King Saul’s death

The way King Saul's life ended, do you think he was saved? After all, he was God's anointed even though he turned against God's will.

King Saul certainly was “the Lord’s anointed…the anointed of the Lord” (1 Samuel 24:6), as David recognized. Unfortunately, Saul failed to live up to that designation. The account of Saul’s death paints a dismal picture of his fate: “Saul died because he was unfaithful to the LORD; he did not keep the word of the LORD and even consulted a medium for guidance, and did not inquire of the LORD. So the LORD put him to death and turned the kingdom over to David son of Jesse” (1 Chronicles 10:13-14).

When people die without saving faith in their hearts, they face an eternity in hell. The account of Saul’s death has the language of someone who died in unbelief.