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Thought questions
- What is the significance of the numbers 3 and 7?
- Seven altars are mentioned three times
- What was Balak trying to accomplish?
- How did the goyim (Hebrew for “nations”) know the bull and ram were the offerings?
- Who was the prophet to the goyim at tht time?
- What was the connection between Balak’s three attempts to “change God’s mind” and the approach of the goyim to their gods?
- Where was Israel at the time?
- What terrified Balak about Israel’s victory over Aram (Num. 23:18 JPS)?
- What is so prophetic about Balaam’s oracle (Num. 23:18–24)?
- What does it mean “there is no sorcery against Jacob” and “no divination against Israel”?
- What is meant in Num. 23:10 “count the dust of Jacob” and “number a one-1oth of Israel”?
- Why is Jacob first and Israel second?
- What is the difference, considering dust is a prophetic symbol for the “offspring of Jacob”?
- When is iniquity no longer found in Jacob? What does Yom haKippurim predict?
- Does does that bring in no more “divine” action or divination against Jacob and Israel?
- How does this relate to the Apostle Paul’s statement that “all Israel will be saved” (Romans 11:26)?
- How is Num. 23:21 prophetic of the monarchy period of Israel?
- How is this a prediction of the Messiah.
- When will Jacob and Israel rise and go to war against goyim as in Num. 23:24?
- How do we know there were seven princes from Moab?
- What are the goyim waiting for?
- Why has God been blessing Israel?
- Why has God been blessing the United States?