Balak, בָּלָק — 10/24/26

Torah: Numbers 23:13 - 23:26 (14)

Gospel: Luke 21:29-38 (10)

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Torah — Numbers 23:13 - 23:26

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Numbers 23:13 - 23:26

23:13 Then Balak said, “Please walk with me to another place where you will see them, but you will only see part of them and will not see all of them; and curse them for me from there.”
23:14 So he took him to the field of Zophim to the top of Pisgah, and he built seven altars, and he offered a bull and a ram on each altar.
23:15 Balaam said to Balak, “Station yourself here at the burnt offering while I myself meet with Yahweh there.”
23:16 Then Yahweh met with Balaam, and he put a word in his mouth, and he said, “Return to Balak, and you must speak thus.”
23:17 He came to him, and behold, he was standing at his burnt offering, and the princes of Moab with him. And Balak said to him, “What has Yahweh spoken?”
23:18 Then he uttered his oracle, and said, “Stand up, Balak, and hear; listen to me, son of Zippor!
23:19 God is not a man, that he should lie, nor a son of humankind, that he should change his mind. Has he said, and will he not do it? And has he spoken, and will he not fulfill it?
23:20     Behold, I have received a command to bless; when he has blessed, I cannot cause it to return.
23:21     He has no regard for evil in Jacob, and he does not see trouble in Israel; Yahweh his God is with him, and a shout of a king is among them.
23:22     God, who brings them out from Egypt, is like the strength of a wild ox for them.
23:23     Because there is no sorcery against Jacob, and there is no divination against Israel. Now it will be said to Jacob and Israel, what God has done!
23:24 Look! the people will rise like the lion; he raises himself and will not lie down until he eats the prey and drinks the blood of the slain.”
23:25 Then Balak said to Balaam, “Do not curse them at all, nor bless them at all!”
23:26 But Balaam answered and said to Balak, “Did I not speak to you, saying, ‘Whatever Yahweh speaks I will do’?”

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Gospel — Luke 21:29-38

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Luke 21:29-38

21:29 The Parable of the Fig Tree And he told them a parable: “Look at the fig tree and all the trees.
21:30 When they put out foliage, now you see for yourselves and know that by this time the summer is near.
21:31 So also you, when you see these things happening, know that the kingdom of God is near.
21:32 Truly I say to you that this generation will never pass away until all things take place!
21:33 Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away.
21:34 Be Alert “But take care for yourselves, lest your hearts are weighed down with dissipation and drunkenness and the worries of daily life, and that day come upon you suddenly
21:35 like a trap. For it will come upon all who reside on the face of the whole earth.
21:36 But be alert at all times, praying that you may have strength to escape all these things that are going to happen, and to stand before the Son of Man.”
21:37 So throughout the days he was teaching in the temple courts, and throughout the nights he was going out and spending the night on the hill that is called the Mount of Olives.
21:38 And all the people were getting up very early in the morning to come to him in the temple courts to listen to him.

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