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Thank you all for you responses here and I do hope more churches study this extremely important parable in the NT. I am translating it now and will put it up when I am thru. The jews should be interested in it also.
http://www.godfire.net/eby/
For example, look at this passage in Jeremiah 17 on the Nation of Judah, not the CC:
Jeremiah 17:1 "The sin of Judah [is] written with a pen of iron; With the point of a diamond [it is] engraved On the tablet of their heart, And on the horns of your altars, 2 While their children remember Their altars and their wooden images By the green trees on the high hills. 3 O My mountain in the field, I will give as plunder your wealth, all your treasures, [And] your high places of sin within all your borders. 4 And you, even yourself, Shall let go of your heritage which I gave you; And I will cause you to serve your enemies In the land which you do not know; For you have kindled a fire in My anger [which] shall burn forever."[SIZE=+2]
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Israel was cast off from God in the OT, while Judah remained married. The real clue comes from the OT when he mentions the 5 brothers.
http://users.aristotle.net/~bhuie/lazarus.htm
The fact that the rich man has five brothers is a vital clue to his true symbolic identity.
http://www.godfire.net/eby/
For example, look at this passage in Jeremiah 17 on the Nation of Judah, not the CC:
Jeremiah 17:1 "The sin of Judah [is] written with a pen of iron; With the point of a diamond [it is] engraved On the tablet of their heart, And on the horns of your altars, 2 While their children remember Their altars and their wooden images By the green trees on the high hills. 3 O My mountain in the field, I will give as plunder your wealth, all your treasures, [And] your high places of sin within all your borders. 4 And you, even yourself, Shall let go of your heritage which I gave you; And I will cause you to serve your enemies In the land which you do not know; For you have kindled a fire in My anger [which] shall burn forever."[SIZE=+2]
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Israel was cast off from God in the OT, while Judah remained married. The real clue comes from the OT when he mentions the 5 brothers.
http://users.aristotle.net/~bhuie/lazarus.htm
LUKE 16:27 "Then he said, 'I beg you therefore, father, that you would send him to my father's house, 28 for I have five brothers, that he may testify to them, lest they also come to this place of torment.'" (NKJV)
. He pleads with him to send someone to warn his brothers, so that they may escape "this place of torment" (basanou), the testing and punishment that he was undergoing. The fact that the rich man has five brothers is a vital clue to his true symbolic identity.
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