Day 88 | 1 Samuel 28–31 — The Witch of Endor and the King’s Final Fall — Saul’s Desperation and Death | Bible in a Year

Silence from heaven is its own kind of verdict. Saul has driven out every prophet, every priest, every honest voice — so when God won't answer him, he goes looking for one in a cave, disguised, desperate, consulting a medium who raises up a dead prophet just to hear what he already knows. The kingdom is gone. David is spared, by nothing but providence, from ever having to fight his own people. And the king who spent his whole reign taking finally takes the one thing left — his own life.Here we consider denial, desperation, providence, and the end of a story that never had to end this way.