So thankful to hear Pastor Skip Heitzig expound and teach the Word with sincerity, wisdom, and truthfulness that is needed today even 6 yers after you spoke about this. Praise God for your life and this ministry! Regards from the Philippines!
Once again, thanks for the new insights you present whilst staying with the text and context. The historical background is fascinating, too. I really appreciate you putting this online and so making great teaching available to all. Kind regards.
One tenth of the men thanked Jesus and in the world today maybe only one tenth thank Jesus for anything and everything. This was a great Bible study today Thank you. I feel the world is looking now like it did in the days of Noah. Hoping for the soon return of Jesus.
Skip thank you thank you for talking about stuff in depth. I listen to you every single night while falling asleep, it never gets old. Praise our Lord.
Luke 17:22-37 is the pre-trib (eating, drinking, etc) rapture without a resurrection (dead bodies in verse 37). We leave our flesh on earth. 1 Thes 4:13-17 is the second coming with the one and only resurrection (John 6:39-54, 11:24, Rev 20:4-6). We get the new earthly body when we come back to earth. In heaven, we have a heavenly body (1 Cor 15:40, 44). The pre-trib rapture is like a natural death. We leave our flesh on earth. Famine instead of eating will be the norm at the end of the age. Drought instead of drinking, hyperinflation instead of buying and selling. Violent earthquakes and storms, meteorites the size of mountains hit the earth, and the sun goes dark instead of planing and building. Love will grow cold instead of marriages. Maranatha!
He gives the parable of the rich man and Lazarus. Who Were the Rich Man and Lazarus? The Bible’s answer The rich man and Lazarus are story characters in one of Jesus’ speeches. (Luke 16:19-31) In the story, these men represented two groups of people: (1) the proud Jewish religious leaders of Jesus’ day and (2) the lowly but sincere people who responded to Jesus’ message. In this article What did Jesus say about the rich man and Lazarus? Did this story really happen? Does this story support the doctrine of hellfire? What is the meaning of the story of the rich man and Lazarus? What did Jesus say about the rich man and Lazarus? In Luke chapter 16, Jesus describes two men who experience drastic changes in their circumstances. Here is a summary of the story Jesus told: A rich man lived in luxury. A beggar named Lazarus was placed at the rich man’s gate; he hoped to be given any food that dropped from the rich man’s table. In time, Lazarus died, and angels carried him to Abraham’s side. The rich man also died and was buried. In the story, both men are portrayed as conscious after death. The dead rich man was being tormented by a blazing fire and asked Abraham to send Lazarus to cool his tongue with a drop of water from Lazarus’ finger. Abraham denied the rich man’s request and said that both men had now experienced a complete reversal of their circumstances and that a great chasm had been formed between the two that could not be crossed. Did this story really happen? No. This is a parable that Jesus related in order to teach a lesson. The fact that this is a parable is acknowledged by scholars. For example, a subheading in the 1912 edition of Luther’s Bible states that this is a parable. And the Catholic Jerusalem Bible, in a footnote, states that this is a “parable in story form without reference to any historical personage.” Did he mean that some people suffer in a hellfire when they die and that Abraham and Lazarus were in heaven? Several facts show that this could not be the case. For example: If the rich man were in a literal place of burning torment, would not the fire evaporate the water on Lazarus’ fingertip? Even if it were not evaporated, would a single drop of water bring the rich man lasting relief from his suffering in a literal fire? How could Abraham be alive in heaven, since Jesus clearly stated that up to the time Jesus related the parable, no one had gone to heaven?-John 3:13. Does this story support the doctrine of hellfire? No. Although this is not a literal story, some argue that it symbolizes the idea that good people go to heaven and bad people are tormented in hellfire. a Is that conclusion reasonable? No. The teaching of hellfire does not fit in with what the Bible says about the condition of the dead. For example, it does not say that all good people who die experience bliss in heaven or that bad people are tortured in hellfire. Rather, the Bible clearly states: “The living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing at all.”-Ecclesiastes 9:5. What is the meaning of the story of the rich man and Lazarus? The story shows that two groups of people were about to experience a great change in circumstances. The rich man evidently symbolized the Jewish religious leaders, “who were money lovers.” (Luke 16:14) They listened as Jesus spoke, but they opposed his message. These religious leaders looked down on the common people.-John 7:49. Lazarus symbolized the common people who accepted Jesus’ message and who were despised by the Jewish religious leaders. The change in circumstances was drastic for both groups. The Jewish religious leaders thought that they enjoyed God’s favor. But they experienced death, as it were, when God rejected them and their form of worship because they did not accept Jesus’ message. And they were tormented by the message that Jesus and his followers preached.-Matthew 23:29, 30; Acts 5:29-33. The common people-who had long been neglected by their religious leaders-were now experiencing favor. Many accepted the Scriptural message that Jesus taught and benefited from it. They now had the opportunity to enjoy God’s favor eternally.-John 17:3. and Some Bible translations use the word “hell” to describe the rich man’s location after death. However, the original Greek word (Hades) used at Luke 16:23 simply means mankind’s common grave. Related Topics Life & Death Bible Questions Answered You May Also Like ESSENTIAL BIBLE TEACHINGS Is Hell a Real Place of Torment? The Bible tells us that because “God is love,” he would never torture people for their past mistakes. Religious artwork showing people suffering in a fiery hell. BIBLE QUESTIONS ANSWERED Is Hell Real? What Is Hell According to the Bible? Many people believe that hell is a place of eternal torment where the wicked are punished. But is that what the Bible teaches? Adults and children gather around a casket at a cemetery THE WATCHTOWER What Happens After Death? Eight people who returned from the dead have their stories in the Bible. What did they say about the afterlife? VIDEOS What Is the Condition of the Dead? The Bible promises a time when many people will be resurrected from the dead, just as Lazarus was.
Jesus was speaking to the Pharisees who had questioned Jesus claims throughout his ministry despite his miracles. He had just told them that the law was only in effect until John the Baptist. Jesus, the one who was going to baptize with the Holy Spirit, is the basis of the New Covenant. People will come to God through this person, by faith in him. The rich man is indeed a Jewish man but I think we can actually know who he is talking about. The rich man, dressed in rich clothes, clothes associated with the apparel of the High Priest as revealed in the story of the Exodus. God told Moses to make expensive garments for the High Priest. What was the high position of the High Priest? Romans 9:4; "They are the people of Israel, chosen to be God's adopted children. God revealed his glory to them. He made covenants with them and gave them his law. He gave them the privilege of worshiping him and receiving his wonderful promises." They were a privileged people. They were representing God to the people and the people to God. The rich man calls Abraham father. The Levites (pharisees) were clearly thinking of Abraham as their father. Abraham was the father of Isaac, grandfather of Jacob and great grandfather of the sons of Jacob including Levi whose family would become the priesthood. They believed in the law. The poor man was also related to Abraham. Lazarus is associated with Eliezer who was Abraham's servant who was sent to find a wife for Isaac. What did Eliezer ultimately trust in? He trusted in Abraham's God to help him find the right woman for his master's son. Lazarus or Eliezer, who trusted in God as Abraham had done initially in Genesis 15:6, was embraced in Abraham's bosom. The man who believed in the law went to Hades. Jesus message to the Pharisees was that he (Jesus ) was the way to eternal life and not the law. The five brothers can be identified. Jacob and Leah had six sons, one was Levi, whose sons and grandsons etc. are destined to become the priesthood. Levi is asking Abraham to send Lazarus, one who had faith in God, to give this message to his brothers. Abraham responds saying that they have the prophets, they need to believe them. John the Baptist, when he sent a message to Jesus asking are you the one we are waiting for, Jesus response was to point out to him what was happening. The blind see, the lame walk, the Good News is being preached etc. The parable of the Rich man and Lazarus is about how we come to God. It is through the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and not the law.
@@arcguardian Luke 16 26 And beside all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed: so that they which would pass from hence to you cannot; neither can they pass to us, that would come from thence.
Regarding the part about not literally moving mountains with faith at 26:57, the preacher is in error here. Recall Joshua 10 when Joshua asked the lord to stop the sun in the sky and it did stop. Is the sun less than a single mountain? So it is not a metaphor or hyperbole when Jesus says faith can move mountains. It is literally true. 12 At that time Joshua spoke to the Lord in the day when the Lord gave the Amorites over to the sons of Israel, and he said in the sight of Israel, “Sun, stand still at Gibeon, and moon, in the Valley of Aijalon.” 13 And the sun stood still, and the moon stopped, until the nation took vengeance on their enemies. Is this not written in the Book of Jashar? The sun stopped in the midst of heaven and did not hurry to set for about a whole day. 14 There has been no day like it before or since, when the Lord heeded the voice of a man, for the Lord fought for Israel.
I was with him until he mentioned the rapture. He needs to double-check his Greek verbs: "one taken," is paralambano, same verb John 14 uses to "take with" Jesus. The judgment is for those who are left, where the body is. Just like the examples given: Noah left in the ark, Lot left the city, and those who were left were destroyed. One "taken" will have been removed from this earth, those who are left are where the dead bodies are. Luke does a lot of things to bring out the Greek of Matthew's sections for the sake of the Church.
I agree. I don’t understand where they are getting in the days of Noah or Soddom and Gomorrah, that the people, and the land and everything in it were the ones taken out. Clearly, God removed Lott and his family and Noah and his family were removed then God flooded the earth! It obvious!
So thankful to hear Pastor Skip Heitzig expound and teach the Word with sincerity, wisdom, and truthfulness that is needed today even 6 yers after you spoke about this. Praise God for your life and this ministry! Regards from the Philippines!
Once again, thanks for the new insights you present whilst staying with the text and context.
The historical background is fascinating, too.
I really appreciate you putting this online and so making great teaching available to all.
Kind regards.
Praise the Lord. Thank you Pastor for such a great teaching of the word, amazing as always.
Thank You Lord! Amen. A wonderful chapter, and I got to hear the voice of "Don Corleone." (smile)
One tenth of the men thanked Jesus and in the world today maybe only one tenth thank Jesus for anything and everything. This was a great Bible study today Thank you. I feel the world is looking now like it did in the days of Noah. Hoping for the soon return of Jesus.
Skip thank you thank you for talking about stuff in depth. I listen to you every single night while falling asleep, it never gets old. Praise our Lord.
I do too!!! I sleep to the sound of his teaching......I learn so much from him!
Thank you for this study!
Thanks for your sermons. I really enjoy your outlook on things. God Bless
Praise God this is here. 🙏🙏🙏
Thank you so much for these wonderful expository sermons... Watching you in Honduras. I am growing so much from studying The Bible with you
Thank you Pastor Skip
The parable is about the rich man for which no name is given.
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Watching from St. Lucia
Thanks for watching
Jesus is Lord
Pastor this is pointing to you and your Church members
Luke 17:22-37 is the pre-trib (eating, drinking, etc) rapture without a resurrection (dead bodies in verse 37). We leave our flesh on earth.
1 Thes 4:13-17 is the second coming with the one and only resurrection (John 6:39-54, 11:24, Rev 20:4-6). We get the new earthly body when we come back to earth.
In heaven, we have a heavenly body (1 Cor 15:40, 44). The pre-trib rapture is like a natural death. We leave our flesh on earth.
Famine instead of eating will be the norm at the end of the age. Drought instead of drinking, hyperinflation instead of buying and selling. Violent earthquakes and storms, meteorites the size of mountains hit the earth, and the sun goes dark instead of planing and building. Love will grow cold instead of marriages.
Maranatha!
Where can a pastor surf in Albuquerque?
watching from Canada, if I have a question to pastor Skip where can I send it?
He gives the parable of the rich man and Lazarus.
Who Were the Rich Man and Lazarus?
The Bible’s answer The rich man and Lazarus are story characters in one of Jesus’ speeches. (Luke 16:19-31)
In the story, these men represented two groups of people: (1) the proud Jewish religious leaders of Jesus’ day and (2) the lowly but sincere people who responded to Jesus’ message. In this article What did Jesus say about the rich man and Lazarus?
Did this story really happen?
Does this story support the doctrine of hellfire? What is the meaning of the story of the rich man and Lazarus?
What did Jesus say about the rich man and Lazarus?
In Luke chapter 16, Jesus describes two men who experience drastic changes in their circumstances. Here is a summary of the story Jesus told:
A rich man lived in luxury. A beggar named Lazarus was placed at the rich man’s gate; he hoped to be given any food that dropped from the rich man’s table. In time, Lazarus died, and angels carried him to Abraham’s side.
The rich man also died and was buried. In the story, both men are portrayed as conscious after death. The dead rich man was being tormented by a blazing fire and asked Abraham to send Lazarus to cool his tongue with a drop of water from Lazarus’ finger.
Abraham denied the rich man’s request and said that both men had now experienced a complete reversal of their circumstances and that a great chasm had been formed between the two that could not be crossed.
Did this story really happen? No.
This is a parable that Jesus related in order to teach a lesson. The fact that this is a parable is acknowledged by scholars.
For example, a subheading in the 1912 edition of Luther’s Bible states that this is a parable.
And the Catholic Jerusalem Bible, in a footnote, states that this is a “parable in story form without reference to any historical personage.”
Did he mean that some people suffer in a hellfire when they die and that Abraham and Lazarus were in heaven?
Several facts show that this could not be the case. For example: If the rich man were in a literal place of burning torment, would not the fire evaporate the water on Lazarus’ fingertip? Even if it were not evaporated, would a single drop of water bring the rich man lasting relief from his suffering in a literal fire?
How could Abraham be alive in heaven, since Jesus clearly stated that up to the time Jesus related the parable, no one had gone to heaven?-John 3:13.
Does this story support the doctrine of hellfire? No. Although this is not a literal story, some argue that it symbolizes the idea that good people go to heaven and bad people are tormented in hellfire. a Is that conclusion reasonable? No.
The teaching of hellfire does not fit in with what the Bible says about the condition of the dead. For example, it does not say that all good people who die experience bliss in heaven or that bad people are tortured in hellfire. Rather, the Bible clearly states:
“The living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing at all.”-Ecclesiastes 9:5.
What is the meaning of the story of the rich man and Lazarus?
The story shows that two groups of people were about to experience a great change in circumstances.
The rich man evidently symbolized the Jewish religious leaders, “who were money lovers.” (Luke 16:14) They listened as Jesus spoke, but they opposed his message.
These religious leaders looked down on the common people.-John 7:49.
Lazarus symbolized the common people who accepted Jesus’ message and who were despised by the Jewish religious leaders.
The change in circumstances was drastic for both groups. The Jewish religious leaders thought that they enjoyed God’s favor.
But they experienced death, as it were, when God rejected them and their form of worship because they did not accept Jesus’ message. And they were tormented by the message that Jesus and his followers preached.-Matthew 23:29, 30; Acts 5:29-33.
The common people-who had long been neglected by their religious leaders-were now experiencing favor.
Many accepted the Scriptural message that Jesus taught and benefited from it.
They now had the opportunity to enjoy God’s favor eternally.-John 17:3. and Some Bible translations use the word “hell” to describe the rich man’s location after death.
However, the original Greek word (Hades) used at Luke 16:23 simply means mankind’s common grave.
Related Topics Life & Death Bible Questions Answered You May Also Like ESSENTIAL BIBLE TEACHINGS Is Hell a Real Place of Torment?
The Bible tells us that because “God is love,” he would never torture people for their past mistakes. Religious artwork showing people suffering in a fiery hell.
BIBLE QUESTIONS ANSWERED Is Hell Real? What Is Hell According to the Bible?
Many people believe that hell is a place of eternal torment where the wicked are punished. But is that what the Bible teaches?
Adults and children gather around a casket at a cemetery THE WATCHTOWER What Happens After Death?
Eight people who returned from the dead have their stories in the Bible.
What did they say about the afterlife? VIDEOS What Is the Condition of the Dead?
The Bible promises a time when many people will be resurrected from the dead, just as Lazarus was.
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What? Why there are many testimonies about those who had died, went to heaven or hell and came back to life ?
Irrelevant. Having a testimony doesn't mean it's true.
Jesus was speaking to the Pharisees who had questioned Jesus claims throughout his ministry despite his miracles. He had just told them that the law was only in effect until John the Baptist. Jesus, the one who was going to baptize with the Holy Spirit, is the basis of the New Covenant. People will come to God through this person, by faith in him. The rich man is indeed a Jewish man but I think we can actually know who he is talking about. The rich man, dressed in rich clothes, clothes associated with the apparel of the High Priest as revealed in the story of the Exodus. God told Moses to make expensive garments for the High Priest. What was the high position of the High Priest? Romans 9:4; "They are the people of Israel, chosen to be God's adopted children. God revealed his glory to them. He made covenants with them and gave them his law. He gave them the privilege of worshiping him and receiving his wonderful promises." They were a privileged people. They were representing God to the people and the people to God. The rich man calls Abraham father. The Levites (pharisees) were clearly thinking of Abraham as their father. Abraham was the father of Isaac, grandfather of Jacob and great grandfather of the sons of Jacob including Levi whose family would become the priesthood. They believed in the law.
The poor man was also related to Abraham. Lazarus is associated with Eliezer who was Abraham's servant who was sent to find a wife for Isaac. What did Eliezer ultimately trust in? He trusted in Abraham's God to help him find the right woman for his master's son. Lazarus or Eliezer, who trusted in God as Abraham had done initially in Genesis 15:6, was embraced in Abraham's bosom. The man who believed in the law went to Hades. Jesus message to the Pharisees was that he (Jesus ) was the way to eternal life and not the law.
The five brothers can be identified. Jacob and Leah had six sons, one was Levi, whose sons and grandsons etc. are destined to become the priesthood. Levi is asking Abraham to send Lazarus, one who had faith in God, to give this message to his brothers. Abraham responds saying that they have the prophets, they need to believe them. John the Baptist, when he sent a message to Jesus asking are you the one we are waiting for, Jesus response was to point out to him what was happening. The blind see, the lame walk, the Good News is being preached etc.
The parable of the Rich man and Lazarus is about how we come to God. It is through the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and not the law.
Is there a reason a leprous Samaritan would be found among leprous Israelites? In health they couldn't stand each other.
A lack of health can make all the difference.
I was wondering how can someone pass go back from Abraham bosom back to hell ?
They can't.
@@arcguardian yes they can. But how can Abraham say that then?
@@princeofpeace794 where did Abraham say that?
@@arcguardian Luke 16
26 And beside all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed: so that they which would pass from hence to you cannot; neither can they pass to us, that would come from thence.
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Luke 17
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Regarding the part about not literally moving mountains with faith at 26:57, the preacher is in error here. Recall Joshua 10 when Joshua asked the lord to stop the sun in the sky and it did stop. Is the sun less than a single mountain? So it is not a metaphor or hyperbole when Jesus says faith can move mountains. It is literally true.
12 At that time Joshua spoke to the Lord in the day when the Lord gave the Amorites over to the sons of Israel, and he said in the sight of Israel,
“Sun, stand still at Gibeon,
and moon, in the Valley of Aijalon.”
13 And the sun stood still, and the moon stopped,
until the nation took vengeance on their enemies.
Is this not written in the Book of Jashar? The sun stopped in the midst of heaven and did not hurry to set for about a whole day. 14 There has been no day like it before or since, when the Lord heeded the voice of a man, for the Lord fought for Israel.
I was with him until he mentioned the rapture. He needs to double-check his Greek verbs: "one taken," is paralambano, same verb John 14 uses to "take with" Jesus. The judgment is for those who are left, where the body is. Just like the examples given: Noah left in the ark, Lot left the city, and those who were left were destroyed. One "taken" will have been removed from this earth, those who are left are where the dead bodies are. Luke does a lot of things to bring out the Greek of Matthew's sections for the sake of the Church.
I agree. I don’t understand where they are getting in the days of Noah or Soddom and Gomorrah, that the people, and the land and everything in it were the ones taken out. Clearly, God removed Lott and his family and Noah and his family were removed then God flooded the earth! It obvious!