{"id":1368,"date":"2016-07-25T07:24:21","date_gmt":"2016-07-25T13:24:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/markniwot.com\/?p=1368"},"modified":"2016-07-25T07:24:21","modified_gmt":"2016-07-25T13:24:21","slug":"balak-teaching-from-shabbat-shalom-mesa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/?p=1368","title":{"rendered":"\u201cBalak\u201d \u2013 teaching from Shabbat Shalom Mesa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Join Mark Call of Shabbat Shalom Mesa for a study of the parsha \u201cBalak\u201d (Numbers 22:2 through 25:9).<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Note: These are available every Shabbat during the on-line services at 6:30 PM Mountain Time, and the Sabbath Day teaching broadcast live via links in both Paltalk and Shoutcheap.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Erev Shabbat overview teaching this week is unique among the stories in the Torah for several reasons, including the fact that it focuses not on Moses, Aaron, and the \u2018children of Israel,\u2019 but two pagan characters, Balak and Balaam. But their connections to \u201ckol Israel \u201d then and \u2018Scattered Israel\u2019 NOW are too important to overlook.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.waytozion.org\/teachings\/mark_call\/2016\/SSM-7-22-16-Balak.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">SSM Balak 2016<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Sabbath Day teaching starts where the story seems to leave off. There are truly \u201ctough choices\u201d ahead, and the pitfalls associated with \u201cBaal Peor\u201d haven\u2019t changed much, either.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.waytozion.org\/teachings\/mark_call\/2016\/WT-CooH-7-23-16-Balak.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cBalak? Or Barak? <\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Balak teachings (Numbers 22:2 through 25:9) for 2016.  &#8220;Baal Peor&#8221; is STILL a big issue! <a href=\"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/?p=1368\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,69,11],"tags":[255,105,46,28,63,104,108,212,256],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1368"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1368"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1369,"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1368\/revisions\/1369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}