{"id":9097,"date":"2016-07-21T07:00:26","date_gmt":"2016-07-21T14:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hoshanarabbah.org\/blog\/?p=9097"},"modified":"2016-07-21T07:00:26","modified_gmt":"2016-07-21T14:00:26","slug":"lying-manipulator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hoshanarabbah.org\/blog\/2016\/07\/21\/lying-manipulator\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Lord told me\u2026&#8221; are often the words of a lying manipulator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Numbers 22:38, <i>The word that Elohim puts in my mouth. <\/i><\/b>Balaam claimed to hear the voice of YHVH, yet his claims and the reality of the facts were two different things. YHVH makes a mockery of Balaam\u2019s claims in front of the Moabite delegation when the lowly she-donkey is able to discern the presence of the Messenger of YHVH and Balaam is not (at least until YHVH opens his eyes).<\/p>\n<p>How many times have you encountered people who claim to hear from \u201cthe LORD,\u201d yet on closer examination they have not heard from YHVH, for the fruits of their lives and ministry do not verify their claims?<\/p>\n<p>Be wary of such people who announce to others their super-spirituality and make great claims about their supposed inside track with YHVH.<\/p>\n<p>Ask yourself: what do these people really want and what are their hidden agendas? What are they trying to gain for themselves or trying to cover up? 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YHVH makes a mockery of Balaam\u2019s claims in front &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hoshanarabbah.org\/blog\/2016\/07\/21\/lying-manipulator\/\">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":[317,577,138],"class_list":["post-9097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weekly-readings","tag-balaam","tag-false-prophet","tag-numbers"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>&quot;The Lord told me\u2026&quot; are often the words of a lying manipulator | 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\/2016\/07\/21\/lying-manipulator\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"&quot;The Lord told me\u2026&quot; are often the words of a lying manipulator | Hoshana Rabbah Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Numbers 22:38, The word that Elohim puts in my mouth. 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