I Tried to Tell You

And the LORD met Balaam, and put a word in his mouth, and said, Go again unto Balak, and say thus. And when he came to him, behold, he stood by his burnt offering, and the princes of Moab with him. And Balak said unto him, What hath the LORD spoken? And he took up his parable, and said, Rise up, Balak, and hear; hearken unto me, thou son of Zippor: God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good? Behold, I have received commandment to bless: and he hath blessed; and I cannot reverse it. He hath not beheld iniquity in Jacob, neither hath he seen perverseness in Israel: the LORD his God is with him, and the shout of a king is among them. God brought them out of Egypt; he hath as it were the strength of an unicorn. Surely there is no enchantment against Jacob, neither is there any divination against Israel: according to this time it shall be said of Jacob and of Israel, What hath God wrought! Behold, the people shall rise up as a great lion, and lift up himself as a young lion: he shall not lie down until he eat of the prey, and drink the blood of the slain. And Balak said unto Balaam, Neither curse them at all, nor bless them at all. But Balaam answered and said unto Balak, Told not I thee, saying, All that the LORD speaketh, that I must do?-Numbers 23:16-26***When Abraham (Abram the Hebrew) was in the midst of great darkness and a deep sleep, the Lord God told Abraham that Abraham's descendants would be afflicted in a land 400 years, and the Lord God would bring judgment on the land, and Abraham's descendants would come out of the land with a vast amount of valuable goods. When Abraham was 100 years old, Isaac was born to Abraham and his 90-year-old wife Sarah (Sarai). When Isaac was 40 years old, he was married to Rebekah, Abraham and Sarah's grandniece. In the 20th year of the marriage, Esau (Edom) and Jacob (Israel) were born to Isaac and Rebekah. Rebekah's nieces Leah and Rachel, the daughters of Rebekah's brother Laban the Syrian (Aramean), became Jacob's wives. Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Zebulun, and daughter Dinah were born to Jacob and Leah. Dan and Naphtali were born to Jacob and Bilhah, Rachel's maidservant. Gad and Asher were born to Jacob and Zilpah, Leah's maidservant. Joseph and Benjamin were born to Jacob and Rachel. When Jacob was 130 years old, he moved with his family from Canaan to Egypt, the country wherein Joseph became second-in-command after being sold by his brothers to merchants traveling to Egypt, and being brought by Potiphar, and imprisoned after a false accusation, and being known as an interpreter of dreams. Sometime after 147-year-old Jacob died in Egypt and his family buried his body in Canaan, and 110-year-old Joseph and his siblings were dead, Generations their descendants the Israelites were enslaved in Egypt. Miriam and her younger brothers Aaron and Moses were born into the tribe of Levi. When Moses was 80 years old and Aaron was 83, the Lord God sent them to speak to the Israelite elders and to Pharaoh, the king of Egypt. After the Lord God brought the 10th and final plague upon Pharaoh and Egypt, Moses and Aaron led the Israelites, and those with them, away from Egypt, across the divinely parted Red Sea, and into the desert wilderness of Shur, according to the commands of the Lord God. The Israelites praised the Lord God, grumbled multiple times, witnessed multiple miracles, defeated the Amalekites, and heard the voice of the Lord God proclaim the Ten Commandments. The Lord God gave Moses judgments, statutes and laws for the Israelites, and the Israelites built the tabernacle and sacred items that the Lord God described and showed to Moses were to be made. The Israelites worshiped a golden calf, were frightened after hearing of gigantic inhabitants in Canaan, the Promised Land, spoke of returning to Egypt, mourned the death of Miriam, mourned Aaron's death, fought Canaanite King Arad and his people twice, defeated Amorite King Sihon and his people, took over the land of other Amorite inhabitants, and annihilated Amorite King Og and his kingdom. When Moabite King Balak knew that the Israelites were in his midst, he convinced the Midianites to unite with him and send an envoy to Balaam and have Balaam come to them and curse the Israelites. The Moabites were descendants of Abraham and Sarah's nephew Lot and Lot's oldest daughter. The Midianites descended from Abraham and Keturah, his 2nd wife. Balaam told the messengers to spend the night and that whatever he heard from the Lord God he would tell them. After the Lord God told Balaam not to go with the messengers and not to curse the blessed Israelites, Balaam sent the messengers away. Balak sent a more esteemed envoy to Balaam. Balaam gave the new messengers a reply and told them to spend the night. The Lord God spoke to Balaam and gave Balaam specific instructions. Balaam disobeyed the words of the Lord God, and as Balaam was traveling with his own servants and the envoy, an incident occurred that involved the angel of the Lord God, and Balaam's donkey and Balaam. Sometime thereafter, 120-year-old Moses went upon Mount Nebo, the Lord God showed Moses the Promised Land, and 120-year-old Moses died and was divinely buried. Joshua, Moses' successor, led the Israelites across the divinely parted Jordan River and onto the land that the Lord God promised to give to Abraham, and Isaac, and to Jacob, and their descendants. Over 1,300 years after 110-year-old Joshua died and was buried in his tribe's portion of the Promised Land, Jesus the Christ, the Son of God, was born. Jesus was conceived of the Holy Spirit in the womb of Mary, a virgin, and Jesus was born into the tribe of Judah to Mary and her husband Joseph when Mary was a virgin. Approximately 30 years after Jesus was born to Joseph and Mary, Jesus was baptized in the Jordan River by Mary's relative John the Baptist, from the tribe of Levi. Jesus having prayed, the heavens tearing open, the Holy Spirit descended as a dove and lit upon Jesus. The Lord God in heaven audibly acknowledged his Son Jesus, and the Holy Spirit led Jesus into the desert wilderness. Jesus fasted for 40 days and nights and was tempted. Afterwards, Jesus was tended to by angels, and Jesus went to the area near John the Baptist, and John the Baptist proclaimed Jesus to be the Lamb of God taking away the sin of the world. In Galilee, Jesus told specific Israelite men to follow him, and Jesus began to preach, teach and perform miracles among the Israelites, the treasured and chosen people of the Lord God. Less than 3 1/2 years after Jesus was baptized, Jesus was was betrayed by Judas Iscariot, the disciple and apostle, and Jesus was arrested, crucified, buried in a tomb, resurrected, seen by over 500 people, and returned to heaven.The disciple and apostle Simon Peter wrote a divinely inspired letter that revealed a message about Balaam.-Genesis 11:26-50:26, Exodus, Numbers 11:1-14:45, 20:1-25:18, 27:12-23, 31:1-54, Deuteronomy 23:1-25, 31:1-30, 32:44-52, 34:1-12, Joshua 1:1-4:24, 1 Chronicles 1:1-34, 2:1-17, 3:1-24, 6:1-81, 7:20-29, Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Acts 1:1-26, 2 Peter

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