The Balaam Spirit — a Serious Warning That’s Worth Repeating!
As I was posting this today, I got a picture of a vulture — looks a bit like an eagle, flies like and eagle, but isn’t a true eagle.
This is not a soft, fuzzy, ear-tickling word. Rather it’s a serious Word of warning from The LORD.
The LORD has been talking to me about the Balaam Spirit. He led me to read Numbers 22-24 — the story of Balaam and Balak.
In particular, he took me to,
“So the elders of Moab and the elders of Midian departed with the diviner’s fee in their hand, and they came to Balaam and spoke to him the words of Balak.” Numbers 22:7.
I watched a video, a while back now, in which well known ‘prophets’, I use the word this way very deliberately, announced an offering.
I’m not sure they actually spoke this out in so many words, but, it was very clear that whoever gave the most got the first ‘personal prophecy’!
That was my first experience of the Balaam Spirit, or spirit of divination. I have since been led by The LORD to see that this practice is very prevalent in the church — and these are the ‘prophets for profit’ who seem to operate in a contrary spirit.
The LORD is about to expose and shame these ministries who practice divination. Sure, many of them do hear from The LORD — so did Balaam.
Sure many of them can be startlingly accurate — so was Balaam. But so too do many of them pander to their purse, secretly charging by only prophesying to those who give — as did Balaam; he even had a scale of fees — why else did they approach him with “the diviners fee in their hand.”
Why else do ‘prophets for profit’ do the same today?
The Bible is clear enough on this — “freely you have received, freely give!” Matthew 10:18.
Also, there’s the story of Simon the Sorcerer, Acts 8:9-25, who tried to buy the gifts.
All these ministries operate in this same spirit to a greater or smaller degree, and they are those whom The LORD will bring down in one way or another!
Repentance is the only answer for them. Turning from their sin with godly repentance! The LORD has consistently warned that judgment begins with The Church, and that everything that can be shaken will be shaken — starting with The Church.
It’s time to get our houses in order, for I really feel that The LORD is going to take an axe to the root of these problems. If we don’t sort it — God will!
To conclude where I began,
“God is not a man, that He should lie, Nor a son of man, that He should repent. Has He said, and will He not do? Or has He spoken, and will He not make it good?” Numbers 23:19 NKJV.
~ Chris G. Bennett
Chris Bennett came to salvation in 1962 but didn’t begin ministry until 2007 — a late-comer! Now mandated by The LORD to prophesy and open old wells of revival in the U.K., but especially in Wales. He has also operated Healing Rooms, and worked with deliverance teams, all with his wife, Linda. Happily now doing whatever The LORD asks of them! Founder, with wife Linda, of their ministry The Upper Room Encounter.
》 But he [the servant] said to him: “Behold, there is a man of God in this city, and he is a man who is held in honor; all that he says comes true. So now let us go there. Perhaps he can tell us the way we should go.”
Then Saul said to his servant: “But if we go, what can we bring the man?
For the bread in our sacks is gone,
and there is no present to bring to the man of God. What do we have?”
The servant answered Saul again: “Here, I have with me a quarter of a shekel of silver, and I will give it to the man of God
to tell us our way.”
(Formerly in Israel, when a man went to inquire of God, he said, “Come, let us go to the seer,” for today’s “prophet” was formerly called a seer.) 《
(1 Samuel 6-9)
Amen Mr. Bennett!!
At this time those things which were winked at before are winked at no more!!
A toenail is all the enemy needs in this Hour.
I’ve learned this through extreme chastisement from the Hand of my Loving Father.
Thank You Thank You Thank You Abba!!
I look like a different person than the world once worshipped, and this is the most attacked area of the antichrist spirit in my life.
But the Spirit of the Lord whispered to me; “You’ve finally made yourself beautiful for Me instead.” :)
If the weakness is power amd money, cut it off and throw it into the fire. If it’s to be lusted after by man, cut it off and throw it into the fire. If its the sin of offense a d bitterness, cut it off and throw it away!!! Whatever the shadow of deception is blocking the Center-out Reflection of His Image and releasing His Kingdom through us in this Hour, we MUST let Him, with His gentle Surgeons Hand, remove it, extract its poison, and heal the wound. That’s where the Power of the Testimony of Jesus Christ will pour through us without measure, and set the captives free, by the Power of His Holy Spirit.
The only Way to THIS Door, is on the Floor!!
God bless your beautiful heart Mr. Bennett :)
May the add His blessing to His Word to this post I say a resounding Amen
This is an important message and it is good that you posted it. We are living in evil days. There is a bit of a mixture with many of us. The Church as a whole has been too relaxed for a long time. It’s time to get out the good preaching and the strong messages. She needs to be awakened. The world on the whole is sleeping without knowing what is taking place with so much on the scene.
The Church is to be a beacon of light. It’s easy to operate in the prophetic and to slip into divination if our heart is not right. If we operated in the dark realm with a prophetic gift that was perverted, all the more caution must be exercised not to slip in and out of it.
As for those wanting money for what they do in the name of the Lord, they are far too numerous to even think about. I believe in giving offerings as led but when you know that you won’t get a word from the Lord until you give, the person receiving the money has already perverted the gift. It would be best not to receive the word which is already tainted by bad motives.
Speaking of eagles, I’d forgotten until reading your post that I either had a vision or a dream of at least one eagle. It looked beautiful to me and I loved how it soared to great heights. I did not realize that the other bird you mentioned resembles an eagle and also does much as an eagle but is not one. I also was shown in visions a month or two ago how some of the things that we would see would look like the genuine but would not be so.
AMEN AMEN AMEN
Amen…and then there are those who have “sold out” their gifts…to be used by the elite to “prophesy” events that the elite have planned so that it looks like they are real prophets. They use specific symbolism that gives themselves away. They will someday partner with the false prophet of Revelation…endorse the Beast as well as the False Prophet…taking the mark for all to see.