Saul gave an order in the middle of battle: “Cursed is the man who eats any food before evening, before I have taken vengeance on my enemies.”
The result? His troops—hungry and exhausted—entered a forest and saw honey flowing on the ground, but none of them dared touch it. They were afraid of the oath.
It was a war. The people needed strength. But Saul’s order made them weak, in the name of discipline. That’s how it always goes with these man-made religious rules—rules that God never gave, but which end up crippling those fighting God’s battles.
And what happened in the end?
When evening came and the people could finally eat, they had been pushed too far. They slaughtered cattle and ate the meat raw—with the blood still in it. Saul had to say, “Stop! Kill it here and let the blood drain first before you eat.” But it was too late. The people had sinned, not because they were evil, but because a bad law pushed them beyond their limit.
That’s how you know something is not from God—it leads people into worse sin. Like when you forbid marriage for people in ministry, and it results not in holiness, but in secret fornication, adultery, or worse. It’s not godliness—it’s a setup for destruction.
There was even a real case: a monastery and convent connected by hidden tunnels under a lake. When they drained the lake, it was full of baby skeletons. Monks and nuns—under a “holy” vow of celibacy—committed fornication, aborted the babies, and drowned them.
And all that pain could have been avoided if someone had simply said: “Let Brother Martin marry Sister Felicia and serve God together.” But instead, they created a rule that weakened the soldiers of the Lord and opened the door to worse sin.
[Published on 27/07/2025]
