Four of the great prophecies in the Bible about what God is going to do with the nation Israel come out of the mouth of Balaam.
"He's preaching God's Word and he doesn't want to do it," explains Jordan. "He wants to curse Him but God won't let him. God only lets him bless Him.
"Finally, after God has told him, 'Here's what I'm going to do with Israel; you can't stop it, they're mine,' in Numbers 25 you find Israel in trouble with God and God Himself punishes them.
"Numbers 31:16 says it was through the counsel of Balaam: [16] Behold, these caused the children of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to commit trespass against the LORD in the matter of Peor, and there was a plague among the congregation of the LORD.
"Balaam says to Balak, 'God won't let me curse them but I can show you how you can get God to do it.' He taught Balak how to get God to be angry with Israel. He said, 'You can teach them some doctrines of devils that'll corrupt them so God can't use them for those four purposes,' and that's what they do.
"What they did was they introduced in Israel a vain religious system. Numbers 25:2 says, [2] And they called the people unto the sacrifices of their gods: and the people did eat, and bowed down to their gods.
"That's religion. You're making sacrifices to your god. It's gods with a little 'g' and 's.' 'Come join our religion, be a part of our denomination.' 'And the people did eat and bowed down to their gods.' Israel joined themselves.
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"In the Bible are about 25 different characteristics of Baal worship. You see examples of it right there in that passage. They're sacrificing unto gods. They're bowing down, They're joining holy mother church.
Hosea 13 begins, [1] When Ephraim spake trembling, he exalted himself in Israel; but when he offended in Baal, he died.
[2] And now they sin more and more, and have made them molten images of their silver, and idols according to their own understanding, all of it the work of the craftsmen: they say of them, Let the men that sacrifice kiss the calves.
"When Israel was being who God made them, they prospered. But when they went and joined that vain religious system of Baal worship they're in trouble.
"They take their human viewpoint and find out how they can best worship God. Those two things fit together. One leads to the other. All of them are the work of the craftsmen. They say, 'Let the men that sacrifice kiss the calves.'
"You ever see anybody kiss their ring? In I Kings they bowed their knee to Baal. When you see someone bowing their knee and kissing the ring, where did that come from? Not from worshipping God.
"Go to the Book of Revelation and when John has an angel appear and he falls at his feet, the angel says, 'Stand up, you worship God; you don't worship me.'
"When you're going to worship God's representative and you do that, that's not the Bible; that's Baal worship.
"You ever hear anybody say let's go up the house of God to worship? You got him up behind an altar and a box and there's God. Judges 17:5 says, [5] And the man Micah had an house of gods, and made an ephod, and teraphim, and consecrated one of his sons, who became his priest.
"An ephod is like a robe. Verse 6: [6] In those days there was no king in Israel, but every man did that which was right in his own eyes.
"That's where human viewpoint leads you. It doesn't lead you to worshipping the God of the Bible; it leads you to doing it your way, making up something that matches your imagination. And as soon as you do that, there's a satanically-controlled course of this world that will come along and teach you some doctrines of devils that cause you to depart from the truth.
"Here's what they do when they offer sacrifices. Jeremiah 44:15-17: [15] Then all the men which knew that their wives had burned incense unto other gods, and all the women that stood by, a great multitude, even all the people that dwelt in the land of Egypt, in Pathros, answered Jeremiah, saying,
[16] As for the word that thou hast spoken unto us in the name of the LORD, we will not hearken unto thee.
[17] But we will certainly do whatsoever thing goeth forth out of our own mouth, to burn incense unto the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto her, as we have done, we, and our fathers, our kings, and our princes, in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem: for then had we plenty of victuals, and were well, and saw no evil.
"We're going to go by our viewpoint. To burn incense? Wow, isn't that interesting. To the queen of heaven. Folks, this is 600 years before the time of Christ when Jerry's talking and there's people in Israel corrupted away from the truth of God, worshipping the queen of heaven.
"Verse 18: But since we left off to burn incense to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto her, we have wanted all things, and have been consumed by the sword and by the famine.
"Incense in the Bible is a picture of prayer. We're praying to the queen of heaven. Hello! You see, some of you have been in that. 'And poured out drink offerings to her.' By that verse write down Psalm 16:4: [4] Their sorrows shall be multiplied that hasten after another god: their drink offerings of blood will I not offer, nor take up their names into my lips.
"Verse 19: [19] And when we burned incense to the queen of heaven, and poured out drink offerings unto her, did we make her cakes to worship her, and pour out drink offerings unto her, without our men?
"Paul calls that the cup of devils and the table of devils. And when he says that in I Corinthians 10, he's quoting Moses in Deuteronomy 32 about the same stuff corrupting Israel.
"The system the Antichrist rides to power on is found in Revelation 17:5. So what was back there in Numbers and Jeremiah is going to be with the Antichrist future from us and don't be surprised that it's here today. It had to get from back there over to there and it permeates."
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