The Lord's Prophecy Through Balaam
"Now
when Balaam saw that it pleased the Lord to bless Israel, he did not
go as at other times, to seek to use sorcery, but he set his face toward the
wilderness. And Balaam raised his eyes, and saw Israel encamped according
to their tribes; and the Spirit of God came upon him." (v.1-2)
What’s
amazing here is that "the Spirit of God came upon" this false
prophet, Balaam, at all. Meaning, God speaks to and through
mankind at His good pleasure to accomplish His purposes.
In Numbers
22:21-33, the Lord spoke to Balaam through a donkey, and here in this chapter,
God spoke through this donkey of a man to the coalition leaders of Moab and
Midian letting them know their days were numbered.
We live, as
stated in Verse 23, because God ordains it. His purpose is to give all a chance
to be "born again," to be "born of the Spirit," to
"believe," to have "everlasting life" as Jesus later
revealed and encouraged in John Chapter 3.
That is why
you live. The opportunity is yours through faith in the Lord.
The Truth
“He who
believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned
already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of
God. And this is the condemnation, that the light has come into the
world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were
evil.” (John 3:18-19)
