Numbers 22:13 (NIV)

The next morning Balaam got up and said to Balak’s officials, “Go back to your own country, for the LORD has refused to let me go with you.”

From Background Notes [BN] for June 8^th & 9^th written by Pastor Bob Brown:

A word of caution here. Before we conclude that Balaam is this really spiritual man, let’s not forget the nature of his business. He is a soothsayer, a paid contractor who listens to the Voice with his own agenda in mind.

Balaam has plans — his own, and he is more than willing to benefit from whatever word God gives him. The idea of the “hireling” is not foreign to the biblical story, and Jesus talks about such persons in John 10, as does Paul in 1 Timothy 6:5 when he writes about “godliness as a means of gain” (i.e. money-making; see also Titus 1:7; 1 Peter 5:2).  [BN, 4]

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