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 I told them our father saw God's justice, which also divided the wicked from the righteous. This justice was as bright as a flaming fire, ascending to God forever.

Then they asked me if that fire represented the torment of the body -- God's justice in this life, or the final state of the soul after death.

I told them the fire represents both temporal and spiritual torment -- that the day will come when all will be judged according to the works they did while in their physical bodies--that if they were to die while they were still wicked, they would be cast off from spiritual things having to do with righteousness.

I told them they will stand before God, who will judge their works, and if their works in the body were filthy in the days of their probation, then they are still filthy out of the body, and therefore cannot live with God. For if they were to live with Him, they would make His kingdom filthy.

God's kingdom will not be made filthy, and no unclean thing can enter it, so there is another kingdom prepared for those who are filthy.

That other kingdom, which is an awful hell, is prepared by the devil.

According to the justice of God's word, the final state of all souls is to live with Him or be cast out of His presence.

I told my brothers this is how the wicked are divided from the righteous, and from the tree of life, the fruit of which is most precious and desirable above all other fruit.

This fruit -- God's love -- is His greatest gift.