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.
Do you know that every one of you must live a billion of years, either in heaven, or in 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 pain. Through all those billions of years, there will be unbroken peace, uncloud happiness, and unceasing song. An eternity with the Lord; forever free from sin; forever amid the brightness of His heavenly Home.
But there is another place, another company, and they too live forever. It is awful to think of them, and to read in the Bible of their doom. There will be Satan and his angels who sinned long ago, and there will be those who have rejected Christ, all cast into “the lake of fire and brimstone,” to be tormented forever and ever. Billions of years will roll over them there, but no release, no exchange, no ending of their woes. Where there is weeping, waiting and gnashing of teeth, their conscience ever alive to the sad fact that if they had accepted the Lord Jesus Christ as their Saviour when they had many opportunities, they would never have been there.
Now, my dear reader, you must spend these ages in one or the other of these two companies. You must dwell in one or the other of these two places. The time for having this question settled is now; whether you receive Christ as your Saviour now, or reject Him, will settle in which of the two companies you are to be.
ML 02/17/1946