![]() As we continue to reject His word He may stop speaking to us – and we will lose even that comfort. When we reject the word of the LORD we can still be comforted by the fact that He speaks to us. If we want God to guide us, we must follow what guidance we already have from Him. Yet Saul disregarded what he knew to be God’s will in this matter. Saul said as much in passages such as 1 Samuel 24:16-20 and 26:21. At the very least, Saul knew that God did not want him hunting David, hoping to kill him. Since Saul didn’t care to obey God in what he already knew, God would not reveal more to him. King Saul has rejected and is currently rejecting God’s previously revealed will. The LORD did not answer him: This silence demonstrates that God will not always answer everyone who seeks Him not when a man is in a place of judgment as Saul is. He wanted to hear from God through the prophets, but God would not talk to Saul.ī. He hoped God would speak to him through the Urim, but God was silent. Saul hoped God would speak to him through dreams, but God was silent. The Philistines threatened, Saul’s courage failed, and now God was silent when Saul sought Him. When Saul inquired of the LORD, the LORD did not answer him: Saul was in a terrible place. (6) God will not speak to Saul.Īnd when Saul inquired of the LORD, the LORD did not answer him, either by dreams or by Urim or by the prophets.Ī. Saul began to lose his courage when the Spirit withdrew from him (1 Samuel 16:14) and now after the death of Samuel his courage seems almost completely gone. When Saul saw the army of the Philistines, he was afraid, and his heart trembled greatly: Long before his downward spiral when Saul still walked in the Spirit, he was a man of great courage (as in 1 Samuel 11:6-11). The fact that the Philistines had penetrated thus far gives an indication of their dominance over Saul’s kingdom, and of their intention to press further east to the Jordan.” (Baldwin)ĭ. “ Shunem, in the Valley of Jezreel, was about twenty miles north of Aphek, the most northerly Philistine city. Then the Philistines gathered together, and came and encamped at Shunem: The geography of Shunem means that the Philistines made an aggressive attack against Saul and Israel. Christians should have nothing to do with occultist arts or practices.Ĭ. They are dangerous links to the demonic, even if undertaken in a spirit of fun. ![]() Things such as tarot cards, palm readers, horoscopes and Ouija Boards are modern attempts to practice forms of spiritism. Saul did this in his earlier days when he was still influenced by Samuel’s leadership. God commanded that mediums and spiritists (those who either can or claim to contact the dead and spirit beings) should have no place among His people in passages such as Leviticus 19:31, 20:6, 27 and in Deuteronomy 18:9-14. Saul had put the mediums and the spiritists out of the land: To his credit, Saul obeyed the commands in the Mosaic Law to cast out those who practiced occultist arts. Here, the fact is mentioned again to emphasize the spiritual vacuum left by Samuel’s departure.ī. Samuel had died: Samuel’s death was originally reported in 1 Samuel 25:1. When Saul saw the army of the Philistines, he was afraid, and his heart trembled greatly.Ī. So Saul gathered all Israel together, and they encamped at Gilboa. Then the Philistines gathered together, and came and encamped at Shunem. And Saul had put the mediums and the spiritists out of the land. Now Samuel had died, and all Israel had lamented for him and buried him in Ramah, in his own city. (3-5) Saul’s fear of an attack from the Philistines. The first two verses of 1 Samuel 28 connect with the previous chapter, so they are examined in the commentary on 1 Samuel 27.
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