I’ve gotta be honest, I don’t know what to write for this one… indeed, I can’t say I have the best commentary in the world for any Bible passage, and I’d rather not steal someone else’s credibility. But these three chapters are found in pages 92-94 of the NKJV Bible I have for this four-translation project, pages 118-121 of the NASB Bible (Old Testament), pages 187-192 of my VOICE copy (with all its notes 📝 📋 I need to mention some of them here), and pages 191-195 of my Amplified Bible (Classic Edition) copy.
It’s wild that some dude from the East, upon seeing his king, Balak (he ruled Moab in these days; see Numbers 22:2), terrified because of what Israel had just done (Numbers 22:3); he had observed them defeat Og (Numbers 21:33-35) and have a number of other victories prior to that, so he decided to step in to stop them, but God reined in the false prophet’s insanity, as Peter would note much later in 2 Peter 2:16. Also, I didn’t know up until some years back that the false prophet (his name was Balaam) had loved the wages of wrongdoing, and in the unconditional sense, as the Greek for 2 Peter 2:15 notes and implies. What’s more, he actually beat his female donkey three times to make her behave herself! This offends Jesus, and if they had laws against animal cruelty back then, he would’ve been arrested/locked up or killed. It says in the Scriptures, “Good people are kind to their animals; the ‘good-hearted’ bad people kick and abuse them” (Proverbs 12:10 (The Message)). And to think I believed back in late 2011 he had repented and followed Jesus… 15 years later, I’d notice that abuse is a lot more rampant in every nation than I’d like for it to be 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬 maybe some nations don’t have many cases, for the safest ones don’t have a lot of craziness, but it’s not good that the people here worship wickedness and cruelty, like how Babylon had worshiped wickedness, as implied in Zechariah 5:11 (the VOICE translation helped me understand it like that). And speaking of Bible translations, I should mention… I think I had said years ago when I started this blog that I’d only mention the VOICE version of the Bible if I were to quote anything from it… I apologise, people.
But as it stands, I’ll get to all these chapters eventually. Indeed, since this is three chapters long, I’m going to do this in several notes like I did with earlier parts of Numbers, but I probably won’t contain it in one week… I pray I get to write on it soon, for it’s because I was born with autism that the Nazis may be able to take me to an institution where I can’t grow and I languish and end up getting degraded… and Trump can and probably will give them the power to do that. Indeed, no one seems to be fighting for the vulnerable anymore… PRAY that I don’t manage to get captured and unable to write anything on here… I’m seeking professional help for a reason. I hope you have a great day! (Today’s my 17-year anniversary of me becoming Christian anyway.)
In Christ,
Ron Outland
Ron And His Stories 