{"id":2745,"date":"2013-02-28T15:05:08","date_gmt":"2013-02-28T19:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oldsandals.net\/?p=2745"},"modified":"2013-03-03T15:13:31","modified_gmt":"2013-03-03T19:13:31","slug":"even-at-this-late-date","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=2745","title":{"rendered":"Even at this late date"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Three families of priests\u2014Hobaiah, Hakkoz, and Barzillai\u2014also returned&#8230;.They searched for their names in the genealogical records, but they were not found, so they were disqualified from serving as priests.\u00a0The governor told them not to eat the priests\u2019 share of food from the sacrifices until a priest could consult the Lord about the matter by using the Urim and Thummim\u2014the sacred lots.\u00a0\u00a0 Nehemiah 7:63-65<\/em><\/p>\n<p>How interesting that, even at this late date in Israel&#8217;s history, the Urim and Thummim was still used to separate truth from falsehood.\u00a0 It had no doubt fallen out of use because of the sinful rebellion of the Lord&#8217;s people.\u00a0But now, perhaps because of Nehemiah&#8217;s faithfulness, it would be used to consult the Lord God.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three families of priests\u2014Hobaiah, Hakkoz, and Barzillai\u2014also returned&#8230;.They searched for their names in the genealogical records, but they were not found, so they were disqualified from serving as priests.\u00a0The governor told them not to eat the priests\u2019 share of food from the sacrifices until a priest could consult the Lord about the matter by using &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=2745\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Even at this late date&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2745"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2745"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2746,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2745\/revisions\/2746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}