Hello Jack!

>Hi  There is one line where you write " makes me wonder what happened at Promise
>Keepers. I have been wondering about that group after reading about some of the
>founders and current associates. I would appreciate any comments  Jack S in
>Israel

I did a study recently on Balaam/Balak. These are what the names in this 
story mean:

Balaam = "not of the people" 
Balak = "destroyer" 
Baalpeor = "lord of the gap" (<---this should make every PromiseKeeper 
pause and reflect on their latest [fall 1997] rally in Washington named 
something like "Standing in the Gap") 

I believe the Promise Keepers are in cahoots with Baalpeor.

Here is an excerpt from "Numbers" by J. Vernon McGee on this subject:

"And Israel abode in Shittim, and the people began to commit whoredom with 
the daughters of Moab. And they called the people unto the sacrifices of 
their gods: and the people did eat, and bowed down to their gods. And Israel 
joined himself unto Baal-peor: and the anger of the LORD was kindled against 
Israel"--Numbers 25:1-3 

"Do you see what happened? Balaam couldn't curse Israel, but he could tell 
Balak what to do. They should infiltrate Israel, integrate with them, 
intermarry with them, and introduce idolatry to them to turn them away 
from their God. 

"I'm sure they told Israel not to be a bunch of squares, not to be so 
narrow-minded. They insisted they were broad-minded and invited Israel to 
come over and worship with them. But they never went to worship with the 
children of Israel. 

"It has always interested me that a liberal in the church wants me, a 
fundamentalist, to come over on his side and agree with him. But I have 
never been able to get him to come over to my side and agree with me--yet 
he claims to be the broad-minded fellow and I am the narrow-minded fellow. 
It is very interesting that the tendency of the human heart is always 
downward and away from God. This is the reason religious rackets 
prosper--radio religious rackets, church religious rackets, and educational 
religious rackets. Look how the people support such things. They appeal to 
the natural man. This is the reason some of those people think I am pretty 
foolish to teach the Bible. If I introduced something other than the Word of 
God, the program would prosper. I am very sorry to have to tell you that is 
the way it is. Old Balaam knew that Balak could corrupt the people by 
getting a religious racket going. He could appeal to them and get the 
children of Israel to turn to the worship of Baal. And that is exactly what 
happened." 

Moza