Lecture 2 — Israel a figure for us

Now these things are warnings for us, not to desire evil as they did.

Do not be idolaters as some of them were; as it is written, The people sat down to eat and drink and rose up to dance.

We must not indulge in immorality as some of them did, and twenty-three thousand fell in a single day.

We must not put the Lord to the test, as some of them did and were destroyed by serpents;

nor grumble, as some of them did and were destroyed by the Destroyer.

Now these things happened to them as a warning, but they were written down for our instruction, upon whom the end of the ages has come.