“There is trouble on the sea; It cannot be quiet” (Jeremiah 49:23)
Jeremiah compared wicked people to a restless sea. Isaiah wrote the same thing: “the wicked are like the troubled sea… ‘There is no peace,’ Says my God, ‘for the wicked.’” (Isaiah 57:20-21).
The trouble of wicked people does not end when they die.
Here’s the last words of famous atheists:
Thomas Payne: “I am on the edge of hell here alone. If ever the Devil had an agent, I have been that one”.
Voltaire: “I shall die and go to hell!”
David Hume: “I am in flames!”
Sir Thomas Scott: “Until this moment I thought there was neither a God nor a hell. Now I know and feel that there are both, and I am doomed to perdition by the just judgment of the Almighty”.
Here’s the last words of famous Christians:
D. L. Moody: “I see earth receding; heaven is opening. God is calling me.”
Daniel Webster: “Thank God, the Gospel of Jesus Christ brought life and immortality to light”.
Charles Dickens: “I commit my soul to the mercy of God, through our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ”.
Isaac Watts: “It is a great mercy that I have no manner of fear or dread of death”.
Saints don’t fear death because they don’t fear judgment:
“Love has been perfected among us in this: that we may have boldness in the day of judgment; because as He is, so are we in this world. There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves torment. But he who fears has not been made perfect in love” (1 John 4:17-18).
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