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14101 From Eternity Past, p. 446.1 (Ellen Gould White)
In humiliation the people now confessed their sin, the very sin of which they had been guilty. “Pray for thy servants unto the Lord thy God, that we die not: for we have added unto all our sins this evil, to ask us a king.”
14102 From Eternity Past, p. 446.2 (Ellen Gould White)
… upon God as severe and unforgiving would expose them to manifold temptations. “Fear not,” was the message of God by His servant: “ye have done all this wickedness …
14103 From Eternity Past, p. 446.3 (Ellen Gould White)
… them. “God forbid that I should sin against the Lord in ceasing to pray for you: but I will teach you the good and the right way: only fear the Lord, and serve Him in …
14104 From Eternity Past, p. 448.2 (Ellen Gould White)
… seeking God by sacrifice was a most solemn work; God required that His people search their hearts and repent of their sins, that the offering be made with acceptance …
14105 From Eternity Past, p. 448.3 (Ellen Gould White)
… on God and patiently wait according to His command as one whom God could trust in trying places as the ruler of His people? Or would he be vacillating and unworthy …
14106 From Eternity Past, p. 449.1 (Ellen Gould White)
… of God did not appear. God’s providence had detained His servant. Feeling that something must be done to calm the people, Saul determined to summon an assembly …
14107 From Eternity Past, p. 450.1 (Ellen Gould White)
… thy God, which He commanded thee: for now would the Lord have established thy kingdom upon Israel forever. But now thy kingdom shall not continue: the Lord hath …
14108 From Eternity Past, p. 450.2 (Ellen Gould White)
Either Israel must cease to be the people of God, or the monarchy and the nation must be governed by divine power. In Israel no monarchy could prosper that did not in all things acknowledge the supreme authority of God.
14109 From Eternity Past, p. 450.3 (Ellen Gould White)
… of God to His people. He would mislead Israel. His will, rather than the will of God, would be the controlling power. Since he had failed, the purpose of God must …
14110 From Eternity Past, p. 450.4 (Ellen Gould White)
… with God and yet unwilling to humble his heart in penitence. He was not ignorant of Israel’s defeat when the ark of God was brought into the camp by Hophni and …
14111 From Eternity Past, p. 450.5 (Ellen Gould White)
… powers God has given them, and then, when they choose to change, find these powers fresh and free for an opposite course.
14112 From Eternity Past, p. 451.2 (Ellen Gould White)
God had permitted a crisis that He might rebuke Saul and teach His people a lesson of humility and faith. Because of Saul’s sin in his presumptuous offering …
14113 From Eternity Past, p. 452.1 (Ellen Gould White)
… that God was working for the deliverance of Israel. Great fear seized the host. In the confusion the Philistines began to slay one another.
14114 From Eternity Past, p. 453.1 (Ellen Gould White)
… though God had wrought deliverance through him, the king declared that the sentence must be executed. “God do so, and more also,” was his terrible sentence; “thou …
14115 From Eternity Past, p. 453.2 (Ellen Gould White)
… Israel? God forbid: as the Lord liveth, there shall not one hair of his head fall to the ground; for he hath wrought with God this day.”
14116 From Eternity Past, p. 455.5 (Ellen Gould White)
… merciful God the act of punishment is a strange act. “As I live, saith the Lord God, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his …
14117 From Eternity Past, p. 456.1 (Ellen Gould White)
But while inflicting judgment, God remembered mercy. The Amalekites were to be destroyed, but the Kenites, who dwelt among them, were spared. This people, though not wholly free from idolatry, were worshipers of God and friendly to Israel.
14118 From Eternity Past, p. 456.2 (Ellen Gould White)
… to God. God intended that all nations should behold the doom of that people that had defied His sovereignty.
14119 From Eternity Past, p. 457.1 (Ellen Gould White)
… of God proved that he could not be trusted with royal power as the vicegerent of the Lord. While Saul and his army were marching home in the flush of victory …
14120 From Eternity Past, p. 457.2 (Ellen Gould White)
God’s repentance is not like man’s repentance. Man’s repentance implies a change of mind. God’s repentance implies a change of circumstances and relations …