The story of a man named Balaam, found in Numbers 22, is about a false prophet who attempted to speak curses over the nation of Israel but was forbidden by God to do so. Balak, the King of Moab, had called for Balaam’s services and three different times attempted to get him to curse the nation but failed each time because God turned the curse into a blessing and even used this man to prophesy about the coming Messiah (by the way, this is where we find the story of a talking d