The Witch of Endor

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The Witch of Endor
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Myths

• Witches on Broomsticks
• Witches are Pagans
• The word Witch
• Witches of the Scriptures

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Samuel came Up

• 1 Samuel 28 verse 15
• Samuel said to Saul, Why have you disturbed me,
  to bring me up?
• (Strong)

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An Old Man

• 1 Samuel 28 verse 14
• What is he like? Saul asked. She replied, It is
  an old man coming up.
• (Jerusalem)

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Job 3 verse 13-17

• For now I would have lain down and been quiet I
  would have slept then, I would have been at rest.
  With kings and with counselors of the earth, who
  rebuilt ruins for themselves There the wicked
  cease from raging, And there the weary are at
  rest.
• (NASB)

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Ecclesiastes 9 verses 5 10

• For the living know that they will die, but the
  dead know nothing they have no further reward,
  and even the memory of them is forgotten...
  Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all
  your might, for in the grave, where you are
  going, there is neither working nor planning nor
  knowledge nor wisdom.
• (NIV)

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John 11 Vv. 11,24,25 44

• Jesus saith unto them Our friend Lazarus
  sleepeth but I go, that I may awake him out of
  sleep Martha saith unto him, I know that he
  shall rise again in the resurrection at the last
  day. Jesus said unto her he that believeth in
  me, though he were dead, yet shall he live And
  he that was dead came forth, bound hand and foot
  with graveclothes
• (King James)

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A Fake Seance

• The king saw nothing
• The old man in a mantle is an ambiguous
  description
• Samuel was buried at Ramah, not Endor (1 Samuel
  251)

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Predictions

• 1 Samuel 28 verse 19
• Yahweh giveth also Israel with thee into the
  hands of the Philistines, tomorrow thou and thy
  sons
• (Youngs Literal)

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Explanation

• God raised Samuel for the occasion in order to
  rebuke a fool .
• 1 Chronicles 10 Verses 13 14
• So Saul died for his trespass against the Lord,
  for his unfaithfulness in not keeping Gods word,
  and also for consulting a medium
• (Amplified)

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She cried out

• 1 Samuel 28 verse 12
• When the woman saw Samuel, she screamed and she
  said to Saul, Why have you deceived me? For you
  are Saul!
• (Amplified)

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Gods Instruction

• Leviticus 19 verse 31
• Regard not them that have familiar spirits,
  neither seek after wizards, to be defiled by
  them I am the LORD your God.
• (AV)

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Beelzebub

• Matthew 12 verse 27
• If I by Beelzebub cast out devils by whom do
  your sons cast them out? Therefore shall they be
  your judges.
• (RSV)

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Conclusions

• Samuel was raised for this special event.
• Mediums are an abomination before God, not
  Witches
• Heaven Hell going is a fallacy
• The Soul that Sins shall die
• We must work out our Salvation