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<p><a href= "http://traffic.libsyn.com/thehighroadshow/2757S1001.mp3" target= "_blank" rel="noopener">Download</a></p> <!-- END 1185 Download Link --> <p>Numbers 25-27 We are in the World Stream reading from the Good News Translation. 7streamsmethod.com | @7StreamsMethod | @serenatravis | #7Streams | <a href= "https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=YPPA8XGTQ2YHU">Donate</a></p> <!--more--> <p>Commentary by Dr. Drake Travis</p> <blockquote> <div>Lord, Teach us to live right and do right, to serve you wholeheartedly, bless others, and finish well.  Amen.</div> </blockquote> <p>25 - The sinister agenda of Balaam and the outright dark agenda of Balak came into bloom as the men of Israel started attending the party/feast/festivals of Baal with the Moabite and Midianite women. It was a sex cult and not much else. Balak wanted the Israelites distracted, cursed. Balaam was not able to curse them against God's plan. We read that last week as Balaam tarries pathetically with Balak who tries again and again to get Balaam to curse them. As they go to one offering after another it all seemed pathetic. Could we call it "dilly-dallying on purpose"?  Balak had gotten them to tarry where they shouldn't be long enough and the Israelite men then slouched in their morals - 24,000 of them do anyway - and they get to whoring with local pagan girls. We see this in history where and when men go to places they shouldn't be and stay longer than they ought.  What does anyone think is going to happen? God's judgment falls and all the fornicating men are ordered executed. Translations vary but the actual order was to impale them and put them up on poles as a testimony to what happens when men stray from what they are called to do.  The whole mess is eventually blamed upon Balaam whom God/Moses ordered killed; Num. 25:4, 31:8./ 2 Ptr.2:15 /Jude 11 /Rev. 2:14.  Turning away and disobeying God for cash and/or what seems like pleasure for a season brings condemnation and that is why Peter, Jude and John (in Revelati