1 Samuel 28:15-25
What a dreadful scene! The woman herself cries out with a loud voice (v. 12). For it is not as a consequence of her enchantments that Samuel appeared. Neither she nor her master, Satan, had the power to do this. It is the hand of God which, for a moment, opened the door of the resting place of the dead and made His servant Samuel appear on the scene. What the prophet has to say resembles the message which, when he was a small child, he was charged to give Eli (1 Samuel 3:11-13). It is a dreadful confirmation of the LORD’s judgment. Only one more day and it is to be executed. The kingdom is to be removed from Saul and given to David. The king and his sons are to join Samuel in the place where the dead await the resurrection: to life or to judgment.
The end of this man, who had begun his reign with such promise, is very solemn. Dear friends, remember this well: people with the nicest characters, but who do not have the new life, are going to eternal punishment, just as surely as the most gross sinners. Jesus gives this new life to all who ask for it. Do you possess it?