ove, but also shows his wrath and power. The apparent lesson to be learned is to never take advantage of God and his promises or else. However, without Saul’s disobedience David would never have come about, or at least not so soon. It seems throughout history that God sends people down the so-called “wrong path” in order to allow future occurrences to happen. For instance, there would be no sin without Eve consuming the apple from the “tree of knowledge” in the Garden of Eden. Why would God want sin? Well he would never have had to send his son to die for us without it. And, it gives his people a choice between good and evil, rather than everyone being robots. The meaning of life would be pointless without it. The whole point of worshiping him is to repent and is a choice that he wants us to make. Another obvious occurrence is with Pontius Pilot and Judas. Without the two of them, Jesus would never have been able to die for our sins. The prophecy would never have come about. There are many other instances in history in which this happens and they are similar to Saul’s wrongdoings. The future development of the kingdom relied strictly on his action. Thus, it seems that God has a plan for everyone, whether it be to go down the “wrong path” or the “right one”. The future king David’s existence during this time: David was good friends with Saul’s son Jonathan and was married to Saul’s daughter Michal. Saul was intensely jealous of David and forced many attempts to kill him. So David fled to the wilderness of Judah. There he became a leader of many “outlaws” and outsiders of his type. James Beasley states in An Introduction to the Bible, “Like Robin Hood of English tradition, David and his band of men (likely not “merry”) lived off the booty of the land”. Recent to the warring of the Philistines against Saul ...
