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RE: Since death itself is abolished (2 Timothy 1:10)
The abolishment of death only applies to people who obtain immortality (2Tim 1:10, 1Cor 15:42-57)
RE: how long do you think the 2nd death will last?
There are two resurrections.
. Dan 12:1-2 . . Multitudes who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake: some to everlasting life, others to shame and everlasting contempt.
. John 5:28-29 . . a time is coming when all who are in their graves will hear his voice and come out those who have done good will rise to live, and those who have done evil will rise to be condemned.
. Rev 20:6 . . Blessed and holy is the one who has a part in the first resurrection over these the second death has no power, but they will be priests of God and of Christ and will reign with Him for a thousand years.
I have never heard of a third resurrection; so then, those who end up victims of the second death will remain there never to return.
. Rev 20:7-10 . . And when the thousand years are completed, Satan will be released from his prison, and will come out to deceive the nations which are in the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together for the war; the number of them is like the sand of the seashore. And they came up on the broad plain of the earth and surrounded the camp of the saints and the beloved city, and fire came down from heaven and devoured them. And the Devil who deceived them was thrown into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are also; and they will be tormented day and night forever and ever.
In that passage, the beast and the false prophet are still alive in the burning lake, where they were incarcerated in chapter 19.
.Rev 19:20 . . And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone.
Along with the beast and the false prophet, are an innumerable company of world citizens who received the mark.
. Rev 14:9-11 . . And the third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, If any man worship the beast and his image, and receive his mark in his forehead, or in his hand, The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb: and the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever: and they have no rest day nor night, who worship the beast and his image, and whosoever receiveth the mark of his name.
It only stands to reason then, that if the beast and the false prophet, and the world citizens who recieved the mark are destined to suffer perpetual torture in the flaming lake, then the people to be descarded there in Rev 20:11-15 will suffer perpetual torture too.
So then, the second death is revealed by Christ to be a perpetual existence of torture in a reservoir of flaming liquid; as those passages in Revelation clearly testify.
One day, everyone will be a believer.
. Php 2:10-11 . . That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth; and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
But it will be too late for the ones "under the earth". They must remain incarcerated in the netherworld until their court date at the Great White Throne of Rev 20:11-15 at which time they will be brought up from below to be punished for each and every one of their sins, and afterwards, when their day in court is done; what's left of them will be incarcerated in the lake where "the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever: and they have no rest day nor night".
As frosting on the cake; the Dead will be forced to undergo infection with a special variety of heat resistant parasite that Jesus spoke of in Mark 9:43-48.
C.L.I.F.F.
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RE: Since death itself is abolished (2 Timothy 1:10)
The abolishment of death only applies to people who obtain immortality (2Tim 1:10, 1Cor 15:42-57)
RE: how long do you think the 2nd death will last?
There are two resurrections.
. Dan 12:1-2 . . Multitudes who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake: some to everlasting life, others to shame and everlasting contempt.
. John 5:28-29 . . a time is coming when all who are in their graves will hear his voice and come out those who have done good will rise to live, and those who have done evil will rise to be condemned.
. Rev 20:6 . . Blessed and holy is the one who has a part in the first resurrection over these the second death has no power, but they will be priests of God and of Christ and will reign with Him for a thousand years.
I have never heard of a third resurrection; so then, those who end up victims of the second death will remain there never to return.
. Rev 20:7-10 . . And when the thousand years are completed, Satan will be released from his prison, and will come out to deceive the nations which are in the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together for the war; the number of them is like the sand of the seashore. And they came up on the broad plain of the earth and surrounded the camp of the saints and the beloved city, and fire came down from heaven and devoured them. And the Devil who deceived them was thrown into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are also; and they will be tormented day and night forever and ever.
In that passage, the beast and the false prophet are still alive in the burning lake, where they were incarcerated in chapter 19.
.Rev 19:20 . . And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone.
Along with the beast and the false prophet, are an innumerable company of world citizens who received the mark.
. Rev 14:9-11 . . And the third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, If any man worship the beast and his image, and receive his mark in his forehead, or in his hand, The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb: and the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever: and they have no rest day nor night, who worship the beast and his image, and whosoever receiveth the mark of his name.
It only stands to reason then, that if the beast and the false prophet, and the world citizens who recieved the mark are destined to suffer perpetual torture in the flaming lake, then the people to be descarded there in Rev 20:11-15 will suffer perpetual torture too.
So then, the second death is revealed by Christ to be a perpetual existence of torture in a reservoir of flaming liquid; as those passages in Revelation clearly testify.
One day, everyone will be a believer.
. Php 2:10-11 . . That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth; and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
But it will be too late for the ones "under the earth". They must remain incarcerated in the netherworld until their court date at the Great White Throne of Rev 20:11-15 at which time they will be brought up from below to be punished for each and every one of their sins, and afterwards, when their day in court is done; what's left of them will be incarcerated in the lake where "the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever: and they have no rest day nor night".
As frosting on the cake; the Dead will be forced to undergo infection with a special variety of heat resistant parasite that Jesus spoke of in Mark 9:43-48.
C.L.I.F.F.
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