1st Chronicles 24 Casting lots and superstitions.





  Good Saturday morning! Well, after a tough week here on the Little Hundred Acre Wood, my darling bride and I went to a coffee shop a couple of towns away and enjoyed a day off! The coffee and pastries were exceptional, and the mother-daughter team that owned the coffee shop were delightful! We didn’t know it was the beginning of the rattlesnake roundup for the area. This is a once-a-year festival where they actually go rattlesnake hunting and capture them live. We walked around a bit and saw many booths with stuffed rattlesnakes, hatbands, and other such art. There were carnival rides and the like lining the small town streets. It was a fun distraction from all the problems of the last week! I don’t mind snakes of all kinds, well, except for copperheads, they are very aggressive! Rattlesnakes warn you and just want to be left alone! There is so much superstition about snakes that it is hard to know fact from fiction, such as the false rhymes that so many trust to save them from poisonous snakes.


  In today’s daily Bible Challenge, we have something that some call superstition, also, it is the casting of lots. Many equate this to God-sanctioned gambling. But it was really just a way to make decisions that was culturally accepted as a way to get it done. No one ever seemed to question the results, so it must have been a long-standing tradition to follow whatever the results ended up being! But I have never heard of a casting of lots all the way to the 24th level. These lots were little sticks of varying length, and that length is what determined the outcome. So 24 sticks of varying length must have been hard to manage! Maybe they bound them in a bundle with a string to keep the ends all level, so it was still left to chance?

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Talk with you soon!


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