how they slew the Kings of Midian, and also “Balaam, the son of Beor, they slew with the sword” (5:8). Balaam in Moabitish intrigue against the way of God in Israel, is a type (Rev. 2:14); and his end in the war against Midian of the 144,000, who came through without the loss of a man (Num. 31:49), is also typical of what may be expected in the days of vengeance coming, when the Star of Jacob and his 144,000 (Rev. 14.) carry judgment into the land of the enemy “as in the day of Midian.”

. Vol. 37: The Christadelphian: Volume 37. 2001 (electronic ed.) (354). Birmingham: Christadelphian Magazine & Publishing Association.