Is Judas in Heaven or Hell?

 Is Judas in Heaven or Hell?

Judas Disciple order in the scriptures.

Matthew 10:4 (ESV)

4 Simon the Zealot, and Judas Iscariot, who betrayed him.

Mark 3:19 (ESV)

19 and Judas Iscariot, who betrayed him.

Mark 3:19 (ESV)

19 and Judas Iscariot, who betrayed him.

Judas’s role in the Discipleship:

John 13:29

English Standard Version

29 Some thought that, because Judas had the moneybag, Jesus was telling him, “Buy what we need for the feast,” or that he should give something to the poor.

First mention of the twelve

John 6:67 “Then said Jesus unto the twelve, Will ye also go away?"

Here is the first mention of the twelve in John’s gospel. Only five of them have been named thus far: John, Andrew, Peter, Philip and Nathanael. Perhaps this is John’s account of the confession of Simon Peter at Caesarea Philippi.

John 6:68 “Then Simon Peter answered him, Lord, to whom shall we go? thou has the words of eternal life."

John 6:69 “And we believe and are sure that thou art that Christ, the Son of the living God."

John 6:70 “Jesus answered them, Have not I chosen you twelve, and one of you is a devil?"

In response to Peter’s words that the disciples had come to believe in Jesus, He reminds them that He sovereignly chose them. Jesus would not allow even a whisper of human pretension in God’s sovereign selection.

In Matthew 22:14 we read “For many are called, but few are chosen."

Out of the great number called as Jesus' followers, Jesus had chosen twelve.

Judas first Mentioned in the Bible

In Luke 6:12-13 we read “And it came to pass in those days, that he went out into a mountain to pray, and continued all night in prayer to God." "And when it was day, he called unto him his disciples: and of them he chose twelve, whom also he named apostles;"

You see, Jesus Christ had many followers He called disciples (disciplined ones who follow Him), but there were twelve (a representative number) He set aside to be apostles.

Judas Iscariot (the betrayer), was among the twelve. This really is no different than it is today. Many proclaim to be Christians, but few really know Jesus as Savior and Lord. Even of those the world thinks to be close followers of the Lord, there is always a Judas.

“Devil” means adversary, slanderer or false accuser. The idea perhaps is better rendered “one of you is the devil”. This meaning is clear from (13:2 and 27). The supreme adversary of God so operates behind failing human beings, that his malice becomes theirs.

Jesus supernaturally knew the source and identified it precisely. This clearly fixes the character of Judas, not as a well-intentioned but misguided man trying to force Jesus to exert His power and set up His kingdom, as some suggest. But as a tool of Satan doing unmitigated wickedness.

John 6:71 “He spake of Judas Iscariot the son of Simon: for he it was that should betray him, being one of the twelve."

This is the first occasion in John where Peter and Judas appear in contrast (see also chapters 13 and 18).

Many people believe that Judas did not have a choice, because of this Scripture. As we have said so many times before, Judas had a choice, but Jesus could look ahead in time and know what Judas would do.

“Iscariot”: The word most likely is from a Hebrew word meaning “man of Kerioth,” the name of a village in Judah. As with the other three gospels, as soon as he was named, he became identified as the betrayer.

Matthew 26:14-16 New International Version

Judas Agrees to Betray Jesus

14 Then one of the Twelve—the one called Judas Iscariot—went to the chief priests 15 and asked, “What are you willing to give me if I deliver him over to you?” So they counted out for him thirty pieces of silver. 16 From then on Judas watched for an opportunity to hand him over.

Judas Returns the Silver 

Matthew 27:3-10

New International Version

3 When Judas, who had betrayed him, saw that Jesus was condemned, he was seized with remorse and returned the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and the elders. 4 “I have sinned,” he said, “for I have betrayed innocent blood.”

“What is that to us?” they replied. “That’s your responsibility.”

5 So Judas threw the money into the temple and left. Then he went away and hanged himself.

6 The chief priests picked up the coins and said, “It is against the law to put this into the treasury, since it is blood money.” 7 So they decided to use the money to buy the potter’s field as a burial place for foreigners. 8 That is why it has been called the Field of Blood to this day. 9 Then what was spoken by Jeremiah the prophet was fulfilled: “They took the thirty pieces of silver, the price set on him by the people of Israel, 10 and they used them to buy the potter’s field, as the Lord commanded me.”

Peter Tells how Judas Died

Acts 1:18

New International Version

18 (With the payment he received for his wickedness, Judas bought a field; there he fell headlong, his body burst open and all his intestines spilled out.

A potter’s field is a burying ground for indigent people, it is a graveyard for paupers. Contrary to what many may think, the word potter in potter’s field is not a proper name and it is not capitalized, according to the Oxford English Dictionary. The original potter’s field takes its name from the Bible, specifically the book of Matthew in the New Testament. In chapter twenty-seven, Judas Isacariot returns the thirty pieces of silver the high priests gave him in exchange for betraying Jesus. The priests did not return the silver to the temple coffers, as it was blood money. They used that money to buy a field to bury paupers in. As the story goes, the field they bought was the area in which potters dug their clay. On an interesting side note, during the 1500s the word potter was used to mean an itinerant peddler or a vagrant.

What does legally indigent mean?

1) n. a person so poor and needy that he/she cannot provide the necessities of life (food, clothing, decent shelter) for himself/herself.

Definition of pauper. : a very poor person who has no money to pay for food, clothing, etc.

potter = peroverty 

Did Judas Repent?

Was Judas a believer?

To give a summary answer: Judas had no repentance, but only a remorse, in the light of the reasons provided above.

Judas’s remorse was not repentance of sin, as the King James version suggests. Matthew did not use metanoeo, which means a genuine change of mind and will, but metamelomai, which merely connotes regret or sorrow. He did not experience spiritual penitence but only emotional remorse. Although he would not repent of his sin, he could not escape the reality of his guilt. Genuine sorrow for sin (metamelomai) can be prompted by God in order to produce repentance (metanoeo), as Paul declares in 2 Corinthians 7:10. But Judas’s remorse was not prompted by God to lead to repentance but only to guilt and despair.

2 Corinthians 7:10

New International Version

10 Godly sorrow brings repentance that leads to salvation and leaves no regret, but worldly sorrow brings death.

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Sight

 

Sight

 

God’s Foresight provides, Us with Clear Hindsight…  Which delivers New Insight.

 

God’s Foresight:

Isaiah 43:19

New International Version

¹⁹ See, I am doing a new thing!
    Now it springs up; do you not perceive it?
I am making a way in the wilderness
    and streams in the wasteland.

Clear Hindsight:

Psalm 23:4

New International Version

⁴ Even though I walk
    through the darkest valley,
I will fear no evil,
    for you are with me;
your rod and your staff,
    they comfort me.

New Insight:

John 5:30 - By myself I can do nothing; I judge only as I hear, and my judgment is just, for I seek not to please myself but him who sent me.

"Hear, O sons, a father's instruction, be attentive, that you may gain insight, for I give you good precepts; do not forsake my teachings." (Proverbs 4:1-2)

Adam and Eve lost the Covering

 

Adam and Eve lost the Covering

 

Genesis 2:17 "But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die."

To “die” has the basic idea of separation. It can mean spiritual separation, physical separation, and/or eternal separation. At the moment of their sin, Adam and Eve died spiritually, but because God was merciful they did not die physically until later (5:5). There is no reason given for this prohibition, other than it was a test (see note on verse 9).

There was nothing magical about that tree, but eating from it after it had been forbidden by God would indeed give man the knowledge of evil, since evil can be defined as disobeying God. Man already had the knowledge of good.

“Thou shalt not eat” is in strongest Hebrew form of prohibition.

“Surely die”: The construction emphasizes in the strongest way the certainty of death upon eating. (Note 3:4 and Satan’s “Ye shall not surely die.”)

In the Bible there are three deaths:

(1) Physical death, separation of body and spirit;

(2) Spiritual death, separation of the individual from God; and

(3) Eternal death, the final estate of the lost person in the “lake of fire” (Rev. 20:10, 14; termed the “second death,” separation from God forever).

So many false religions base their belief on the few words above. Adam truly brought physical death upon all of mankind when he ate of this Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil. Adam's peace died, Adam's hopes died, and Adam's innocence died. His mind was troubled because he now knew that his body would return to the dust.

The error is in believing that the spirit of Adam died. The spirit never died. The spirit never dies. It is eternal. It will live either in heaven or hell. It is eternal. It did not mean that our bodies in their present condition will live forever. It meant Jesus had purchased our eternity for us.

This day, then, that you shall surely die just means that Adam brought physical death to all mankind, and Jesus brought life eternal. The wages of sin is death. Jesus paid the wages and bought everlasting life for each of us if we believe.

Read 1 Corinthians chapter 15 from verse 44 on.

Some people do not believe that God ever threatens punishment, but that is exactly what He did in the Scripture above.

Genesis 2:25 "And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed."

(Adam and Eve were covered)

“Both naked … not ashamed”: With no knowledge of evil before the Fall, even nakedness was shameless and innocent. They found their complete gratification in the joy of their one union and their service to God. With no inward principle of evil to work on, the solicitation to sin had to come from without, and it did.

Their outward nakedness was a sign of their integrity. They lived and moved without guilt, shame, or fear of exploitation or threat. Naked in the Hebrew sounds like the word subtile (in 3:1), thus tying the two chapters together. Satan will concentrate his shrewdness on their integrity.

So many problems in young marriages today are caused by interference from parents who are not willing to cut the apron strings and let their children form families of their own. I believe this happened a lot because the parents are disappointed in the lives they have made for themselves, and are trying to live again in their children.

The order we should put our lives in is: God first, husband or wife next, and then other members of the family.

This "nakedness" spoken of here was probably literal and figurative. Adam and Eve were bathed in innocence. They were not aware that they were naked, because they had not eaten of the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil. Husbands and wives even today should be so close that there will be no secrets. We should truly try to walk without deceit.

Genesis 3:4 "And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die:"

(Not a Physical death, separation of body and spirit; It was a Spiritual death, separation of the individual from God)

Here Satan blatantly denies God with the same strong Hebrew expression God used (in 2:17).

Once the serpent had her listening, then he called God a liar (indirectly of course). The devil is the liar, and always has been. God is truth.

Genesis 3:7 "And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they [were] naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons."

(Adam and Eve lost the Covering)

“Opened … knew …sewed”: The innocence noted in 2:25 had been replaced by guilt and shame (verses 8-10), and from then on, they had to rely on their conscience to distinguish between good and their newly acquired capacity to see and know evil.

The sense of guilt is immediate (2:25), and they attempt to make themselves presentable, to cover up their nakedness (verse 21).

As I said before, (part of what the serpent said was true) their eyes were opened to realize the terrible sin they had committed. They suddenly were not innocent (they had sinned). The first awful thing that they discovered, was that they were naked. They sewed fig leaves to cover their nakedness, as we are about to see.

Genesis 3:8 "And they heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God amongst the trees of the garden."

(Adam and Eve ran from the Presence of the Lord.  Sin cannot exist in the Lord’s Presence)

“Voice”: Better translated “sound” as it appears in theophanies (a visible manifestation to humankind of God), in the Old Testament (Psalm 18:13; 29:3-9; Jeremiah 25:30; Ezekiel 1:24; Joel 3:16).

God appeared, as before, in tones of goodness and kindness, walking in some visible form (perhaps Shekinah light as He later appeared in Exodus 33:18-23; 34:5-8, 29; 40:34-38). He came not in fury, but in the same condescending way He had walked with Adam and Eve before.

“Cool of the day” may be understood as the “spirit of the day,” as the Hebrew word for cool is the same for spirit. The day is a judgment day in the context. No small wonder that as the sound of the Lord God was traversing back and forth in the garden seeking out Adam and Eve, they actively “hid themselves” from His “presence,” acknowledging that their intimate fellowship was broken (4:14; Psalm 139:7).

This is the first specific time it is mentioned that Eve heard God's voice. God had come for fellowship. Guilt and shame entered, and man and woman hid from God. Just as it is today, there is no place to hide from God. Be sure, your sin will find you out.

Genesis 3:9 "And the LORD God called unto Adam, and said unto him, Where [art] thou?"

(The Calling on each of our Lives from the Almighty)

“Where art thou”: The question was God’s way of bringing man to explain why he was hiding, rather than expressing ignorance about man’s location. Shame, remorse, confusion, guilt, and fear all led to their clandestine behavior. There was no place to hide; there never is (see Psalm 139:1-12).

God always seeks out man, in the sense that He solicits a response from His Creation now separated from Him by sin. Thus, God comes asking questions, not making accusations.

Genesis 3:10 "And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I [was] naked; and I hid myself."

(No Covering)

“Heard thy voice”: The sound of 3:8, which probably was God calling for Adam and Eve. Adam responded with the language of fear and sorrow, but not confession.

Adam heard the “sound” of the Lord God and “was afraid” (as most men are afraid of God today), and began the age long process of “hiding himself” from his Maker.

So many times, guilt of sins causes us not to come to God. We feel we have done something so bad, that God will not listen and forgive.

You see, in verse 10, Adam's guilt and sin had caused a separation from God.

 

Morning Devotionals - The Mighty Worrier

 Good morning. Welcome to Daily Devotional with JK Woodall Ministries. Many times in our lives we feel like You're in a battle... You feel like you're in a struggle. But we don't know why, we may not know where it's coming from. However, I do know this. There's a Mighty Warrior on your side. This morning, Let's get your Bibles. Turn it Exodus 15 and we're going to start in verse 3 to 6. And today we want to read two verses today because it's set some mighty day this morning Exodus 15 verse 3. The Lord is a man of war the Lord his name. 

Exodus 15 verse 3. The Lord is a man of war. The Lord is his name on your right hand. Oh Lord has become glorious Empower your right hand. Oh Lord has - to enemy and pieces and in the greatness of Your Excellence, you have overthrown Those Who Rose against you you sent forth your wrath which consume them like stubble. 

Now we're going to move down to Deuteronomy. I've got to come out of Deuteronomy chapter 9 verse 3 therefore understand today the Lord your God. Is he who goes before you as a consuming fire? He will destroy them and bring them down before you sow you shall drive them out and Destroy them. Quickly as the Lord has said to you. Amen. So our God is mighty in battle Our God will fight for you. Our God knows the outcome. It's already in your favor. Our God is the beginning and the ending Our God has infinite power wisdom ability. Nothing. That God has said has it become true. You are successful. So this morning let's pray. Mighty Warrior, El Shaddai, King of Kings...

Abba Father, Elohim, We Praise Your Name this morning. God, we lift you up this morning. God, Mighty Warrior. Thank you Father, for being on our side. Thank you for addressing every battle. It may be a Health Battle this morning... Someone just came away from the doctor with a bad report. So it may seem.

But because you are a Mighty Healer any disease in our body shall be removed today. You are a Healer Lord. You are Mighty Worrier in any battle, any situation of distress coming against our lives, this morning; against our families. You will take it away in the Mighty name of Jesus. Hallelujah! Thank you Father for being our Warrior. Thank you Father for standing on our side and we love you for that Lord. We bless you in the mighty name of  Jesus amen. And amen.

The Mighty Warrior is on your side today. He's fighting your battles. He's in the front and the outcome is already declared a victory. You are successful. There's nothing you can't do today. Listen to God's Word and meditate on it.  Bless someone else with the Word. 

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Morning Devotionals: The Word of God is Alive

 Message:  The Word of God is Alive

Morning Devotionals Episode #32

Good morning. Welcome to Morning Devotionals with JK Woodall Ministries. 

God Is Almighty Power… Remember in John 1 it said in the beginning was the Word. That implies He is the same God today, yesterday, and forever. Let's get our Bibles this morning. Turn to Hebrews chapter 4 verse 12. For the word of God is alive and active sharper than any double-edged sword. It penetrates even to dividing Soul and Spirit joints and Marrow, it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart. Amen 

God's Word is sharper than any double-edged sword, you know, he has the ability to speak to you in a moment, including your heart. God has this ability when you read his Word it says something just to you. 

Let's pray this morning. Heavenly Father, Mighty warrior, King of Kings. 

Bright and Morning Star, we Thank you this morning Lord. Thank you for blessing us with your Word. Thank you for giving us a Living Word and activating the Word in our souls this morning. Oh, heavenly Father you are so merciful to us. We thank you for your Grace. Without your grace, where would we be? Heavenly Father. Thank you for walking with us. And feeding the Word to us. We thank you for that this morning God.  

So this morning, as you meditate on the Word just remember is sharper than a double-edged sword. So things that come into your life, things you see someone else's life they may be going through a little bit of trouble... Speak to Word to them. The Word has a way through the Scripture to touch our Souls and Hearts. It has a way to penetrate to that exact point at that exact moment that's where that person needs appling help. As you go as you go about your Day bless someone with God’s Word. Speak Life into them and lean on the Word. 

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