TO THOSE whose lives have revealed that they have received Christ as their Saviour from sin, the Word is, “Come;” to those who have refused the gift of His love, the Word is, “Depart.” The one class have chosen the fellowship of Jesus by His indwelling Spirit, and to them it is granted to enjoy that fellowship to all eternity in the earth made new and fully relieved from the curse and all its effects. “They shall see His face; and His name shall be in their foreheads.” “Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and He will dwell with them, and they shall be His people, and God Himself shall be with them, and be their God.” Rev. 22:4; 21:3. The other class have said by their actions, “We will not have this Man to reign over us.” Instead of separation from the world they have chosen separation from God, and now this choice is forever confirmed, and they “shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of His power.” 2 Thess. 1:9. In the judgment that fellowship with God, which is life, is granted thruout eternity to those who have opened their hearts to the indwelling of God’s presence in Jesus Christ, but eternal separation from God is the lot of those who have refused His presence here. But separation from God is death; “for in Him we live and move and have our being.” And so the punishment of the wicked and the reward of the righteous will be of equal duration. Sustained by His own life, the righteous will live as long as God lives; but, being eternally separated from that life by their own choice, the wicked shall “be blotted out of the book of the living and not be written with the righteous.” “For yet a little while and the wicked shall not be.”