True Story of Heaven and Hell

Luke 16 vs 19-31

JESUS CHRIST told this story of a 'rich man' and Lazarus, 'a beggar'. It was not a fiction story or a parable, He narrated a true life event, as it actually happened (and still happening today). The rich man had all the pleasurable things on earth, the beggar didn’t, and was very sick; the latter is better off today. It is better for a man to be very wretched or sick or destitute here on earth, and go to heaven when he die, than to be rich or healthy or popular here on earth, but die, and go to hell. For anyone who cares to think, it is a serious matter, knowing that this ‘rich man’, is there crying – even as you read this right now – in endless sorrow and torment, even till the next countless billions of years. There is no pleasure on earth worth giving up heaven for… none whatsoever. Prosperity is the will of GOD for us all (1 John vs 3), but HE said “What shall it profit a man, if he gains the whole world and loses his soul?” and about Judas Iscariot HE said “it had been good for that man if he had not been born.” Let these words persuade you to live for CHRIST.

Here is a full text of the passage.

"There was a certain rich man, which was clothed in purple and fine linen, and fared sumptuously every day:

 And there was a certain beggar named Lazarus, which was laid at his gate, full of sores,

And desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man's table: moreover the dogs came and licked his sores.

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;

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.

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.

Then he said, I pray thee therefore, father, that thou wouldest send him to my father's house:

For I have five brethren; that he may testify unto them, lest they also come into this place of torment.

Abraham saith unto him, They have Moses and the prophets; let them hear them.

And he said, Nay, father Abraham: but if one went unto them from the dead, they will repent.

And he said unto him, If they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded, though one rose from the dead."

KJV