巴兰对以色列的诡计
安息日妥拉
Balak — בלק
民数记（Num）： 22:2 – 25:9
弥迦书（Mic）： 5:6 – 6:8
马太福音（Mat）： 21:1 – 11
罗马书（Rom）：11:25 – 32
本周妥拉摘要
巴勒 (Balak, בלק)是摩西时期的摩押王的名字，也是妥拉第四十段经卷阅读的名字，它来自本周妥拉阅读段落的第二节，“以色列人向亚摩利人所行的一切事，西拨的儿子巴勒都看见了”（民数记22:2）。本周妥拉阅读段落告诉我们巴勒如何秘密的雇佣先知巴兰试图咒诅以色列。巴兰遭遇神的拦阻，并且与所骑的驴有交谈对话，最终以祝福以色列代替了咒诅以色列。
Balak (Balak, בלק) was the name of a Moabite king in the days of Moses. It is also the name of the fortieth reading from the Torah. It comes from the second verse of this week's reading, which says, "Now Balak the son of Zippor saw all that Israel had done to the Amorites" (Numbers 22:2). This week's Torah reading tells the story of how Balak hires the occult prophet Balaam to lay a curse on Israel. Balaam meets resistance from God, has a conversation with his donkey and ends up blessing Israel instead of cursing them.
妥拉纲要
妥拉
民数记 22:1 ｜ 巴勒召集巴兰来咒诅以色列
民数记 22:22 ｜ 巴兰、驴和天使
民数记 22:41 ｜ 巴兰的第一个预言
民数记 23:13 ｜ 巴兰的第二个预言
民数记 24:1 ｜ 巴兰的第三个预言
民数记 24:15 ｜ 巴兰的第四个预言
民数记 25:1 ｜ 对巴力毗珥的敬拜
先知书
弥迦书 5:2 ｜ 伯利恒的王
弥迦书 5:7 ｜ 余民在未来的角色
弥迦书 6:1 ｜ 神对以色列的挑战
弥迦书 6:6 ｜ 神的要求
TORAH
Numbers 22:1 | Balak Summons Balaam to Curse Israel
Numbers 22:22 | Balaam, the Donkey, and the Angel
Numbers 22:41 | Balaam's First Oracle
Numbers 23:13 | Balaam's Second Oracle
Numbers 24:1 | Balaam's Third Oracle
Numbers 24:15 | Balaam's Fourth Oracle
Numbers 25:1 | Worship of Baal of Peor
PROPHETS
Mic 5:2 | The Ruler from Bethlehem
Mic 5:7 | The Future Role of the Remnant
Mic 6:1 | God Challenges Israel
Mic 6:6 | What God Requires
巴兰对以色列的诡计
巴兰对以色列的咒诅失败了，然而最糟的是，他也没法从巴勒那儿取得丰厚的回报。于是，他冒出了一个想法。也许他不能咒诅以色列，但他可以引诱以色列自招咒诅。在民数记31:16，我们读到他和米甸人、摩押人的领袖共同商量了一个密谋。
他劝说他们切勿摆阵与以色列争战，相反，要由米甸人和摩押人的女子开设派对，邀请以色列的男子来参加。他告诉他们要用女人作诱饵，引诱以色列人加入一场拜偶像的宴席。
以色列人住在什亭时，百姓与摩押女子行起淫乱。（民数记25:1）
就连米甸人中的尊贵人都加入其中，把自己的民族用作妓女引诱以色列。比如声明狼藉的哥斯比，便是米甸五首领之一的苏珥的女儿。当摩西看到米甸人的女子时，他宣告，“这些妇女，因巴兰的计谋，叫以色列人在毗珥的事上得罪耶和华，以致耶和华的会众遭遇瘟疫。”（民数记31:16）
摩押的女子们“叫百姓来，一同给她们的神献祭，百姓就吃她们的祭物，跪拜她们的神。以色列人就与巴力毗珥联合。”（民数记25:2-3）其经文中的用词故意写明了性淫乱，这也是先知何西阿斥责以色列加入异教性崇拜的主题之一。
“他们却来到巴力毗珥专拜那可羞耻的，就称为可憎恶的，与他们所爱的一样。”（何西阿书9:10）
巴兰邪恶的计谋最终得逞了。他成功通过欺哄的手段让以色列国自己陷入了咒诅之中。耶和华神在各支派中释放了一场瘟疫，于是死了24000人。
在启示录中，Yeshua耶稣斥责了别迦摩的会众，因为他们在“尼哥拉一党人的教训下”吃祭偶像之物并行奸淫的事。主也把性淫乱和吃祭偶像之物归为“服从巴兰的教训”。
然而，有几件事我要责备你，因为在你那里，有人服从了巴兰的教训；这巴兰曾教导巴勒将绊脚石放在以色列人面前，叫他们吃祭偶像之物，行奸淫的事。你那里也有人照样服从了尼哥拉一党人的教训。（启示录2:14-15）
直到今天，性诱惑和异教世界中固有的偶像崇拜体系也一直在引诱着信徒，想把我们从对耶和华神的单一委身中拉出来。而对我们来说，为了打破感官主义和物质主义的咒语，我们需要的是坚定的决心。
The Plot Against Israel
Balaam failed to curse Israel. Worse yet, he failed to win a large reward from Balak. Then a thought occurred to him. Perhaps he could not curse Israel, but he could induce Israel to curse themselves. In Numbers 31:16, we learn that he conspired with the Midianite and Moabite leaders and suggested a plan.
He counseled them not to march out to make war against Israel. Instead, he advised them to invite the men of Israel to a party hosted by the daughters of the Midianites and Moabites. He told them to use their daughters as bait to lure the Israelite men to an idolatrous feast.
While Israel remained at Shittim, the people began to play the harlot with the daughters of Moab. (Numbers 25:1)
Even the noblewomen of Midian participated in the plan to prostitute themselves to Israel. For example, the infamous Cozbi was the daughter of Zur, one of the five princes of Midian. When Moses saw the women of Midian, he declared, “Behold, these caused the sons of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to trespass against the LORD in the matter of Peor, so the plague was among the congregation of the LORD” (Numbers 31:16).
The daughters of Moab “invited the people to the sacrifices of their gods, and the people ate and bowed down to their gods. So Israel joined themselves to Baal of Peor” (Numbers 25:2–3).The choice of words intentionally evokes sexuality, a theme that the prophet Hosea picks up in his rebuke regarding the Israelite fertility cult.
They came to Baal-Peor and devoted themselves to shame, and they became as detestable as that which they loved. (Hosea 9:10)
Balaam’s wicked plan succeeded. He managed to finagle the nation into bringing a curse down on its own head. The LORD unleashed a plague among the tribes and 24,000 died.
In the book of the Revelation, Yeshua rebuked the assembly at Pergamum for eating food sacrificed to idols and engaging in sexual immorality under the influence of “the teaching of the Nicolaitans” (Revelation 2:15). The Master referred to sexual immorality and eating food tainted by idolatry as “the teaching of Balaam.”
But I have a few things against you, because you have there some who hold the teaching of Balaam, who kept teaching Balak to put a stumbling block before the sons of Israel, to eat things sacrificed to idols and to commit acts of immorality. So you also have some who in the same way hold the teaching of the Nicolaitans. (Revelation 2:14–15)
The sexual allure and inherent idolatry of the heathen world continues to entice believers and draw us away from singular devotion to the LORD. To break free from the spell of sensuality and materialism takes a radical resolution on our part.
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