SAMUEL
by Fred Lowery
Samuel
Fred Lowery
1,. Religious corruption led to spiritual destitution(lS@A 2:12-17) The priest sons of Eli perverted the law. Changed the system of sacrifice to suit themselves.
2. it was a period of intellectual blindness k'ISA 3:1,4:1-11) God refused to speak to the people through the unclean lips of Hophni' and Phinehas. When people have no access to the word of God, they become intelectually blind. Lose their vision. Went against the Philistines in battle at Ebeneezer and was smiten-losing four thousand men. The elders decided to take the Ark of Covenant from Shiloh and carry it into battle that it might save them from defeat (4:3). This was an act of idolatry. It was showing they were looking on the Ark as a good luck charm - had mistaken a token for the presence of God instead of the actual presence of God. This revealed blindness. They were defeated by the enemies more thoroughly than before. They lost 30,000 men (4:10).
The Ark was captured., The Ark became a curse to the Philistines. Placed in the temple beside Dagon the false god, strange things began to happen. The image fell on its face before the Ark of the Lord. They set it upright and the next morning it was lying flat again with -the head and both hands broken off. They were smitten with boils and became very ill. They were plagued with devastating invasion of field mice (ch 6:4-5).
3. Heart hunger for Jehovah ''Israel lamented after the Lord'' (lSA 7:2). It took 20 years after the Ark got back for the state of real repentance to begin. During the last part of the 20 year period, Samuel was growing in influence as he moved among the people and preached with telling effect. His prophets' labors bore fruit.
A DIRECT MESSAGE (7:3) He called upon the people to ''put away their strange gods and ashtaroth''. A direct attack upon idolatry. Ashtaroth was their most beloved goddess. It was their darling. SAMUEL
Saul continued to give excuses but then Samuel made a wonderful
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Fred Lowery
1,. Religious corruption led to spiritual destitution(lS@A 2:12-17) The priest sons of Eli perverted the law. Changed the system of sacrifice to suit themselves.
2. it was a period of intellectual blindness k'ISA 3:1,4:1-11) God refused to speak to the people through the unclean lips of Hophni' and Phinehas. When people have no access to the word of God, they become intelectually blind. Lose their vision. Went against the Philistines in battle at Ebeneezer and was smiten-losing four thousand men. The elders decided to take the Ark of Covenant from Shiloh and carry it into battle that it might save them from defeat (4:3). This was an act of idolatry. It was showing they were looking on the Ark as a good luck charm - had mistaken a token for the presence of God instead of the actual presence of God. This revealed blindness. They were defeated by the enemies more thoroughly than before. They lost 30,000 men (4:10).
The Ark was captured., The Ark became a curse to the Philistines. Placed in the temple beside Dagon the false god, strange things began to happen. The image fell on its face before the Ark of the Lord. They set it upright and the next morning it was lying flat again with -the head and both hands broken off. They were smitten with boils and became very ill. They were plagued with devastating invasion of field mice (ch 6:4-5).
3. Heart hunger for Jehovah ''Israel lamented after the Lord'' (lSA 7:2). It took 20 years after the Ark got back for the state of real repentance to begin. During the last part of the 20 year period, Samuel was growing in influence as he moved among the people and preached with telling effect. His prophets' labors bore fruit.
A DIRECT MESSAGE (7:3) He called upon the people to ''put away their strange gods and ashtaroth''. A direct attack upon idolatry. Ashtaroth was their most beloved goddess. It was their darling. SAMUEL
Saul continued to give excuses but then Samuel made a wonderful
b@em ...
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