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Journaling the Journey: Part CIX
Author
Timothy Laughlin
Published
Jan 17, 2024
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Then Saul said to his servants, "Find me a woman who is a medium, that I may go to her and inquire of her." And his servants said to him, "In fact there is a woman who is a medium at Endor." I Samuel 28:7
Then Saul said to his servants, "Find me a woman who is a medium, that I may go to her and inquire of her." And his servants said to him, "In fact there is a woman who is a medium at Endor." I Samuel 28:7
The Philistines gathered together against Israel and Saul was afraid and when he called out to God He no longer answered and so he resorted to witchcraft and his servants brought him to the Witch of Endor!
Rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, in which Saul was guilty of and it led him to seek out the word of a witch. Samuel was dead so he couldn't ask him, so he had the witch perform a seance and call Samuel up from the dead in which she did, and she then saw a spirit ascending out of the earth.
In reality she called up a familiar spirit, a demon pretending to be an acquaintance or a family member. The spirit preceded to tell Saul of his disobedience to destroy Amalek, the loss of the kingdom and that he and his sons would die, and that Israel would be turned over to the Philistines. And so it was that Saul and his sons died in battle the next day, the tragic end to a life of rebellion!
For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, (divination) and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. I Samuel 15:23 (The wages of sin is death!)
Your servant in Christ, Timothy Laughlin
Minister of the Gospel of Jesus Christ
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