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The story of Saul is a unique one with a fairy tale opening and a horror story ending. Saul went from being the pick of the litter to be dragged around and disgraced in death by his own actions. That’s one extreme to another, you may ask how and why this happen. Why did God allow His first king to go out in such a horrible way, his head cut off, no armor and laid there in disgrace before God’s enemies as they rejoiced and laughed. Saul was God’s chosen man for a new direction for the nation of Israel, but if we look closer at Saul’s life we can see the things that created a road and sent him on his journey that he chose to take.
We will see the tragic battles and struggles that raged inside him, fires that burn in his mind and the agony that
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