God's Hand Hidden in the Wandering of Lost Asses
Samuel had received the divine communication: Yahweh would *uncover the ear* of the prophet—that vivid Hebrew phrase meaning revelation both authoritative in origin and secret...
This is historical examples on divine guidance through ordinary events and god's sovereignty hidden in circumstance, drawing on 1 Samuel 9:15-27.
Samuel had received the divine communication: Yahweh would uncover the ear of the prophet—that vivid Hebrew phrase meaning revelation both authoritative in origin and secret in transmission. The narrative refuses naturalistic explanation; it is supernatural or nothing. Consider the chain of ordinary events that brought Saul to that anonymous city in the land of Zuph: a servant's lost asses, a weary search abandoned in familiar territory, the accident of proximity, a servant's suggestion to consult the seer.…
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