The False one being the Law of Moses in the NC of Christ today perhaps? There were 2 "churches/covenants in the NT.
The parable of the Rich Man and Lazarus concerns the Jews and Israel if you study it close enough [the Jews of today just don't realize it yet
:
http://www.kingdombiblestudies.org/abraham/abrahams_bosom.htm [
Rich Man and
Lazarus]
What
Gospel are these "2 witnesses" preaching to Israel and Judah and is this past, present, future or ongoing today and why would they need to preach the same one again the Paul and Jesus preached? Aren't they the ones bringing the New Covenant to both Israel and Judah/Jews?
http://www.scripture4all.org/
Reve 11:3 and I shall be giving to the
two Witnesses/m of me sackcloths, having been about cast, and they shall be prophesying a thousand, two hundred, sixty days;
It not that complicated ...
If you look at today's Christendom, you will see that the real Christians are the wheat and that the false Christians have been mixed with the real ones to frustrate their growth. Many are Christian in name but not regenerated ...
The parable of the rich man and lazarus:
Not sure.. it may.
For me, it is more significance that
all man who died will go to Hades until the Lord come back (resurrection of the dead). Hades is a place where disembodied spirits are kept temporarily. There are two sections in Hades: the section of comfort, a pleasant section, for the saved, and the section of torment for the unsaved. This story was directed at the rich Pharisees, as money-lovers who were incited by their riches to indulge their lust.
The dead will remain in Hades until the day of resurrection. When the Lord Jesus comes back, the saved ones will be resurrected. This will take place before the millennium, before the thousand years of God's reign on earth. The unsaved ones will remain in the section of torment in Hades for another thousand years. At the end of the millennium the unsaved ones will be resurrected from Hades and, with a body, will stand before the white throne to be judged and condemned to eternal perdition. Then their entire being--body, soul, and spirit--will be cast into the lake of fire.
Two witnesses:
Two witnesses give an adequate testimony (Deut. 17:6; 19:15; Matt. 18:16). The two witnesses here are Moses and Elijah. What they do are the same as what Moses and Elijah did (Exo 7:17, 19; 9:14; 11:1; 2 Kings 1:10-12; 1 Kings 17:1). Moses and Elijah appeared before the Lord on the mount of transfiguration (Matt. 17:1-3). Moses, representing the law, and Elijah, representing the prophets (Luke 16:16), both testified for God. Elijah's mission was predicted (Mal. 4:5; Matt. 17:11). They are the two olive trees, the two sons of oil, in Zech. 4:3, 11-14.
According to Revelation 14, immediately after the rapture of the firstfruit, Antichrist will persecute God's people and compel them to worship him and his image (14:9-12). At this time, the two witnesses will strengthen God's people. Simultaneously, an angel "flying in mid-heaven" will preach "an eternal gospel" (14:6). This gospel, which is different from the gospel of life or the gospel of the kingdom, will charge people to fear God, implying that they should not persecute His people, and to worship Him, implying that they should not worship Antichrist. Thus, during the great tribulation, there will be two kinds of strengthenings: the strengthening by the two witnesses and the strengthening by the preaching of the eternal gospel.
The eternal gospel is different from gospel of grace. That time, it is already too late, in the sense, to receive the Lord Jesus to be Christian. During the three and one-half years Antichrist will force people to worship his image, an angel in mid-air will proclaim the eternal gospel, telling the people on earth not to worship the image but to fear God and worship Him. It's not the new covenant ministry.
