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Was Balaam a Prophet of God?

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Prophets for hire, talking donkeys, seemingly schizophrenic instructions from Yahweh, and blessings coming from a rogue prophet hired to curse Israel. There is no doubt that a cursory look at the Balaam narrative can leave us scratching our heads in...

The Righteous Anger of Phineas

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Pinchas-Numbers 25 Balaam, the powerful and experienced pagan prophet that was hired by king Balak to curse Israel, failed at every attempt. Every single time he opened his mouth to curse the people of God, nothing but blessings came out. This not...

Balaam’s Big Mistake

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So here is the context: The children of Israel were making their way through the Promised Land and were destroying every army that was in their way. With Yahweh on their side, they could not be beat, no matter what the odds. In Numbers 22, after they...

The Prophet’s Testimony

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The Father is doing so much in here that I’m not even sure how to unpack it all. I have been praying and fasting for Part 3 for a while now and have been pressing in to understand His image probably more than any other thing I have ever pursued. And...

A Prophet Has Arrived

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One night I was laying in my bed reading the Word around 10:30 pm when a guy with thick glasses and dreads hanging over his shoulders poked his head through my hand-made bed sheet of a privacy curtain and asked me quietly if I am the one they call...

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