Well what I found was an explanation that it was a parable that meant that your decisions now effect your eternity.
Seems to skip the whole, "if they don't hear Moses and the prophets they want believe if one rose from the dead" statement as possibly being the main point. But maybe they use different rules about identifying lessons in parables. Rules no one but the SDA knows about.
Seems to skip the whole, "if they don't hear Moses and the prophets they want believe if one rose from the dead" statement as possibly being the main point. But maybe they use different rules about identifying lessons in parables. Rules no one but the SDA knows about.
Remember the Gentile Syro-Phonecian woman who told Jesus, "Truth, Lord! Yet the dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their master's table."
The Rich Man represents the Jews, the "children of Abraham.
Lazarus outside with the dogs represent the Gentiles, who the Jews call "dogs" to this day.
The crumbs which fall from the Rich Man's buffet table full with the covenants, the blessings, the lively oracles, etc., represent the Jews casting aside everything Jesus came to offer them, and allowing them to fall to the floor, while Gentiles look on but are cut off form the commonwealth of Israel.
But, the tables get turned, don't they? When the Jews cried, "His blood be upon us and our children forever" they were indeed turning the tables on themselves. One atrocity after another has marked the Jewish race throughout history. They indeed are in torments. Paul says of the Jews, "WRATH HAS COME UPON TEHM TO THE UTTERMOST.
When the Jews rejected Jesus, they lost everything. Now, the Church is exalted and in comfort by the Comforter, the Holy Ghost. And the parable closes with the Rich Man being told if his Jew brethren won't believe the Word of God, they won't believe even if they see one rise from the dead. And, sure enough, not long after, a real man named Lazarus rose from the dead, and instead of believing, the Jews went away to plot how to murder Jesus and Lazarus.