Are you ready for Eternity?
27 And he said, ‘Then I beg you, father, to send him (Lazarus) to my father's house— 28 for I have five brothers—so that he may warn them, lest they also come into this place of torment.’ 29 But Abraham said, ‘They have Moses and the Prophets; let them hear them.’ 30 And he said, ‘No, father Abraham, but if someone goes to them from the dead, they will repent.’ 31 He said to him, ‘If they do not hear Moses and the Prophets, neither will they be convinced if someone should rise from the dead.’” Luke 16: 27-31 ESV This is a parable; parables are often described as “an earthly story with a heavenly meaning” I have no problem believing this story from our Lord is based on historical reality. Jesus uses a person’s name here. Lazarus- meaning God is my help. Two men from the opposite end of the financial and social spectrum have died. One is in a place of safety and rest and peace, the other is in an entirely different zip code . *A certain beggar named Lazarus, full of