Balaam “loved the wages of unrighteousness” –2 Pet.2:15, and subsequently has been ordained Bishop Balaam over vast hoards crowding into his business centers masquerading as churches. He is the General Overseer of all junior pastors who “won’t prophesy unless you are paid” –Micah 3:11. “For from the least of them even to the greatest of them, their lives are ruled by greed, everyone is given to covetousness for gain, and from the prophet even to the priest, they are all frauds” –Jeremiah 6:13.
Though Balaam knew that God opposed his desperate lust for riches, he continued to seek gain for Self. He wanted by all means to find a way to get Balak’s promised reward by “using” God to obtain it. Thus he was for hire and prophesied for a price: Money was his master and prophesying his vocation.
The Lord Jesus sternly warns one and all of Balaam’s delusion. “No servant can serve 2 masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and Mammon/Wealth/Riches” –Luke 16:13.
Note it well: If you love Money, you hate God. If you are devoted to Money you despise God. There is no middle ground, no blending of the two. You cannot serve both. But Bishop Balaam would disagree.
The Scriptures speak about Balaam’s Way [2 Peter 2:15], his Error [Jude 11], and his Doctrine [Revelation 2:14]. These give us sober warnings about following in his footsteps.
The Way of Balaam is that of motivating greed for self-enrichment. Love of money filled his heart. He cared nothing for the Lord or the Israel of God. That God would judge fornicating Moabite women and Balak himself did not disturb him at all. Money was his one concern and he must have it by all means.
The Error of Balaam was imagining that God can be manipulated by repeated religious activities. He thought that if God did not approve of his prophetic ravings today, He may yet be persuaded tomorrow. “Noise and religious acrobatics ought to eventually gain my own desires,” was the warped error of his thinking. Balaam believed that God could be convinced to adjust His Word to grant his own. And thus he moved from one mountain to another high-place, repeatedly raving the same nonsense. It is error indeed.
He taught Balak and all men thereafter the doctrine which bears his name. The Doctrine of Balaam is that truth can be compromised to get what I want. His message is that the end justifies the means. “As long as my purpose is achieved, it does not matter how it is accomplished,” was his deluded teaching. Truly, a doctrine of demons according to what is written: “And why not say, ‘Let us do evil that good may come’? Those who say such things deserve to be condemned” –Romans 3:8.
Bishop Balaam has millions of disciples faithfully following in his way. Of this modern church it truthfully must be said that “they have run greedily in the Error of Balaam. Like Balaam, they deceive people for money” –Jude 11. This is his lustful use of religion to gain for Self: “hawkers who preach for personal profit” –2 Corinthians 2:17: making the house of God into “a den of thieves” –Luke 19:46.
The Lord Jesus Christ is against all Balaamites: “Stop making My Father’s house a place of business! How dare you turn My Father’s house into a market!” –John 2:16. He has not forgotten how to make a whip of cords and drive all of you out who love Balaam’s evil Way, Error, and Doctrine.
“‘Behold, days are coming,’ says the Lord God, ‘when I will send a famine on the land, not a famine for bread or a thirst for water, but rather a famine of hearing the Words of the Lord’” –Amos 8:11. Those days are upon us. The Word of the Lord is drowned out in the chaotic uproar of Bishop Balaam’s prophetic ravings. The people of God are starved, their pockets emptied, while his prophets lounge in luxury.
“But he received a rebuke for his own transgressions, for a dumb donkey, speaking with a voice of a man, restrained the madness of the prophet” – 2 Peter 2:16. And now, here and there in the land, God is raising up His dumb donkeys to rebuke this madness. I am one. Bishop Balaam, your days are numbered.