
What Were the Urim and Thummim? (Messages from God?)
Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World
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Why Is God Not Answering?
One of the people said, your father strictly charged the people with an oath saying, cursed be the man who eats food this day. Then jonathan said, my father has troubled the land. See how my eyes have become bright because i tasted a little of this honey. How much better if the people had eaten freely to day of the spoil of their enemies, which they found. For now, the slaughter among the philistines has not been great because of saul's oath. The men of his army took the spoils and started killing sheep and oxen and calves. And they were so hungry that they didn't even drain the blood out of the animals first. They just
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The Bible tells us that the Jewish high priest had two mysterious objects known as the Urim and Thummin to help him receive messages from God. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli explore what they were, how they worked, and what we know about them.
