[Alberta's Child]

No Biblical prophet ever spoke of a Purgatory or for people to be either prayed out or bought out of it.

Where did the souls of the holy people of ancient Israel go after they died?

[SkyDancer]

A place called Paradise - not some Purgatory. If souls are supposedly cleansed in this Purgatory then what purpose was Yeshua crucified for?

[bkopto]

Where did the souls of the holy people of ancient Israel go after they died?

Sheol, aka the place of the dead.

[Luircin]

Our perception of time is not the same as God’s.

The Lord transcends ‘before and after.’

So those who believed in God’s promises upon death, even before Christ according to our views, had the same salvation in Christ as we who live after.

[daniel1212]

Where did the souls of the holy people of ancient Israel go after they died?

To "Paradise," "Abraham’s bosom:"

And he said unto Jesus, Lord, remember me when thou comest into thy kingdom. And Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, To day shalt thou be with me in paradise. (Luke 23:42-43)

And it came to pass, that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels into Abraham’s bosom: the rich man also died, and was buried; (Luke 16:22)

Which was a place of comfort, not torment:

And in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments, and seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom. And he cried and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue; for I am tormented in this flame. But Abraham said, Son, remember that thou in thy lifetime receivedst thy good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things: but now he is comforted, and thou art tormented. (Luke 16:23-25)

And now Paradise is the 3rd heaven:

I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, (whether in the body, I cannot tell; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;) such an one caught up to the third heaven. (2 Corinthians 12:2)

Wherefore he saith, When he ascended up on high, he led captivity captive, and gave gifts unto men. (Now that he ascended, what is it but that he also descended first into the lower parts of the earth? He that descended is the same also that ascended up far above all heavens, that he might fill all things.) (Ephesians 4:8-10)

[Elsie]

Where did the souls of the holy people of ancient Israel go after they died?

Daniel 12:2
Multitudes who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake: some to everlasting life, others to shame and everlasting contempt.