The wicked are people who do not know God and those who probably know Him but do not seek Him (Psalm 10:2-13). Their lifestyle shows that they don’t believe in the gospel of Christ and that they do not have any regard for God. On the other hand, there are saints the people of God; these are the people who believe.

Though they may suffer persecutions and afflictions for the Kingdom, they remain faithful children of God. Paul assures the saints who have believed and remain steadfast even in their afflictions that God will grant them relief and their afflictions would come to an end in due course. Christ will be glorified in them, and they in Him (2 Thessalonians 1:12). On the other hand, God will repay the persecutors with affliction; He will mete out justice.

He says in 2 Thessalonians 1:9 that the retribution will be: "everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power;" The wicked would not cease to exist because of God’s final judgment, rather they would be deprived of being in God’s presence forever.

Daniel also declared: "And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt. Daniel 12:2". Jesus described the judgment thus "Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels: And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal." (Matthew 25:41,46). Revelation describes the fate of the wicked thus: and shall be tormented day and night forever and ever (Revelation 20:10). 

Beloved, a life without Christ is one full of crises both when the fellow is alive, and even after death. Too many people pay lip service to follow Christ but actually do not in the real sense of it. Examine your life and choose to deny yourself and follow Christ daily to escape eternal damnation.