A king who could not defeat a nation by war hired a prophet to defeat it by ritual. Seven altars rose on the high places of Moab. Every outward condition for a curse was in place. And still, three times, blessing came out of a mouth that had opened to curse. In Altars and Covenant, Bishop Osei Tweneboah Koduah walks through the account of Balak and Balaam in Numbers 22 through 24 to answer a question every believer eventually faces: what happens when opposition against you is organized, spiritual, and seemingly sincere? Fourteen chapters trace the governing distinction of the whole book: an altar can be raised in a moment, but a covenant is established across generations, and no hostile altar can overturn what God has already settled by covenant.
Each chapter closes with a modern illustration, reflection questions, and a prayer of activation, carrying the reader from insight to application to prayer, and two closing chapters bring the lesson into the New Covenant established through Jesus Christ. Whatever altar has been raised against you, your covenant with God through Christ has already settled the outcome.
A king who could not defeat a nation by war hired a prophet to defeat it by ritual. Seven altars rose on the high places of Moab. Every outward condition for a curse was in place. And still, three times, blessing came out of a mouth that had opened to curse. In Altars and Covenant, Bishop Osei Tweneboah Koduah walks through the account of Balak and Balaam in Numbers 22 through 24 to answer a question every believer eventually faces: what happens when opposition against you is organized, spiritual, and seemingly sincere? Fourteen chapters trace the governing distinction of the whole book: an altar can be raised in a moment, but a covenant is established across generations, and no hostile altar can overturn what God has already settled by covenant.
Each chapter closes with a modern illustration, reflection questions, and a prayer of activation, carrying the reader from insight to application to prayer, and two closing chapters bring the lesson into the New Covenant established through Jesus Christ. Whatever altar has been raised against you, your covenant with God through Christ has already settled the outcome.
