King Balak told Balaam “that he whom you bless is blessed, and he whom you curse is cursed” (Num 22:6b) so this is why he sought Balaam to bring down curses upon Israel but Balaam refused, knowing that God forbid him to do so even telling Balaam “You shall not go with them. When King Balak, the king of the Moabites, wanted to destroy Israel, he called upon Balaam to call down a curse upon them but every time he tried to call down a curse on Israel (Num 22:6), he ended up blessing them (Num 23:11). With God, all things are possible (Matt 19:26b), not so with man (Matt 19:26a). Habakkuk wrote about the coming judgment of the Chaldeans that “The stones of the wall will cry out, and the beams of the woodwork will echo it” (Hab 2:11). That clearly means that the Old and the New Testament are God’s inspired words and is God speaking to us but sometimes, as we will read, God can speak through other means too as even Jesus said to those who were angered by the praise heaped upon Him “if these were silent, the very stones would cry out” (Luke 19:40). There are some things in them that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they do the other Scriptures”so we can clearly see that Paul’s writings are counted among what is considered Scripture. The Apostle Peter declares the writings of Paul as Scripture too in 2 Peter 3:15-16 “And count the patience of our Lord as salvation, just as our beloved brother Paul also wrote to you according to the wisdom given him, as he does in all his letters when he speaks in them of these matters. This gives meaning to Peter’s command that “I want you to recall the words spoken in the past by the holy prophets and the command given by our Lord and Savior through your apostles” (2 Peter 3:2). Paul writes that “All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness” (2 Tim 3:16) and this means the Old Testament as well as the New Testament. God speaks to us today and we don’t even see Him, however we have His Word being spoken to us through the pages of the Bible. Why did God cause this and what can we learn from this historical account in the Bible? The Bible has an account of a talking donkey.
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