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Published: April 6, 2019, 1:49 p.m.

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Through disorder and chaos and losing battle after battle, Israel realizes that they again need have a king, establish a monarchy, to reign over their debauched nation. A monarch affords a single point of national administration, law, justice and judgement. 

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Wait a minute! Didn\'t they accept God as their King a long time ago ? Didn\'t they willingly enter an unbreakable covenant with Him as He was to be their King? They had a choice and they agreed to "elect" God as their King forever. But,  they rejected their King a long time ago, too. 

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Yes, they wanted a king again, but not God. They still rejected him. They wanted a human king this time, and that for the wrong reasons. This king was to go out and fight their enemies. 

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They failed to fully realize and take to heart that God had been fighting their battles for them all along and when they were trounced, it was because they were out of fellowship with God. It was not because God was not able to win their wars. They knew this, but  wanted reject living under that King\'s laws! Rebelliousness is a knife to your own throat. (We all need to learn this well!). 

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It is no different with human begins through time and today, even in this modern age. We as peoples in our respective countries want \\u201ckings\\u201d over us to fight our battles and protect us. Even worse, many today now want their kings to feed and cloth and give them prosperity, too! However, in demanding this, we relinquish more and more of our freedoms in trade for this so-called protection. We desire to be slaves and don\'t care about this as long as the king gives us what we need and want. (So, how\'s that working for us? Look around and give this some serious thought!).

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The problem? Human kings, as all people, are evil. Not one is ever found righteous. Not one. History bears this out, but we, in our rebelliousness ignore this to our own peril time and time again because we are just as evil.

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Samuel is very upset and complains to God about Israel\'s desire. Join us as the Bible gives us God\'s response and His instructions to Samuel about how to handle this situation and what to tell Israel on His behalf. This may surprise you! Even more, God\'s words to Samuel are absolutely applicable to all peoples and nations, even until today. You will learn much about us as we live today. 

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Solomon was correct: there truly is nothing new under the sun!

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