The rich man and Lazarus is not a parable. By deeming it as such, you miss the point that Christ means to convey. It is an event that took place witnessed by the Lord before appearing in the flesh.
We walk by faith the eternal unseen and not by sight the temporal as that literally seen.
Parables are the poetic language that God speaks to His creation. Without parable the word of God speaks not. They are not subject to time restraints or cultural differences as if the word of God was an oral tradition of men called private interpretations..
It’s a parable dead men do not have tongues to speak or have a desire to eat bread and hide from dogs. The dead know nothing.
It teaches us to walk by faith as in respect to all things written in the law and the prophets .Same kind of parable used in a vision of Moses and Elijah to represent all things written in the law and the prophets (sola scriptura) There bodies of death that died as their spirits returned to God have long ago returned to the lifeless, spiritual dust it was formed of.
When the dead in Christ arise the former things will not be remembered or ever come to mind. Death in the twinkling of the eye provides universal Alzheimer’s.No after life for those who have not been born again.
There are different kind of parables for different situations. Some historically true, used as shadows that preach the gospel beforehand that were used for a temporal time period.
The whole Leviticus temporal form of government was used as a parable for a time period formerly present. God gave them over temporally to do what they should not. Everything in the temple was used to represent something to do with the gospel not seen in respect to the suffering of Christ beforehand and the glory that did come at the time of reformation..
The Holy Ghost this
signifying, that the way into the holiest of all was
not yet made manifest, while as the
first tabernacle was yet standing:Which was a
figure/parable for the “time”
then present, in which were offered both gifts and sacrifices, that could not make him that did the service perfect, as pertaining to the conscience;Which
stood only in meats and drinks, and divers washings, and carnal ordinances, imposed on them
until the "time of reformation".(Not to continue after the reformation)But Christ being come an high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building;Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us.For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh: Heb 9:8
Shadows are not the literal, unseen substance. The veil is still rent.
Parables use symbols to represent the literal, wheat = son's of the kingdom, Tares = son's of the evil one, harvesters = angels, harvest = end of the age, etc., etc.
Yes and chains and time (thousand years), bottom less pits . keys , headless souls etc .etc
Rev 1:1 The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and
signified it by his angel unto his servant John:
And I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the
key of the
bottomless pit and a
great chain in his
hand.And he laid hold on the
dragon, that
old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a
thousand years,And cast him into the
bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set
a seal upon him, that he should deceive the nations no more, till the
thousand years should be fulfilled: and after that he must be loosed a little season.And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw
the souls of them that were
beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the
beast, neither his image, neither had received his
mark upon their
foreheads, or in their
hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a
thousand years. But the rest of
the dead lived not again until the
thousand years were finished.
This is the
first resurrection. Rev 20:1-5
The same resurrection up until the last day, the final.