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BALAAM (Numbers 22-24)

4. Balaam as a Type: In <2 Pet 2:15> Balaam's example is used as a means to illustrate the pernicious influence of insincere Christian teachers. The author might have alluded to Balaam in the passage immediately preceding <2 Pet 2:15> because of his abominable counsel. This is done in . Here, of course, Balaam is the type of a teacher of the church who attempts to advance the cause of God by advocating an unholy alliance with the ungodly and worldly, and so conforming the life of the church to the spirit of the flesh.
(from International Standard Bible Encylopaedia, Electronic Database Copyright (C) 1996 by Biblesoft)

Before you begin to condemm me and throw stones at me Read The Account and Ask the Lord to give you wisdom and understanding.

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