It is surely not impossible for the wealthy to enter heaven (numerous Godly men of the Bible were prosperous), but Scripture is plain that it is very troublesome ( Luke 18:24-25). 3 So the sisters sent word to him, saying, Master, the one you love is ill. 2 Mary was the one who had anointed the Lord with perfumed oil and dried his feet with her hair it was her brother Lazarus who was ill. "but the worries of this life, the deceitfulness of wealth and the desires for other things come in and choke the word, making it unfruitful." ( Mark 4:19). 1 Now a man was ill, Lazarus from Bethany, a the village of Mary and her sister Martha. Not only do fortunes not get one into heaven, but they have the potential to separate a person from God like few other things. You have fattened yourselves in the day of slaughter” ( James 5:5). However, as the apostle James advised, “You have lived on earth in luxury and self-indulgence. Also, he believed the impoverished, like Lazarus, were cursed by God. The rich man incorrectly saw his worldly wealth as proof of God’s love and blessing. Moral of Lazarus and the Rich Man Parable
This Bible story is a great and powerful reminder that we will pay for our sins on earth when we finally decease, therefore we should love and care for our fellow mankind. Abraham told the rich man that if his brothers did not believe in Scripture, neither would they believe Lazarus, even if he came directly from heaven. This is because of the many Bibles that used the word: BEGGAR in its translation. Pleading to “Father Abraham” in heaven, the rich man asked that Lazarus come down from heaven to cool his tongue with a drop of water to reduce his “agony in this fire.” The rich man additionally requested Abraham to send Lazarus back to earth as a warning to his brothers to atone for their sins, however, both requests were refused. While some believers believe it to be a parable, others believe Lazarus in Luke 16:19, to be a story of real events, What ever one we believe, whether parable or not, it has always been understood by many that Lazarus in Luke 16:19, was a beggar. In an attempt to connect Simon the Leper with the anointing recorded in John 12, some suggest that Simon was the father of Martha, Mary, and Lazarus or the husband of Martha. John clearly saw the Lazarus event as the last great deed Jesus performed as proof of his divinity before his arrest and crucifixion.Lazarus was welcomed into heaven, while the rich man was condemned to hell. Exactly who was Simon the Leper This is a question that has long intrigued Bible students and scholars. Its amplifies a detail of the Gospel: Lazarus was Jesuss friend however Jesus has disciples, but not many friends.
However, Luke’s account of this event is much briefer than John’s Lazarus story, and it happens much earlier in Jesus’ life. Lazarus Is Dead (2011) by Richard Beard is an innovative novel. In Luke 7:14-15, Jesus raises the dead son of a widow, with the wording of Luke (‘And he that was dead sat up’) being echoed by John’s ‘And he that was dead came forth’. But, Lord, said Martha, the sister of the dead man, by this time there is a bad odor, for he has been there four days. It was a cave with a stone laid across the entrance.(AO) 39 Take away the stone,he said. Whatever the truth of it, there are examples elsewhere in the Gospels of Jesus raising the dead. 38 Jesus, once more deeply moved,(AN) came to the tomb. It’s possible (as the authors of the Dictionary of the Bible suggest) that John is expanding the parable of the rich man and Lazarus from Luke’s gospel (in which Lazarus, the humble beggar, goes to heaven but the rich man does not). But only John mentions the story of Jesus raising Lazarus (the other one) from the dead. Luke (chapter 16) tells of Jesus’ parable of the rich man and Lazarus, but this Lazarus (a beggar) isn’t the one whom Jesus raised from the dead. They appear to have been different people. 19 There was a rich man who was dressed in purple and fine linen and lived in luxury every day.
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