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Is there anything worse than death? Yes there is. It is the second death spoken of so plainly on the
opening page. As we established in our previous newsletter (Feb. 2010), the Bible teaches that we all,
believer and unbeliever alike, face the event called death:

                                          “AND AS IT IS APPOINTED FOR MEN TO DIE ONCE,

                                       BUT AFTER THIS IS THE JUDGMENT.” Heb. 9:27

    However, the eternal judgment which follows death is not the same event for the believer and the
           unbeliever. There are two different eternal judgments that will take place in the future.
                                   One is for believers and the other for unbelievers:

   “NOW YOU SHALL SAY TO THIS PEOPLE,
                 “THUS SAYS THE LORD:

       ”BEHOLD, I HAVE SET BEFORE YOU
THE WAY OF LIFE AND THE WAY OF DEATH.”

                                  Jer. 21:8

 “…FOR WE SHALL ALL STAND BEFORE          “…THE DEVIL…WAS CAST INTO THE LAKE
    THE JUDGMENT SEAT OF CHRIST.             OF FIRE AND BRIMSTONE WHERE THE
               FOR IT IS WRITTEN:            BEAST AND THE FALSE PROPHET ARE.
         ‘AS I LIVE, SAYS THE LORD,          AND THEY WILL BE TORMENTED DAY
     EVERY KNEE SHALL BOW TO ME,                AND NIGHT FOREVER AND EVER.
                                             THEN I SAW A GREAT WHITE THRONE
 AND EVERY TONGUE SHALL CONFESS
TO GOD.’ SO THEN EACH OF US SHALL         AND HIM WHO SAT ON IT, FROM WHOSE
GIVE ACCOUNT OF HIMSELF TO GOD.”          FACE THE EARTH AND THE HEAVEN FLED

                     Rom. 14:10-12            AWAY. AND THERE WAS FOUND NO
  “THEREFORE WE MAKE IT OUR AIM…TO BE     PLACE FOR THEM. AND I SAW THE DEAD,
  WELL PLEASING TO HIM. FOR WE MUST ALL
                                           SMALL AND GREAT, STANDING BEFORE
   APPEAR BEFORE THE JUDGMENT SEAT OF      GOD, AND BOOKS WERE OPENED. AND
 CHRIST, THAT EACH ONE MAY RECEIVE THE    ANOTHER BOOK WAS OPENED, WHICH IS

   THINGS DONE IN THE BODY, ACCORDING         THE BOOK OF LIFE. AND THE DEAD
   TO WHAT HE HAS DONE, WHETHER GOOD         WERE JUDGED ACCORDING TO THEIR
                                             WORKS, BY THE THINGS WHICH WERE
          OR BAD. KNOWING, THEREFORE,      WRITTEN IN THE BOOKS. THE SEA GAVE
               THE TERROR OF THE LORD,       UP THE DEAD WHO WERE IN IT, AND
                   WE PERSUADE MEN...”      DEATH AND HADES DELIVERED UP THE
                           2 Cor. 5:9-11    DEAD WHO WERE IN THEM. AND THEY
                                           WERE JUDGED, EACH ONE ACCORDING
      “EACH ONE’S WORK WILL BECOME
 MANIFEST; FOR THE DAY (OF JUDGMENT)                           TO HIS WORKS.
                                             THEN DEATH AND HADES WERE CAST
    WILL DECLARE IT…THE FIRE WILL TEST
 EACH ONE’S WORK OF WHAT SORT IT IS.                   INTO THE LAKE OF FIRE.
  IF ANYONE’S WORK…ENDURES, HE WILL                 THIS IS THE SECOND DEATH.
RECEIVE A REWARD. IF ANYONE’S WORK IS      AND ANYONE NOT FOUND WRITTEN IN
  BURNED, HE WILL SUFFER LOSS; BUT HE
                                                        THE BOOK OF LIFE WAS
             HIMSELF WILL BE SAVED…”              CAST INTO THE LAKE OF FIRE.”
                        1 Cor. 3:13-15
                                                                 Rev. 20:10-15

“…IT IS APPOINTED FOR MEN TO DIE ONCE, BUT AFTER THIS (COMES) THE JUDGMENT” Heb. 9:27
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