QUES. 32.-(a) Am I to understand from Matthew 25 :41 that those to whom the Lord says, "Depart from Me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels," are to depart at once into that place-alive, or dead-which ?

(6) When are the wicked dead, who meet death during the tribulation, to be consigned to their everlasting abode-at once, or after the Great White Throne judgment ?

(c) Do any Christ-rejecters of this present Church-age, who have heard the gospel, pass into Christ's thousand-year reign (the millennial reign)?

ans.-(a) This judgment is not yet the " Great White Throne " judgment, where each individual receives retribution for his deeds in detail. It is the judgment of the King upon the assembled Gentile nations at His arrival to introduce His millennial reign. He declares there who are the "sheep " and who are the "goats " by the way they have dealt with His "brethren" (the Jewish people) during "the great tribulation " through which they have been passing. At the same time He gives the everlasting portion of each class, but the retributive judgment of each one awaits till the ' 'Great White Throne.''

(b) After the "Great White Throne" judgment, no doubt. The "Beast" and "the false prophet" seem to be the only persons cast into the lake of fire fief ore the judgment of the Great White Throne (Rev. 19 :20). All the rest of the lost pass through the first death-the physical, the death of the body-and then are raised to appear at that Great White Throne judgment. How good to know that we who are Christ's belong to the first resurrection, long before the other takes place, and that we are raised not to be judged for our sins, but to enter into Christ's glory.

(c) The word of God says, concerning them, that "because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved . . . God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:that they all might be judged who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness" (2 Thess. 2:10-12).