Although King David, despite his failings, was loved of God, the N.T. says he has not gone to heaven. Where?

Answer 1

Are you referring to the verse that states none have gone to heaven except those who come directly from heaven? This is pretty much in line with Jewish beliefs.... No one goes to Heaven... even Revelation backs this up. Nothing states that when people die they go to Heaven (Abraham's bosom is NOT Heaven... neither is Paradise - which if you look up the actual words, is the Garden of Eden, as Eden means Paradise). Revelation shows that those "resurrected" in NEW bodies will be living on a NEW earth in the NEW Jerusalem. Which is weird, cause the Jerusalem of today is called NEW Jerusalem as it sits on top of the Old Jerusalem of ancient times.

Answer 2

David was good in the eye of God, we all have sin in our lives he was not the perfect person none of us are. We all have to go some place no one here on earth can say that he is not in heaven with God.

Answer 3

Jesus Christ spoke about the condition of the dead. He did so with regard to Lazarus, a man whom he knew well and who had died. Jesus told his disciples: “Lazarus our friend has gone to rest.” The disciples thought that Jesus meant that Lazarus was resting in sleep, recovering from an illness. They were wrong. Jesus explained: “Lazarus has died.” (John 11:11-14) Notice that Jesus compared death to rest and sleep. Lazarus was neither in heaven nor in a burning hell. He was not meeting angels or ancestors. Lazarus was not being reborn as another human. He was at rest in death, as though in a deep sleep without dreams. Other scriptures also compare death to sleep. For example, when the disciple Stephen was stoned to death, the Bible says that he “fell asleep.” (Acts 7:60) Similarly, the apostle Paul wrote about some in his day who had “fallen asleep” in death.


The Bible teaches that the dead “are conscious of nothing at all.” They are not alive and have no conscious existence anywhere. The account of Lazarus confirms this. Upon returning to life, did Lazarus thrill people with descriptions of heaven? Or did he terrify them with horrible tales about a burning hell? No. The Bible contains no such words from Lazarus. During the four days that he was dead, he had been “conscious of nothing at all.” (Ecclesiastes 9:5) Lazarus had simply been sleeping in death.
The account of Lazarus also teaches us that the resurrection is a reality, not a mere myth. Jesus raised Lazarus in front of a crowd of eyewitnesses. Even the religious leaders, who hated Jesus, did not deny this miracle.

Think about this too: If Lazarus had been in heaven for those four days, would he not have said something about it? And if he had been in heaven, would Jesus have made him come back to earth from that wonderful place? Of course not!

Yet, many people say that we have a soul, and they say that the soul lives on after the body dies. They say that Lazarus’ soul was alive somewhere. But the Bible does not say that. It says that God made the first man Adam “a living soul.” Gen. 2:7, Adam was a soul. The Bible also says that when Adam sinned, he died. He became a “dead soul,” and he returned to the dust from which he had been made. The Bible also says that all Adam’s offspring inherited sin and death too.

The Scriptural teaching of the resurrection, however, is not compatible with the doctrine of the immortality of the soul. If an immortal soul survived death, no one would need to be resurrected, or brought back to life. Indeed, Martha expressed no thought about an immortal soul that was living on elsewhere after death. She did not believe that Lazarus had already gone to some spirit realm to continue his existence. On the contrary, she showed her faith in God’s purpose to reverse the effects of death. She said: “I know he will rise in the resurrection on the last day.” Likewise, Lazarus himself related no experiences of some afterlife. There was nothing to report.

Clearly, according to the Bible, the soul dies and the remedy for death is the resurrection. You enjoy the best sleep ever, until Jesus resurrects you, sometime in the future.

David is sleeping, just like Lazarus is, waiting for the Resurrection.

Answer 4

He, like his forefathers, Jessie, Issac and Abraham, lived a life where they waited for the Kingdom of Jehovah to come, they saw it as a city that was far off.
Their life style showed that they were looking forward to the day when they would be resurrected and have the opportunity to serve Jehovah whole souled, forever, here on a paradise earth.
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Answer 5

You are misreading the tense of the verb in its context in Acts 2:34. The point is that in order for David to say what he said he did not have to "go to heaven and see for himself."

HTH

Charles

Answer 6

1 Peter says that after the Crucifixion, and before the Resurrection, Jesus went to "preach to the spirits in prison."

This "prison" is understood by the Catholic Church to be a spiritual state known as the "Limbo of the Fathers" -- it was the temporary spiritual abode of the righteous who had died before Christ's time on earth.

Once Jesus' Resurrection took place, these righteous were released from the "prison" and took their places in Heaven. It's safe to presume that David was one of these righteous.

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Answer 7

If your hope is in the Kingdom of God then you know the answer to this question brother.

I think a bible reference would have helped others to see your point.

Answer 8

He is ' asleep' in death, awaiting the resurrection.
(Psalm 13:3) Do look [upon me]; answer me, O Jehovah my God. Do make my eyes shine, that I may not fall asleep in death,

(Daniel 12:2) And there will be many of those asleep in the ground of dust who will wake up, these to indefinitely lasting life and those to reproaches [and] to indefinitely lasting abhorrence.

(Acts 7:60) Then, bending his knees, he cried out with a strong voice: “Jehovah, do not charge this sin against them.” And after saying this he fell asleep [in death].

(Revelation 20:12-13) And I saw the dead, the great and the small, standing before the throne, and scrolls were opened. But another scroll was opened; it is the scroll of life. And the dead were judged out of those things written in the scrolls according to their deeds. 13 And the sea gave up those dead in it, and death and Ha′des gave up those dead in them, and they were judged individually according to their deeds.

Answer 9

King David was Jewish and there is no Heaven in their religion.

Answer 10

That scripture is to prove that his body is still here~Jesus is the only one who was raised from the dead and sits on the right hand of the Father