Whether in this life or the next, the righteous and the wicked occupy different spaces. President Joseph F. Smith saw that the Savior “could not” go among the ungodly during his mission to the spirit world (D&C 138:37). These were the “ungodly and the unrepentant who had defiled themselves while in the flesh” (D&C 138:20). Those who had rejected the “testimonies and the warnings of ancient prophets” did not “behold his presence, nor look upon his face. Where they were, darkness reigned” (D&C 138:21–22). The “spirits of the just who had been faithful in the testimony of Jesus while they lived in mortality” (D&C 138:12) beheld the face of the Lord and “rejoiced in their redemption, and bowed the knee and acknowledged the Son of God as their Redeemer” (D&C 138:23).