**Opening** From [the answer](http://christianity.stackexchange.com/questions/31069/why-can-the-church-declare-a-person-a-saint-but-not-state-that-they-are-damned/31072#31072) to this question *Why can the Church declare a person a saint but not state that they are damned?* we learned that the Church, and no one in the Church can declare definitively that someone is in hell. <hr></hr> **Answering** Focusing in on the question, *'Is Judas in heaven?'* The Church has not and cannot say that he [or anyone else] is in hell, but from the words of the Lord himself, his Apostle Peter, and scripture, it is highly unlikely that he is in heaven. > [Mt 26:24 > (RSVCE)](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+26%3A24&version=RSVCE) > 24 The Son of man goes as it is written of him, but woe to that man by > whom the Son of man is betrayed! **It would have been better for that > man if he had not been born**.” > > [Jn 17:12 > (RSVCE)](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John+17%3A12&version=RSVCE) > 12 While I was with them, I kept them in thy name, which thou hast > given me; I have guarded them, **and none of them is lost but the son of > perdition**, that the scripture might be fulfilled. > > [Ac 1:20 > (RSVCE)](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Acts+1%3A20&version=RSVCE) > 20 For it is written in the book of Psalms, > > ‘**Let his habitation become desolate**, and let there be no one to live > in it’; and > > ‘His office let another take.’ ... that word *'desolate'* ... <hr></hr> In addition to the passage in [Deepu's answer](http://christianity.stackexchange.com/questions/32398/judas-in-heaven/32401#32401), from [Heb 4:1-11](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Hebrews+4%3A1-11&version=RSVCE), it should be clear that just belonging to Israel or to the Church for that matter is not in itself enough to enter into God's definitive rest which is heaven. <hr></hr> **Closing** An exorcist has run into *'Judas'* or a supernatural entity claiming to be Judas. [cf. [The Entire Case History of Anna Ecklund: America’s Most Famous Case of Possession](http://diabolicalconfusions.wordpress.com/2011/04/05/the-entire-case-history-of-anna-ecklund-americas-most-famous-case-of-possession/#more-233)].