Oracles and Other Locales
I was listening to a David Jeremiah podcast on the story of Job. One of the things he brought up was an interesting question, “Do you have a big God or a little God?” There is only one true God and His size doesn’t change, but peoples’ believes about the size of God can vary.
Balak had a little god. If God keeps you from doing something over here, just move over there, where He can’t hear you any more.
Little gods are petty. You are always in trouble with a little god. You are always needing to do something to appease a little god – like building 7 altars. Little gods are expensive, they want what is yours.
Our God, the God is the Israelites, is not a little god, He is the Big God. He is everywhere in every dimension: height, width, depth, time, state of matter, speed. He created everything, not just the physical elements, but the very laws of nature and physics and chemistry and biology across the universe. He was before there was time and He will be after the linear progression of earthly time has ended. He is in control of all things, thoughts, words and deeds.
Balaam was praised by Balak because what he blessed was blessed and what he cursed was cursed. But God’s word through Balaam turns this around. In regard to God’s people, anyone who blesses them is blessed and anyone who curses them is cursed.
God is not a man that he should lie or a son of man that he should change his mind. God is God. God’s people are the righteous, who live apart. They live in beauty, spread out in garden’s well watered by the spirit and the word. They are powerful like a lion because they serve the all-powerful King.
So, how big is your God? Do you try to control Him? Do you try to put Him in a box? Do you try to buy-Him-off with acts or bribes? Do you think He needs your time or your money or your devotion, instead of recognizing the creator of everything already has rights to all things and you are delusional to think it is “yours” to begin with? If you don’t like the answer from the bible do you seek out some watered down message somewhere else?
If so, open your eyes. There is an Angel of the Lord standing in your path with sword drawn, because the path you are on leads to death and destruction, curses and damnation.
If you continue to believe in a little god, you are not believing in the Big God. You will continue to augment your little god with other things, other “religions”, the occult, spiritualism, self-help, sorcery, divination, wishful thinking. You will continue to try to buy favors or to buy your way out of problems. You will continue to live in fear, a terrified life, filled with dread.
A belief in the The Big God does not need augmentation. God created everything. Jesus made full atonement. The Spirit is pure holiness.
Maybe its a good time to upgrade the size of your God!
My Answers:
5.
1st
Brought to curse, how can I curse what God has not cursed – I see people who live apart, very numerous, they are righteous
2nd
God is not a man, won’t change his mind – no misfortune for Israel, God is with them, like a lion
3rd
Beautiful tents, spread out like gardens well watered, God brought them, like a lion – those who bless you blessed, curse you..
4th
future – star will rise out of Israel, scepter, Moab, Sheth, Edom destroyed
5th, 6th, 7th
Amalek, Kenites, Ashur, Eber, all people destroyed
6.
a.
He believed God was constrained by physical space, going to a new location might change things. He didn’t like the first response
b.
Sometimes it is to get confirmation of counsel and direction, but more commonly it is because I didn’t like what I heard.
7.
He knew the Lord, but still had repeatedly chosen to consort with demons
The Notes are Good 