For those of us who choose the "rapture", the lift into the higher realms of Heaven on Earth, through Christ, a return back home to be with God in All-Ways, the old is dying. God never rejected anyone. It is people who reject God through self-betrayal. Eternal life is the natural consequence when you chose to accept God's love, for all life comes from God. If one chooses to be a parasite off from a host of God, its days are numbered.