Why does Les use the story of the rich man and Lazarus to explain paradise?

Les teaches that Luke chapter 16, verse 19, provides another further description—a little window—of the subject. He acknowledges that many have heard sermons on this, but says going over it again helps believers understand what Paul now teaches with regard to paradise compared to what it was in the Old Testament and during Christ's earthly ministry. The account presents a certain rich man clothed in purple and fine linen who fared sumptuously every day, and a beggar named Lazarus laid at his gate full of sores, desiring crumbs from the rich man's table while dogs licked his sores. The beggar died and was carried by angels into Abraham's bosom; the rich man also died, was buried, and was in hell. Les then emphasizes that in the Old Testament the Hebrew word was Sheol, in the Greek it was Hades, and in English it is hell, all meaning the same thing: simply the abode of those who had departed this life. Thus the story serves as a window for explaining the abode of the departed in relation to paradise.