Bosom of Abraham

and see what we can distinguish between cultural society's interpretation and the biblical interpretation of what reality is.

So we have to start, obviously, of what does the Bible actually say happens when you die? So if we start reading Scripture carefully, we're going to discover something really fast, and that's we're going to encounter a bunch of different words of places people go uh, when they die, we're going to talk about Sheol, Hades, Abraham's bosom, paradise, Gehenna, the lake of fire, the resurrection.

And ultimately, as we're going to read in revelation later on the new heavens and the new earth.

Uh, and so here's something that's interesting about all those words.

Uh, most people think, okay, well, uh, Abraham's bosom paradise, that's all heaven.

And then like a Hannah, like a fire, uh, Sheol, Hades, that's all hell.

But that's not necessarily correct.

All those words are not synonymous with each other.

The other man was a beggar.

His name was Lazarus, and Lazarus ends up going into Abraham's bosom, which Jesus refers to as paradise.

And it was a holding cell or a holding tank, a holding area might be a better expression for those who would ultimately be taken into heaven.

I want to focus on a couple of verses here today because there's a lot of misconception about this, and I may be upsetting some with what I want to share with you today, but I'm looking at the Scriptures and going by way of the Scripture, by

It's a real life story.

It's got two men, a certain rich man, a certain beggar.

And it says in verse 26, because a rich man has gone into the paradise or Abraham's bosom, which is up here somewhere.

And the, did I say the rich man? Lazarus has gone into this realm.

Not only that, the dogs also were coming and licking his sores.

Now, it happened that the poor man died and was carried away by the angels to Abraham's arms or in other translations, Abraham's bosom.

Now, let me pause there for a second.

The implication of those words would be resting.

And comfort.

Right.

He's in Abraham's arms now.

Moving on here.

know,

down to Abraham's bosom or whatever people would call it.

And then up to heaven after Messiah came kind of thing, because I think it makes sense that.

after he came, that you would die and you would go right to be with him, right? You wouldn't go to sleep and wait.

That's one thing that it made me like it was a huge connection when that happened.

I think anybody who realizes like, oh, snap, like it's possible that he he went down there to be with him.

And I mean, what would the righteous people really Adam and Eve and God? and David and Solomon like are like these guys are going to be down there on the same that's why I think the chasm and things you see in Enoch and different stuff I mean it seems like there would be a separation down there so maybe there's something to the whole Abraham's bosom or whatever but it seems like he went down to be to get his people out of paradise and then in my opinion he took paradise to heaven because when when I don't know when he broke that Everything was about him, his sequence, his mission, his vision, the whole thing for his ministry that his father set him forth, like he says in John, like 40 times.

Nothing he did was of himself.

We're going to stay here with YouTube.

This is Lee, and his question is, if the Old Testament believers did not go to heaven yet, but to Abraham's bosom, How do we explain Elijah and Enoch?

Well, you know, yeah, Elijah was taken up and Enoch was not, for God took him.

And does that mean they're in heaven where everyone else is in Abraham's bosom? Well, Lee, it's been a while since I looked at that.

Robert, what do you got?

Well, I mean, there's nothing to say about it.