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Torah Reading-Numbers 22:2-25:9[1]
Torah Overview
Balaam
Prophet of the Nations-Numbers 22:1-19
Gods
Ambiguous Permission-Numbers 22:20-21
God Impedes
Balaam’s Path-Numbers 22:22-27
Balaam’s She
Donkey speaks-Numbers 22:28-29, 23:1-5
Balaams First
Blessing-Numbers 22:6-10
Balak’s
Anger- Numbers 22:11-17
Balaams
Second Blessing-Numbers 22:18-24
Balak’s Anger
& Further Request-Numbers 23:25-29
Balaam’s
Third Blessing – Numbers 24:13-25
Balaams
Plot-Numbers 25:1-6
Phinehas
Jeoulosy-Numbers 25:7
Bmidbar/Numbers 22:2-3
Va-yar Balak ben-Tsipor et
kol-asher-asah Yisrael la’Emori va-yagar Mo’av mip’nei ha-am m’od ki rav-hoo
va-yakata Mo’av mip’nei b’nei Yisra’el
And saw Balak,
son of Zippor, all that did Israel to the Amorites. And feared Moab before the
people greatly, because many he (was), and (was) distressed Moab before the
sons of Israel.
Related
Words:
Balak Balak, king of Moab (“destroyer”, devastator”)
balak to destroy, lay waste
billek to destroy
boollak to
be destroyed
l’lamed et
ploni “Balak” to teach someone a ‘lesson’ (teach so
and so a Balak)
Torah
Nuggets:
Balaam prophet of the Nations: Chumash p. 856
God in His
wisdom, ordained that the gentile nations should have a prophet who would be
comparable to Moses-though much inferior to him-so that they would not be able
to contend that if only they had had someone who could communicate to them the
will of God, they would have been as righteous as Israel. Balaam was that prophet.
This Sidrah,
reveolves around his ability to curse and his attempts commissioned by King
Balak of Moab, to curse the advancing Israel.
The Sages
teach that there is an instant everyday when God is “angry” (Avodah Zarah 4a
Berochos ya) meaning that He judges sinners at that time.
Clearly someone
who is guilty of transgressions is most vulnerable at that instant, and it was
Balaam’s “talent” to know when that momemt was at hand. A curse at that time could subject its
victim to such Divine judgement. Balak hired
Balaam to curse Israel, but God thwarted his plan by not sitting in judgment on
that day.
The Sidrah
tells of balaam’s repeated futile attempts, and God’s insistence that he bless
Israel. So significant were these
blessings, that the Sages even considered making them part of the daily Shema
prayers.
God wanted
these sublime blessings to come to Israel through the agency of the wicked and
the immoral Balaam so that everyone’s helpless to harm Israel against God’s
will.
Balaam’s
Three Blessings To Israel:
Num 22:6 Please come now therefore curse me this
people; for they are too mighty for me: peradventure I shall prevail, that we
may strike them, and that I may drive them out of the land; for I know that he
whom you bless is blessed, and he whom you curse is cursed.
Num 22:7 The elders of Mo'av and the elders of Midyan
departed with the rewards of divination in their hand; and they came to Bil`am,
and spoke to him the words of Balak.
Num 22:8 He said to them, Lodge here this night, and
I will bring you word again, as the LORD shall speak to me: and the princes of
Mo'av abode with Bil`am.
Num 22:9 God came to Bil`am, and said, What men are
these with you?
Num 22:10 Bil`am said to God, Balak the son of
Tzippor, king of Mo'av, has sent to me, [saying],
Num 22:11 Behold, the people that is come out of
Egypt, it covers the surface of the earth: now, come curse me them;
peradventure I shall be able to fight against them, and shall drive them out.
Num 22:12 God said to Bil`am, You shall not go with
them; you shall not curse the people; for they are blessed.
Blessing #1:
Num 23:7 He took up his parable, and said, From Aram
has Balak brought me, The king of Mo'av from the mountains of the East: Come,
curse me Ya`akov, Come, defy Yisra'el.
Num 23:8 How shall I curse, whom God has not cursed?
How shall I defy, whom the LORD has not defied?
Num 23:9 For from the top of the rocks
I see him, From the hills I see him: behold, it is a people that dwells alone,
And shall not be reckoned among the nations.
Num 23:10 Who can count the dust of
Ya`akov, Or number the fourth part of Yisra'el? Let me die the death of the
righteous, Let my last end be like his!
Blessing
#2
Num 23:18 He took up his parable, and said, Rise up,
Balak, and hear! Listen to me, you son of Tzippor.
Num 23:19 God is not a man, that he
should lie, nor the son of man, that he should repent. Has he said, and will he
not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not make it good?
Num 23:20 Behold, I have received a
command to bless. He has blessed, and I can't reverse it.
Num 23:21 He has not seen iniquity in
Ya`akov. Neither has he seen perverseness in Yisra'el. The LORD his God is with
him. The shout of a king is among them.
Num 23:22 God brings them out of Egypt.
He has as it were the strength of the wild ox.
Num 23:23 Surely there is no
enchantment with Ya`akov; Neither is there any divination with Yisra'el. Now it
shall be said of Ya`akov and of Yisra'el, What has God done!
Num 23:24 Behold, the people rises up as
a lioness, As a lion he lifts himself up. He shall not lie down until he eat of
the prey, and drinks the blood of the slain.
Blessing #3
Num 24:1 When Bil`am saw that it pleased the LORD to
bless Yisra'el, he didn't go, as at the other times, to meet with enchantments,
but he set his face toward the wilderness.
Num 24:2 Bil`am lifted up his eyes, and he saw
Yisra'el dwelling according to their tribes; and the Spirit of God came on him.
Num 24:3 He took up his parable, and said, Bil`am the
son of Be'or says, the man whose eye was closed says;
Num 24:4 he says, who hears the words
of God, who sees the vision of the Almighty, falling down, and having his eyes
open:
Num 24:5 How goodly are your tents,
Ya`akov, and your tents, Yisra'el!
Num 24:6 As valleys they are spread
forth, as gardens by the riverside, as aloes which the LORD has planted, as
cedar trees beside the waters.
Num 24:7 Water shall flow from his
buckets. His seed shall be in many waters. His king shall be higher than Agag.
His kingdom shall be exalted.
Num 24:8 God brings him out of Egypt.
He has as it were the strength of the wild ox. He shall eat up the nations his
adversaries, shall break their bones in pieces, and pierce them with his
arrows.
Num 24:9 He couched, he lay down as a
lion, as a lioness; who shall rouse him up? Everyone who blesses you is
blessed. Everyone who curses you is cursed.
He could not
CURSE what God has BLESSED!
11 Peter
2:1-22 (Hebrew Names Version)
2Pe 2:1 But false prophets also arose among the
people, as false teachers will also be among you, who will secretly
bring in destructive heresies, denying even the Master who bought them,
bringing on themselves swift destruction.
2Pe 2:2 Many will follow their immoral ways, and
as a result, the way of the truth will be maligned.
2Pe 2:3 In covetousness they will exploit you with
deceptive words: whose sentence now from of old doesn't linger, and their
destruction will not slumber.
2Pe 2:4 For if God didn't spare angels when they
sinned, but cast them down to Tartarus, and committed them to pits of darkness,
to be reserved for judgment;
2Pe 2:5 and didn't spare the ancient world, but
preserved Noach with seven others, a preacher of righteousness, when he brought
a flood on the world of the ungodly;
2Pe 2:6 and turning the cities of Sedom and `Amorah
into ashes, condemned them to destruction, having made them an example to those
who would live ungodly;
2Pe 2:7 and delivered righteous Lot, who was very
distressed by the lustful life of the wicked
2Pe 2:8 (for that righteous man dwelling among them,
was tormented in his righteous soul from day to day with seeing and hearing
lawless deeds):
2Pe 2:9 the Lord knows how to deliver
the godly out of temptation and to keep the unrighteous under punishment for
the day of judgment;
2Pe 2:10 but chiefly those who walk after the flesh
in the lust of defilement, and despise authority. Daring, self-willed, they are
not afraid to speak evil of dignitaries;
2Pe 2:11 whereas angels, though greater in might and
power, don't bring a railing judgment against them before the Lord.
2Pe 2:12 But these, as unreasoning creatures, born
natural animals to be taken and destroyed, speaking evil in matters about which
they are ignorant, will in their destroying surely be destroyed,
2Pe 2:13 receiving the wages of unrighteousness;
people who count it pleasure to revel in the daytime, spots and blemishes,
reveling in their deceit while they feast with you;
2Pe 2:14 having eyes full of adultery, and who can't
cease from sin; enticing unsettled souls; having a heart trained in greed;
children of cursing;
2Pe 2:15 forsaking the right way, they went
astray, having followed the way of Bil`am the son of Be'or, who loved the wages
of wrong-doing;
2Pe 2:16 but he was rebuked for his own
disobedience. A mute donkey spoke with a man's voice and stopped the madness of
the prophet.
2Pe 2:17 These are wells without water, clouds driven
by a storm; for whom the blackness of darkness has been reserved forever.
2Pe 2:18 For, uttering great swelling words of
emptiness, they entice in the lusts of the flesh, by licentiousness, those who
are indeed escaping from those who live in error;
2Pe 2:19 promising them liberty, while they
themselves are bondservants of corruption; for a man is brought into bondage by
whoever overcomes him.
2Pe 2:20 For if, after they have escaped the
defilement of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Yeshua the
Messiah, they are again entangled in it and overcome, the last state has become
worse for them than the first.
2Pe 2:21 For it would be better for them not to have
known the way of righteousness, than, after knowing it, to turn back from the
holy mitzvah delivered to them.
2Pe 2:22 But it has happened to them according to the
true proverb, "The dog turns to his own vomit again," and "the
sow that has washed to wallowing in the mire."
Beware of False Prophets and False Teachers who in the last days will deny Messiah and His Holy Torah!
2Ti 3:1 But know this, that in the last days,
grievous times will come.
2Ti 3:2 For men will be lovers of self, lovers of
money, boastful, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful,
unholy,
2Ti 3:3 without natural affection, unforgiving,
slanderers, without self-control, fierce, no lovers of good,
2Ti 3:4 traitors, headstrong, conceited, lovers of
pleasure rather than lovers of God;
2Ti 3:5 holding a form of godliness, but having
denied the power thereof. Turn away from these, also.
2Ti 3:6 For of these are those who creep into
houses, and take captive gullible women loaded down with sins, led away by
various lusts,
2Ti 3:7 always learning, and never able to come to
the knowledge of the truth.
1Ti 4:1 But the Spirit says expressly that in later
times some will fall away from the faith, paying attention to seducing spirits
and doctrines of demons,
1Ti 4:2 through the hypocrisy of men who speak lies,
branded in their own conscience as with a hot iron;
Marks of a
False Prophet and Teacher, he will be just the opposite of
the Godly man described below:
1Ti 3:1 This is a faithful saying: if a man seeks
the office of an overseer, he desires a good work.
1Ti 3:2 The overseer therefore must be without
reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, modest, hospitable,
good at teaching;
1Ti 3:3 not a drinker, not violent, not greedy for
money, but gentle, not quarrelsome, not covetous;
1Ti 3:4 one who rules his own house well, having
children in subjection with all reverence;
1Ti 3:5 (but if a man doesn't know how to rule his
own house, how will he take care of the assembly of God?)
1Ti 3:6 not a new convert, lest being puffed up he
fall into the same condemnation as the devil.
1Ti 3:7 Moreover he must have good testimony from those
who are outside, to avoid falling into reproach and the snare of the devil.
1Ti 3:8 Servants, in the same way, must be reverent,
not double-tongued, not addicted to much wine, not greedy for money;
Marks of a
False Prophet and Teacher
Phi 3:18 For many walk, of whom I told you often, and
now tell you even weeping, as the enemies of the cross of Messiah,
Phi 3:19 whose end is destruction, whose god is the
belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who think about earthly things.
Jud 1:4 For there are certain men who crept in
secretly, even those who were long ago written about for this condemnation:
ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying
our only Master, God, and Lord, Yeshua the Messiah.
Jud 1:5 Now I desire to remind you, though you
already know this, that the Lord, having saved a people out of the land of
Egypt, afterward destroyed those who didn't believe.
Jud 1:6 Messengers who didn't keep their first
domain, but deserted their own dwelling place, he has kept in everlasting bonds
under darkness for the judgment of the great day.
Jud 1:7 Even as Sedom and `Amorah, and the cities
around them, having, in the same way as these, given themselves over to sexual
immorality and gone after strange flesh, are set forth as an example, suffering
the punishment of eternal fire.
Jud 1:8 Yet in like manner these also in their
dreaming defile the flesh, despise authority, and slander celestial beings.
Jud 1:9 But Mikha'el, the chief angel, when
contending with the devil and arguing about the body of Moshe, dared not bring
against him an abusive condemnation, but said, "May the Lord rebuke
you!"
Jud 1:10 But these speak evil of whatever things they
don't know. What they understand naturally, like the creatures without reason,
they are destroyed in these things.
Jud 1:11 Woe to them! For they went in the way of
Kayin, and ran riotously in the error of Bil`am for hire, and perished in
Korach's rebellion.
Jud 1:12 These are hidden rocky reefs in your love
feasts when they feast with you, shepherds who without fear feed themselves;
clouds without water, carried along by winds; autumn leaves without fruit,
twice dead, plucked up by the roots;
Jud 1:13 wild waves of the sea, foaming out their own
shame; wandering stars, for whom the blackness of darkness has been reserved
forever.
Jud 1:14 About these also Chanokh, the seventh from
Adam, prophesied, saying, "Behold, the Lord came with ten thousands of his
holy ones,
Jud 1:15 to execute judgment on all, and to convict
all the ungodly of all their works of ungodliness which they have done in an
ungodly way, and of all the hard things which ungodly sinners have spoken
against him."
Jud 1:16 These are murmurers and complainers, walking
after their lusts (and their mouth speaks proud things), showing respect of
persons to gain advantage.
Jud 1:17 But you, beloved, remember the words which
have been spoken before by the emissaries of our Lord Yeshua the Messiah.
Jud 1:18 They said to you that "In the last time
there will be mockers, walking after their own ungodly lusts."
Jud 1:19 These are they who cause divisions, and are
sensual, not having the Spirit.
2Co 11:13 For such men are false emissaries, deceitful
workers, masquerading as Messiah's emissaries.
2Co 11:14 And no wonder, for even Hasatan masquerades
as an angel of light.
2Co 11:15 It is no great thing therefore if his
servants also masquerade as servants of righteousness, whose end will be
according to their works.
They will be
full of:
Lust and anarchy
Boastful
and Deceptive
Corrupt
and Unmerciful
Consecrated
to Personal Gain and Eternal Perdition
Glory in
human wisdom
Take
Advantage and bring unstable souls into bondage
They will
try to Curse what God has blessed – Israel
The will
be lawless – Rejectors of Torah- God’s Teaching and Instructions
2Ti 3:1 But know this, that
in the last days, grievous times will come.
2Ti 3:2 For men will be lovers of self, lovers of
money, boastful, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful,
unholy,
2Ti 3:3 without natural affection, unforgiving,
slanderers, without self-control, fierce, no lovers of good,
2Ti 3:4 traitors, headstrong, conceited, lovers of
pleasure rather than lovers of God;
2Ti 3:5 holding a form of godliness, but having
denied the power thereof. Turn away from these, also.
2Ti 3:6 For of these are those who creep into
houses, and take captive gullible women loaded down with sins, led away by
various lusts,
2Ti 3:7 always learning, and never able to come to
the knowledge of the truth.
2Ti 3:8 Even as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moshe, so
do these also oppose the truth; men corrupted in mind, reprobate concerning the
faith.
2Ti 3:9 But they will proceed no further. For their
folly will be evident to all men, as theirs also came to be.
2Ti 3:10 But you did follow my teaching, conduct,
purpose, faith, patience, love, steadfastness,
2Ti 3:11 persecutions, and sufferings: those things
that happened to me at Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra. I endured those
persecutions. Out of them all the Lord delivered me.
2Ti 3:12 Yes, and all who desire to live godly in
Messiah Yeshua will suffer persecution.
2Ti 3:13 But evil men and impostors will grow worse
and worse, deceiving and being deceived.
2Ti 3:14 But you remain in the things which you have
learned and have been assured of, knowing from whom you have learned them.
2Ti 3:15 From infancy, you have known the sacred
writings which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith, which is
in Messiah Yeshua.
2Ti 3:16 Every writing inspired by God is profitable
for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction which is in
righteousness,
2Ti 3:17 that the man of God may be complete,
thoroughly equipped for every good work.
2Pe 3:1 This is now, beloved, the
second letter that I have written to you; and in both of them I stir up your
sincere mind by reminding you;
2Pe 3:2 that you should remember the
words which were spoken before by the holy prophets, and the mitzvot of us, the
emissaries of the Lord and Savior:
2Pe 3:3 knowing this first, that in
the last days mockers will come, walking after their own lusts,
2Pe 3:4 and saying, "Where is
the promise of his coming? For, from the day that the fathers fell asleep, all
things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation."
2Pe 3:5 For this they willfully forget, that there
were heavens from of old, and an earth formed out of water and amid water, by
the word of God;
2Pe 3:6 by which means the world that then was,
being overflowed with water, perished.
2Pe 3:7 But the heavens that now are, and the earth,
by the same word have been stored up for fire, being reserved against the day
of judgment and destruction of ungodly men.
2Pe 3:8 But don't forget this one thing, beloved,
that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one
day.
2Pe 3:9 The Lord is not slow concerning his promise,
as some count slowness; but is patient with us, not wishing that any should
perish, but that all should come to repentance.
2Pe 3:10 But the day of the Lord will
come as a thief in the night; in which the heavens will pass away with a great
noise, and the elements will be dissolved with fervent heat, and the earth and
the works that are in it will be burned up.
2Pe 3:11 Therefore since all these
things will be destroyed like this, what kind of people ought you to be in holy
living and godliness,
2Pe 3:12 looking for and earnestly desiring the
coming of the day of God, which will cause the burning heavens to be dissolved,
and the elements will melt with fervent heat?
2Pe 3:13 But, according to his promise, we look for
new heavens and a new earth, in which righteousness dwells.
2Pe 3:14 Therefore, beloved, seeing that you look for
these things, be diligent to be found in shalom, without blemish and blameless
in his sight.
2Pe 3:15 Regard the patience of our Lord as
salvation; even as our beloved brother Sha'ul also, according to the wisdom
given to him, wrote to you;
2Pe 3:16 as also in all of his letters, speaking in
them of these things. In those, there are some things that are hard understand,
which the ignorant and unsettled twist, as they also do to the other
Scriptures, to their own destruction.
2Pe 3:17 You therefore, beloved,
knowing these things beforehand, beware, lest being carried away with the error
of the wicked, you fall from your own steadfastness.
2Pe 3:18 But grow in the grace and
knowledge of our Lord and Savior Yeshua the Messiah. To him be the glory both
now and forever. Amein.
Walk in Righteousness according
to His Holy Torah (God’s Teaching and Instructions) and follow after Messiah
Yeshua and walk as Children of the Light/Torah in Messiah.
Pro
26:2 As the bird by wandering, as the
swallow by flying, so the curse causeless shall not come.
John Gills
Exposition of the Entire Bible
Pro 26:2 - As the bird by wandering, as
the swallow by flying,.... As a bird, particularly the sparrow, as the word
(h) is sometimes rendered, leaves its
nest and wanders from it; and flies here and there, and settles nowhere; and as
the swallow flies to the place from whence it came; or the wild pigeon, as some
(i) think is meant, which flies away
very swiftly: the swallow has its name in Hebrew from liberty, because it flies
about boldly and freely, and makes its nest in houses, to which it goes and
comes without fear;
so the curse causeless shall not
come; the mouths
of fools or wicked men are full of cursing and bitterness, and especially such
who are advanced above others, and are set in high places; who think they have
a right to swear at and curse those below them, and by this means to support
their authority and power; but what signify their curses which are without a
cause? they are vain and fruitless, like Shimei's cursing David; they fly away,
as the above birds are said to do, and fly over the heads of those on whom they
are designed to light; yea, return and fall upon the heads of those that curse,
as the swallow goes to the place from whence it came; it being a bird of
passage, Jer_8:7; in the winter it
flies away and betakes itself to some islands on rocks called from thence
"chelidonian" (k). According
to the "Keri", or marginal reading, for here is a double reading, it
may be rendered, "so the curse causeless shall come to him" (l); that gives it without any reason. The
Septuagint takes in both,
"so a vain curse shall not
come upon any;''
what are all the anathemas of the
church of Rome? who can curse whom God has not cursed? yea, such shall be
cursed themselves; see Psa_109:17.
(h) rwpuk
"sicat passeris", Mercerus, Gejerus; "ut passer", Piscator;
Schultens. (i) Bochart. Hierozoic.
par. 2. l. 1. c. 8. (k) Vid. Strabo.
Geograph. l. 14. p. 458. Dionys. Perieg. v. 506, 507. (l) wl
"in quempiam", V. L.
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