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MESSAGE # 569 - Part 1

BALAAM

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BALAAM

Tape 1

We are studying today about Balaam. We read about Balaam in Chapter 22 of the book of Numbers. But There is a lot more said about him in the Zohar, which is an exposition of the Scripture. Balaam is known as the most wicked and evil and the most powerful of enemies that Israel ever had. Balaam, we are told, was a sorcerer and a diviner. According to the Zohar, the difference between sorcery and divination is this. Sorcery has to do with acts that you do, specific acts, and divination has to do with cursing, words that you speak, and the discerning of times, which I think means it has to do with astrology. Balaam was both, but We are told he was more powerful. My information is coming basically from the Zohar. I will be reading the King James version of the account of Balaam and we will be doing an alternate translation of part of the 22^nd Chapter of Numbers. But I am trying to give you a background of Balaam that I have gleaned from the Zohar and from other reference books. The second reference book that I was looking at is called The Pentateuch and the Havtorah by the Soncino press. This is a commentary about Balaam and the ass on pages 670 and 671. Oh, this is about Balak also. Maybe I'll just read you some of this. Well let me give you what I have to say first and I think I'll read you some of this information about Balak and Balaam. Balak was the king of Moab, according to the commentary that I just named to you, the Pentateuch and the Havtorah by Soncino Press. I think it is a pretty wide spread belief in Jewry that Balak was a wicked king who sought to destroy Israel.

Now according to our reference book by the Soncino Press, Moab was not at all threatened by Israel. But Moab had seen the power of Israel that was demonstrated to bring them out of Egypt and Moab was terrified and Balak wanted to wipe out Israel before there was any possibility of Israel turning its face towards Moab. Now to me that is the ultimate guilty conscience. It does not even make any sense because the power of God against Pharaoh or the power of God was manifested against Pharaoh for the specific purpose of delivering the Hebrews from slavery and the Moabites were not enslaving the Hebrews. Why would the power of God be turned against them? But you see this is the basic mentality of someone steeped in witchcraft and illegal spiritual power. People who exercise illegal spiritual power are always getting into duels. They are always getting into gun battles. There is always somebody stronger than them coming to steal what they have. People who exercise a lot of power are always afraid. They are always afraid whether they exercise power in this world, whether you are a great business tycoon or even if you are a mafia head. This is the so called holiday season that I am preaching in and a lot of these TV stations are showing favorite classical movies. This one station has shown the whole Godfather series in consecutive increments. It's very obvious that the most ruthless of all the heads of this mafia family, the Cortolini Family, was terrified. He became a brutal, brutal leader, even killing his own brother and emotionally brutalizing his own wife, the mother of his children, because he was terrified of being overtaken by the other mafia heads.

I suggest to you that Balak was just afraid of the power of Israel and he did not want to even wait for the possibility of Israel turning towards Moab. But of course what we also see here is that Balak did not comprehend the power of God. See the power of God is mighty to deliver. The power of God is mighty in justice and in righteousness, but the power of God does not go out to capture people for the sake of capturing people. That is what witchcraft does. One who wields the power of witchcraft as Balak did, just assumed that it was just a matter of time until the Israelites came looking for him and for his kingdom. Also in some of the material that I read in preparation for this message, it suggested that Balak may not even have been a Moabite. He may have been a conquering king that now was ruling over Moab. Well then, surely he would be afraid that Israel was about to do the same thing that he had done. If he was now king of Moab, because he had conquered Moab, he would have every reason to believe that another powerful force would be wanting to conquer him to take over what he had conquered. That's what it's like in the world, dog eat dog. You live by the sword and you die by the sword. But that is not the power of God. The power of God is a peace keeper. The power of God is unto righteousness and deliverance and protection of the widow and the orphan. But with people that practice sorcery and divination, they cannot comprehend this.

I had an experience where a voodoo high priestess that had been involved with someone, who is now associating themselves with this ministry, perceived in the spirit that there was some spiritual power here and she was stalking me to challenge me for this young lady that was now coming to this ministry. The Lord told me to deal with her by not fighting with her, but telling her this is not witchcraft. What you perceive is the Spirit of Christ and you can have it too, if you repent and serve the Lord Jesus. See, people only expect of other people what they, themselves, do and what they, themselves, have experienced. Balak, the king of Moab, was terrified of the Israelites because of what he, himself, had been and had done in his lifetime to date. Now We are also told that Balak was a mighty sorcerer. Balak was a mighty sorcerer. Why did he not curse Israel himself? Why did he have to go and hire Balaam to curse Israel? As a matter of fact, we do not really even have any reason to believe that Balaam was a more powerful sorcerer than Balak because in one of the verses in Numbers 22, Balak promises Balaam more honor. The Hebrew word translated honor could be translated spiritual power. We see Balak promising Balaam more spiritual power. Well how could Balak be promising Balaam more spiritual power than Balaam already had, if Balak did not have more spiritual power than Balaam? Why would Balak be seeking Balaam to curse Israel?

The answer, I suggest to you, is that Balaam was related to Israel. Balaam, the son of Beor, who was the son of Laban, Rachel's father, our ancestor, the ancestor of the Jew and the ancestor of the Christian by being grafted into the tree. We are told that Laban was a mighty sorcerer. He was known all over the world at that time for his powers. Men were afraid of him. You know, in the past I have read the King James Translation of the account of Jacob fleeing from Laban's household with his wives and his servants and his cattle and all of his children and Laban chasing after Jacob. The Lord said to Laban, you will neither speak good nor evil to Jacob. I could never understand that. Laban told Jacob, you know I have the power to hurt you. The Lord did not say to Jacob, do not touch a hair on his head, do not let any weapon befall Jacob or any member of his household. The word of the Lord to Laban was, you will speak neither good nor evil to Jacob. Well what does that mean? It means that Laban was a super sorcerer that had the power to curse mightily and to do great damage with his mouth. Now another commentary that I read says that Laban could not even have overtaken Jacob physically, that Jacob had increased mightily, that he had servants and men and arms and cattle and Laban was not even considering a physical warfare. In fact why would anyone that has the power to curse, that has that kind of power in their mouth, why would you even subject yourself to a physical warfare?

When Laban said to Jacob, I have the power to hurt you, that power was in his mouth. Brethren, the ultimate power is the power of the mouth, spiritual power. Balaam was an offspring or a descendant of Laban, one of the greatest soothsayers of the time, yet Balak had power that he could offer to Balaam. I want to suggest to you that what Balaam had that Balak did not have, was a soul tie with Israel, that there was a relationship with Israel and that Balaam had a common ancestor with Israel through Rachel, Jacob's mother. Also, Balaam, through that soul tie, had the ability to see Israel's sins. Brethren, the nation of Israel is protected by the Shekinah and spiritual Israel today is protected by the Lord Jesus Christ. The only way you can harm God's people is by judging their sins. See, the only way you can harm God's people is when they have unconfessed sin in their lives. Balaam had the ability to see the sins of Israel to find out their weaknesses and to bring them down by causing them to sin. In fact, the Scripture tells us that even though the angel of the Lord prevented Balaam from cursing Israel, Balaam nevertheless gave counsel to the Midianites as to how to destroy Israel. That counsel was to bring Israel down by sending seducing women into the Israelite camp. We see that the weakness by which Israel suffered a mighty loss was by consorting with pagan women through sexual favors.

I do not know how far I am going to go with this message. We read about that account in subsequent paragraphs of Numbers after we read about Balaam in Chapter 22. So why do not I just go on and read you some of these notes here. Let me just give you this further information. Balaam is likened to Moses. The power of Balaam is likened to the power of Moses in the Zohar. I am not sure if that's in the Scripture or not, but it's in the Zohar. Now the power of Balaam was on the other side. It was not power that came from God. Moses had power that came from God. But one big lack that I find in the church today seems to be a very strong lack of understanding that there are people in the world today that are very spiritually powerful, and especially in this hour, there are people in the world who are more powerful than the Christians and their power is not of God. So Balaam was on the level with Moses. What is that level? It's a level where you speak directly to the source of your power, where you have direct communication with the source of your power. Moses did not have a physical mediator. Balaam did not have a physical mediator. He practiced witchcraft and he related directly to the spirits, the spiritual chieftains and the spiritual powers that gave him his power. Now brethren, please bear with me as I struggle to bring this message forth. See, there are two major levels of relationship with the Lord. Of course, spiritual is spiritual.

What I am going to tell you now is also true of the people who serve gods other than the Lord Jesus Christ or the Jehovah of the Scripture. There are two levels of relationship. One level is where you are a person who needs a physical mediator as the people that Moses led. They stood in the wilderness because Moses stood in the wilderness. When Moses stood, they stood. When Moses sat down, they sat down. Spiritually speaking, they could not stand up in spiritual power unless Moses was standing. When Moses stood up, they stood up with him. That's what happens in these meetings, you know. When you come to these meetings, you come into a higher level of power than you are capable of ascending to on your own, in your own studies, because that's the way the Lord has set it up. There is a mediator here. Then there are the people who are taught directly by God or directly by the agencies of God. Now the Zohar says that these men, these spiritually ascended men, are taught by angels or They are taught by Elijah. There is so much that I am learning about Kabbalah that I really haven't fully dealt with it myself. But that's what they say, that They are taught by angels. Now in the Christian church, We are warned to beware of angels. We are told to not worship angels. But it does not really say anywhere that we can be taught by angels. John was given his great vision that is now the Book of Revelation, by an angel. But the angel warned John, do not worship me.

But I am not encouraging anybody to get revelation from angels because there are too many Christians being approached by spirit guides today. I do not know how to warn you or how to tell you to protect yourself. So my counsel to you is stay away from angels. My teacher is the Lord Jesus Christ. I do not believe I am taught by an angel. I am taught by the Lord Jesus Christ, Himself. So there are people who are taught directly by God and then people who are taught by a teacher, by a human teacher. You need a human mediator. Now you are not relegated to these categories forever. With God all things are possible. We are all called to come to the stature that Jesus Christ had attained to. So these categories exist only for a season in order to accomplish God's purposes by teaching His people what He wants them to be taught. But we have to face the reality and that reality is that there are two levels of relationship with the Lord. One is those people who meet Him face to face and those who need a mediator. Now everybody in the church, everybody in the Pentecostal Church anyway, or whatever denomination you are (if the shoe fits, wear it) Christians have available to them a personal relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ. That is a relationship by which He comforts you and He directs you and He leads you, but there is something higher.

When it comes to studying deeper revelation, when it comes to going on to spiritual maturity and spiritual ascension, the Lord teaches us through anointed men. You see, a lot of Christians in the church today are confused about the Scripture that says you do not need any man to teach you because the Spirit of Truth will teach you. Well what that means is you do not need any carnal minded man to teach you, but the Spirit of Truth will raise up a teacher that the Lord will send you to, to teach you. You're looking for a teacher who is instructing you by the Spirit of Truth. That's a big misunderstanding in the church. So there is a place for your personal relationship with the Lord, but when it comes to the perfecting of the saints, the Lord ministers through mediators. The mediators, the teachers that He sends to teach the body of Christ, are collectively called Christ Jesus. We are the manifestation of Christ Jesus to you. Now you could be hearing this tape and you could walk out of here and the Lord could anoint you to go minister to somebody. In that instant you are a part of the body of Christ Jesus. But then at the same time, the Lord will turn you towards a teacher for you to get your sustenance, for you to be trained up and increased. So you have to try the spirit. Are you under a teacher or are you suppose to be under a teacher and you are refusing to go or is your spiritual maturation going forth directly under the anointing of the Lord Jesus Christ? There are two categories of people.

See, it's a misnomer in the church today. There is a misunderstanding that the primary function of the church is to go out and evangelize other people. The primary function of the members of the body of Christ are to ascend into the spiritual maturity that will be equal to the stature of the Lord Jesus Christ. Are you going forward every day? Are you growing? Is your understanding of Scripture growing? Are you getting revelation? Are you growing as a person? If you are not under a teacher, you should have students under you. You should be an active participant in the maturation of the church. So if you are just sitting home doing nothing, the chances are like almost one hundred percent that you should be under a teacher and that you have misunderstood what the Lord is saying to you.

So these two categories are existing. One is a group of people that need a human teacher and two is the group of people that are instructed directly by the heavens, however you want to express that. Balaam was of the second kind. Balaam did not have a human teacher between him and the chieftains that he worshiped and sacrificed to. Balaam saw his gods face to face just like Moses spoke to the Lord, face to face. Now I've talked about this principle before many times, but I've said it a little differently. Over the years I've told you that there are two kinds of spiritual power that's exercised. The first kind of spiritual power that you see is in the Old Testament with blood sacrifice and the priests dressing up in uniforms and performing rituals. There is a spiritual power on the same level of the other side, where you see people in witchcraft sacrificing animals and drinking blood and doing whatever their rituals are. It's the same level of spiritual power, one on the side of God and one on the other side. Then There is another level of spiritual power where you do not have animal sacrifices, where you do not dress up in the garb that's decreed by your God or you do not really have any rituals. You have a face to face relationship with your God and His power pours through you as the fruit of that relationship. That exists both in the church and in witchcraft. The prime example that I gave of it years ago was the movie, Chaka Zulu, where you saw the two kinds of witchcraft power. One was the witch doctor that captured a man and took some of his skin and drank his blood and then used that ritual to spiritually transport himself and kill the man's father. Then there was the higher level of witchcraft of the female witch who was living. Maybe she was a hundred or two hundred years old. She was very old and no one knew how old she was. So she had the power to cause her life to be extended and she would just go out into the forest and raise her arms and invoke her gods and brought down the power. There was no ritual, no blood, no animal sacrifice. We see the two categories in Israel under the law and in the church today. There is no more animal sacrifices, no more rituals and no more garments. It's a face to face relationship with God and He gets inside of you and manifests His power through you. It's a higher level. Well Balaam was on this higher level. Balaam was very spiritually high on the other side and Balaam was a descendant of Laban.

I told you that Balak had great magic arts. I told you that. I told you that Balak designed to join forces with Balaam. Can you imagine that spiritual power of two great sorcerers joining forces to destroy Israel? Let me read some of this information about Balak and Balaam. I am on page 668 of the Pentateuch and the Havtorah by Soncino Press. This is talking about the character of Balaam. Balaam's personality is an old enigma, which has baffled the skill of commentators. It seem probable that he had, from the first, learned some elements of pure and true religion in his home in Mesopotamia, the cradle of the ancestors of Israel. This is talking about Balaam now. He thus belongs with Melchisedec, Job and Jethro to the scattered worshipers of the true God, who are unconnected with Israel. Do you hear this? Balaam had something of the true God in him. He was a descendant of Laban who produced Rachel, one of the ancestors of Israel. There was something in these people of the true God. I want to suggest to you (and I know that God has told me this is true) that today there are people all over the world, some of whom are practicing Buddhism, some of them are practicing Hinduism, some of them are practicing all kinds of religions where they do not worship the true God. These people are very spiritually high. They are people that are in the higher category. They do not use any rituals. Their power is in their mouth. They have a face to face relationship with their God and the Lord knows who they are.

In the Lord's timing or at the will of the Lord, He will speak to these people, just like the Lord spoke to Abimelech, who had captured Sarah. God will speak to them and they will obey because, you see, these people are spiritual people. When the Lord of heaven, when the Lord of all the earth speaks to them, they will know that they are speaking to someone of authority and they will obey. You see, the Lord can relate to these people because they can hear Him. But the majority of people in the earth, including the church, they do not even hear the Lord when He speaks to them. So the only way the Lord can communicate with these other people is by a mediator, by raising up a teacher who will speak to the people in their own language. This way the Lord does all that He can to relate to the common man. You see, the Lord loves the common man. It's His intention to save the common man, the average person in this fallen world. God wants to save the most simplest of us and that's why He goes through all the trouble of raising up teachers. If the Lord was only interested in saving the spiritual people, probably it would have been all over a long time ago. He would just go to all these high spiritual people practicing all kinds of witchcraft and show them His power, which is what He did to Balaam.

He showed Balaam His power. At the end we'll find out the Lord showed Balaam His power and Balaam willingly chose to give up his witchcraft because he saw a better way. That's how God deals with the people who have spiritual power. But the majority of the world that are just eating and drinking and having no relationship with anything spiritual at all, that is the challenge for God to relate to those people. So one of the key aspects of this message is this, all human beings have the potential to manifest the life of Christ. Everyone has the potential to be good or evil. The more spiritual power you have, the more your potential to do evil. But everybody is two people. Everybody can turn from good to evil; everybody. Everybody can turn. Now it seems to be, now that We are studying Kabbalah (if I am wrong let the Lord correct me) but it seems to me that one of the major problems with the Jewish mentality today is (from what I can see) they do not seem to think they could turn to the other side. They seem to think that they know that man sins and they know that they have to repent, but I do not believe that they see this other side. What We are teaching in this ministry is that this carnal mind has to die, that there is a witch in all of us, that there is a super sorcerer in all of us and there can be only one side, you see. We have to go to one side or the other. The average person today is a two sided man, a two faced man, a double minded man as the Book of James says. But there can be only one.

In order for us to inherit our inheritance, we must ascend in spiritual power and you cannot ascend in spiritual power with a double mind. Only one of your two minds can ascend in spiritual power and the other one has to die. In order for us to become all that We are called to be, one side of us has to die. I do not know to what degree that, that is recognized, but I guess I won't get into that right now. Maybe the Jew does have that revelation. I do not know, but this is the issue with Balaam. Balaam was a super sorcerer and the angel of the Lord revealed Himself to Balaam and Balaam turned to the other side. Now not every historian believes that, but that's how it looks to me. But let me continue to read what I am reading here to you. So We are saying that Balaam is represented in the Scripture, at the same time, as a heathen sorcerer and a true prophet. Do you know that Balaam prophesied the coming of the Messiah? When the angel of the Lord was overshadowing Balaam, he prophesied the coming of the Messiah. That makes him a true prophet. How could you be a sorcerer and a prophet of Jehovah at the same time? This is a contradiction. It's a paradox. It's an oxymoron. This is our condition. Our fallen mortal condition is a paradox and so many people stumble when they see Christians, especially Christian leaders, doing evil.

How can you be a man of God and do evil? How could you be a man of God and fall? How could you be a man of God and be seduced? Well the answer is you can; you can. The truth is that there are spiritual powers, spiritual winds blowing across the earth continuously, seeking to seduce and cause to fall down every man that is seeking to follow the Lord God in holiness. So the Scripture clearly shows this contradiction. Balaam was a heathen sorcerer and a true prophet and the perverter who suggested a peculiarly abhorrent means of bringing about the ruin of Israel. Of course the means of ruining Israel was he told the Midianites to send their women in, their women who were prostitutes, to deliberately seduce the men of Israel into sexual sin. Because of these fundamental contradictions in character, Bible critics assume that the Scriptural account of Balaam is a combination of two or three varying traditions belonging to different periods. This is quite unconvincing. It is as if we were to maintain that the current life story of Francis Bacon, for example, was due to the combination of two or three traditions belonging to different periods in English history, since no one man could at the same time be an illustrious philosopher, a great statesman and the meanest of mankind. Such a view betrays a slight knowledge of the fearful complexity of the mind and soul of man.

It is only in the realm of the fable that men and women display, as it were in a single flash of light, some one aspect of human nature. We all have multiple aspects of our nature. The nicest person that you know, you do not know what They are like when They are in private. We are all a mixture. Everybody is a mixture. This is the fallen nature. It is otherwise in real life. The heart is deceitful above all things and it is exceedingly wicked and weak. Who can know it? The heart is wicked and weak. This is human psychology. In post Biblical times, most Jewish authorities represent Balaam in an unfavorable and often in a detestable light. Although his utterances are a rhapsody of praise of Israel, they pay regard to his intention which was to curse and not to bless. So what the book is saying is the authorities are not giving Balaam any credit because of the great things that he said about Israel because his heart was to curse Israel. He only blessed Israel because the angel of the Lord overshadowed him. So the historians are not giving any credit to Balaam. They are saying his heart was wicked and if he could have had his way, he would have completely destroyed Israel. So I do not care that he was a prophet and I do not care that he prophesied Messiah and I do not care that he did all of these good things. That's what We are being told here.

They therefore speak of Balaam as Balaam the wicked. He has an evil eye, a haughty mind and a proud spirit, they declare. With Amalek and Haman, he is a permanent type of the enmity of the impious against Israel. All the more noteworthy is the fact that some Jewish opinions are decidedly and emphatically favorable. Some Jewish historians and scholars seem to like Balaam. According to these opinions, he is as a prophet on a level with Moses. He prophesied the coming of Messiah and his story is of such importance that it is given in the law and in the prophets. We hear about Balaam in Micah and in the sacred writings we hear about Balaam in Nehemiah. There was even a suggestion that the utterances of Balaam should find a place in the Shemah (that's the holy prayer that the Jews sing.) Although this was not done, one noted saying of his (this is what Balaam said now) how goodly are thy tents oh Jacob, thy dwellings of Israel. That sentence that Balaam spoke out under the anointing forms the opening sentence of every synagogue service. So how could you do that and still say Balaam is the blight of Israel? Well you can if you believe that Balaam, the whole time he was saying this, was wanting to curse Israel. That's where these other scholars are coming from. In the early church, the view taken of Balaam is one of unrelieved blackness. He is the embodiment of avarice and unholy ambition.

Modern Christian theologians have depicted him as a warning example of self deception which persuades man, in every case, that the sin which he commits may be brought within the rules of conscience and revelation, as the combination of the purest form of religious belief with a standard of conduct immeasurably below it. A violent reaction in Balaam's favor set in with these men called Lessing and Herder long before the rise of the critical school. Among these newer estimates we may mention that of Calash, who considers Balaam faultless in character and his utterances unsurpassed for poetic beauty in the whole of Scripture. Firm and inexorable like fate, he regards himself solely as an instrument of that omnipotence which guides the destinies of nations by its unerring wisdom. Free from all human passion; now I do not know why they would say this, that Balaam is free from all human passion. I do not know where they get that from, but that's what they say. Free from all human passion, he is like a mysterious spirit from a higher and nobler world. Careful reading of Chapters 22 thru 24, however, shows that those who approve of everything Balaam says or does are as far from a true estimate of him as those to whom he is a semi diabolical being. So what this is saying is that there is one camp of Jews that say Balaam is a semi diabolical human being and then There is another camp that's saying he's a great man of God. But the truth is that he was both, you see.

Both of these camps are having a problem dealing with the fact that a man that evil could manifest the word of the Lord. But brethren, we see that all the time, in the Pentecostal Church anyway. We see it all the time in Christendom that men who have done great things for God also do great evil in their personal lives and to other people. It's a mystery. It's one of the mysteries of life. So who was Balaam? Balaam had a relationship with God. Now it's pointed out in the Zohar that Balaam did not have a relationship with Jehovah. Balaam had a relationship with Elohim and the angel of the Lord. I did check that out and I see that it's true that Jehovah never spoke directly to Balaam. So who is this angel of the Lord? I want to suggest to you that the angel of the Lord and Elohim being the spirit of that angel was Adam dwelling within Balaam. Balaam had both sides. He had Leviathan formed in him and he had Adam formed in him. He had both sides, you see. He had both sides. He was living mostly out of Leviathan, but Adam was in there with the potential to rise up and withstand Leviathan and therefore turn Balaam's whole nature towards the righteous side. This is the basic issue of our fallen humanity. It is the message of this ministry, that if you have the seed of Christ grafted to you, you have both sides. You have Leviathan and you have Christ and there is a warfare going on and that is what Chapter 22 of Numbers is about.

We will do the alternate translation. It is that warfare that goes on to determine who you will primarily be. See, We are all good and evil, but we have to be primarily on one side. We are all Christ and Leviathan, but we have to be primarily one. Hopefully you are primarily Christ. But this is the warfare that's going on. Further to what I told you in this meeting, I think just last Thursday night, that if a character flaw is revealed in you, you cannot recover or heal that character flaw by attacking it at its height. You have to overcome it at its feet. In other words, if you are engaged in a behavior; okay, I am just give a way out example. Nobody here is doing this, but let's say you are a bank robber. If you really want to be healed from bank robbing (let's say you just have a compulsive disorder that causes you to rob banks) and you want to be healed from bank robbing. You have to start to be healed at the root of your problem. I believe that anybody who is a bank robber has a problem with rebellion and pride. That means if you want to get well, you need to submit yourself to a Godly discipline and start to do the little bitty things correctly and to take the correction for what you are doing wrong in the simple things of life. If the authority wants you to shut the light off and you do not want to shut it off, you are not going to stop being a bank robber. This is an extreme example.

If you want to break that compulsion in you, obey the rules on the very simple foundational level. Well along those lines, we will see when we translate Numbers 22, that Adam, in order to rise up in Balaam and turn Balaam away from Leviathan towards the righteous lifestyle of Jehovah, what Adam did was he strengthened Abel to overcome Cain. See, the change has to be at your foundation. If you just change your behavior, you may stop doing that behavior, but that root, that damaged root will produce other similar ungodly behavior. You must deal with the root in your heart of what is making you do this ungodly behavior. The bottom foundation of all sin is rebellion and pride. So submit yourself to a Godly program and determine to obey the rules no matter how silly they might be to you. Put yourself under authority and obey that authority even if that authority may be wrong at the moment. So do not fight with the authority even if They are having a bad day and maybe they've been a little too hard and maybe what They are telling you isn't even completely accurate. It's just pride that wants to straighten out the authority. Just say yes, you know. Just do not argue about it because it's going to break your rebellion. It's going to break your pride and when that rebellion and pride is broken, then you will find within you the power to stop robbing banks, if you can hear what I am saying. If you can hear what I am saying, you will be blessed. I am telling you the truth.

Okay, so We are talking about Balaam. We are still in this commentary here. For the unique incident of the speaking ass that has for centuries proved a source of merriment to the semi educated; it says see our notes. I guess we'll get to that eventually. Okay, now we have a comment on Balak, king of Moab. The Israelites, fresh from victory over the Amorites kings, were now settled on the border of Moab and filled both the king and the people of Moab with dread. I guess these are just footnotes here. Elders of Midian who conducted the general affairs of the desert tribes that has their origin in Midian, east of the gulf of Ochaba. There was no enmity on the part of Israel towards Moab. Neither did Israel in any way cross the path of the Midianites or harbor any ill will against them. Moses has spent many years in Midian and Jethro, the Midianite priest was an honored guest in Israel's tents. The plot of the Moabites and Midianites against Israel was thus the outcome of causeless hatred, a source of the most terrible cruelties in human relations. What I am doing here is reading you footnotes. It has caused the first deportation to Balaam. They placed their hope in Balaam (that's the Moabites) far feigned throughout the east as a soothsayer whose curse is irresistible. Now that word irresistible itself has to do with seduction and witchcraft. Balak sends messengers to Balaam, inviting him to cast a baneful spell upon this rising people of the desert. In a vision God forbids Balaam to accompany them.

I am now reading the commentary on Balaam and the ass. This is page 671. We now come to the best known episode in the story of Balaam, the speaking ass. God makes the dumb animal rebuke the blindness and obstinacy of man. Balaam, like many and one before and after him, is saved from dishonor by unforseen hindrance and brought to reason through means which human pride despises. You know, brethren, I do not believe that Balaam had a physical ass like a jack ass. You know, it's sort of like a horse, you know, a donkey. His ass was his personality. See, we are in parts. Balaam was the manifested Leviathan risen up as a great sorcerer in this person called Balaam. His ass was his Fiery Serpent. That's what his ass was. That's my opinion. Okay, now I read books like the Zohar which fully treat the issue as Balaam having a natural ass. Now I do not know whether there are Kabbalists that really believe this or whether there are Kabbalists that know that Balaam's ass was his animal or his bestial nature. I do not know, because I am told that the Kabbalistic books that have been translated into English are not even the real Kabbalah and that the real Kabbalah is not even in print in Hebrew. You have to get it by word of mouth.

So I do not know whether there are Kabbalists that have the revelation that we have here or not. But I know that when I read in the Zohar (I am very impressed with this book) I look and frequently see what the Doctrine of Christ has said in the Zohar. I realize that the Zohar is very much of a parable covering over spiritual truths because how do you state a spiritual truth? How do you state a spiritual reality or a spiritual experience? How do you put it down in words? I think the only way to put it down is in a parable. The only reason I recognize it for what it is, is that the Lord has already given me that experience. But I wouldn't know how to put my experience down in words, you see. So every time I read something in the Zohar that sounds a little fantastical to me, I understand that it is a shell that's covering a spiritual experience. But if I haven't had that spiritual experience, I just have no way of knowing what it could mean. Now the Zohar goes really far. There is a section in the Zohar where it says that Balaam actually had physical intercourse with his ass as a part of a witchcraft ritual. Now I do not believe that. I am choosing to not believe that. But the strange part of the whole thing is, that when you get into spiritual writings like this, you find that incidences occur on all planes of consciousness or they occur on multiple planes of consciousness.

Now if I were to be told that there is some practitioner of witchcraft, somewhere, that acquires spiritual power by having intercourse with animals, I would have no problem believing that. As a matter of fact, I believe that it's true. I believe that I've actually heard about that and that it's true. That's how they acquire spiritual power. When they do these ungodly acts, spirits from the unclean side come down and give them the power. But I am having a problem believing that, that's what Balaam did because the Lord has shown me that this intercourse was an intercourse of mind. Whether or not this intercourse occurred both of mind and on a bestial nature with the man Balaam, I do not know. But I do know that it's probably true that there are witches somewhere engaging in ungodly sexual acts to acquire spiritual power. So I hope that you are all following me. I cannot literally take everything I read in the Zohar because I know from my personal experience that what I see written is just a parable covering the spiritual truth. I know that because the Lord has shown me my spiritual experiences in the paragraphs of the Zohar. So when I read something like that, that Balaam was having sex with his ass, I am choosing to believe that it was a spiritual experience and that his ass was his bestial nature. Unless the Lord tells me otherwise, that's what I am choosing to believe.

Now people reading the Zohar who do not have a revelation of mental spiritual sexual intercourse, the only way they may be able to get this concept is by reading about this foul event. I do not know. There is so much I do not know. But this is what I am telling you, at this point, I am perceiving Balaam to be a very high level spiritual sorcerer who had a face to face relationship with the spiritual chieftains that he served and that also he had a potential to manifest Adam. He was the descendant of Laban who was the father of Rachel, our ancestor, and I am choosing to believe that Balaam was not involved in this low level witchcraft. If I am wrong, I'll let the Lord correct me. I think part of the reason that I cannot believe it or that I am choosing to not believe it, is that the Scripture is clear that there are certain nations that the Lord would never join Himself to. We are told that the Lord would never join Himself to Moab. Then There is another nation, as well, the name of which is alluding me at the moment. The Lord would never join Himself to Moab. You never see even the angel of the Lord talking to a Moabite. The angel of the Lord spoke to Pharaoh, the angel of the Lord spoke to Balaam, the angel of the Lord spoke to Jethro, a Midianite, but not a Moabite. Moabite means incest, you see. The Lord is not dealing with the product of incest.

So from that point of view, I am taking the position that the Lord would not manifest Himself to a sorcerer that's engaged in really filthy acts of bestiality and intercourse with animals and the cutting up of animals, which is in the Zohar. Cutting up animals and dissecting them and doing all these things, the practitioners of Satanism do, we know. This is what is in my spirit. I cannot prove it to you, but this is what's in my spirit, that Balaam was not on that low spiritual realm and that if he were, the angel of the Lord would not have had anything to do with him at all. I believe that Balaam was on a higher spiritual realm where he spoke face to face with the gods that he served and he was not engaged in rituals of that level. Let the Lord correct me if I am wrong. That's what's in my heart. There has to be a place where the Lord will not go. You have to reach a point where you are so filthy that the Lord won't go to overshadow you. If I am wrong, let the Lord correct me. To me that would be like saying the Lord went to a Satanist and overshadowed him and prophesied through him. Maybe that will happen some day, but this is me preaching today and I am just having a problem believing it. You see, I could see the Lord going to a Hindu and overshadowing him and preaching through him. I could see the Lord going to a Buddhist and overshadowing him and preaching to him, but I cannot see the Lord going to someone who's engaged in filthy acts of bestiality and illegally slaughtering animals and overshadowing them. So that's where I am coming from. You know, if I am wrong, let the Lord correct me.

Many expositors, both in ancient and modern times, take the account of the miracle in these verses literally. Nothing is impossible to omnipotence, they hold, and a speaking ass is no more marvelous than a speaking Serpent or any of the other miracles. Do you know anything about a speaking Serpent? I do not think the Scripture says anything about that. Oh, the speaking Serpent in the Garden, of course. (Laughter) But of course, we know that the Serpent was not a physical snake either. So that's just one more witness that I do not believe it was a physical ass. In the ethics of the fathers, the mouth of the earth that swallowed Korah, the mouth of the well and the mouth of Balaam's ass are classed among these strange and wonderful phenomena that have their origin in the interval between the close of the work of creation and the commencement of the Sabbath. In this way the rabbis gave expression to their conception of the miraculous in the scheme of things. Miracles, they held, were not interruptions of nature's laws. The fathers of the mishnah who taught that Balaam's ass was created on the eve of the Sabbath in the twilight, were not fantastic fools, but subtle philosophers, discovering the reign of universal law through the exceptions, the miracles that had to be created specially and were still a part of the order of the world, bound to appear in due time, much as apparently erratic comets are.

Okay. Well, I do not know if I want to read this whole thing to you. Thus Balaam appears with but two attendants and traveling alone without the brilliant accompaniment of princes and honorable ambassadors. Again he does not show the least astonishment at the startling fact of the ass speaking. In the light of this interpretation, depict the continuance on the subconscious plane of the mental and moral conflict of Balaam's soul. The dream apparition of the angel and the speaking ass is but a further warning to Balaam against being misled through avarice to violate God's command. Another explanation holds that the text nowhere states that the ass gave utterance to human sounds. Its weird behavior in the presence of the angel and its wild cries at the cruel beatings were understood by Balaam to mean the words given in the text. In brief there is not in Judaism any one authoritative interpretation of the book of Balaam. In regard to its narrative, readers are free to think what they please. Therefore, those who do not deem any of the above interpretations acceptable, should feel too deeply the essential voracity of the story to be troubled over much with minute questions about its details. Whatever way we conceive the narrative, its representation of the strivings of conscience is of permanent human and spiritual value.

So We are being told, whether it happened, whether there really was an ass or there was not an ass, the main issue is of conscience. Okay, I think I gave you a general idea of what We are dealing with here. Sometimes it's very hard to tell where the reality ends. There is a lot of reality in the Scripture. There is a lot of history that is reality and the account of Balaam is, I believe, a reality. So where does the reality end and the parable pick up? The parable picks up when the message becomes spiritual. The parable begins where the message becomes spiritual. That's the rule that the Lord has shown me. If you are reading the Zohar or if you are reading any kind of spiritual literature and something sounds fantastical to you, the chances are like almost a hundred percent that what you are reading about is the description of a spiritual event cloaked in the words of a story. So what I would like to do is read you this alternate translation. Well maybe I'll just read you the King James first and then I'll read you the alternate translation. But I hope that I made all my points, that Balaam was a very spiritually high man and the day is going to come when this war, this spiritual war, really revs up. The Lord is going to be gathering in all the highly spiritual people and They are going to transfer over immediately. They are going to grasp the Doctrine of Christ immediately. They are going to leave the other people in the dust and that's just going to happen.

So you have to just get your pride under control and tell the Lord you want to be a spiritual person and whoever you are at the time that the Lord enlists these highly powerful beings, wherever you are going to be you are going to be. Just hope that you are in a good place with the Lord. I tell the Lord all the time, I do not know, maybe some day someone will come in and have a higher position than me. I just want to be kept busy, that I shouldn't be left without anything to do. Whatever He's going to do, let it happen. But you need to know that there are spiritual characters. You know, Paul talks about it, the people that know what's right without reading a book. They have the law of God written on their heart. See, Balaam knew what the commandment of the Lord was. He was doing otherwise, but he knew what the commandment of the Lord was. He knew all about it. He was not an ignorant man. He was just given over to his evil side. This is a saying that we've heard in the church for years, that you are going to be surprised at who you find in heaven. You're going to find some of the biggest sinners, that have repented, in heaven. Some of the self righteous Pharisees that never really did anything behavioral wrong in their life; they never fornicated, they never committed adultery, they never stole and they may not make it because their heart is desperately wicked with all the hidden sins of envy and pride and avarice.

So I see many lessons in this account. I see the lesson that God is everywhere. God is in the midst of evil. God is in the midst of evil men and He can rise up whenever He wants to and He can overshadow anyone that He wants to. Sometimes He kills the person. It depends. Yes, God kills people sometimes. So Balaam was very wicked. He gave the counsel to Balak as to how to destroy Israel through Israel's weakness for sex. That was what brought Solomon down. That was what caused David a problem. That was what caused thousands of Israelites to die when the Midianites sent their women in to seduce the Israelite men. Did I leave anything out Lord? Well, let me just say this. What's interesting is that this Balaam who knew the commandments of the Lord, but was serving Leviathan and Satan, he was higher in spiritual power than Israel. See, he had the power to curse Israel. The only reason he couldn't curse Israel was because the Shekinah was protecting them. He was more powerful than the people that needed a mediator. He was on the same level as Moses. So the church, brethren, is not that high today. There are plenty of witches around today cursing the church, that have the power to do it.

Why do you think the church is so deceived and so weak? The church and Israel have been the victim of continuous spiritual assaults to castrate them. The only way We are going to make it is by knowledge. We need to be educated as to the form of the attacks because the attacks come without perception. Just like the anointing of God comes without perception. The attacks of the enemy come without perception. The lies that seep into your mind to destroy you, to lay hold of your human weaknesses and make you long for things that you would never long for if you were running your own life. It's wicked, purely wicked, to look at somebody and scan them and find out what area is a potential for sin, but under the control of Christ, and to weaken that area, to join with that area, to stir it up, to weaken you, whether it be anger or any kind of lust to drink or to drug or to commit adultery or to lie or whatever your sin is, whatever your potential for sin is. How wicked for someone to come into your life and scan you to find your weaknesses to bring you down. That is pure evil. I saw a movie once. I know I talked about it on another tape. This con artist came into town and he came into this wealthy social set and he victimized almost everybody there. He found out what their weakness was and he blackmailed them. That is the epitome of evil.

Okay, let's read in the King James Translation, Chapter 22 of the Book of Numbers. And the children of Israel set forward and pitched in the plaines of Moab on this side Jordan, by Jericho. And Balak, the son of Zippor, saw all that Israel had done to the Amorites. And Moab was sore afraid of the people because they were many and Moab was distressed because of the children of Israel and Moab said unto the elders of Midian, now shall this company lick up all that are round about us as the ox licked up the grass of the field. And Balak, the son of Zippor, was king of the Moabites at that time. He sent messengers therefore unto Balaam the son of Beor, to Pethor, which is by the river of the land of the children of his people, to call him saying, behold there is a people come out of Egypt, behold they cover the face of the earth and they abide over against me. Come now therefore, I pray thee, curse me this people for they are too mighty for me, peradventure I shall prevail that we may smite them and that I may drive them out of the land for I want that he whom thou bless is blessed and he whom thou curse is cursed. And the elders of Moab and the elders of Midian departed with the rewards of divination in their hand and they came unto Balaam and spake unto him the words of Balak.

And he said unto them, lodge here this night and I will bring you word again as the Lord shall speak unto me and the princes of Moab abode with Balaam. And God came unto Balaam; see that word God is Elohim and the principle here is that this was the spirit of Adam that was in the man Balaam. And God came unto Balaam and said what men are these with you? Now the Zohar teaches that this was just an angel, that frequently angels take the name Elohim when They are on a mission. But the Lord has told me that this was Balaam's personal potential for God. He was Elohim, the spirit that was in Adam, within Balaam. And God came unto Balaam and said what men are these with you? And Balaam said unto God, Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab, hath sent unto me saying, behold there is a people come out of Egypt which covereth the face of the earth. Come now, curse me them for peradventure I shall be able to overcome them and drive them out. And God said unto Balaam, you shall not go with them. You shall not curse the people for they are blessed. And Balaam rose up in the morning and said unto the princes of Balak, get you unto your land for the Lord refuseth to give me leave to go with you.

And the princes of Moab rose up and they went unto Balak and said, Balaam refused to come with us. And Balak sent yet again princes more and more honorable than they. Now how could he be sending honorable princes when he's asking these men to influence Balaam to curse Israel? How could they be honorable? This Hebrew word translated honorable, I looked it up, it could be translated as witchcraft. Balak sent men of spiritual power. Listen brethren, I want to tell you something. As I study this account, I believe that Balaam was the victim of witchcraft. do not think that because somebody practices witchcraft that they cannot be victimized by witchcraft? Balaam's weakness was his avarice. He was greedy. He wanted the money, you see. But that does not mean that he did not become subject to spiritual influence. Balak sent men to tempt Balaam with money and Balaam resisted. So Balak sent men with more powers of persuasion. Now listen brethren, when somebody is a sorcerer, when somebody manifests spiritual power, that is the same thing as saying that person has a powerful mind. When you exercise spiritual power, you have a powerful mind. So Balak had a powerful mind.

Well Balak sent men that had powerful minds and together the powerful minds of the princes that Balak sent plus Balaam's real greed for the money was what was about to bring Balaam down. He could not stand. You see, he was being attacked from the outside and he was also being attacked from the inside. He was being attacked by his own greed and he was being attacked by witchcraft power. This very word, princes, this came up and I know it's not on a tape, but that issue did come up here, whether We are kings or princes. You know the Scripture says that We are kings because we have the power and authority over some form of land. The land that we have power over is our own bodies. This ministry is a kingdom. The pastor of a ministry raised up by God is a king. What makes you a prince is the degree of spiritual power that you have. The term prince signifies spiritual power. See, you could be a powerless king. King is natural authority and prince is spiritual authority. So these men were spiritually powerful men. They were princes and even more honorable than the others. They came to Balaam and said to him, thus saith Balak, the son of Zippor, let nothing, I pray thee, hinder thee from coming unto me, for I will promote you unto very great honor. Now what kind of honor was Balak going to give Balaam? They did not even live in the same area. They lived in other parts of the world. I see this as the same thing as Satan offering Jesus all the kingdoms of the world.

See, Balak was offering Balaam additional spiritual power. That's what he was offering him. For I will promote thee to very great honor and I will do whatsoever thou sayest unto me. And I will do whatever you ask me to do. Now Balak was a great sorcerer. So he's offering spiritual power to Balaam, plus the use of Balak's own services. Come therefore, I pray thee, curse me this people. In other words, We are both great sorcerers and you have authority over these people that I do not have. You do this for me and I'll do for you whatever it is that you need that I can do that you cannot do. Balaam answered and said unto the servants of Balak, if Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I cannot go beyond the word of the Lord my God to do less or more. Balaam knew what the word of the Lord was. He knew what was right and what was wrong. He knew that he had, had a specific word from Adam within him, telling him do not do that. The man heard from God. Now he did not hear from Jehovah, but he heard from what we might say is the Christ within. So he wasn't just a miserable sorcerer. This was a very strange kind of man. He was a man who did evil, who had a relationship with the agent of the living God. Again, I really have a problem believing that any aspect of the living God would have been dwelling with a man who is engaged in bestiality. I mean the Lord is going to have to help me if that's true. I just do not believe it.

Verse 19: Now therefore, I pray you, tarry you also here this night that I may know what the Lord will say unto me more. So most of us are familiar with this story. You know, you keep asking the Lord and you keep asking the Lord and tradition in the church tells us, well Balaam kept asking the Lord and he kept saying I am going to ask the Lord and finally the Lord said to him, well go do whatever you want to do. But that's not the way it comes out in the alternate translation, which we will get to shortly. And God came unto Balaam at night and said unto him, if the men come to call thee, rise up and go with them, but yet the word which I shall say unto you, you shall do. And Balaam rose up in the morning and saddled his ass and went with the princes of Moab and God's anger was kindled because he went. Well I always thought that wasn't fair. God said do what you want to do and then he did it and then God got mad. But that's not the way it plays out in the alternate translation. And God's anger was kindled because he went and the angel of the Lord stood in the way for an adversary against him. Now he was riding upon an ass. Well that adversary that stood in the way, that was Adam that rose up and said, you are not going to walk after what Leviathan wants you to do. I am going to oppose you.

Now he was riding upon his ass and his two servants were with him and the ass saw the angel of the Lord standing in the way and his sword drawn in his hand, and the ass turned aside out of the way and went into the field and Balaam smote the ass to turn her into the way. Now the alternate translation plays out that it was Elohim that was smiting the ass, that the ass was the Fiery Serpent within Balaam and that Adam was attempting to turn Balaam away from Leviathan's mentality, because it was Leviathan in Balaam that wanted to do this. And Adam in his attempt to turn Balaam to the righteous side was not whipping Leviathan. He was whipping Cain down at Balaam's foundation. You've got to get your change at your foundation. Verse 24: But the angel of the Lord stood in a path of the vineyards, a wall being on this side and a wall on that side and when the ass saw the angel of the Lord, she thrust herself unto the wall and crushed Balaam's foot against the wall and he smote her again. Well I guess maybe I should be reading the alternate translation with it. It's all Elohim that's smiting the ass. The ass is Cain. The ass is Cain, Balaam's bestial personality. The beast, the ass, is Cain. The angel of the Lord went further and stood in a narrow place where there was no way to turn either to the right hand or to the left.

Now we all know what that means from Kabbalah. What does it mean to turn to the right or the left? It means to depart from the middle column. The angel of the Lord, which is Adam in Balaam, stood there, maintaining the middle column. Because to go to the left would mean harsh judgment. To go to the right would mean to let down your guard completely. I am going to read all the way through and then we'll go back to the beginning and I'll take one verse in the King James and one verse in the alternate translation. When the ass saw the angel of the Lord, she fell down under Balaam. No, no, Cain fell down under Abel's authority. See, why would an ass fall down? The Hebrew shows that she fell down flat, like her legs came out from under her. So the parable tells you she did that so that she did not have to walk forward. No, no, Cain collapsed under Abel's authority. Balaam's anger was kindled and he smote the ass with a staff. And the Lord opened the mouth of the ass and she said unto Balaam, what have I done unto you that thou hast smitten me these three times, but it's Elohim that has smitten Cain three times. Why did Elohim smite Cain? So that Cain would fall down under Abel so that Balaam would be turned towards Adam's righteous lifestyle. And Balaam said unto the ass, because thou hast mocked me, I would there were a sword in my hand for now would I kill thee.

And the ass said unto Balaam, am I not your ass upon which thou hast ridden ever since I was thine unto this day. Now what does that mean? What's being said here is that the Fiery Serpent is saying, We are your mortal foundation and we carry you in this world. You Balaam, representing the spiritual mind, the ascended spiritual mind of this man, you are only incarnated as a human being because of us. We are your mortal foundation that gives you your personality and your body. Then Balaam repents and he says, no. As soon as Balaam repents the next verse comes. Verse 31: The Lord opened the eyes of Balaam and he saw the angel of the Lord standing in the way and his sword drawn in his hand and he bowed down his head and fell flat on his face. Balaam submitted to Adam, the angel of the Lord within him. And the angel of the Lord said unto him, wherefore have you smitten thine ass these three times? Behold, I went out to withstand you because thy way is perverse before me. Well Adam is telling Balaam, I have smitten your ass these three times. It's me. I stopped Cain (okay)because your way is perverse before me and I was determined to turn you in another direction and the turn, the change, does not start at the top. It starts at the foundation with Cain and Abel.

And the ass saw me and turned from me these three times. Unless she had turned from me; what that really means is she turned in response to my correction. She turned towards me. It says here that she turned away from me, but it means the exact opposite. She turned towards me. Surely now I would have slain thee and saved her life. What he's saying is that if Cain, Balaam's bestial nature, had not obeyed Adam and fallen down under Abel's authority, the Lord would have separated Cain from Abel forcefully to save Balaam's life. Now this is a very interesting point; to save Balaam's life. You see, all God had to do was to kill Balaam to stop him from cursing Israel. Why is he trying to save Balaam's life? Balaam had a relationship with the living God through Adam that dwelt within him. This man was not one hundred percent monster. He was a mixture. He was a mixture. And Balaam said unto the angel of the Lord, I have sinned (he repented) for I knew not that thou stoodest in the way against me.

What he is saying here is I acknowledge that it was sin, that I was blinded to the reality that you were telling me not to do that. That was sin that deceived me. Therefore if it displease thee, I will get me back again. Well, that's really interesting in verse 34 because this is what Balaam is really saying. Listen to this. Now that I've repented, am I going to get my witchcraft power back? That's what he's saying. I want my power back. Am I going to get my power back now that I've repented? Balaam realized that he lost his power. He lost his power to do what he wanted to do. He was completely overshadowed and stopped in every way by the angel in the midst of him that served the living God. So he really liked his power. It made me think of Simon the sorcerer. Balaam was a wicked man. Of course, Adam ignores him and the angel of the Lord said unto Balaam, go with the men, but only the word that I shall speak unto you, you shall speak.

So Balaam went with the princes of Balak and when Balak heard that Balaam was come, he went out to meet him unto a city of Moab, which is in the border of Arnon, which is in the utmost coast, and Balak said unto Balaam, did I not earnestly send unto thee to call thee? Wherefore camest thou not unto me? Am I not able indeed to promote you to honor? Are you denying my power to give you what I promised I would give you; increased power. And Balaam said unto Balak, lo, I am come unto you. Have I now any power at all to say anything? The word that God puts in my mouth, that shall I speak. And Balaam went with Balak and they came unto Kirjathhuzoth and Balak offered oxen and sheep and sent to Balaam and to the princes that were with him. And it came to pass on the morrow that Balak took Balaam and brought him up to the high places of Baal that thence he might see the utmost part of the people. Okay, Balak made animal sacrifices, which would cause him to ascend spiritually in Baal, that Balaam might see into the hearts of the people and see how to trip them up and destroy them. So what Balaam had that Balak did not have (both of them sorcerers) was this ability to see into the hearts of the Israelites and find out their weaknesses. The Lord told me that the reason Balaam had that, was that they were distant relatives. Isn't that interesting?

And Balaam said unto Balak, build me here seven altars and prepare me here seven oxen and seven rams. So as we go down, as we enter into Chapter 23, we see that Balaam was present while Balak was giving all of these burnt offerings. Apparently, some evil did come out of these burnt offerings. I could not find it in the Scripture, but apparently Balaam did give the counsel to Balak as to how to bring down the Israelites through sexual sin. That's what both the Scripture and the Zohar says. That it was Balak's counsel to the Midianites to send in prostitutes of their women. According to an account in the Zohar (it's not in the regular Scripture) the instruction was to specifically bring down Moses and they picked up a princess called Cozbi, a princess of the Midianites, who was assigned specifically to bring down Moses through sexual sin. According to the Zohar, they did not have any pictures in those days. She said, how will I recognize Moses? She was told, well you just go there and you'll see when he comes into the congregation, everybody will stand up and you'll know who he is.

Well before Moses could get there, another prince of Israel called Zimri, came into the congregation and everybody stood up and she thought he was Moses. See, it wasn't just a prostitute sent in. These were women with spiritual power. Not only did they have spiritual power of their own, but they were sent forth with all kinds of curses and incantations and prayers to give these women the power to bring down the Israelites. This woman was a plant. So she went after Zimri and she got him. He sinned with her and the result is that Phinehas killed both of them. The reason Phinehas killed both of them was that because of their sin a plague came upon Israel and thousands of Israelites were dying. Let me see if I can find that account for you. You can read about that in Chapter 25 of the Book of Numbers. And Israel abode in Shittim and the people began to commit whoredom with the daughters of Moab and they called the people unto the sacrifices of their gods and the people did eat and bow down to their gods. And Israel joined himself unto Baal Peor and the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel. And the Lord said unto Moses, take all the heads of the people and hang them up before the Lord against the sun that the fierce anger of the Lord may be turned away from Israel. (End of tape 1)

Tape 2

Verse 5: And Moses said unto the judges of Israel, stay ye everyone his men that were joined unto Baal Peor and behold one of the children of Israel came and brought unto his brethren a Midianite woman in the sight of Moses and in the sight of all the congregation of the children of Israel who were weeping before the door of the tabernacle of the congregation. Why were they weeping? Because there was a big plague. You know this Scripture is highly abbreviated. If the Lord lets me, I have it in my heart right now, to just take out the Zohar after we finish with the King James and just read to you and comment on every account of the name Balaam in the Zohar. If the Lord lets me, I'll do it. That's what's on my heart right now and it would probably be in the evening service. See, there was a big plague in Israel because the Midianitish women came in with witchcraft and they seduced the men of Israel. When Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, saw it, he rose up from among the congregation and took a javelin in his hand and he went after the man of Israel into the tent and thrust both of them through, the man of Israel and the woman through her belly, so the plague was stayed from the children of Israel and those that died in the plague were twenty and four thousand.

You see it sounds very harsh that these two people were killed. I do not know whether it was adultery or fornication. See, when a group of people have ascended as high as the people under Moses had ascended, spiritual seduction can do great, great destruction and it could bring down the whole congregation. Thousands of people were killed. They died from the plague. They probably died spiritually. What was the plague? The plague was a plague of fornication and adultery that was killing the Christ in all of these people. So those of us that live in the world today, we may have a problem even relating to that, that there was a plague of fornication, so you had to kill people to save the day. Well brethren, isn't that what's happening in the country today? The whole Christian world and the United States and Great Britain, all of Europe, the whole Christian world is under a plague of fornication and adultery and incest, a plague of breaking every law. According to this account, it was the destruction, it was the death of this one couple (Zimri and Cozbi) that saved the day. To be honest with you, I do not know how to relate that to what's happening today, except that the Zohar does say that this Zimri was a prince and this Cozbi was sent to seduce Moses. So she was like very high and she got Zimri instead.

What is God going to do today? All of Christendom, thousands and thousands of Christs are dying because the host that They are dwelling in, are in sin. So what is God's answer to stop this plague? I do not know. But I know that He has to do something. Something has to be done. Whatever is going to be done will be done by the sons of God when they stand up. But I do not have a comprehension, at the moment, of what it's going to be. See, the whole church world is waiting for revival. Brethren, There is not going to be any revival in Christendom until the church repents. It's not even enough for the church to stop fornicating. The church is carnal; carnal!!! They need to repent of their false doctrine. They need to repent of their pride and their envy and their sins against the way they relate to one another. So something has to die. Some error in the church has to die. What form it's going to take, I honestly do not know. I honestly do not know.

Okay, let's do this alternate translation. I think we'll do this alternate translation and then we'll stop for this morning and unless the Lord tells me otherwise, I am just going to take out my computer with my Zohar software and We are just going to comment on every occasion of the term, Balaam, appearing in the Zohar. We are on verse 20 of Numbers 22. There is a prefix. I see that my notes are not exactly the way they should have been. There is a prefix, Lamed, a Hebrew letter, Lamed, which from the Doctrine of Christ, we have learned means widow. And Elohim came to Balaam and said to him (and I am translating that Satan, Adam's widow) is calling to Cain. And Cain is a translation of the word, night. Night you could translate as carnal mind, but in this context I am translating it Cain. The Hebrew word translated come, can also be translated besiege. The Hebrew word translated if, We are translating hereafter. The word yet can be translated nevertheless. I am sorry, I do not have a note on the word that had the prefix Lamed, but it's there. It's probably either the word Cain or Seth. This is our alternate translation of verse 20; And Elohim came to Balaam and Elohim, of course, is a translation of the word God. We are translating God as Elohim and We are translating the angel of the Lord as Adam, Jehovah's righteousness. And Elohim came to Balaam and said to him, Satan, Adam's widow, is calling to Cain within you, to rise up and besiege the men of Israel.

But even though you go with them, the words that I say will nevertheless come forth from your mouth. So we see that Cain is the seductress. Now Cain is a part of the mortal foundation of humanity and Satan is beyond the individual. Now you may recall that it's Satan who comes knocking at the door of your mind and the door that Satan enters into through is called Cain. So when Satan wants to hurt you, wants to hurt somebody, Satan calls to Cain and Cain carries forth the seduction into the mind of that man. Does anybody not understand that? You need to understand that because it's happening in your mind. When you, the Christ in you, do not control Cain and prevent her from opening the door, that's when Satan comes into your mind. Satan comes into your mind with a thought that arises out of the unconscious part of your carnal mind and Cain carries it forward and then it reaches Leviathan, the subconscious part of your mind and eventually (not all the time) but whether it manifests in your conscious mind or not, you are guilty of that sin if you do not cast it down. Even if you do not see it, you are guilty of that sin. That kind of a sin in your mind can open you to judgment, to illness, or accident or any kind of mishap. If you are serving God with all your heart, the only way you can get hurt is by unconfessed sin. So if you are having a problem in your life, do not be blaming this on Satan.

You need to know that you have to get before the Lord and find out where that open hole is in your hedge. Praise the Lord. And Elohim came to Balaam and said to him, Satan, Adam's widow, is calling to Cain within you to rise up and besiege the men of Israel, but even though you go with them, the words that I will say will nevertheless come forth from your mouth. Now I want to suggest to you that what Elohim is saying to Balaam is that I know that you are going to go with them. I do not believe that Elohim ever said to Balaam, oh it's alright, go ahead. You keep coming back to me, you keep coming back and asking me these questions, it's alright, go. No! Elohim never said that. Just as I have told you in the past, Jehovah was not cursing Adam, the Serpent and Eve in Genesis 3 where He told them all those things that were going to happen to them. Jehovah was merely educating Adam, Eve and the Serpent, saying, now you have done something and these are the consequences of your action. You can expect this to happen to you because this is the reaping of what you have sowed. So Elohim was prophesying to Balaam. He says, I can see your heart and I know that you are going to go. But I am telling you right now, I am not going to stop you from going, but when you go, you are going to speak my words, not your words.

King James, Book of Numbers Chapter 22 Verse 21; And Balaam rose up in the morning, and saddled his ass, and went with the princes of Moab. We are translating the word morning as Adam. We know that Jesus Christ is the morning and in this context Adam, the emissary or the angel of God within this sorcerer is called Adam and that's how We are translating the word morning; rose up within Balaam and the Hebrew word translated saddled can also be translated compressed, to press down. The word ass, We are translating Balaam's bestial nature. Verse 21, alternate translation; And Adam rose up within Balaam and compressed Balaam's bestial nature and Balaam went with the princes of Moab. So Balaam went, but he went as the servant of Elohim. Now we must ask ourselves why would Elohim not stop him from going. Why did He let him go and then just change his words? Well the answer that I see is that the angel wanted to give Balaam the opportunity to repent. You see, it's the same old story in the church. People are always saying to God, well why do not you just heal me? You know, why did not you just stop me from doing that? Why did not you slam the door in my face and tie me up and not let me go? Because the Lord does not want a robot. He does not want a kingdom full of robots. He wants a kingdom full of people who are keeping the law because they are convinced that God's law is right.

He wants a kingdom of people who are following and who are obedient to the Lord because they have a revelation that their safety is in obedience. He does not want you to be a robot. He wants us to develop wisdom. So we see that it was Elohim's intention to educate Balaam with this opportunity to do evil that had presented itself. Verse 22; And God's anger was kindled because he went and the angel of the Lord stood in the way for an adversary against him. Now he was riding upon his ass and his two servants were with him. We are translating anger as judgment. The word kindled, We are translating to emanate from. That word can also mean glow, but I thought the word emanate was appropriate. Then we have two prefixes and again I did not know which word the prefixes came before, probably kindled. But We are translating that V'AV, YOD as King Adam. That goes back to the Doctrine of Christ. The angel of the Lord, We are translating Jehovah's righteousness. In this case I said Jehovah's righteous because angel of the Lord is followed by the Hebrew word translated way, which means lifestyle. So We are translating angel of the Lord as way, Adam, Jehovah's righteous lifestyle. The Hebrew word translated stood can be translated endured. Against can be translated became. Adversary can be translated opponent. Ass, again, is Balaam's bestial nature.

Alternate translation, verse 22; And Elohim's judgment emanated from King Adam within Balaam because Balaam went with the princes of Moab. But Adam, Jehovah's righteous lifestyle within Balaam endured and became the opponent of Leviathan, Balaam's carnal mind, who was now riding upon Cain and Abel, her two servants, who are Balaam's bestial nature. Let's take that a little bit at a time. And Elohim's judgment emanated from King Adam within Balaam. Please note that in this verse I refer to King Adam and to Adam. Now this King Adam, that's the higher Adam. These are the only terms that I was able to come up with. In our case it would be Christ Jesus as opposed to Christ. And Elohim's judgment emanated from King Adam, the higher Adam within Balaam, because Balaam went with the princes of Moab. But Adam, the lower Adam within Balaam, Jehovah's righteous lifestyle within Balaam; you see the King Adam is beyond the Adam in Balaam. In other words the King Adam would be likened to the body of Christ, the collective Christ Jesus. The judgment came from a higher authority than the Adam that was simply within Balaam. And Elohim's judgment emanated from King Adam within Balaam because Balaam went with the princes of Moab.

But Adam, Jehovah's righteous lifestyle within Balaam endured. What does that mean? Well it means that when Balaam went with the princes of Moab, he was yielding to Leviathan. Now in most instances, to yield to Leviathan, you have to really crush Adam and frequently you kill him, you see. Or you have to crush Christ to live out of your carnal mind. But we see that even though Balaam was doing this evil thing, Adam still endured. He did not die. But Adam endured and he became the opponent. And why do you think he endured? Because of the judgment of King Adam, of the higher Adam, you see. He strengthened the Adam within Balaam. Why do you think King Adam even came into play? Because Jehovah had a higher purpose. Jehovah intended to save Israel and I think Jehovah was involved in saving Balaam's life, also. Jehovah wanted his life saved. But Adam, Jehovah's righteous lifestyle within Balaam endured and became the opponent of Leviathan, Balaam's carnal mind, who was now riding upon Cain and Abel, her two servants. See, whether it's Adam in the individual or Leviathan in the individual, this higher mind rides upon a lower mind and the lower mind is our spiritual foundation, Cain and Abel.

Every human being has a mortal foundation. It's Cain and Abel. The higher mind rides on that lower mind. What does that mean? The lower mind produces the physical body and the personality that carries the higher mind. That's what that means. So Adam endured and became the opponent of Leviathan, Balaam's carnal mind, who was now riding upon Cain and Abel, her two servants, who is now being fully supported by Balaam's mortal foundation, Cain and Abel, Leviathan's two servants, who are Balaam's bestial nature. Now we need to understand that when Cain is in charge, when Abel has been slain by Cain and Abel is underneath Cain, Abel becomes as much of a criminal as Cain because Abel for all intents and purposes does not even exist. She's just a part of Cain. But then the Lord comes, Christ comes or in the Old Testament, Adam comes or Elohim comes and strengthens Abel and joins himself to Abel and Abel becomes righteous when he's joined to Adam. But when Abel is fully under the authority of Cain who is joined to Leviathan, Abel is just as much a servant of Leviathan and a criminal.

Verse 23, King James; And the ass saw the angel of the Lord standing in the way and his sword drawn in his hand and the ass turned aside out of the way and went into the fields and Balaam smote the ass to turn her into the way. We are translating ass as bestial nature. Angel of the Lord, We are translating Jehovah's righteousness. But in this case we have the English words, in the way, which represents a Hebrew word that can be translated character. So We are translating angel of the Lord in the way as Jehovah's righteous character. I guess that's it for verse 23. And Cain, Balaam's bestial nature, saw Adam, Jehovah's righteous character, standing with his drawn sword in his hand. What is the significance of the drawn sword? Does anybody know what the significance of the drawn sword is? The drawn sword is to separate, to slaughter Balaam. The Scriptural word is slaughter, to break up that ungodly configuration of Abel being under Cain and Leviathan sitting on top of the two of them, which is producing an evil personality and an evil mind in this man Balaam. That's a circumcising knife. That sword is a circumcising knife that has come to circumcise Leviathan and Cain off of Abel, Balaam's righteous potential. And Cain, Balaam's bestial nature saw Adam, Jehovah's righteous character, standing with his drawn sword in his hand and Abel, the righteous part of.... I guess I did not give you that one.

The English words in verse 23, out of, are a translation of a Hebrew word that can be translated part of. And Abel, the righteous part of Balaam's motivations and motivations is another translation of the Hebrew word translated in the way. And Abel, the righteous part of Balaam's motivations, walked into the field of Balaam's consciousness and struck Cain, Balaam's bestial nature, to turn Balaam towards Adam's righteous character. That phrase just really got me. And Abel walked into the field of Balaam's consciousness. Brethren, this is what happens, and as you get more and more spiritual, you can actually be aware that some character, that some entity, has literally walked into the field of your consciousness and is there thinking through you or giving you ideas or talking to you. Being spiritual is a very interesting experience, but it requires you paying constant attention to what's going on inside of your mind. Entities literally walk into your field of consciousness and have something to say to you and that's what happened here.

Let me read it to you again. And Cain, Balaam's bestial nature, saw Adam, Jehovah's righteous character, standing with his circumcising knife drawn in his hand. That Godly threat, you see, restrained Cain. Cain, Balaam's bestial nature, saw Adam holding that knife and Cain gasped and Abel immediately got loose and came out from under Cain and appeared in the field of Balaam's consciousness. Can you hear that? Now remember what I told you when I was just reading the King James? At the very end of the chapter, the angel says to Balaam, if Cain did not get out of my way, those three times, I would have separated Cain from Abel forcibly. I would have cut them apart. But Cain yielded. Three times Cain yielded. The first time that Cain yielded was in verse 20 where it says, And Adam came to Balaam and said to him, Satan, Adam's widow, is calling to Cain within you. See, in order for Elohim to say that to Balaam, Cain had to be smitten. Cain had to be smitten under the authority of Elohim or Balaam would have never been able to hear that. So that was the first time that Cain was smitten. The second time that Cain was smitten is in verse 23. So the first time Elohim smote Cain. The second time Abel smote Cain. We'll get to the third time.

Let me just read this again. I just love this phrase. And Cain, Balaam's bestial nature, saw Adam, Jehovah's righteous character, standing with his drawn sword in his hand, saying if you do not get out of Abel's way, I am going to cut you away. Man, you better move now! And Abel, the righteous part of Balaam's motivations walked into the field of Balaam's consciousness and struck Cain, Balaam's bestial nature. The purpose for striking Cain was to turn Balaam towards Adam's righteous character. So the ass, Cain, knew what it meant, that the angel was standing there with that sword in his hand. Cain knew what it meant. You have slain Abel. You pierced Abel through and buried him under the ground. If you do not get out of the way, I am going to do the same thing to you. That's what that meant.

Verse 24, King James; But the angel of the Lord stood in the path of the vineyards, a wall being on this side and a wall on that side. The angel of the Lord is Jehovah's righteousness. This Hebrew word translated path means, more specifically, a narrow passage way. The Hebrew word translated vineyards means gardens. A Garden is a symbol of the mind. Whatever we plant in our mind, that's what grows. I am translating that as the spiritual reproductive parts of Israel. I suggest to you that Jehovah's righteousness stood in the narrow passage way by which Balaam could have accessed the minds of the people of Israel, which tells us right here that this curse that was attempting to come forth was headed to be directly inputted into the mind of the people. This message is difficult, but we really have to get it, that Israel and the people of God (the Christians) there are curses coming at us continuously to strengthen our weaknesses, to tell us that what is really wrong is right, to justify sin and these are wicked, wicked curses, brought to us by wicked people with the specific intention of destroying God's people. This is how this seduction comes to you. Well the seduction does come in the form of a human being, but only after your mind has been prepared to receive the sin, you see.

Zimri came under Cozbi's seduction because witchcraft had weakened his resistance against fornication. See, Zimri was under the law. Fornication or adultery was wrong. He knew it was wrong, but his body was responding and his mind was not yet, apparently, so convinced of the utter destruction of the act that he was defended against it. He was under the law. This is how Satan destroys God's people. The curse or the thought comes through this narrow passage way that leads to the spiritual reproductive parts of the mind of Israel. The words on this side, We are translating to cover their sins and on that side, We are translating to block Balaam's curse. Because what this is saying is that the angel of the Lord created a wall that was protecting Israel from their own sins on the inside and protecting them from the curse on the outside. This wall was functioning on the inside and on the outside. It says in the King James, and a wall being on this side and a wall on that side. It was one wall. But on one side the wall was protecting Israel against the enemy within and on the other side, the wall was protecting Israel from the enemy without. But Adam, Jehovah's righteousness, stood in the narrow passage way. It's talking about the mind that led to the spiritual reproductive parts of Israel as a wall of separation that both covered their sins and blocked Balaam's curse.

You see, if that curse can get into that narrow place and make contact with your sin, what it does is it stirs up your sin to cause you to fall. So this wall that the angel of the Lord became, he stopped the contact. You see, what We are talking about here is a form of spiritual sexual intercourse. The male is the curse and the female is the potential to sin that we are resisting. If that curse can get into that narrow place and make contact with our potential to sin, we have a problem. So the angel of the Lord was standing in between. He wasn't letting that contact be made. It's just like when you have a bunch of young people around. You stand between them. You do not let the boys and girls sleep in the same bedroom. The girls go in one bedroom and the boys go in another bedroom or even better yet, in another house. You have to keep young people apart. You do not just leave them alone and let them do whatever they want. You have to stand in the middle. You have to block them. That's what the angel of the Lord was doing. He was blocking the curse from contacting the potential to sin.

Verse 25; And when the ass saw the angel of the Lord, she thrust herself into the wall and crushed Balaam's foot against the wall and he smote her again. That's the third time now. And when Cain, Balaam's bestial nature (that's a translation of ass) saw that Adam, Jehovah's righteous wall was crushing her; that's a translation of thrust. The word unto, We are translating underneath. The word against, We are translating toward and the word, smote, We are translating again as killed. This is what we've got. And when Cain, Balaam's bestial nature, saw that Adam, Jehovah's righteous wall of separation, was crushing her underneath Abel, she thrust herself toward Leviathan's side of the wall that separated Balaam from Leviathan and killed Abel again. And when Cain, Balaam's bestial nature (you see Cain was fighting for Leviathan) and when Cain, Balaam's bestial nature, saw that Adam, Jehovah's righteous wall of separation, was crushing her underneath Abel, she thrust herself towards Leviathan's side of the wall.

See, she did not want to go down under Abel, so she was clinging to Leviathan's side of the wall that separated Balaam from Leviathan and killed Abel again. In other words, Cain would not go down under Abel. She would not yield to Adam, but she clung to Leviathan and stayed on top of Abel, which killed Abel again. Abel had gotten out and walked into the field of Balaam's consciousness. In other words, Abel was saying do not do that. Abel, walking into the field of Balaam's consciousness, was an influence that was directed to turn Balaam into the direction of righteousness. Because Abel appeared in Balaam's field of consciousness, Cain started going down under. See, they both cannot be conscious. It's one or the other. It's just a perverse period of time that both Cain and Abel or good and evil are present in our mind. So when Cain saw what was happening, she clung to Leviathan, got her strength from Leviathan, and killed Abel again, and forced Abel down under her authority, again.

I am sorry, but that was not the third time that Cain was struck. Verse 26; And the angel of the Lord went further and stood in a narrow place where there was no way to turn either to the left or to the right. In addition, Adam, Jehovah's righteousness, went and stood in the narrow place where one's nature turns from good to evil. That's the narrow place. We are translating where, so that. To the left, We are translating to the left side. That's Gevurah. That's judging Israel. And the right side, if you move to the right side, if you are in the middle column and you move to the left side, you become a harsh judge. If you move to the right side, what's happening is that your authority is being unraveled. The right side is too soft, you see. Continuing with verse 26; And in addition, Adam, Jehovah's righteous character went and stood in that narrow place where one's nature turns from good to evil, so that Balaam could neither judge Israel, that's turned to the left, nor unravel her authority, that's turning to the right. So what that means is Adam took the position in the middle column and he would not let Balaam budge to the left or to the right. Adam would not let Balaam judge Israel's sins, neither would he let Balaam's influence cause Israel to be susceptible to that sin, which is just what I had said earlier in the previous verse. That wall of separation protected Israel's potential from coming in contact with the curse, which would have stimulated that potential.

Verse 27; And when the ass saw the angel of the Lord, she fell down under Balaam and Balaam's anger was kindled and he smote her with a staff. That's the third time. Okay now, the King James makes it sound like Balaam is beating this animal, but the truth is that Elohim is smiting her for the purpose of turning Balaam in the direction of righteousness. Alternate translation, verse 27; And when Cain, Balaam's bestial nature, saw Adam, Jehovah's righteousness, she folded under Abel's authority. I guess that folded under is that, fell down. She folded under Abel's authority and anger poured out of (that's a translation of kindled) poured out of Balaam and Balaam struck (that's a translation of smote) Cain, Balaam's bestial nature, commanding her to generate divination rather than submit to Abel.

The three times that Elohim struck Cain are in verse 21 where it says and Adam rose up within Balaam and compressed Balaam's bestial nature, pressed down Balaam's bestial nature. That's the first time. On the notes that I gave you with the alternate translation, There is a mistake on those notes. So the first time, you'll see a number one at the end of 21A. That's what that means. That's the first time that Cain was stricken. The second time is verse 23 where Abel struck Cain. On your notes it says that verse 25 is the third time, but that's wrong. Verse 27 is the third time. And when Cain, Balaam's bestial nature, saw Adam, Jehovah's righteous character, she collapsed under Abel's authority. That was the third time. And anger poured out of Balaam and Balaam struck Cain, Balaam's bestial nature, commanding her to use witchcraft against Abel. So we see that Balaam did strike her once. Let me take a look at that again.

I had to make some changes to the alternate translation of verse 27 in order to validate the statement further down, that Elohim had stricken Cain three times. I saw that I had mistranslated verse 27 because verse 27 is the third time that Cain was stricken and it could not have been Balaam that struck her. It had to be Elohim or someone from Elohim's household, which in this case is Abel. So the alternate translation of verse 27 reads, and when Cain, Balaam's bestial nature, saw Adam, Jehovah's righteous character, she collapsed under Abel's authority and anger poured out of Balaam because Abel had crushed Cain, Balaam's bestial nature, under Abel, even though Cain had used witchcraft against Abel.

Verse 28; King James; And the Lord opened the mouth of the ass and she said unto Balaam, what have I done unto you that you have smitten me these three times? The alternate translation is; And Jehovah opened the mouth of Balaam's bestial nature and Abel said to Balaam (We are translating what as Elohim because what is a cognomen for Elohim)

And Jehovah opened the mouth of Balaam's bestial nature and Abel said to Balaam, Elohim has smitten the bestial nature that belongs to you these three times. Let me just read you the last couple of verses so that you can get the drift of this because I am losing the drift myself. I'll read you verse 26, 27 and 28. And in addition, Adam, Jehovah's righteous character went and stood in that narrow place where one's nature turns from good to evil so that Balaam could neither judge Israel nor unravel his authority. And when Cain, Balaam's bestial nature, saw Adam, Jehovah's righteous character, she collapsed under Abel's authority and anger poured out of Balaam because Abel had crushed Cain, Balaam's bestial nature, under her foot even though Cain had used witchcraft against Abel.

So Jehovah opened the mouth of Balaam's dual bestial nature and Abel, the good side of Balaam's bestial nature, said to Balaam, Elohim has smitten Cain, your bestial nature, the bestial nature that belongs to you these three times. In other words, Balaam was enraged at Cain for submitting to Abel and the Lord opened the mouth of Abel, the other side. Now the bestial nature is Cain and Abel. It's the Fiery Serpent. So the Lord opened the mouth of the bestial nature and Abel said, do not be mad at Cain. She just did this because Elohim has smitten her three times. do not be enraged at her because, you know, that kind of anger is witchcraft. That's Balaam having a rage against his own self. That's how you make yourself sick. That's Balaam saying, why did I do that? Why did I do that, why did I do that? So the angel of the Lord said, in so many words, have mercy on yourself. Why did you do that? Because it's been me all the time inside of you, guiding you invisibly. See, We are talking about two parts of the same man. We are talking about the spiritual man, Balaam, who's under the influence of Satan and Leviathan and he did something that he did not intend to do.

Did you never do that? It happens to me all the time. I go to do something and I do the exact opposite because the Lord is controlling me. I cannot tell you how many times I think I am going to have one message and I sit down to study and I start doing exactly something else. Sometimes I am going one way and I wind up going another way because the Lord has controlled me. If I did not understand that, I'd be saying why did I do that? Why did I say that? Why did I say that to that person? Now They are mad at me. Well, the Lord said it to them. That's what's going on here. These are all internal aspects of one man. The bestial nature has two parts, Cain and Abel. When Cain is on top of Abel, the bestial nature is purely bestial. Now what is this bestial nature? It's our mortal foundation. It's every human being that appears in an animal body. That's what makes you a Homo sapien. You have an animal body. You have a mortal foundation called Cain and Abel. See, we've been given a new foundation, an incorruptible foundation, but that incorruptible foundation, which is in Jesus Christ, has not yet displaced our corruptible foundation except in one instance and that is in the case of the Lord Jesus Christ. Because as soon as our incorruptible foundation completely displaces our corruptible foundation, we will not be in an animal body anymore. That's because the foundation of the Lord Jesus Christ is not producing an animal body. It produces a body of light.

So we see already that Balaam is confounded. He does not even know why he's doing what he's doing. He's all confused because There is a spiritual battle going on in his mind. He's all confused. So at this point, you see, Balaam's power is broken. He has utterly failed. Abel has prevailed over Cain. Balaam has utterly failed to perform his own will because at this point his own will is the will of Leviathan. He's utterly confounded and does not even understand why, at which point Adam, the angel of the Lord in the midst of Balaam, decides to have mercy on Balaam, on the whole man. He says to him, look, do not be all upset. The reason you've lost your power and the reason you cannot do what you intend to do is because I have been controlling your bestial nature. I've taken authority over your control panel. I've taken authority over your mind and I've whipped Cain into shape, so that Abel, your righteous mind can come to the surface. do not be upset, everything is cool. That's what that was all about. You see him saying, Balaam, you were under the influence of Leviathan. I couldn't even have talked to you. The only way I could have stopped you from doing this evil would have been to kill you and I did not want to do that. The Lord did not want to kill this man. Now see, the very fact is that the Scripture says that the angel says to Balaam, I did not want to kill you. I guess we did not get to that verse yet, but we will get to it.

Adam is saying to Balaam, see if this technique that I was using, of wounding Cain to turn you into the path of righteousness, if that did not work, if your witchcraft power was so high, if Leviathan had so much power over you that my efforts did not work, if Cain did not willingly go down under Abel because of the wounds that I gave her, which were not terrible wounds, I would have separated them on my own recognizance. I would have taken this sword and I would have cut them apart. What is the significance there of that judgment that would have separated? You see, Cain is on top of Abel. First they have to be separated before Abel can come on top of Cain. So for the angel of the Lord to have used his sword to separate Cain and Abel, if Cain had not co-operated, it would have been a much more painful judgment. We are reading about this judgment in parable form, but this was emotional and mental pain for the man Balaam. He was confronted with emotional and mental pain. Why? Brethren, let me tell you something. It is very painful to want to do something and to utterly fail to do it and to be utterly defeated within your mind and in your emotions. I've experienced this. It's devastating. I am still recovering from the wounds of the Lord that have brought me to the place where I am today, because I was a very rebellious person. I was a very rebellious proud person and the Lord had to wound me so that His righteous nature could appear in me.

You know, I was even thinking about it the other night because I am still struggling with what has happened to me. I was one tough person. Nothing bothered me. Nothing, nothing bothered me. What I struggle with today is so unlike me that it amazes me. I remember the pastor that I trained under. His testimony was that he was a really tough business man. Nothing bothered him. From what I understand, he wasn't such an honest business man either. He was a real tough "wheeler and dealer." When he came into the church and began to be a pastor, it just ripped him to pieces. It's a whole different lifestyle. It's a spiritual lifestyle and we get stripes and wounds that are spiritual, that have an affect on us that we would never expect could ever happen to us in the world. So I have had many stripes and wounds at the hands of the Lord and that's with me doing the best I can. So the whole principle here is that if Cain had not submitted, the angel of the Lord would have separated them forcibly and the judgment, whatever it would have taken, would have been much, much harder than the emotional wounds and the mental wounds that you have from being restrained from doing what you want to do. What is a forcible separation? It could be a devastating illness, a devastating financial loss or the loss of a child or of a loved one. That's not the Lord' s first choice, to separate Cain from Abel in you, so that Abel could prevail over Cain. That's not His first choice.

Going on with the King James, verse 29; And Balaam said unto the ass, because you have mocked me, I would there were a sword in my hand, so now I would kill you. Once again we see that, that's not Balaam speaking, according to the alternate translation. But that is actually Cain speaking in response to Abel. Now Cain in under the dominion of Abel. Cain has been crushed under Abel and Cain has just heard Abel speak to Balaam. Abel is now comforting Balaam by giving him truth. Abel has said, Elohim has smitten the bestial nature that belongs to you these three times. In verse 29; Cain, Balaam's bestial nature, said to Abel, so you are the source of my pain. If I had a sword in my hand, I would kill you right now. You see, Abel comes forth with truth and with information. The Spirit of God always comes forth with information and the ignorant beast, Cain, says, so it was you that caused me all this pain, that I wanted to do something and I couldn't do it. All this emotional chagrin and confusion. If I could do it, I'd kill you right now. If I could do it, I'd put you under me. I'd flip you over and kill you again and flip you over and put you under me again because that's Cain's nature.

Verse 30; And the ass said unto Balaam, am I not thine ass, upon which you have ridden ever since I was yours and unto this day? Was I ever want to do so unto you? And he said, nay. Our alternate translation is; And Able, the good side of Balaam's bestial nature, said to Balaam, we are your Fiery Serpent. That's a translation of "not." We are your fiery Serpent, the bestial nature, which has repeatedly (that's a translation of ever since I was thine and We are translating it repeatedly) been your mortal foundation up to this very incarnation. Incarnation is a translation of the word "day." The words, was I ever, We are translating, is it customary. The word, sow, We are translating now. The word, won't, We are translating to do. Unto thee, We are translating belongs to you. This is what verse 30 says according to the alternate translation. And Abel, the good side of Balaam's bestial nature, said to Balaam, we are your fiery Serpent, the bestial nature which has been your mortal foundation repeatedly, up to this very incarnation. Is it customary to do these things to the one who belongs to you? And Balaam said no. So we see a deep spiritual truth coming here. Abel is telling Balaam, we are your mortal foundation that has been reincarnating for centuries. We are the real you. You're just a temporary personality here and you belong to us. Is it customary to do these things to the one who belongs to you? And Balaam said no. So Balaam was greatly humbled. Does anybody not understand that?

Let me say it again. Abel spoke out and said to Balaam, the one that you are punishing is yourself. When you are in a rage like that, you are making yourself sick. When you are not forgiving, you are not forgiving yourself. You're using witchcraft on yourself. We are your mortal foundation. We are the one that has been reincarnating all of these generations. So the truth is that you belong to us. You're just a product of this generation. Do you think that's right, that you should be treating us this way. We are your basic principles. That's what Abel was saying. We are the real you, you see. The average person does not know who the real you is. You do not know who the real you is. None of you. You do not know who the real you is. You're not familiar with your internal principles. You here and the whole world, you are living the life of the beast. You're living the life of Cain, who has come forth for just this one incarnation. But the real you has been around many times. The real you has a mission. Is the mission salvation by works? No! The mission of the real you, of your mortal foundation, is to resolve the eternal conflict between Cain and Abel and with the help of the Lord Jesus Christ, to equip Abel to prevail over Cain, so that incarnation can stop.

Through union, through Abel's union with the Lord Jesus Christ, reincarnation is coming to an end and We are entering into permanent eternal life through the union of the Lord Jesus Christ and Abel, that good element of our mortal foundation. The Fiery Serpent is going to be covered over by our true foundation, by our incorruptible foundation, which is the Lord Jesus Christ. In order for you or anybody in this world to have this experience, you have to find out that the real you has to be uncovered. And who is the real you? Your potential for a relationship with the Lord Jesus, that's who the real you is, you see. Whoever you are called to be in Christ, that's who the real you is. Cain is not the real you, you see. If you are leading a carnal life, you are leading a lifestyle of Cain. But the real you is Abel, who needs to be rejoined to the Lord Jesus Christ, who needs to be rejoined to the world above through union with the Lord Jesus Christ. That's how you find out that the true you is in God. We all came out of God. We all were very high. There was a fall. So this isn't you. This carnal mind, this carnal lifestyle, this isn't you. That part of you that seeks for God, that's who you are.

Verse 31; Then the Lord opened the eyes of Balaam. Now you see that Balaam repented here. Abel is speaking to him. Abel is chastising him. Of course, Abel is strengthened by Adam, so Abel speaking to him is his own basic principle speaking the wisdom of God to him. And Abel, the good side of Balaam's bestial nature, said to Balaam, we are your fiery Serpent, the bestial nature that has been your mortal foundation repeatedly, up to this incarnation. Is it customary now to do these things to the one who belongs to you or to the one who you belong to? I am not sure what the right translation is. Which is the right translation, Lord? Is it customary to do these things to the one; I think it's the one you belong to. I think I am going to have to change that to the one you belong to. Continuing with verse 31; And of course Balaam says no. This is not the right thing to do. So in verse 30 Balaam has repented.

Now in verse 31, we read, then the Lord opened the eyes of Balaam and he saw the angel of the Lord standing in the way and his sword drawn in his hand and he bowed down his head and fell flat on his face. Now this is Balaam submitting to the internal principality called Adam, the angel of the Lord, the presence of Jehovah in the person of Balaam. Then Jehovah opened Balaam's eyes and Balaam saw Adam, Jehovah's righteous character (that's a translation of in the way) standing with his drawn sword in his hand and Balaam bowed his head and prostrated his personality. His personality is a translation of the Hebrew word translated face. Then Jehovah opened Balaam's eyes and Balaam saw Adam, Jehovah's righteous character, standing with his drawn sword in his hand and Balaam bowed his head and prostrated his personality. He recognized God. See, as soon as Abel came on top and Cain went underneath Abel, then Balaam saw the true authority of God. Rebellion exists in you because Cain is prevailing over Abel in you. If you cannot recognize true authority, it's because Cain is on top of Abel in you. You've got to break Cain's power by submitting to a Godly authority.

Verse 32; And the angel of the Lord said unto him, wherefore has thou smitten thine ass these three times? Behold, I went out to withstand you because thy way is perverse before me. But of course, this is Elohim telling Balaam that he's the one that smote Balaam's personality. This is Elohim exalting Himself over Balaam, saying you may be the biggest sorcerer in the world, but I've got power over you. You're not such a hot shot, you see. And Adam, Jehovah's righteous character spoke to Balaam. The Hebrew word translated wherefore means what and We are translating that Elohim. Elohim has smitten Cain, your bestial nature, these three times. Look and understand (that's a translation of behold) that I went out and opposed (opposed is a translation of withstand) Leviathan, the lifestyle (that's a translation of way) which is opposite mine (that's a translation of before me) so that Abel could cast down and that's a translation of perverse (to cast down) Cain within you.

And Adam, Jehovah's righteous character said to Balaam, Elohim has smitten Cain, your bestial nature, these three times. Look and understand that I went out and opposed Leviathan, the lifestyle which is opposite mine, so that Abel could cast down Cain within you. Because you see, Adam could have given Balaam his lifestyle. Now he could just have overshadowed Leviathan and given Balaam his lifestyle, but the reason that Adam went forth to support Abel, so that Abel could overshadow Cain, is that there is no permanent change and there is no hope for immortality if we just change our behavior. You see, Adam could have overshadowed Leviathan and changed Balaam's behavior. But he wanted to do a deeper work than that. He wanted to change Balaam's mortal foundation and bring that mortal foundation into a place where Balaam would be eligible for eternal life.

Let me just read verse 32 again. And Adam, Jehovah's righteous character said to Balaam, Elohim has smitten Cain, your bestial nature, these three times. Look and understand that I went out and opposed Leviathan, the lifestyle which is opposite mine, so that Abel could cast down Cain within you. See, Adam did not have to oppose Leviathan. He could have just knocked him out. But all he did was oppose him so that Abel would stand a chance.

Verse 33; And the ass saw me and turned from me these three times. Unless she had turned from me, surely now also I had slain thee and saved her alive. This is the verse that I was talking about. The angel is really saying, if the ass had not submitted to me, I would have forcibly separated her from Abel and that would have been a lot more painful than what you have already experienced. Verse 33; And Cain, your bestial personality, saw me and turned towards Abel, my personality. My personality is a translation of from me. So we see the two translations are the exact opposite of the King James. She did not turn away from Adam. She turned towards Adam's personality, Abel, these three times. Unless Cain had turned towards Abel, my personality, now I would have forcibly separated and that's a translation of slain (which means slaughtered) I would have forcibly separated Abel from Cain to save your life. What does that mean, to save his life? It means that either Cain had to submit to Abel voluntarily or the angel had to come and cut them apart and force Cain into submission to Abel or that Abel would have had to kill Balaam. Those were the three choices.

Verse 34; And Balaam said unto the angel of the Lord, I have sinned, for I knew not that you stood in the way against me. Now therefore if it displease you, I will get me back again. And Balaam said to Adam, Jehovah's righteous character, it was sin for me to not know or to not understand that you were standing opposite me. That's a translation of against me. It was sin that I was blinded to the fact that you were opposing my lifestyle. But now will my evil eye be returned to me? Those words displease thee is a translation of two Hebrew words. One means eye and one means evil. That's not even an interpretation. That's what the word means, evil eye. Will my evil eye be returned to me? Now that I've repented, am I going to get my power back? (Laughter) I thought that was so funny. And Balaam said to Adam, Jehovah's righteous character, it was sin for me to not know that you stood opposite my lifestyle, but now will my evil eye be returned to me? Am I going to get my power back? I just jumped to verse 1 of Chapter 24 because I wanted to show you what the end of Balaam is from God's point of view. Physically, Balaam is killed by the Israelites, but let me tell you this first. We just came to the rest of Chapter 22 of the Book of Numbers, and it's the conversation between Balak and Balaam.

Apparently, Balaam just continued to have these conversations with Balak. I do not really understand that completely. But somewhere along the line, as I told you earlier, Balaam gave the secret of cursing Israel to Balak. The secret was that you have to get them to sin and their weakness is human sexuality. The men of Israel had a weakness for pagan women. But I want to tell you something, it may very well be true that the weakness of Israel is adultery and fornication, but it's more than that. The weakness of Israel is that they fall into witchcraft, you see. It's true in the natural and it's true in the spiritual. Israel keeps falling into witchcraft. That's how they became enslaved in Egypt. They fell into the pagan religion, the mystery religion of Egypt. That's what they were delivered from. So only God knows. I do know this, that everything that happens in the spiritual also happens in the physical, but I am not exactly sure how it happened. Although in this account we have the names of two people that were murdered to stop the plague. So apparently this Zimri and Cozbi were in fornication in the natural. But over the generations, Israel has done both. They've fallen into physical fornication and they've fallen into spiritual fornication. Continuously, Israel has worshiped pagan gods; the pagan gods of money, the pagan gods of lust, the pagan gods of greed, the pagan gods of witchcraft.

Israel has just fallen into trouble over and over and over again and every time God moves to raise them up. See, Israel is a spiritual nation. We are called to be very high spiritually. So if you are not spiritual, then you fall down into the phy