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1. Case sectionS20Final Destiny

   Why No Place Is Prepared for the Unrighteous

   In Matthew 25 the righteous inherit a kingdom prepared for them, and the eternal fire was prepared for the devil and his angels. The unrighteous are the only group with no place prepared.…

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   Sodom and Gomorrah

   …an example of what is coming for the ungodly and which Jude describes as undergoing a punishment of eternal fire.

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   Revelation 14:9-11

   The worshippers of the beast tormented with fire and sulfur, with the smoke rising for ever.

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4. Case sectionS08Biblical Language

   The Wicked Will Be Destroyed

   …he adds the picture of the threshing floor: the wheat is gathered into the barn and the chaff is burned with unquenchable fire. Neither a felled tree nor a heap of chaff is a promising image for something that endures a fire…

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   The Second Death

   The phrase Revelation uses for the outcome of the last judgment. It names the lake of fire, and it is distinguished from the death every person dies before the resurrection.

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6. Case sectionS10Biblical Language

   Can God Destroy Both Body and Soul?

   …- Physical Death as a Picture of Final Death on the first death and the second. - Mark 9: Undying Worms and Unquenchable Fire. Sources and notes The word-usage observation is attributed in the source document to Chris Date.…

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   katakaio (κατακαίω)

   burn up, burn down, consume with fire

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8. Case sectionS12Biblical Language

   Where Is Endless Human Torment Stated Plainly?

   …passages above are genuine evidence, treated seriously rather than waved away: - Mark 9: Undying Worms and Unquenchable Fire - Revelation 14: The Smoke of Their Torment - Revelation 20: The Lake of Fire and the Second Death - What…

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   Hades

   The Greek term for the realm of the dead before the resurrection. It is not Gehenna and not the lake of fire, into which Revelation says Hades itself is thrown.

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    2 Peter 2:6

    …Jude 7 calls the same event a punishment of eternal fire. Genesis 19:24-28 records that Abraham saw smoke going up from the plain the next morning, and Ezekiel…

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    Gehenna

    …is better to enter life maimed than to be thrown in whole, and where the worm does not die and the fire is not quenched. That last phrase quotes Isaiah, and in Isaiah the objects of the worm and the fire are corpses.…

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    Are the Wicked Still Present After Revelation 20?

    …21:8 names the cowardly, the faithless and the rest, and says their portion is in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur. Revelation 22:15 says that dogs and sorcerers and the sexually immoral and murderers and…

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13. Case sectionS05Key Text

    The Rich Man and Lazarus

    …the scene, and he describes a man who is conscious after death, who is in torment, who speaks of agony in fire, who sees and remembers and reasons, and who is told that a great gulf is fixed so that nobody can cross.…

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    Matthew 25:31-46

    …into the kingdom prepared for them from the foundation of the world, and sends the other into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels.…

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    Revelation 14: The Smoke of Their Torment

    …The passage says these people will be tormented with fire and sulphur. It says this happens in the presence of the holy angels and of the Lamb, which places the scene…

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    Hades

    …Death and Hades give up the dead who are in them, and are then themselves thrown into the lake of fire. Whatever Hades is, it is emptied and abolished, so it cannot be anyone’s final state.…

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    Luke 16:19-31

    …The word used for the rich man's location is Hades, which is neither Gehenna nor the lake of fire. Revelation 20:13-14 has Hades give up its dead and then be thrown into the lake of fire, which places it…

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    Weeping and Gnashing of Teeth

    The phrase appears in parables with a fiery furnace and in parables with no fire at all, which points to a response at the moment of exclusion rather than to the experience of burning.…

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19. Case sectionS04Key Text

    What Does “Eternal Punishment” Mean?

    …The context supports the same reading: the goats are sent into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels, and the devil's own fate in Revelation 20:10 is torment for ever and…

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    anapausis (ἀνάπαυσις)

    …Some hold that the phrase is Old Testament judgment language drawn from Isaiah 34, where a fire is not quenched night or day over a land already laid waste, and that it marks finality rather than duration.

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