Unlike popular thought which holds that people are improving, God finds that people are totally in error because they do not pay attention to Him, do not honor Him, do not obey Him, the God who created us and the God who holds our life in His hands.

Daily papers and news reports tell us over and over again the greed, the hate, the slander, the murder, the disrespect, the selfishness in all people everywhere.

Except for the one who is totally sinless kind generous and loving, the one Jesus the Christ the Lord, except for Him, there is not a person who has not planned hurtful actions and carried them out.

Everyone everywhere has broken God's wonderful creation in us because we sin against God Almighty.

We are all selfish hateful people, as God sees it, and if we are honest, we can admit to the truth of this deep persistent sinful condition in ourselves. Our souls are totally corrupted.

Since we are in God's hands all the time everywhere, and since we sin against God, God has determined that everyone everywhere shall face death and shall die a mortal physical death.

However, if during this life we are willing to acknowledge to God that we are hateful and selfish toward God, and then if we accept Jesus Christ the Lord's covering upon us, and if we begin to obey Jesus Christ the Lord by turning away from a sinful life, then we are saved from the "second death" which is death from heaven, and "second death that keeps us in agony", this "second death" will pass us by and we shall not encounter the "second death", and we are not condemned, but we shall be given citizenship in heaven with the living mighty eternal loving kind generous God. Our sins will be "totally forgotten" by God, in this case; His wondrous love floods our life, and we are children of God.

Yet, if we ignore God throughout our life, if we do not obey God by confessing our sins to Jesus, and repenting of our sins before Jesus, and obeying Jesus for the remainder of days here on this earth, then we have no fear of God, and upon death, we shall be in agony, in pain, in darkness, in aloneness, and we shall face God once on Judgment Day, and we shall then obtain the "second death", which is continued agony, continued pain, continued darkness, and continued aloneness forever.