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Balaam, the soothsayer for hire, deceitfully facilitated one of the greatest episodes of sin that the Israelites engaged in during all their forty years of wandering, and yet, we hear very little about him.

If you recognize his name at all, it is probably because you’ve heard the story of Balaam’s talking donkey. I’d heard that story from my Sunday school teachers as a child and had read the passages many times as an adult.

As I was studying the life of Moses for my book Moses: Called by God I read about Balaam again. This time, I noticed that tucked into the story of Balaam and his God-directed prophecies, Moses recorded a promise of the Messiah.

This discovery surprised me. Perhaps I’d seen the prophecy before but, as happens so often with God’s Word, it struck me differently this time. My curiosity piqued, I made a few notes, and when I (finally) finished my study of Moses, I came back to Balaam. My goal with this short book was to pull together the scattered pieces of Balaam’s story and to understand what God might want us to learn from it. I look forward to sharing it with you.