359. * because up to this point, I have had to undergo temptations similar to these in a certain spiritual sense. As for me - and I was allowed to mark this well - I could not but yield in all of them. For having been brought to a certain point, I myself had succumbed, but was nevertheless lifted up by God the Messiah. The temptations led, I think, to a good outcome, but I could clearly see that by ourselves we cannot possibly endure temptations, not even the least one of them. Therefore it is the work of God the Messiah Alone that a person is upheld in temptations. [Temptation] [See also WE 7328-31, concluding the explanation of Num. 20.] [See WE 7345, beginning the explanation of Num. 22.] 7346. This attempt of the devil is depicted by the king of Moab, Balak, son of Zippor. Moab you may see discussed earlier [WE 7343], particularly that he was born from a daughter of Lot in a drunken state, by a wicked adultery [Gen. 19:33, 37]. We are instructed further in what follows, about what Moab was like. So in Balak son of Zippor, as chief person, Moab is depicted, and the devil appears. For he was a worshipper of Baal, thus an idolater to the extreme. 7347. Further regarding the attempts of the devil: they are so wicked and so dreadful