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Our Torah Connections. Welcome Yeshua’s Yeladim. 1. Stay C onnected To These Rules. Listen when others are talking . Let everyone around you listen too . Raise your hand to ask a question . Ask if you need to leave the room. El Shaddai News Desk Israel Report.
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Our Torah Connections Welcome Yeshua’s Yeladim 1
Stay Connected To These Rules Listen when others are talking. Let everyone around you listen too. Raise your hand to ask a question. Ask if you need to leave the room.
Alef Bet News Flash 5 Hey Honor Your Father and your Mother!
Alef Bet News Flash You shall Have no other gods before ME 1 Bet Alef I am the Lord your God! 2
Alef Bet News Flash 3 4 You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain Remember the Sabbath Day and keep it Holy Dalet Gimel
Bamidbar/Numbers 19:1-22:1 “?????” Balak (Destoryer)
Last Week’s Memory VerseYochanan/John 3:14-16 For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life. John 3:16
Who Is Balaam? • Balaam was one of seven Gentile prophets. • The king wanted Balaam to curse the Jewish people.
Balak’s Words He said, “Now come and put a curse on these people, because they are too powerful for me. Perhaps then I will be able to defeat them and drive them out of the country. For I know that those you bless are blessed, and those you curse are cursed."(B’Midbar/Numbers 22:5-6)
Balaam’s Curses turn to Blessings • Three times Balaam tried to put a curse on Israel. • God turned it into a blessing instead. • Balaam spoke to the king and told him what the future held for Moab. Do the memory verse game here
Balaam’s First Visitors • When they arrived, they told Balaam what they wanted him to curse Israel. • Balaam asked God what to do and God told him not to curse Israel. • Balaam told the men to go back home.
Balaam’s Second Visitors • The king sent more distinguished princes to ask Balaam to help them. • Balaam had the men spend the night. • Balaam asked God what to do. • God told him to go with them, but only to speak what He said.
Balaam’s Journey • Balaam saddled his donkey and rode with the princes back to the king’s palace. • An angel of the Lord stood in the road with a sword. • When the donkey saw the angel, she turned off the road into a field.
Balaam Continues His Journey • Again the angel stood near a narrow path with walls on each side. • For a third time, the angel stood near a narrow place with no room to go around. • This time the donkey sat down. • Balaam was mad and hit his donkey.
The Donkey Speaks • God made the donkey talk. • Balaam answered that the donkey had made a fool out of him in front of the special princes.
Balaam’s Eyes Are Opened • Then, God opened Balaam’s eyes to see the angel with the sword. • Balaam bowed before the angel of the Lord. • Balaam said he would do only what the angel of the Lord told him to do. • God warned him only to speak what God told him to say.
What Can We Learn From Balaam? • Balaam listened and obeyed God only when it was good for him or benefited him. • He did not obey God because he loved Him! • Balaam was more interested in money than people.