
What Were the Urim and Thummim? (Messages from God?)
Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World
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Urimen Thamim
A sortilage is a practice we've discussed in previous episodes, and listeners can go back and review episodes 79 and one o six to learn more out it. If you read lots to get information, it's known as cleromancy. In essence, what happens is humans use a process whose outcome they do not control, such as which lot comes up,. Then they ask a higher power like god or the gods, to control the outcome for them and reveal his will. The pagans around ancient israel used rituals to discern the wills of their pagan gods. And those rites were unapproved for israelites. But god promised to reveal his will through this ritual, making it approved for
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