Oh for goodness sake.
Who wrote the red text below?
“And Samuel said to Saul, Why have you disturbed me, to bring me up?” (1 Samuel 28:15)
The writer says that Samuel spoke to Saul! Not that Saul thought it was Samuel!
You think the narrator lied to us??!!
Good grief!!!
The Bible links silence, not talking, with death. We read at Psalm 115: 17 “The dead themselves do not praise Jah [YHWH], nor do any going down into
silence.”
First, it is clear that what Saul did in consulting a spirit medium was a violation of God’s law. Both spirit mediums and those consulting them were judged guilty of a capital offense. (
Leviticus 20:6, 27)
God’s law to Israel stated: “Do not turn yourselves to the spirit mediums, and do not consult professional foretellers of events, so as to become unclean by them.” (
Leviticus 19:31) “When you are entered into the land that YHWH your God is giving you, you must not learn to do according to the detestable things of those nations. There should not be found in you . . . anyone who consults a spirit medium or a professional foreteller of events or anyone who inquires of the dead.”(
Deuteronomy 18:9-11; Isaiah 8:19, 20)
If spirit mediums could actually get in touch with the dead, why, then, did God’s law label their practice as something “unclean,” “detestable” and deserving of death? If the communication were with dead loved ones, for example, why would a God of love designate this as a terrible crime? Why would he want to deprive the living of getting some comforting messages from the dead? Does not God’s view indicate that people are not really talking to the dead but that a terrible deception must be involved? Scriptural evidence shows that is the case.
Consider the case of Saul. Regarding divine communication with him, Saul acknowledged: “God himself has departed from me and has answered me no more, either by means of the prophets or by dreams; so that I am calling you [Samuel] to let me know what I shall do.” (
1 Samuel 28:15) Obviously, God would not allow a spirit medium to get around this divine cutoff of communication by getting in touch with a dead prophet and having him deliver a message from God to Saul. Then, too, during the latter part of his life, Samuel himself, a faithful prophet of God, had ceased to have any dealings whatsoever with Saul. Would it not be unreasonable, therefore, to conclude that Samuel was willing to speak with Saul by means of a spirit medium, an arrangement that was condemned by God?
There obviously was a deception involved, something so unclean that spirit mediums and those consulting them merited the death sentence. That same deception must be behind claimed communication with the dead today.
The scriptures that say that anyone talking to the dead or inquring from the dead as Saul did are dealing with an arrangement that's demonic. God would not talk to king Saul because of God's rejection of him. But you think that Satan can force God to talk to king Saul through the prophet Samuel through an arrangement that God detests? You can continue to claim all you want that God approves of such arrangements as those who talk to the dead, but you are wrong for thinking God approves or has anything to do with any demonic arrangement of communication much less be forced into communicating through such a demonic arrangement.
