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19 They answered him, “Be quiet! Don’t say a word. Come with us, and be our father and priest. Isn’t it better that you serve a tribe and clan in Israel as priest rather than just one man’s household?” 20 The priest was very pleased. He took the ephod, the household gods and the idol and went along with the people. Judges 18:19-20 In 2006, Kyle MacDonald went viral when he documented how, through the game “Bigger or Better”, he was able to he received a two-story farmhouse house starting from a single red paperclip. Although the game is very simple, all you do is trade an object for something that you deem is bigger or better, his story is remarkable by the fact that one single red paperclip resulted in a real two-story home in under 15 trades. In the book of Judges, we come across a very interesting account of a Levite who is far from Judah and is serving as a personal priest for the house of Micah. This whole section highlights moral defection of God’s people as we read o...

18 Whenever the LORD raised up a judge for the Israelites, the LORD was with him and saved the people from the power of their enemies while the judge was still alive. The LORD was moved to pity whenever they groaned because of those who were oppressing and afflicting them. 19 Whenever the judge died, the Israelites would act even more corruptly than their fathers, going after other gods to worship and bow down to them. They did not turn from their evil practices or their obstinate ways.  Judges 2:18–19 In the 1992 Summer Olympics, Great Britain placed 13th in the country medal count which was right around where they normally placed going back to 1936. Four years later, they finished 36th overall, only able to secure a single gold medal (15 total medals). This team was dubbed “The Team of Shame”. It is a wonder how such a great nation, with an elite pool of athletes, would turn around four years later with the worst showing in the nation’s history. You would think that the t...