Answer:
The ways of Balaam was when King Balak wanted to curse the Israelites. Balak hires Balaam (a prophet for hire) to curse them but everytime he tries to curse them, out comes a blessing. So he teaches Balaak that he doesn't have to curse them. All he has to do is introduce pagan ways and when they turn away from Yahweh and turn to paganism, idolatry, etc. then the curse comes on them. That is just how Satan works. He can't create. He can only distort the Truth. "You surely won't die" Gen. 3:4. Satan tells us it is okay to celebrate Christmas because it is celebrated on a lie of that is when Yeshua was born and that makes it okay. But the Bible says, "do not do as the heathen do, they cut down a tree, nail it to two pieces of wood and decorate with silver and gold" Jer. 10:2.