BIBLE COMMENTARY 

SAUL In the stories of the Old Testament we follow the lives of its protagonists, their character, their obedience or disobedience to God, their mistakes and their sins and the consequences they face. We see the Lord's judgment of sin and his blessings based on their righteousness and integrity. All these are examples for us the readers to correct our lives, and to know God and get closer to him. The story of Israel, in the time of prophet Samuel, which continues with the sto

DAVID Saul reaped what he sowed, having a dishonorable death, and now I will examine the course of David, who is a type of the church that carries the will of God. David began his life with God at a young age with two great successes, especially the second. He killed a lion and a bear that attacked the sheep he was tending (1 Samuel 17:34,36) and then he killed the Philistine giant Goliath who was terrorizing the people of Israel. If David had begun his reign immediately afte

Numerous verses show that the dead sleep in Hades or Sheol in Hebrew, and wait for the resurrection. After the resurrection they will appear before Jesus and they will go either to heaven or Gehenna, commonly described with the English term hell or the Greek term kolasis. Incidentally the ancient Greeks knew it. Hades was a place known to them before Christ, and the word itself is Greek. From Hades, their destination according to what the ancient Greeks knew, would be either