This week -- and next -- I would like to examine the numerous pictures and examples that exist in the picture of Balaam and Balak. The demonstrations of demonic strategies are many.
It had been my intention after finishing the Psalm 23 series to do a series on the Tabernacle of David, and more specifically, the Key of David, but Holy Spirit prompted me to hold on that for the moment because of the incredible demonic displays we are seeing in this nation and around the world.
This week we will begin a new series dealing with spiritual authority and the hierarchy that exists in the realm of the spirit.
We are definitely going to run long today as we wrap up this series, so bear with me. Remember what David wrote in Psalm 118? Blessed be he that cometh in the name of the LORD: we have blessed you out of the house of the LORD.
This has been a long adventure. When the Lord first began to unfold the prophetic significance of the 23rd Psalm and its picture as a lifelong adventure, I had no idea it was going to expand into the study it has become. We've been at this for well over a year. Hopefully, we will wrap this up by the end of next week.
It has always been a source of astonishment to me when I look at what God had developed in David's life. The fact that he could show mercy to his betrayers in the way that he did, and then show mercy again and again to them in the face of their crimes against him is why, I believe, Jesus made it clear that if our brother offend us, we are to forgive seventy times seven -- and that was in a single day.
Continuing on with the picture of the goodness and mercy of the Lord that follows us, let's pick up today where we left off last week and see how Jesus viewed the concept of mercy.
For the past three weeks, we've looked at the "goodness" portion of David's statement that, "Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life."