Sermon: Samuel XXIX -- The Witch of Endor | Douglas Wilson

[@johfu4705]

Thanks Pastor Wilson! I think you are interpreting and applying this text very accurately!

[@angievaughn3726]

This is truly a true teacher of the word of god need more of these true teachings

[@MrBryan247]

You answered my prior question in this sermon, you are an awesome teacher. Be BLessed.

[@MyEnemy]

Amen. Wonderful sermon.

[@MyJoey90]

Nailed it. The witch didn’t do anything. God bypassed the witch to summoned Samuel.

[@michaelhampton5828]

But the bible says god was no longer speaking to king saul through dreams or through the prophets anymore. So why would god allow a witch to bring up the real samuel to speak to saul.

[@jamesjacob1096]

God never allowed the witch to bring up Samuel, and the witch didn't bring up Samuel through her necromancy. If you read the text carefully, all it says that she asked Saul who to bring up for him and immediately after Saul answered her, she saw Samuel coming up from the earth. No where in the story says that she summoned him. That is why she freaked out when she saw him as this is not what she normally does. In fact God who allowed the spirit of Samuel to show up to announce judgement on Saul for his disobedience. And what Samuel said to Saul, that's exactly what happened to him. And we know that demons don't know the future but God alone, and what Samuel predicted what to happen to Saul, that's exactly what happened to him and at the exact timing as well. Which is impossible for the evil spirits to know that for sure unless it was the spirit of Samuel who announced the judgement of God on Saul.

[@michaelhampton5828]

@@jamesjacob1096 thats the point i was trying to make it was not the prophet samuel. Most likely a deminic spirit impersonating saul.

[@toughbiblepassages9082]

@@michaelhampton5828 if God spoke to Samuel directly outside the context of him going to a witch, your complaint would still be “but why did God talk to Saul directly? Because it said God no longer talked to Saul!” As if the text said God would never talk to Saul again, which it didn’t say, nor is God restrained.

[@NnannaO]

Amen

[@pjetri24]

XXIX is actually 29

[@TheLionAndTheLamb777]

XXIIX, people often mess these up as almost nobody uses this system of numbers.

[@loheedao3206]

MAN- AFTER DEATH and WHAT NEXT? WHEN WE ARE SAVED from the clutches of the Devil (he desires none to be saved) Even now, we are made a little less than the Angels -Psalm 8: 5-6 Yet you have made him a little less than an angel; and you have crowned him with glory and honor 6. You have given him dominion over the work of his hands & Hebrews 2:7 You made him for a little lower than the angels, you have crowned him with glory and honor Role of Angel Hebrews 1:14 Are they not all ministering spirits sent forth to serve, for the sake of those who are to obtain salvation? Luke 20:35-36 but those who are counted worthy to attain to that age and to the resurrection from the dead neither marry nor are given in marriage, 36. for they cannot die any more, because they are equal to ANGELS and are sons of GOD, being sons of the resurrection. {So their souls/Spirits are NEVER DIES after the death of the physical BODY /which was clay anyways} Revelations 14:6 Then I saw another angel flying in mid-heaven, with an eternal gospel to proclaim to those who dwell on earth, to every nation and tribe and tongue and people; -Are you able to call upon the Lord Jesus to intercede for you/ You can call upon those who are saved to intercede through Jesus for you. -Are you able to seek help in prayer or pray for people-When saved you are more powerful in that capacity-A grain of wheat when it dies it bears more fruits -When saved like the elders we will be like the angels *Revelations 5: 11-12 Then I looked, and heard around the throne and the living creatures and the elders the voice of many angels, numbering myriads of myriads and thousands of thousands, 12. saying with a loud voice, “Worthy is the Lamb who was slain, to receive power and wealth and wisdom and might and power and glory and blessings! -PREPARATION to be like the angels we are nourished by the bread of the angels {Holy Eucharist} Psalm 78: 25 Man ate of the bread of the angels…. in Hebrews 12:22 But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable angels in festal gathering --{Which is now the Church of the living God-The Catholic Church} WHEN WE DIE WE WILL BE ABOUT JESUS’ BUSINESS (that is how to be like HIM) _We shall reign with Him Rev. 3:9 Behold, I will make those of the synagogue of Satan who say that they are Jews and are not, but lie-behold your feet, and learn that I have loved you. Rev. 3:21 He who conquers, I will grant him to sit with me on my throne, as I myself conquered and sat down with my Father on his throne. Rev. 20 : 4 -Then I saw thrones, and seated on them were those to whom judgment was committed. Also I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for their testimony to Jesus and for the word of God, …They came to life, and reigned with Christ a thousand years. Rev: 20 :6 Blessed and holy is he who shares in the first resurrection! Over such the second death (hell) has no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and they shall reign with him a thousand years. -What is the second death? Rev. 20: 14 Then Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire; REV. 2 :11 He who has an ear , let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. He who conquers shall not be hurt by the second death.’ REV. 14:13 And I heard a voice from heaven saying, “Write this: Blessed are the dead who from now on die in the Lord.” “Blessed indeed,” says the Spirit, “ that they may rest from their labors, for their deeds follow them! (Deeds cannot something that is dead and can do nothing. The deeds follow the Spirit of the person which NEVER DIES) If we resemble Him and He recognizes us after death so that we do not go to our own place (Hell) *Angels as MAN’s Helper PSALM 91:12- On their hands they will bear you up, lest you dash your foot against a stone. (An Angel came to minister to Jesus as well) Hebrews 1:4- having become as much superior to angels as the name he has obtained is more excellent than theirs (Jesus). 5. For to what angel did God ever say, “You are my Son today I have begotten you”? Hebrews 2:6-9 - It has been testified somewhere, “ What is man that you are mindful of him, or the son of man, that you care for him? 7. You made him for a little while lower than than the angels, you have crowned him with glory and honor, 8. putting everything in subjection under his feet.” Now in putting everything in subjection to him, he left nothing outside his control. As it is, we do not yet see everything in subjection to him. 9. But we see Jesus, who for a little while was made lower than the angels, crowned with glory and honor because of the suffering of death, so that by the grace of God he might taste death for every one. {We are made for God’s purposes -the God’s breath of His very own spirit that gives us life makes this possible WE ARE CALLED CHILDREN OF GOD. -If we are not saved after death we (soul-spirit without the BODY for now which is in the grave and can do nothing) will be held in chains in hell awaiting judgment} Matthew 7:21-23 “Not every one who says to me ‘Lord, Lord, shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. On that day many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name? And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from me, you evildoers.’ {Just us Jesus figure and face was almost not recognizable due to our sins through his passion so Jesus want us to avoid sin so that we He can recognize us at death} *Jesus is training us to be like Him-Eucharist (Bread of the Angels, Gospels, Through the CHURCH, Priests-Leviticus 21:8 You shall consecrate him, for he offers the bread of your God; he shall be holy to you; for I the Lord, who sanctify you, am holy. ) Sin disfigures us and rob us of this likeness- Just as Jesus took on our sin and was disfigured see -Isaiah 52:14 As many were astonished at him his appearance was so marred, beyond human semblance, and his form beyond that of the sons of men CAUTION FOR US: Satan is the FATHER of every discord-either he starts it when there is no need to or ENDs things in DISCORD

[@ilovladoo]

Sara is not a witch ,why Miriam or Saba Ablis checking her by deceiving

[@loheedao3206]

1. Before the quotation-Judah and Israel Join to fight the Syrians 1st King 22:22 After the quotation- Defeat and Death of Ahab The quotation above was about fighting and the target was for those without a master-17 -And he said, “I saw all Israel scattered upon the mountain, as sheep that have no shepherd; and the Lord said, “These have no master; let each return to his home in peace.” Following in v19 -it is about an evil prophesy -nothing close to when you issue of what happens when you die. No reference to Scripture about the Witch of Endor-. ------------- Before the quotation Scripture is talking about The Messages of the Three Angels REV. 16:14 For they are demonic spirits, performing signs, who go abroad to the kings of the whole world, to assemble them for battle on the great day of God the Almighty. This quotation is about the Bowls of God’s wrath specific to the Babylon verse 19 -The great city was split into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell, and God remembered great Babylon, to make her drain the cup of the fury of his wrath. (At best it is about God’s punishment due to sin -Why? -Answer-Rev 14:8 - Another angel, a second, followed, saying, “Fallen, fallen is Babylon *the great , she who made all nations DRINK THE WINE OF HER IMPURE PASSION.”- Scripture here wants to correct our miss guided passion. It is nothing about when we die what happens to us {AMAZING DETRACTION FROM THE TOPIC AT HAND} It is not about what happens to everybody when you die- {Another AMAZING deception}. 2. Do the dead come back to converse with or to haunt the living? Job 14:21 Job 14:10 But man dies, and is LAID LOW; man breathes his last , and where is he? (This is referring to the body not the spirit/soul of man. It is the body that is laid LOW-Buried}. THIS HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH YOUR SOUL/SPIRIT HERE. SO IN JOB 14:21 HIS SONS COME TO HONOR, AND HE DOES NOT KNOW IT. (They are coming to honor him as usual so the physical body without the spirit does not know. Luke 23:46- Then Jesus, crying with a loud voice, said, Father, into your hands I commit my spirit!” If the spirit was dead it would have being with the body. Mark 12:27- He is not God of the dead, but of the living; you are quite wrong. Jesus could only commit what is living to GOD his FATHER. Luke 20 :38- Now he is not God of the dead, but the living; for all live to HIM.” At our own death if we get the chance we can commit our spirit to the LORD- Actually we can do it in advance now in anticipation to our final moment. {False analyses and wrong quotations with all love and kindness for goodness sake} Ecclesiastes 9:5& 6, 10 9:5 For the living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing, and they have no more reward; but the memory of them is lost. {This is telling us that their good deeds come to a hault }. They have a reward (not the body but the spirit lives and has reward). Luke 16;22 -The poor man died and was carried by the angels to Abraham’s bosom. The rich man also died and was buried; and in Hades, being in torment, he lifted up his eyes, and saw Abraham far off and Lazarus in his bosom. And he called out, Father Abraham, have mercy upon me, and send Lazarus to dip the end of his finger in water and cool my tongue; for I am in ANGUISH IN THIS FLAME.” {PEOPLE- THE BIBLE IS REAL AND TALKS ABOUT REAL STUFF NOT FAKE STUFF. THERE ARE PEOPLE IN HEL FLAMES RIGHT NOW. THERE ARE PEOPLE IS HEAVEN RIGHT NOW . Before the resurrection of our LORD and master the good were in Abraham’s bosom but the bad were and are still in torment in flames.. How else do we want the scripture to be clear?? LORD SAVED YOUR PEOPLE) {*The dead know something -Referring to the spirit/The dead know nothing referring to the clay-the physical body that can be lowered into the grave. Please learn from the cries of the dead here in scripture. Lets not be deceived by wrong quotations}