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14 having eyes full of1 adultery and that cannot cease from sin, enticing unstable souls. aThey have a heart trained in covetous practices, and are accursed children.  
15 They have forsaken the right way and gone astray, following the way of aBalaam the son of Beor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness;  
16 but he was rebuked for his iniquity: a dumb donkey speaking with a man’s voice restrained the madness of the prophet.
17 aThese are wells without water,1 clouds carried by a tempest, for whom is reserved the blackness of darkness2 forever.  

Deceptions of False Teachers

18 For when they speak great swelling words of emptiness, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through lewdness, the ones who1 have actually escaped from those who live in error.  
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2 Peter 2:16

Peter puts it plainly: Balaam was insane—he was totally willing to oppose God Himself. He was not insane in the sense that he needed to be locked in a mental facility, but he was insane in his willingness to fight the Maker and Ruler of the entire universe! Moreover, Balaam was not backed into fighting Him—he went seeking Him to get his own way. That is certainly insane and why Peter used the phrase, "the madness of the prophet."

Richard T. Ritenbaugh
Balaam and the End-Time Church (Part 2)

Related Topics: Balaam | Balaam's Insanity | Madness of Prophet




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