Is David in Heaven? - Ronald Beideck - November 1973

Ronald Beideck

IF heaven is the reward of the saved, where the righteous go immediately at death, we should certainly expect David, of all people, to be in heaven. God called David, king of Israel, "a man after mine own heart" (Acts 13:22). Further, in Acts 7:46 we are told that David "found favour before God." Yet the Apostle Peter, in the first sermon of the New Testament Church, was inspired to say: "Men and brethren, let me freely speak unto you of the patriarch David, that he is both dead and buried, and his sepulchre is with us unto this day" (Acts 2:29). Peter then added: "For David is NOT ascended into the heavens" (verse 34). Plainly, David is dead and buried, in his grave, and not in heaven. God's Word says so. - Information Supplied By: Herbert W Armstrong Library