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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Revelation~

Chapter 2 – The Seven Churches
when Satan was especially at work, it was

their duty to keep themselves pure from the

leaven of his evil doctrines. Hence they were

censured for harboring among them those

who held the doctrines of Balaam and the

Nicolaitanes. (See remarks on the

Nicolaitanes, verse 6.) What the doctrine of

Balaam was, is here partially revealed. He

taught Balak to cast a stumbling-block before

the children of Israel. (See a full account of his

work and its results in Numbers, chapters 22-

25 and 31:13-16.) It appears that Balaam

desired to curse Israel for the sake of the rich

reward which Balak offered him for so doing.

But not being permitted by the Lord to curse

them, he resolved to accomplish essentially

the same thing, though in a different way. He

therefore counseled Balak to seduce them, by

means of the females of Moab, to participate in