Numbers 23:1-23:24
Balaam said, “Build me seven altars here, and prepare seven bulls and seven rams for me.” Balak did as Balaam said, and the two of them offered a bull and a ram on each altar. Then Balaam said to Balak, “Stay here beside your offering while I go aside. Perhaps the Lord will come to meet with me. Whatever he reveals to me I will tell you.” Then he went off to a barren height.
The Lord put a word in Balaam’s mouth and said, “Go back to Balak and give him this word.”
Who can count the dust of Jacob or number even a fourth of Israel? Let me die the death of the righteous, and may my final end be like theirs!
Balak said to Balaam, “What have you done to me? I brought you to curse my enemies, but you have done nothing but bless them!” He answered, “Must I not speak what the Lord puts in my mouth?”
Then Balak said to him, “Come with me to another place where you can see them; you will not see them all but only the outskirts of their camp. And from there, curse them for me.” So he took him to the field of Zophim on the top of Pisgah, and there he built seven altars and offered a bull and a ram on each altar.
God is not human, that he should lie, not a human being, that he should change his mind. Does he speak and then not act? Does he promise and not fulfill? I have received a command to bless; he has blessed, and I cannot change it. “No misfortune is seen in Jacob, no misery observed in Israel. The Lord their God is with them; the shout of the King is among them. God brought them out of Egypt; they have the strength of a wild ox. There is no sorcery against Jacob, no divination against Israel. It will now be said of Jacob and of Israel, ‘See what God has done!’ The people rise like a lioness; they rouse themselves like a lion that does not rest till it devours its prey and drinks the blood of its victims.”
Why?
Balaam had tried to do something, but the Lord made Balaam bless Israel and Jacob. He has no choice. He must speak what the Lord puts in his mouth.
Seven is a holy number in their culture, so they prepared seven sacrifices.
Balak tries to move Balaam to a different place where he can not see the people of Israel or higher places. but the Lord is everywhere.
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巴蘭築壇七座，亞伯拉罕只有築一座壇，敬拜神。回到父面前只有一條路就是到會幕面前，擺大場面巴蘭希望神聽他的禱告，好像今天民間場面廣大，變成可以發咒司令的人，以為所拜的神會聽o他的。真正的敬虔不是奉獻更多，參加更多敬拜、更大場面。而是遵行神的話。
第一次的壇，可以看到整個以色列人的地區，第二次換地方，巴蘭知道神要說什麼?其實一直想要試試看，不甘心。換地方咒詛就會成功的，不在在教會禱告力量大，在家裏禱告力量小，在禱告山力量大，只是禱告山讓我們心靈安靜。行走禱告力量大，行走只是讓我們更多體認屬靈的需要。換地方好像想給神機會！前面講蒙福，這裏講分別。這群人是神所分別出來的，教會 是神特別分別出來的，不要跟著世界走。
神從來不會在外邦人面前責備以色列人。神所祝福的不會讓人傷害他們。
不要以為我們禱告更恆切，神就會聽，若是禱告神所喜悅的，神必垂聽！
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How?
Before the Lord there is nothing that can hiding between us and the Lord! The Lord on the highest can see anything in the world.
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