Zippor

Now, since the Lord, the God of Israel, has driven the Amorites out before his people Israel, what right have you to take it over? Will you not take what your God Chemosh gives you? Likewise, whatever the Lord our God has given us, we will possess it.

Are you any better than Balak, son of Zippor, king of Moab? Did he ever quarrel with Israel or fight with them? For 300 years, Israel occupied Heshbon, Aror, the surrounding settlements, and all the towns along the Arnon.

Why didn't you retake them during that time? Then the Spirit of the Lord came on Jephthah.

He crossed Gilead and Manasseh and passed through Mizpah of Gilead.

Okay? Because if you're walking in truth, you're going to hear people that aren't, that are going to get prophecies.

they're going to i'm telling you and we're going to also look at what happened with the worshiping of the golden calf because it's a very similar situation okay balaam was a prophet and there was a man named black this is numbers 22 Says he was the son of Zippor.

Numbers 22.

Children of Israel set forward and pitched in the plains of Moab on this side of Jordan by Jericho.

And Balak, the son of Zippor, saw all that Israel had done to the Amorites.

And Moab, so this is Moab.

Now Moab were the descendants of Abraham's nephew Lot.

But they didn't.

Then you lived in the wilderness for a long time.

He says, Balak, son of Zippor, the king of Moab, prepared to fight against Israel.

He sent for Balaam, son of Beor, to put a curse on you.

But I would not listen to Balaam, so he blessed you again and again, and I delivered you out of his hand.

They fought with you, and I gave them into your hand, and you took possession of their land, and I destroyed them before you.

Then Balak, the son of Zippor, king of Moab, arose and fought against Israel.

And he sent and invited Balak, the son of Beer, to curse you, but I would not listen to Balak.

Instead, he blessed you.

Good.

He says, the king of Moab, Balak, son of Zippor, fought against you.

He sent word to Balaam, son of Bil, and asked him to put a curse on you.

You'll be surprised that by this time the church was fused with the world.

Let's see, chapter 22, verse, I think it's verse three, I believe it is.

Yeah, verse two, Balak the son of Zipporah saw all that Israel had done to the Amorites.

And Moab was sore afraid.

And so we see then in verse 7, the elders of Moab and the elders of Midian departed with the rewards of divination in their hands.

I destroyed them then, uh, from before you and took possession of their land.

When Balak, the son of Zippor and the king of Moab, prepared to fight against Israel, he sent for Balaam son of Beor, uh, to put a curse on you, but I would not listen to Balaam, so he blessed you again and again, and I delivered you out of his hand.

Then you crossed the Jordan and came to Jericho.

The citizens of Jericho fought against you, uh, as did the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Girgashites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, but I gave them into your hands.

Numbers 22 and verse 2.

Now Balak, the son of Zippor, saw all that Israel had done to the Amorites.

And Moab was exceedingly afraid of the people because there were many.

And Moab was sick with dread because of the children of Israel.

So Moab said to the elders of Midian.

Now this company will lick up everything around us as an ox licks up the grass of the field.

And Balak, the son of Zippor, was king of the Moabites at that time.

Then he sent messengers to Balaam, the son of Beor at Pethor, which is near the river and the land of the sons of his people, to call him, saying, Look, people have come from Egypt.