Saul

King Saul

According to the Hebrew Bible, Saul was the first king of a united Kingdom of Israel and Judah. He would have lived circa 1082 BC–1010 BC, was anointed by the prophet Samuel and reigned from Gibeah.

Born: 1082 BC, Gibeah

Died: 1010 BC, Mount Gilboa, Israel

Parents: Kish

Children: Jonathan, Michal, Ish-bosheth, Merab, Abinadab, Malchishua

The election of a king or ruler who was both Commander in Chief of the Military and the chief executive officer of Israel was covered in 1 Samuel 8. God warned that he would take and take and take and rule over you and when you cried out God would not hear the people because they were rejecting God by this election.

This power granted by the people into the hands of a ruler or executive and legislative group also leads to corruption. This centralization of power leads to tyranny over others and eventual self-destruction through what we might call The Saul Syndrome.

Power may not only corrupt the man that rules but may degenerate the many who give those rulers their power. Man's appetite for the dainties, protection, and comfort of rulers may cost him his very soul.
Saul was the first elected king who did something "foolish".
Of course the real problem was the people who desired a king and disregarded the warnings in 1 Samuel 8.
The same warnings concerning the dainties on the tables of rulers which were a "snare". Those warnings were given by all the prophets, Moses, and David but also by John the Baptist, Jesus concerning the "Fathers" of the earth, the "benefactors" who exercise authority, by Paul the Apostle who quoted David concerning *the tables that should have been for your welfare but were a "snare"*, and of course, Peter and those "covetous practices" that "curse children" and makes men "merchandise", etc.
America is making the same error today because their appetite for the wages of unrighteousness. If the masses are unwilling to learn from history they will repeat the mistakes of it... if they do not repent.

Saul Syndrome

The Saul Syndrome is the "Corrupting" of your leaders by giving them unchecked power.

They are often endowed power by the slothfullness of the people. The people desired a king to organize their militia to help fight there battles. They had been united many times without a king but in spite of God's warning which we see in 1 Samuel 8 they though the needed a commander.

While Saul had been noble leader as soon as he began to received this new power he would force the offering of the people which Samuel called foolish and cause his kingdom to fail, turn his heart and hand against David, and eventually commit suicide.

"Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men." —Letter to Bishop Creighton^[2] by Lord Acton^[3]

When the people choose to bestow the powers endowed upon them by God into the offices of Prime minsters, Presidents, or Potentates they may hear great swelling words promising them liberty from the equally endowed responsibility coming from those political pedestals but masses will soon degenerate becoming a scattered and enervated people unable to throw off tyrants and despots without the payment of a great price.

This precept can be found in wantonness societies where individuals become respecters of person whether pontiff or pastors, and dictators or doctors. If you give men power the corruption by that power will be forever with you.

Rejecting responsibilities endowed upon man by God may corrupt man with the sin of sloth, and rejecting God as we see in 1 Samuel 8 man again goes under tribute and becomes a human resources and will curse children.

We do it every day.

Despite the real meaning of Paul in Romans 13 and Samuel's warning in 1 Samuel 8, and the prohibition in Exodus 23:32 to making Contracts Covenants and Constitutions with men and their gods of the world we are constantly giving men power contractually and emotionally, which corrupts them. We give men the right to choose for us, to make laws for us, to rule over us, our minds and our bodies and our children and then we wonder why we are not free?

The Saul Syndrome is what happens to good men who are given more power than they can manage without doing foolishly.^[4] What Saul had done which was foolish was forced the people to give him an offering to prepare his troops for an invasion by the Philistines.

He taxed the people rather than allow them to voluntarily support his troops. Saul would be plagued by the power he was given until anything that threatened that power threatened him. He would suffer from depression and eventually took his own life in despair.

The studies and stories of abuse of people by people who are given power over others whether real or imagined demonstrate the evil that is possible if too much power is given to men and women over others. From Cain and Nimrod to Saul or Caesar power has corrupted the leaders of the people but it also corrupts the people themselves.

God does not create nor appoint rulers over the people or their purse. He allows the people to do that to themselves. Those who reject God, often claiming to believe in Him while taking His name in vain, are workers of iniquity when the elect men to rule over their neighbor. The socialist mind set that allows people to take from their neighbor through the agency of the governments they create makes the word of God to not effect are the covetous practices that makes us merchandise and curses our children from generation to generation.

We do that because we are lovers of rewards and benefits of Benefactors who become the Fathers of the people. The rulers of the world are there by our choice which God allows so that they may punish the wicked. The wicked are those who create these rulers instead of striving to seek the Kingdom of God and His Righteousness with due diligence and perseverance.

"For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away." (2 Timothy 3:2-5)

The Churches and synagogues of men are instituted by those who often want to imagine they are good god-fearing people. If they really loved God they would not be making covenants and contracts with people to covetously obtain benefits at the expense of their neighbor.

Freedom is for those who accept the responsibility of righteousness and seek to serve the God of creation according to the ways of righteousness. Neither freedom nor liberty is for those who are Slothful in the pursuit of Righteousness.

Even Jesus was tempted with power in Matthew^[5]and in Luke ^[6]

== Footnotes ==

↑ Destroyers of liberty
"That the man who first ruined the Roman people twas he who first gave them treats and gratuities. But this mischief crept secretly and gradually in, and did not openly make it's appearance in Rome for a considerable time." Plutarch's Life of Coriolanus (c. 100 AD.) This would include Julius Caesar and eventually Augustus Caesar which is why Plutarch also reported, “The real destroyers of the liberties of the people is he who spreads among them bounties, donations, and benefits.” This was a major theme of the Bible:

There were tables of welfare which were both snares and a traps as David and Paul stated and Peter warned would make us merchandise and curse children. Proverbs 23 told us not to not eat the "dainties" offered at those tables of Rulers and Paul says in 1 Corinthians 10 we cannot eat of those tables and the table of the Lord. We are not to consent to their covetous systems of One purse or Corban which makes the word of God to none effect.

We know when the masses become accustomed to those benefits of legal charity which are the rewards of unrighteousness provided by benefactors who exercise authority and the Fathers of the earth through the covetous practices that makes men merchandise and curse children as a surety for debt.
↑ Letter to Bishop Mandell Creighton, April 5, 1887 published in Historical Essays and Studies, edited by J. N. Figgis and R. V. Laurence (London: Macmillan, 1907)
↑ John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton, John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton, KCVO, DL —known as Sir John Dalberg-Acton, 8th Bt from 1837 to 1869 and usually referred to simply as Lord Acton—was an English Catholic historian, politician, and writer
↑ 1 Samuel 13:13 And Samuel said to Saul, Thou hast done foolishly: thou hast not kept the commandment of the LORD thy God, which he commanded thee: for now would the LORD have established thy kingdom upon Israel for ever.
↑ Matthew 4:1 Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil. 2 And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungred. 3 And when the tempter came to him, he said, If thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread. 4 But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God. 5 Then the devil taketh him up into the holy city, and setteth him on a pinnacle of the temple, 6 And saith unto him, If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself down: for it is written, He shall give his angels charge concerning thee: and in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone. 7 Jesus said unto him, It is written again, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God. 8 Again, the devil taketh him up into an exceeding high mountain, and sheweth him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them; 9 And saith unto him, All these things will I give thee, if thou wilt fall down and worship me. 10 Then saith Jesus unto him, Get thee hence, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve. 11 Then the devil leaveth him, and, behold, angels came and ministered unto him.
↑ Luke 4:1 And Jesus being full of the Holy Ghost returned from Jordan, and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness, 2 Being forty days tempted of the devil. And in those days he did eat nothing: and when they were ended, he afterward hungered. 3 And the devil said unto him, If thou be the Son of God, command this stone that it be made bread. 4 And Jesus answered him, saying, It is written, That man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of God. 5 And the devil, taking him up into an high mountain, shewed unto him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time. 6 And the devil said unto him, All this power will I give thee, and the glory of them: for that is delivered unto me; and to whomsoever I will I give it. 7 If thou therefore wilt worship me, all shall be thine. 8 And Jesus answered and said unto him, Get thee behind me, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve. 9 And he brought him to Jerusalem, and set him on a pinnacle of the temple, and said unto him, If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself down from hence: 10 For it is written, He shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee: 11 And in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone. 12 And Jesus answering said unto him, It is said, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God. 13 And when the devil had ended all the temptation, he departed from him for a season.

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