𝐃𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐝 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐊𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐝𝐨𝐦 𝐨𝐟 𝐈𝐬𝐫𝐚𝐞𝐥: 𝐀 𝐓𝐲𝐩𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐂𝐡𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐊𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐝𝐨𝐦 𝐨𝐟 𝐆𝐨𝐝: 𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝟒: 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐅𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐨𝐟 𝐊𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐒𝐚𝐮𝐥

1 Samuel 13

Saul was thirty years old when he became king and reigned over Israel forty two years. Throughout this time, Saul made some serious mistakes of disobeying God which did not go unnoticed by God and which ultimately led to his demise. Though God had chosen Saul to be Israel's king, his disobedience caused God to reject him as Israel's king. His continual disobedience later caused God to remove His Spirit from him and to install an evil spirit within him which would ultimately be the cause of his death. 

The first event is recorded in 1 Samuel 13, where Saul takes 3,000 men to attack the Philistines. When the Philistines respond with an army "as numerous as the sand of the sea", Saul’s men became afraid, so they hid and fled. They waited in fear the seven days that Samuel had instructed them to wait so that he could offer burnt offerings and fellowship offerings and give them instruction on what to do, but when Samuel did not arrive, his men began to scatter, so he offered up the burnt offerings and fellowship offerings himself. As soon as he finished, Samuel arrived and was not pleased with what he saw, and neither was the Lord:

I Samuel 13:13-14 NKJV

[13] And Samuel said to Saul, “You have done foolishly. You have not kept the commandment of the Lord your God, which He commanded you. For now the Lord would have established your kingdom over Israel forever. [14] But now your kingdom shall not continue. The Lord has sought for Himself a man after His own heart, and the Lord has commanded him to be commander over His people, because you have not kept what the Lord commanded you.”

God had given Saul the kingdom of Israel to reign over as king, but this first act of disobedience to God's commands which seems fairly insignificant, was cause for God to take the kingdom from him and give it to someone else. The tragic thing for Saul was that God would have established his dynasty over Israel forever if he would have simply done what God had commanded him to do. But because he didn't, the Lord had already found a man after His own heart whom He had already commanded to be the commander over His people. 

This is exactly the same thing that Jesus said was going to happen to Israel during His time because Israel had not produced the fruits that God was looking for from them:

Matthew 21:43 NKJV

[43] “Therefore I say to you, the kingdom of God will be taken from you and given to a nation bearing the fruits of it."

God had chosen Israel (specifically Judah) to be His Kingdom of people but when they did not do as He commanded them to do, He took the kingdom from them and gave it to another people who would obey Him, just as He did to Saul.