I've made a lot of jokes about that. Maybe Balaam wasn't freaked out about a talking donkey because a.) he still lived in the time period when Eden was still fairly fresh on everyone's mind because before the Fall, animals and humans could communicate; b.) living in that part of the country and being 'prophetic', he was used to seeing strange things; c.) knowing how to manipulate curses against others, he had occult experience and had therefore seen animals and inanimate objects speak before (which does happen).
Yeah im nOt sure haha I just know I would be speechless . My daddy used to find things like that and tell us bible stories at night before bedtime . I remember Daniel and the lions den , shadrach meshach and abednego . Just a lot of really neat and amazing and faith building stories in the ot
there was a time when God set angels over mankind because of mans rebellion and worship of idols
“And
they made a calf in those days, and offered sacrifice unto the idol, and rejoiced in the works of their own hands.
( the people at the base of Sinai when Moses was getting the tablets of commandment )
Then God turned, and gave them up to worship the host of heaven;
as it is written in the book of the prophets,
O ye house of Israel, have ye offered to me slain beasts and sacrifices By the space of forty years
in the wilderness?
Yea, ye took up the tabernacle of Moloch, And
the star of your god Remphan, Figures which ye made to worship them: And I will carry you away beyond Babylon.
….
Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do ye.
……who have
received the law by the disposition of angels, and have not kept it.”
Acts 7:41-43, 51, 53 KJV
“And
the LORD said unto Moses, Go, get thee down; for thy people, which thou broughtest out of the land of Egypt, have
corrupted themselves: they have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them: they have made them a molten calf, and have worshipped it, and have sacrificed thereunto, and said, These be thy gods, O Israel, which have brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.
( this is the first commandment they’ve already broken )
And
the LORD said unto Moses, I have seen this people, and,
behold, it is a stiffnecked people: now therefore let me alone, that my wrath may wax hot against them, and that I may consume them: and I will make of thee a great nation.
And
Moses besought the LORD his God, ( Moses intercedes to save the people from his wrath )
………..And
the LORD repented of the evil which he thought to do unto his people.”
Exodus 32:7-14 KJV
Moses intercedes again after judging and punishing the people for what they did having three thousand people slaughtered by the priests at random with swords. Then making then grind up and drink the golden idol in water
then he returns again to make atonement for the people and we see the involvement of the angels again in fulfilling the covenant
“And it came to pass on the morrow, that Moses said unto the people,
Ye have sinned a great sin: and now I will go up unto the LORD; peradventure I shall make an atonement for your sin.
…..Yet now,
if thou wilt forgive their sin–; and if not, blot me, I pray thee, out of thy book which thou hast written.
And the LORD said unto Moses,
Whosoever hath sinned against me, him will I blot out of my book.
Therefore
now go, lead the people unto the place of which I have spoken unto thee:
behold, mine Angel shall go before thee: nevertheless in the day when I visit I will visit their sin upon them.”
Exodus 32:30, 32-34 KJV
This is the ordination of the law of Moses he did many things through angels in the ot because they were given authority over men by the law when they worshipped the calf
Wherefore then serveth
the law? It was added because of transgressions,
till the seed should come to whom the promise was made;
and
it was ordained by angels in the hand of a mediator.
Now a mediator is
not a mediator of one, but God is one.”( this is the issue )
Galatians 3:19-20 KJV
The law is Gods word , an angel who will not pardon thier sins is given the authority over them ehos giving the word to Moses who also makes judgements by Gods spirit over the people .
The Gospel is God speaking his word as a man , to man and for all man . No angel , no other man who needs to mediate but just the person who believes the gospel and the lords spirit and then others who have the same relationship in Christ with him.
this is why the
disposition of angels evident in the law doesn’t work for mankind as a mediation and what makes it not our law
“
Behold, I send an Angel before thee, to keep thee in the way, and to bring thee into the place which I have prepared.
Beware of him, and obey his voice, provoke him not; for he will not pardon your transgressions: for my name is in him. “
Exodus 23:20-22
so you have this dispostion cast over the word
“And while
the children of Israel were in the wilderness,
they found a man that gathered sticks upon the sabbath day.
And
the LORD said unto Moses, The man shall be surely put to death: all the congregation shall stone him with stones without the camp.
And all the congregation brought him without the camp, and
stoned him with stones, and he died; as the LORD commanded Moses.”
Numbers 15:32, 35-36 KJV
Or this disposition of the angel
“And
thine eye shall not pity; but
life shall go for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.”
Deuteronomy 19:21
“And
if a man cause a blemish in his neighbour; as he hath done,
so shall it be done to him; breach for breach, eye for eye, tooth for tooth: as he hath caused a blemish in a man, so shall it be done to him again.”
Leviticus 24:19-20 KJV
V this disposition of the lord jesus the man who offers pardon and cleansing and renewal
“Ye have heard that
it hath been said, An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth:
but I say unto you, That ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also.”
Matthew 5:38-
After man co tiny ally rebelled he handed them over to angels to govern until Christ should come himself and redeem them
Im sorry I’ve gotten off course but the idea is that angels are very involved in the ot because they were the governing authority over the law carrying out and delivering Gods word I mean
But the nt he’s chosen men to be the o es to carry out delivery of the word of the gospel and angels to minister in the spiritual realm helping to accomplish gods will those unseen things we know God did but dont know how …. and strengthen people also guard over people as well observe and make records of nt bongs that are happening also such as the children’s angels always in communication with God watching for people who do them harm
i love that idea regarding nt doctrine and angels.
i simply am just offering some thoughts and scriptire regarding the interactions I’ve noticed in the Bible I sorry I get a little scattered with my words and thoughts
God bless
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