Must not the righteous leave the earth too? Yes! But the earth is a very different thing to the righteous, and to the wicked.
To the righteous this world is a place of preparation or Heaven. To the wicked this world is all the Heaven they will ever have.
Death is a kind messenger sent to the righteous by their heavenly Father calling them to the possession of their eternal inheritance! To the wicked, death is a messenger of wrath summoning them to the abodes of misery!
Death is the beginning of happiness to God's people. Death is the final conclusion of all that the wicked counted their happiness.
To the righteous death is a translation to a glorious eternity! To the wicked death is everlasting destruction and woe!
[George Lawson]
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Deuteronomy 32:29 ... O that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!
Mark 16:16 ... He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned.
Matthew 25:45-46 ... Then shall he answer them, saying, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the least of these, ye did it not to me. And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal.❤
