![]() Yeshua (Jesus) said that He did not come to destroy the law, but came to fulfill the prophets prophecies of the Messiah who would suffer and die to atone for the sins of mankind. The lesson that Yeshua (Jesus) imparted from the parable of the rich man and Lazarus was that if people would not listen to Moses and the prophets, to repent and obey the commandments, then they would likewise not listen to one (Himself) even if He were to rise from the dead (Luke 16:31). God reveals His mysteries to those who earnestly seek them, in spirit and truth, and will later on reveal His truths plainly to all humanity. It is the glory of God to conceal a matter, but the glory of kings* is to search out a matter. Yeshua (Jesus) was asked why He spoke in parables by His disciples and He explained that it was to withhold the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven from the multitudes (Matthew 13:2-11). ![]() The parable of the rich man and Lazarus should not be viewed as a literal account in every detail, but as a story told to illustrate a spiritual lesson. He answered and said to them, “Because it has been given to you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it has not been given…” Īnd the disciples came and said to Him, “Why do You speak to them in parables?” “Then he said, ‘I beg you therefore, father, that you would send him to my father’s house, for I have five brothers, that he may testify to them, lest they also come to this place of torment.’ Abraham said to him, ‘They have Moses and the prophets let them hear them.’ And he said, ‘No, father Abraham but if one goes to them from the dead, they will repent.’ But he said to him, ‘If they do not hear Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded though one rise from the dead.’”Ī simple story used to illustrate a moral or spiritual lesson, as told by Yeshua (Jesus) in the Gospels. And besides all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed, so that those who want to pass from here to you cannot, nor can those from there pass to us.’ “Then 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 in your lifetime you received your good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things but now he is comforted and you are tormented. The rich man also died and was buried.Īnd being in torments in Hades, he lifted up his eyes and saw Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom. So it was that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels to Abraham’s bosom. Moreover the dogs came and licked his sores. But there was a certain beggar named Lazarus, full of sores, who was laid at his gate, desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man’s table. “There was a certain rich man who was clothed in purple and fine linen and fared sumptuously every day. The theological belief in hell as a fiery place of eternal torment, where unrepentant sinners will be judged to burn in a lake of fire and flames forever, comes primarily from a parable that Yeshua (Jesus) told. Satan and the demons will be tormented forever in hell prison. This article will examine and present both possibilities and argue that condemned sinners will ultimately cease to exist and die a second death in hell. ![]() There are two prevailing Scripture-based beliefs concerning the everlasting destiny of condemned sinners: eternal torment in hellfire or the second death.
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