Balaam did not resort to divination. What is divination? To me, divination is deliberately looking for patterns in experiences; you have to decode them for meaning. What I’ve learned personally is that God doesn’t give us puzzles, yet He wants to walk along with us and relate with us about issues in our lives. For Balaam, when he actually looked out at the wilderness and took in what he saw, the Israelites camped out tribe by tribe, which is when he got the third message from God. The message was another blessing which angered King Balak and he refused to reward Balaam.
