Today we begin Numbers Chapter 24. For the Complete Jewish Bible, click here. For the King James version, click here. Numbers Chapter 24 represents the 3rd and final oracle that Balaam utters in his attempt to curse Israel. However, during this 3rd time, we notice a difference in both Balaam’s attitude and speech. Balaam is […]

“God, who brought them out of Egypt, gives them the strength of a wild ox; thus one can’t put a spell on Ya‘akov, no magic will work against Isra’el. It can now be said of Ya‘akov and Isra’el, ‘What is this that God has done?!’” -Numbers 23:22-23 We are continuing on with studying the second […]

“God is not a man who lies or a mortal who changes his mind. When he says something, he will do it; when he makes a promise, he will fulfill it.” -Numbers 23:19 Alrighty, today we encounter the mother of all texts that blows out of the water and exposes the fallacy of the idea […]

“Balak said to him, ‘All right, come with me to another place where you can see them. You will see only some of them, not all; but you can curse them for me from there.’”-Numbers 23:13 Balak is a darn persistent fellow! If the sorcerer Balaam he has hired won’t curse Israel from one high […]

Yesterday I pondered the question of why God would allow Israel to use what was essentially a divining tool, the Urim and Thummim. The best answer I could give was that God sometimes adopts even the pagan things from the cultures we were born into and raised up in before coming into a relationship with […]