9 But an evil[a] spirit from the Lord came on Saul as he was sitting in his house with his spear in his hand. While David was playing the lyre, 10 Saul tried to pin him to the wall with his spear, but David eluded him as Saul drove the spear into the wall. That night David made good his escape.
11 Saul sent men to David’s house to watch it and to kill him in the morning. But Michal, David’s wife, warned him, “If you don’t run for your life tonight, tomorrow you’ll be killed.” 12 So Michal let David down through a window, and he fled and escaped. 13 Then Michal took an idol and laid it on the bed, covering it with a garment and putting some goats’ hair at the head.
An evil spirit from God, caught my attention. God sends evil spirits? God is the same yesterday, today and forever and He is good. If He is good, why did He sent evil spirits? God is good and everything He does is good. if he is good, why the evil spirits? Saul did wrong against God, so he deserved God's righteous judgement. God created everything good, not evil. So the evil spirits came from somewhere else. God then allowed the evil spirits to torture Saul, as His punishment for walking away from God. God is righteous and His punishment is just. Saul was punished by God by withdrawing His holy presence from him. The consequence of that is that evil spirits come upon Saul, causing him to suffer. Another point to note is that Saul did not complain, he just accepted the punishment as a fact. He did not cry out for mercy nor blame that punishment on someone.Today we do not experience this because Jesus had died on the cross for all our sins, so He paid the ultimate price. Then we became blameless. But, we still need to account for all our deeds on judgement day!
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