There are church traditions on suicide which can confuse the issue. Some, even teaching that a person who commits suicide can not go to Heaven. A Look are those who took their own lives:
Wicked Abimelech committed suicide, persuading another man to help.
Judges 9:54 Hurriedly he called to his armor-bearer, “Draw your sword and kill me, so that they can’t say, ‘A woman killed him.’” So his servant ran him through, and he died.”
Samson feeling all was lost pulled down the house:
Judges 16:30 And Samson said, Let me die with the Philistines. And he bowed himself with all his might; and the house fell upon the lords, and upon all the people that were therein. So the dead which he slew at his death were more than they which he slew in his life.
King Saul also wanted his servant to kill him, but had do to it himself.
1 Samuel 31:4 Then said Saul unto his armourbearer, Draw thy sword, and thrust me through therewith; lest these uncircumcised come and thrust me through, and abuse me. But his armourbearer would not; for he was sore afraid. Therefore Saul took a sword, and fell upon it.
Feeling all lost, the servant followed his King:
1 Samuel 31:5 And when his armourbearer saw that Saul was dead, he fell likewise upon his sword, and died with him.
Ahithophel so depressed by events that happened in his family.
2 Samuel 17:23 And when Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled his ass, and arose, and gat him home to his house, to his city, and put his household in order, and hanged himself, and died, and was buried in the sepulchre of his father.
The sins of Zimri (16:19) overcame him:
1 Kings 16:18 When Zimri saw that the city was taken, he went into the citadel of the royal palace and set the palace on fire around him. So he died.
Judas so depressed by his actions:
Matthew 27:5 And he cast down the pieces of silver in the temple, and departed, and went and hanged himself.
The jailer would have BUT Paul stopped him:
Acts 16:27 And the keeper of the prison awaking out of his sleep, and seeing the prison doors open, he drew out his sword, and would have killed himself, supposing that the prisoners had been fled
Yes, suicide is a terrible tragedy, a sin even, but it does not negate the Lord’s act of redemption. Did any of the seven go to Heaven? It depends on what they believed, NOT what they did! When one becomes a Believer, they have Eternal life.
Romans 6:23 For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Titus 1:2 In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began;
Titus 3:7 That being justified by his grace, we should be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life.
This is a promise from God. The Lord Jesus said:
John 3:16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
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