God, to the prophet Balaam:
“You shall not curse the people, for they
are blessed.”
Now check out when this statement is made.
It’s at the tail end of almost 40 years of what must have seemed like
absolutely pointless wandering, basically filling in time. It’s made about a
people who had just spent years watching their parents and grandparents, uncles
and aunts die in the wilderness for their disobedience.
Blessed, huh?