Numbers 35:26-27

26, 27. If the slayer… at any time come without He could not leave the asylum to bury his dead, to worship in the great feasts, nor to testify in the courts. He was constructively dead while his life was hidden in the city of refuge. Colossians 3:3, note. No mere lapse of time can satisfy the claims of justice, as many vainly imagine who dream that sin will eventually disappear, even in the case of those who have deliberately thrust aside the cover of the atoning blood of Jesus Christ and count it as a common thing. If these verses have any spiritual significance, it is that a saved soul may fall away from salvation and be finally lost.