"The Fall of the House of Saul"

by James Jacob Prasch

God will not allow the old thing to fall until He judges that the new thing is ready to take its place.

  1. God Ceases Communicating with Saul
  2. The Divine Strategy in Starting a New Work
  3. Readying the New to Replace the Old
  4. Part 1: When the World Has More Integrity than the Church
  5. Exploitation of the Poor
  6. Part 2: When Saul's House Goes Too Far - The Occult
  7. The Misguided Loyalty of Saul's Army
  8. Know Your Enemy
  9. The House of Saul vs. the House of David
  10. Part 3: Saul's House is Defeated
  11. A Closer Look at David's House
  12. The Test of True Leadership
  13. Emotional Exhaustion/The Source of Strength
  14. Crossing the Brook of Besor
  15. The Baggage Attendants
  16. Grieving for Saul
  17. Conclusion
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The Divine Strategy in Starting a New Work

God let Saul go on and on and on while David was growing stronger. This is one recurrent principle you will see in God's dealing with His people. He spends a long time getting something new ready, focusing more on quality than on quantity. Once the quality has been founded, then the quantity comes. God will not allow the old thing to fall until He judges that the new thing is ready to take its place. God told Joshua that He would not give the whole land to him all at once; (Ex. 23:29-30; Dt. 7:22) He allowed the Philistines, Canaanites, Jebusites and so on stay in the land for a season, “lest the land lie fallow”. God will even let something bad stay in place until He has made something good ready to take it over.

When Jesus came, died, and rose from the dead, there was a brief time period of about forty years during which there were two covenants that were technically in simultaneous effect: the Temple was not destroyed for forty years following the establishment of the New Covenant. This was a chance God gave the Jews to repent and accept Jesus as the Messiah before the Temple was destroyed in fulfillment of Daniel and Jesus' prophecies. (Mt. 24:1-2)

It is the same with Saul. God does not remove Saul all at once; not until David is ready to take over – and by David we don't simply mean David himself but his men as well, the outcasts of Israel whom God had trained up in the wilderness. Then and only then did Saul fall. In the same way, we will not see large denominations fall overnight. They fall progressively for a time, and then something comes which precipitates their going into a nosedive. God will keep them in place until something new is ready to take over.

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