tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6064537678232187859.post8827808772112431990..comments2024-01-26T04:33:03.644-07:00Comments on Connections: Big Changes after Savior's DeathDonna B. Nielsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03601914199734248360noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6064537678232187859.post-759599703708992752009-09-21T19:14:03.546-06:002009-09-21T19:14:03.546-06:00Wow!Wow!Aprilhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10105429729952920141noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6064537678232187859.post-37673711255873361592009-09-21T11:59:49.659-06:002009-09-21T11:59:49.659-06:00Thanks, Jennifer for that fabulous quote. None of...Thanks, Jennifer for that fabulous quote. None of the ones I have are as good as that. I like Pratt's material so much.Donna B. Nielsenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03601914199734248360noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6064537678232187859.post-15607806051079108522009-09-21T10:21:47.712-06:002009-09-21T10:21:47.712-06:00This is great. It brought to mind some insight fro...This is great. It brought to mind some insight from John Pratt, who wrote a great article at Meridian on the scapegoat and the "strangeness" of things that changed direction during the time of the Savior's ministry such as you mention above. <br /><br />One note in particular he writes along this same theme is of the "casting lots" to select the scapegoat. He writes:<br /><br />"Another whole dimension is introduced into the meaning of the lots if we remember that the high priest used both his right and left hands to draw them, and that the right hand signifies righteousness and the left wickedness (see Mat. 25:32-46). Thus, even without the goats, there was meaning in the high priest picking [the goat] "for Jehovah" with his right hand. That was considered to be a good omen for Israel. <br /><br />During the 40 years that Simeon the Righteous was high priest at the time of Alexander the Great, it was said that he picked "for Jehovah" with his right hand every time. <br /><br />On the other hand, during the forty years before the fall of the temple in AD 70, which would include the entire minsitry of Christ from AD 30-33, the Jewish records state that the high priest chose "for Jehovah" in his left hand every time. That was considered a very bad omen. See Robert Reiland, Jesus and the Third Temple, (Silver Springs, NV: Your Own World Books, 2007), p. 131. <br /><br />The odds against forty identical picks happening consecutively by chance are 1 in a trillion (1 in 240 )." End of quote.<br /><br />So many signs were there for them to see, and yet still so many missed them all...Jennifer O.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6064537678232187859.post-59804797642424738522009-09-21T08:03:33.795-06:002009-09-21T08:03:33.795-06:00Wow! Very instructive. Thanks.Wow! Very instructive. Thanks.Steven Montgomeryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02291046612560917501noreply@blogger.com