Balaam’s Prophecy (2)
Wednesday Evening January 9, 2008 Numbers 23:27-24:25 Numbers — With God in the Wilderness: Balaam’s Prophecy (2) Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III If you have Bibles, I’d invite you to turn with me to Numbers 23. But in the outline that Jeremy is distributing right now, you have this text printed front and back for you, laid out in a little bit of a poetic form. Sometimes in our Bibles, because the Bible publishers are trying to squeeze in as many words onto a page as possible (so that the Bible editions of their printings aren’t much thicker than they already are), you lose a sense of the poetry that is encapsulated sometimes in the middle of historic narrative — a story about an historical fact recorded in the form of an exciting narrative like this. And there are…