<TITLE>26. Par 216-227</TITLE>L-216 Then Balaam started, jumped on his mule--or not his mule, his donkey, down through there he went. And the first thing, you know, the Angel of the Lord stood in the way. And, you know, that prophet, that pope, bishop, cardinal, whatever he was, was so blinded to spiritual things, the thought he was going to get his promoted, because he lived on the River Euphrates. I guess he thought that was some inheritance, like "Upon this rock I'll build My church, Peter," or on some rock that was in Rome, or something. But when he got to the place, there stood the Angel with a drawed sword, and he was so blinded that he couldn't see it. And the mule smashed his foot against the wall. And then he rode him on, and the--the Angel stood in the way again. God will block every door. And this mule still turned around. And he jumped off, and took his stick, and begin to wail him with it. This little donkey, laying there, getting beat on the head...

L-217 And I'll show you what changed him, what made him have the notion, or told him where he was wrong, He let that mule speak in tongues: not a mule, he was a donkey. Don't say he was a mule; he couldn't have got it; he's a hybrid. See, he was original seed.
Moab with signs past, all things are past. Israel had signs following.
But this little donkey turned around and said, "Haven't I been your donkey? Have ever I..." And that--that blinded bishop setting upon there, still beating that mule; and the mule got talking to him in unknown tongues to the mule.
And he said, "Yes, you're--you're my donkey."
"And have--have I--have I ever not carried you, or have I ever failed you?"
"No, you haven't. But if I had a sword, I'd kill you. I'd stop this meeting. I'm on my road down there to stop that bunch of holy-rollers from coming through this land. I'd--I'd put it on you." See?

L-223 And the first thing you know, he happened to look around; he thought, "Well, this is funny. I can hear that mule talking."
O Balaam... Umm. See, God's always spoke in unknown tongues to people. He did in the days of... You say, "That's just on Pentecostal." Oh, no. No, no. At Belshazzar's feast He spoke in tongues, wrote it out on the wall. They had a man there had the gift of interpretation, so he interpreted it for them, told them what it was. Same thing's today.

L-225 So being that there was no interpreter to it, God just let this old Balaam wake up (this cardinal) and realized what it was. And did you know that blind fellow went right on anyhow? Sure. That's the way they do it today, same thing, the Moabites, Nicolaitanes, going right on. And they went right on over there, and he went...
Now, watch, if God had to regard fundamentalism, He was duty bound to bless Moab; because notice, Balaam built seven altars. That's exactly, the number seven: seven church ages. See how the spiritual application? Now, hold that now. Spiritual application, I'm going to get to it in a minute in a hard place. See? The spiritual application... Seven altars, seven bullocks (clean animals), and seven rams, speaking of the coming of Christ, hundreds of years before He came.

L-227 But they believed. What did they believe? They believed in Jehovah God. What else did they believe? They believed that a clean sacrifice was to be offered. That's right. And they claimed that they believed that the Messiah was coming, because they offered a--a male sheep (which was a ram). That right?
Now, you just tie up with a Baptist one time, find out if they don't do the same thing. That's exactly right.
Well, now what's the difference? Here's Israel down at the bottom of the hill, offering the same offerings that they offered up here, praying to the same God. Can't you see the Nicolaitanes, the hybrid? See it? Don't you see the true spiritual? What was the difference of them? One of them had signs following. The other one had the form; the other one had signs following.


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