{"id":3245,"date":"2013-07-03T07:45:55","date_gmt":"2013-07-03T14:45:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hoshanarabbah.org\/blog\/?p=3245"},"modified":"2014-08-23T15:35:43","modified_gmt":"2014-08-23T22:35:43","slug":"for-profit-prophets-like-balaam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hoshanarabbah.org\/blog\/2013\/07\/03\/for-profit-prophets-like-balaam\/","title":{"rendered":"For Profit Prophets\u2014Like Balaam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Numbers 31:8, <i>Balaam \u2026 they slew with the sword. <\/i><\/strong>Jude 11 talks about Balaam being greedy for money and indicates that there are those in the end times in the body of Yeshua who will follow after this sin. How is this possible? What will be the ultimate fate of these \u201ctares\u201d? (See Matt 13:40.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hoshanarabbah.org\/blog\/2013\/07\/03\/for-profit-prophets-like-balaam\/balaam-prophesies-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3246\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-3246\" alt=\"Balaam prophesies 2\" src=\"http:\/\/hoshanarabbah.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Balaam-prophesies-2-218x300.gif\" width=\"218\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Had Balaam believed his own good prophecies concerning Israel and not have sided with Israel\u2019s enemies, would he no doubt would have been spared the sword of YHVH\u2019s justice. What were his motives for siding with them?<\/p>\n<p>Greed and materialism blind one from YHVH\u2019s truth and cause one to side with YHVH\u2019s enemies. What is the end result of this action?<\/p>\n<p>Balaam was a deceiver and a hypocrite. He spoke one thing and did something else. Are we ever guilty of this? How rampant is the sin of duplicity within the body of believers in Yeshua?<\/p>\n<p>There are people who claim to be prophets in the church who, like Balaam, speak soothing and ear-tickling prophetic words in order to <i>profit<\/i> from the people. How can we know the difference between true and false prophets? A true prophet is not greedy like Balaam. (Read Deut 18:20\u201322 and Matt 7:15\u201320.) Can a true prophet of Elohim prophesy out of the flesh something false, and if he repents, when he finds he was in error, be spared from the death penalty? 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How &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hoshanarabbah.org\/blog\/2013\/07\/03\/for-profit-prophets-like-balaam\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[64],"tags":[317,546,138,545],"class_list":["post-3245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weekly-readings","tag-balaam","tag-jude","tag-numbers","tag-prophets"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>For Profit Prophets\u2014Like Balaam | Hoshana Rabbah Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/hoshanarabbah.org\/blog\/2013\/07\/03\/for-profit-prophets-like-balaam\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"For Profit Prophets\u2014Like Balaam | Hoshana Rabbah Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Numbers 31:8, Balaam \u2026 they slew with the sword. 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