"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 Misguided Loyalty of Saul's Army

Saul's armies continued to follow him. Even people who knew Saul was wrong, such as his own sons, continued to maintain their loyalty to him. In the same way, even people who know these churches are wrong will remain loyal to them. This is very serious. Once you have reached this point, judgment cannot be far off. I am absolutely convinced that what happened to the PTL Club, with Bakker's scandal and all that, will also happen to TBN and Benny Hinn. It'll go down the same way.

There will come a crisis, and out of it will emerge something new. We read this in 2 Samuel 5:1:

"Then all the tribes of Israel came to David at Hebron …"

God's judgment on these people who have now gone into the overtly occult is inevitable. They were already involved long ago in many occultic things; an example would be Morris Cerullo with his Holy Ghost miracle handkerchiefs to take away debt – this is a practice called fetishism.

So what is delaying God's judgment from falling? Something that will emerge from the chaos that other people can come to and find the right way forward. Not until the new thing is ready will God allow the old thing to fall, although His judgment is now inevitable. I honestly believe we have now reached the point at which God told Jeremiah not to even pray for certain people any more. (Jer. 7:16; 11:14; 14:11) Samuel basically asked Saul, "What do you want me to do about it?" I personally no longer even pray that people such as Benny Hinn will repent – I don't believe it is possible now, because God has given them over to their deception. I truly believe that the Lord has instructed that we ought not to even pray for TBN any longer. They have been given over by the Lord to the demonic practices they embraced.

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