The Twelve Apostles – Part 3
Judas Iscariot
Judas will be forever remembered as a traitor, and the betrayer of the Lord Jesus. “Judas, which betrayed Him” (Matthew 26:25). He was also the treasurer for the disciples as indicated by the statement, “Judas had the bag” (John 13:25). He is called “the son of perdition” (John 17:13).
It is serious to think that Judas walked with the Lord and the other eleven apostles for over three years, and it never changed his heart. He heard the same words, saw the same miracles, was treated with the same love, but remained a hardened sinner to the end of his days, and left himself open as a candidate for Satan to enter into him and use him as the instrument to carry out the awful deed of betrayal. Afterwards he hung himself because of remorse but there was certainly no repentance. “Judas by transgression fell, that he might go to his own place” (Acts 1:25). In other words, he went to a lost eternity! After his death he was replaced by Matthias as mentioned in Acts 1:26.
The life of Judas Iscariot is a warning to anyone who would pass as a follower of Christ and not be real, but simply a pretender or professor. The truth will come out in the end.
