PSA287 Balaam’s Terrible Plot mp3

In this message, Balak tries to get Balaam to curse Israel two more times. Balaam, longing for the reward this heathen king offers, tries to comply, but Jehovah simply puts a word in his mouth and he must speak the truth. Balak, furious, sends him running for his life. In the end, however, Balaam will not give up, and comes up with a terrible plot to use his knowledge of Yahweh to tell the Midianites how to cause Israel to sin against their God and earn His wrath. Balaam’s end, then, comes in Yehovah’s revenge on Midian, and this wayward prophet dies with the godless men from whom he sought riches and honor. We consider the lesson in the life of this unstable and vacillating man.