Gods good prophecy of us 

 Balak summons Balaam to come so that he could instruct Balaam to curse Jacob who was Gods prophet. God instructs Balaam to go to Balak. But as Balaam was traveling on the road to recieve his instruction from Balak it says that an Angel of the Lord appeared on the road to stop Balaam. Balaam tries to avoid the Angel but is forced to stop. This is interesting because the Angel prophecies through the mouth of the donkey.
 
You remember that Jacob was the Prophet who wrestled with the angel of the Lord and prevailed. God did His work through Jacob so that he could be the one who enforce Gods covenant faithfulness in the minds of His elect. Because of Jacobs display of strength he was always kind of like a hero among the whole nation both the reprobate and the elect.

This is what is interesting because you have this Angel of the Lord who is summoned as a spiritual body guard so to speak to protect David.  Psalm 35 5 This shows me that these prophets knew that Jacob wrestled with this Angel and trusted that God would protect them by this Angel. So even tho this Angel stops balaam i do not believe He is opposing Balaam but providing this prophet with the message not to curse the Lords anointed. This cursing from a wicked man is part of Gods warning against using sorcery...ie like the story of Saul. Now this is not like the cursing of the law that the Prophets used in protecting Gods people. And there is a distinction for us. In this story we know who represents God because the scripture makes it plain. But in our circumstances we do not have this declaration that every person who uses the word Christ is actually a true believer.

This story is clearly a teaching about Gods government which is described by words being opposed by evil men who are trying to miss represent God by distorting Gods word. You have this false prophet who is using the true Prophets authority to actually slander Gods people. Now this is very important. Every story that is passed on must be true to all of Gods word. I will discuss this in the next writing in a Psalm.