Death is a change of company

("A Believer's Last Day, His Best Day")

A believer's last day is his best day! Death is a change
of company. In this world, the godliest man must live
with the wicked, and converse with the wicked, etc.;
and this is a part of their misery; it is their hell on this
side heaven. This stuck upon the heart of David: "Woe
to me that I dwell in Meshech, that I live among the
tents of Kedar!" Psalm 120:5

I have read of a godly woman, who, being near death,
cried out, "O Lord, let me not go to hell where the wicked
are, for You know that I never loved their company while
in this life!"

"Oh, that I had in the desert a lodging place for travelers,
 so that I might leave my people and go away from them;
 for they are all adulterers, a crowd of unfaithful people!"
    Jeremiah 9:2

And this was that which did vex and tear Lot's righteous
soul—"Lot, a righteous man, who was distressed by the
filthy lives of lawless men (for that righteous man, living
among them day after day, was tormented in his righteous
soul by the lawless deeds he saw and heard." 2 Peter 2:7-8

Oh, but death is a change of company. A godly man does
but change the company of profane people, of vile people,
etc.—for the company of angels; and the company of weak
Christians—for the company of just men made perfect.

"Nothing impure will ever enter it, nor will anyone who does
 what is shameful or deceitful, but only those whose names
 are written in the Lamb's book of life." Revelation 21:27

"Outside are the dogs, those who practice magic arts, the
 sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters and everyone
 who loves and practices falsehood." Revelation 22:15

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