Luke 16:22,23

LUKE—NOTE ON Luke 16:22 carried... to Abraham’s side. Lazarus was welcomed into the fellowship of other believers already in heaven, particularly Abraham, the father of the Jewish people. Hades. The place of the wicked, the dead, or “hell,” described as a place of torment. It is unclear how literally the details of the story should be taken. It does seem to teach that, immediately after death, both believers and unbelievers have a conscious awareness of their eternal status and enter at once into either suffering or blessing.