or did God bring up Samuel in the midst of the witch?
2007-10-30 13:36:55 · 9 answers · asked by Holy Holly 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
The Bible says she did. God allowed it.
2007-10-30 13:44:13 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Saul was so eager to learn about what was going to happen that he went to a spirit medium in En-dor. She was able to bring forth the form of a person that she could see. By her description of the form, Saul identified him as “Samuel.” At this the spirit person, pretending to be Samuel, spoke: “Why have you disturbed me by having me brought up?” Saul answered: “I am in very sore straits, as the Philistines are fighting against me.” The spirit person replied: “Why, then, do you inquire of me, when Jehovah himself has departed from you and proves to be your adversary?” The wicked spirit person, who was pretending to be the dead Samuel, then went on to tell Saul that he would be killed in the battle with the Philistines.
Obviously, it was not really Samuel that the spirit medium had contacted. Samuel was dead, and at death a person “goes back to his ground; in that day his thoughts do perish.” (Psalm 146:4) A little thinking on the matter further shows that the voice was not really that of dead Samuel. Samuel was God’s prophet. So he had opposed spirit mediums. And, as we have seen, while he was alive he had refused to speak any more with disobedient Saul. So, then, if Samuel were still alive, would he allow a spirit medium to arrange for him to meet Saul? Think too: Jehovah had refused to give Saul any information. Could a spirit medium force Jehovah to give Saul a message through dead Samuel? And if the living could actually talk with dead loved ones, surely a God of love would not say that they had become “unclean” because of turning to a spirit medium.
2007-10-30 20:55:29 · answer #2 · answered by BJ 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Saul had fallen from God's grace and out of desperation, was scraping the bottom of the barrel when he asked the witch for the deed. It was an evil spirit misleading them. It was not Samuel.
2007-10-30 14:02:24 · answer #3 · answered by kujo 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
1 Samuel 28
12 When the woman saw Samuel, she cried out at the top of her voice
and said to Saul, "Why have you deceived me? You are Saul!"
It sounds to me like she was even more surprised it worked than Saul was! I think God let Saul come back and it frightened her and the answers frightened Saul! The fact the prophecies were true suggests that it was God that let it happen.
Perfect question for the night before Halloween. :-)
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?book_id=9&chapter=29&version=31
2007-10-30 14:16:45 · answer #4 · answered by Pilgrim in the land of the lost 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Did you notice that the witch gave a great scream when Samuel appeared?
Seems like she wasn't really expecting to see Samuel, that she really only pretended to have powers to raise the dead.
Maybe it really was God who brought Samuel back.
That or it really wasn't Samuel at all.
2007-10-30 13:44:07 · answer #5 · answered by ? 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
If it was really Samuel and from the verses I assume it was then God must have been responsible. He allowed it to happen.
2007-10-30 13:40:29 · answer #6 · answered by Bible warrior 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The witch did, GOD Allowed it.
2007-10-30 13:49:32 · answer #7 · answered by maguyver727 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Good question. Was it really Moses and Elijah Jesus was with just before He was crucified. I wonder how the witnesses would have recognized them in the first place? Personally, I believe they were what we would call apparitions.
2007-10-30 13:48:31 · answer #8 · answered by Chapter and Verse 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I found the question interesting
but have no answer
2007-10-30 13:50:36 · answer #9 · answered by mw 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋