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You Shall See Them No More....

Do you remember the story of Balak and Balaam? It is found in Numbers 22 through to Numbers 24. Three times Balaam blessed the children of Israel instead of cursing them as Balak had asked him to do. Their mistake? The children of God were becoming too powerful. God had/was blessing them abundantly. The nations around them did not like this turn of events. Do you also remember that it is in this story that God sent an angel with a sword to stand before Balaam and the city of God? That he might not go ahead and curse it? Balaam blessed them from three different angles instead of cursing them. There are specific excerpts from that story that have caught my attention. The angel of the Lord ordered Balaam to speak only the words he tells him over Israel (Num 22:35). Do you know what he was to say?: Num 23:8- How shall I curse whom God hath not cursed? Or how shall I defy,whom the Lord hath not defied? (1st Round). Num 23:19-23-God is not a man, that He should lie;neither the son