Joshua 18 Casting Lots and Baseball Hats?


  Good morning, I hope you have a great Thursday planned. Madeline and I will be meeting my brother and sister in law just north of Waco for BBQ today! We have award-winning BBQ and family business to take care of…any excuse to see this great couple that has been through so much in this life! She is a cancer survivor, and he is working on becoming the bionic man with all the surgeries he has had through the years, as joints fall apart and are replaced! I am picking up some of my inheritance from them today, mainly a baseball cap that is in a fancy case. It is a limited-edition signed original from a famous Astros player, who left and was then hated by Astros fans as a traitor. My dad was one of the biggest Astros fans ever. I’m not sure he ever forgave Roger Clemens!

  What a thing to ponder, these people in chapter 18 of Joshua were working out an inheritance of huge plots of land as an inheritance, and I am getting a baseball cap… the strange things we value in this time versus Biblical times! It was not my only inheritance, but it is something to chuckle about in years to come!

  For Today’s Daily Bible Challenge in chapter 18 of Joshua, we read about an interesting practice of casting lots for the process of making decisions in the Old Testament that seemed to die out in the New Testament after Pentecost. Many speculate that this God ordained process was no longer needed after we gained the Holy Spirit’s indwelling at Pentecost! I never would have thought of that, thank you, gotquestions.org! BTW, that is a great tool for researching things in these chapters. I hope you will try it out on your own someday soon! Click the link below to listen for yourself as they further divide up these huge territories that will one day be called the country of Israel.

  Talk with you soon!

https://www.blueletterbible.org/audio_video/popPlayer.cfm?type=nasb_n&b=6&c=18

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