Revelatin 2:14

“But I have a few things against you, because you have there those who hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balak to put a stumbling block before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed to idols, and to commit sexual immorality.

·        The two groups (Balaamites and Nicolaitans) were similar yet distinct. They both taught a perversion of the doctrine of liberty. They taught that it was okay to participate in the “partying and immorality” of that day under the pretense of Christian liberty.

·        A stumbling block is a trap that when trigged, shuts on its prey. This refers to anything which causes a person to fall into sin.

 Numbers 24:14  And now, indeed, I am going to my people.  Come, I will advise you what this people will do to your people in the latter days.

Numbers 31:16  Look, these caused the children of Israel, thorough the counsel of Balaam, to trespass against the LORD in the incident of Peor, and there was a plague among the congregation of the LORD.