Some of you boys who know arithmetic will be able to tell me what a billion is?
“It is a million of millions,” answered one of the boys.
Yes, a million of millions. What an immense number that is.
And do you know that every one of you must live a billion of years either in heaven, or m the lake of fire, and when that billion of years is spent, then another, and another. In fact, you must live on forever, and ever, through unnumbered ages whether you want to or not. You cannot stop living even if you would. You will not find death there, even if you should want to die.
In heaven, where Jesus and all His saved ones shall forever dwell, there is no more death, nor sorrow, nor sighing. Through these billions of ages there will be unbroken peace, unclouded happiness, and unceasing, song. An eternity forever with the Lord; forever with all His saints; forever free from sin; forever amid the brightness of our heavenly home.
But there is another place and another company, and they, too, exist forever. It is awful even to this of them, and to read in the words of Holy Scripture their doom. There will be Satan and his angels who sinned long, long, ago, in the past, and there will be those who reject Christ, all cast into “the lake of fire and brimstone,” to be there tormented forever and ever. Billions of years will roll over them there, but no release, no exchange, no ending of their woes.
Now, my dear reader, you must spend these ages in one or the other of the two companies. You must dwell in one or other of the two places. The time for having it settled is now; and whether you receive Jesus Christ as your Saviour, or reject Him, will settle in which of the two companies you are to be.
“These shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal.” Matt, 25:46.
ML 1/24/1940