Let us not forget that some things that was written in the Scriptures are hard to understand.2 Peter 3:16 as also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things, in which are some things hard to understand, which untaught and unstable people twist to their own destruction, as they do also the rest of the Scriptures.
So I am urging everyone to read again & again so we may not be deceived by false prophets and teachers who may come to us and preach.
Prophet Balaam the son of Beor said to the messengers whom Balak sent.
Numbers 24:13 ‘If Balak were to give me his house full of silver and gold, I could not go beyond the word of the LORD, to do good or bad of my own will. What the LORD says, that I must speak’?
Did Balaam did really not go beyond the word of the Lord? In the end, he was revealed by the holy spirit to Peter that indeed he accepted gold and silver.
2 Peter 2:15-16 They have forsaken the right way and gone astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Beor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness; but he was rebuked for his iniquity: a dumb donkey speaking with a man’s voice restrained the madness of the prophet.
Note that the turn of events happened in the old testament but some hidden things are revealed only in the new testament to the Apostles by the holy spirit.
Is this not a good example for us to read the Scriptures again & again?
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