There’s much to be learned from Christ’s wonderful parable. We can look at its social dimension and also draw a great many ethical and moral conclusions. But I’d like to dwell more on issues which have to do with life after death, that is to analyze the parable in terms of the last days. First. It’s clear from the parable that life after Christ’s Second Coming is not what is being addressed, but what happens to the soul after death, that is, between the departure of the soul from the body and the Second Coming. This is the period which is called the intermediate state of our souls. Christ speaks of the Second Coming on other occasions, when He will come ...
