We shouldn’t fall into a behind coordinator’s trap …

When we look at the story of the Israelites

Who played the harlot with the daughters of Moab

And sacrificed to their gods and ate and bowed down to their gods in Numbers 25,

It seems that the story has nothing to do with Balaam in Numbers chapters 22-24.

But when we look at Number 31,

The Scriptures say that the people who made the Israelites to commit sins against God

in the matter of Peor were the Midianite women “through the counsel of Balaam” (31:15-16).

But in Revelations 2:14,

The Scriptures says “…  because you have there some who hold the teaching of Balaam,

who kept teaching Balak to put a stumbling block before the sons of Israel,

to eat things sacrificed to idols and to commit acts of immorality.”

Behind the matter of Peor, where the Israelites played the harlot and worshiped the idols,

There was the counsel of Balaam.  Balaam was a stumbling block to Israel.

He was a behind coordinator. 

Eventually Balaam was killed with the sword

As God commanded Moses to take full vengeance for the sons of Israel on the Midianites.

(Num. 31:2, 7-8)