2 Peter 2:14c–16 (ESV) — 14c … Accursed
children! 15 Forsaking the right way, they have gone astray. They
have followed the way of Balaam, the son of Beor, who loved gain from
wrongdoing, 16 but was rebuked for his own transgression; a
speechless donkey spoke with human voice and restrained the prophet’s madness.
NOTE: Balaam was a
believer in the one true God. But Balaam caught the greed flu and was about to
make a whole lot of money for just cursing the nation of Israel. God used an
animal to wake up Balaam to his stupidity. In the end, Balaam could not curse the
nation because he was restrained to only speak God's word, but instead, he
communicated a strategy of intermarriage between the Moabites and the
Israelites to Balak the King of Moab which almost accomplished the same thing.
In the end, Balaam figured out how to get his gold. And today we remember the
way of Balaam as a way of greed and deception. But he was a believer in the one
true God. In context that would suggest that some of the false teachers are
believers who are destined for destruction in this world and at the judgment,
they will have nothing to show for their gracious salvation. They will be
saved, but they will have lost their opportunity to express thankfulness to the
Savior. Christians are on earth for a reason -- to be a witness to the world
and to bring God honor by our good works.
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