The Enemy's Inquiry Numbers 23: 14-18

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1) The enemy has to appeal to God to bring his purposes to pass against God’s people.

V.14(built seven altars, and offered a bullock and a ram on every altar)

Note attempt to simulate ways of worship without purity and heart of worship.

2) The enemy is subject to the timetable of God. v.15

(stand here by thy burnt offering,)

3) The enemy is subject to the authority of God and the delegated authority of God. v.15

(while I meet the Lord yonder)

4) The enemy will hear from God or God’s delegated source of authority.

v.16 (and the Lord met Balaam, and put a word in his mouth, and said, Go again unto Balak, and say thus.)

5) God’s bounds cannot be passed as long as God fixes the bounds. V.17

(and when he came to him, behold, he stood by his burnt offering,)

Go to your authority and find your bounds.

6) To have to wait on authority is to be subject to that authority. V.17

(…he stood by his burnt offering, and the princes of Moab with him.)

7) The enemy knows that what God says is the ruling decree. V.17,18

(and Balak said unto  him, What hath the Lord spoken?)

(…hearken unto me thou son of Zippor.)