The Rich Man and Lazarus

What if everything the world calls “success” is actually the fast-track to eternal agony? In one of Jesus’ most haunting stories, a rich man in purple robes feasts daily while a beggar named Lazarus starves at his gate, covered in sores that dogs lick. Both die. The beggar is carried by angels to Abraham’s side. The rich man opens his eyes in torment, begging for a single drop of water. The shocking twist? Nothing suggests the rich man was unusually cruel—he simply lived for pleasure and ignored the need right in front of him.

Cole’s powerful message flips every earthly value on its head: death comes for billionaire and beggar alike, pleasure often ends in agony, riches are a spiritual liability, and the time to repent is NOW—because a great chasm is fixed, and no one crosses it later. If someone rose from the dead and people still won’t listen, the prophets, they won’t listen to anyone. Jesus did rise from the dead. The question is no longer “Is the evidence enough?” The question is, “Will you repent before the chasm is fixed?”