Is it possible to give a definitive answer about where king Saul went after he died?
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Do you know where any Jew went?
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Hell or Abraham’s bosom. Only the Lord knows our hearts.
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He did something in his last moments that definitely earned him a place in hell.
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He never repented
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Saul order Holy priest and their families to be killed because they were courting David. As well he seek medium to call on dead Samuel eventhough God forbid Israel to do it. (Deuteronomy 18:11)
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I do not think we ha e enough information from the Bible to give us a precise answer
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Yeah it’s safe to say that since God took the anointing away from Saul because of his gross disobedience.. and leading Israel to sin.. is pretty much all it took to send him down below
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Heaven because Samuel came to him
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No but I’m an optimist about that, so ?♀️
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Looks like some people are saying Saul lost his salvation ?
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My pastor said…
Saul was buried with his fathers.. it was allegory for him being redeemed in honour despite all his mistakes. -
Saul was God’s choice to lead Israel (1 Samuel 9:15-16). Only. God see the heart (1 Samuel 16:7). At that time, Saul was told, “The Spirit of the Lord will come powerfully upon you, and you will prophesy with them; and you will be changed into a different person. . . . God is with you” (verses 6–7). The promise that Saul would be “changed into a different person” sounds very much like the born-again statements in the New Testament (see 2 Corinthians 5:17). This description, plus the statement in verse 9 that “God changed Saul’s heart,” Saul was saved.
Just as Samuel had said, Saul was filled with the Spirit and prophesied with the other prophets (1 Samuel 10:10–13).
Saul was chosen by God and then used by God to prophesy and to defeat the Philistines. Saul made mistakes in his struggle against the flesh, but so do we all (Romans 7:21–23). It doesn’t make him unsaved. It just makes him a disobedient believer, some say, and the Lord disciplined His child in the way He saw fit.In 1 Samuel 28:19, the spirit of Samuel tells Saul, “Tomorrow you? and your sons? will be with me.” These words indicate Saul’s fate. Samuel definitely predicts the king’s death. The fact that Saul’s son Jonathan was a righteous man…Saul joined Samuel in the abode of the righteous.
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Destruction.
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If King Saul when to Heaven then the doctrine of Armenia regarding salvation could be wrong. But Calvin’s doctrine regarding salvation could be right..
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Here’s what Samuel said of Saul in 1 Samuel 13, “And Samuel said to Saul, “You have done foolishly. You have not kept the command of the LORD your God, with which he commanded you. For then the LORD would have established your kingdom over Israel forever. …” Samuel recognized that Saul belonged to the Lord even though he had sinned. In chapter 13. In chapter 14 Saul acknowledges he is the servant of the Lord. In chapter 15, Saul sinned again and here’s the conversation between God and Samuel, “The word of the LORD came to Samuel: 11“I regretc that I have made Saul king, for he has turned back from following me and has not performed my commandments.” And Samuel was angry, and he cried to the LORD all night.” It was followed by the conversation between Saul and Samuel, “And Samuel came to Saul, and Saul said to him, “Blessed be you to the LORD. I have performed the commandment of the LORD.” 14And Samuel said, “What then is this bleating of the sheep in my ears and the lowing of the oxen that I hear?” 15Saul said, “They have brought them from the Amalekites, for the people spared the best of the sheep and of the oxen to sacrifice to the LORD your God, and the rest we have devoted to destruction.” 16Then Samuel said to Saul, “Stop! I will tell you what the LORD said to me this night.” And he said to him, “Speak.”
17And Samuel said, “Though you are little in your own eyes, are you not the head of the tribes of Israel? The LORD anointed you king over Israel. 18And the LORD sent you on a mission and said, ‘Go, devote to destruction the sinners, the Amalekites, and fight against them until they are consumed.’ 19Why then did you not obey the voice of the LORD? Why did you pounce on the spoil and do what was evil in the sight of the LORD?” 20And Saul said to Samuel, “I have obeyed the voice of the LORD. I have gone on the mission on which the LORD sent me. I have brought Agag the king of Amalek, and I have devoted the Amalekites to destruction. 21But the people took of the spoil, sheep and oxen, the best of the things devoted to destruction, to sacrifice to the LORD your God in Gilgal.” 22And Samuel said,
“Has the LORD as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices,
as in obeying the voice of the LORD?
Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice,
and to listen than the fat of rams.
23For rebellion is as the sin of divination,
and presumption is as iniquity and idolatry.
Because you have rejected the word of the LORD,
he has also rejected you from being king.”24Saul said to Samuel, “I have sinned, for I have transgressed the commandment of the LORD and your words, because I feared the people and obeyed their voice. 25Now therefore, please pardon my sin and return with me that I may bow before the LORD.” 26And Samuel said to Saul, “I will not return with you. For you have rejected the word of the LORD, and the LORD has rejected you from being king over Israel.” 27As Samuel turned to go away, Saul seized the skirt of his robe, and it tore. 28And Samuel said to him, “The LORD has torn the kingdom of Israel from you this day and has given it to a neighbor of yours, who is better than you. 29And also the Glory of Israel will not lie or have regret, for he is not a man, that he should have regret.” 30Then he said, “I have sinned; yet honor me now before the elders of my people and before Israel, and return with me, that I may bow before the LORD your God.” 31So Samuel turned back after Saul, and Saul bowed before the LORD.” Notice in verse 30 that Saul referred to the Lord as Samuel’s God. That leads me to the conclusion that just as God had rejected Saul as king Saul had rejected Him as well. I don’t believe we will see him any place other than separated from God
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