What Are The Consequences In 1 Samuel 31 Lauke

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Who ever played “Truth or Dare” as a kid and thought about the consequences of either before playing? Probably not many, we were just having fun with friends, right? In the world we live in decisions are made all of the time without consideration of the consequences, actually they are often ignored or avoided. In 1 Samuel 31 Saul faces a reckoning; he is confronted with the consequences of his sin. Promising as Saul’s kingship begins, it ends here in utter disaster; verse upon verse it plunges into deeper despair. The Philistines who succumbed to Saul’s armies earlier in his reign have caught him, ready to exact their revenge. Saul’s demise is not the fault of the Philistines, as ruthless as they are; this scene was set in motion when