Matthew 25:44-46: Then they also will answer Him, saying, Lord, when did we see You hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison, and did not minister to You? Then He will answer them, saying, Assuredly, I say to you, inasmuch as you did not do it to one of the least of these, you did not do it to Me. And these will go away into everlasting punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.
The end of this look at the future for the righteous and the wicked reaches a culminating point in these verses. Here we have the statement regarding the wicked having done nothing for anyone, an evidence of their inability to enter the presence of the Lord.
The cults differ in their various beliefs but all are united on the assertion that there is no everlasting punishment of the wicked. They agree that there is an annihilation of extinguishing of the lives of the wicked. The devil does not want us to think that if we follow the teachings of the Jehovah's Witnesses, the Mormons, and all the science of mind cults that we will end up forever in hell. I always cringe when someone pontificates that an unsaved person who has died is now out of their suffering. Verse 46 says that it has just begun.
The Greek words for everlasting and eternal are the same--the translator chose to render it in two different English words. Thus, Jesus wanted us to know that the exact length of the blissfulness of the righteouswill match that of the suffering of the wicked. There is no escape. The time to repent is while we are living. The purpose of announcing the Second Coming is to warn all people that a day of reckoning is coming.
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