You are incorrect! Read your own proof text it says exactly what the end refers to, "Then [cometh] the end [ . . . ] when he shall have put down all rule and all authority and power.[of this world]"
Christ will deliver up the Kingdom to God, Has this already happened? NO
but when it does the ages will end. Why will they end? because TIME will END. there is no time in eternity!
Your proof text is not referring to eternity. And OBTW which 'eternity" are you referring to where are the scripture references which refer to the 'eternity" you are talking about here?
Rev 14:11 the smoke that goes up to the ages of the ages. makes perfect since when you consider that God created the AGES. However there is coming a time when the ages will end and eternity takeover. I did not say begin because eternity cannot begin nor can it end.
As I have shown conclusively from seventeen lexical sources εις αιωνας αιωνων/"eis aionas aionon" means eternal, unending, everlasting and you have NOT addressed any of my sources just stated your opinion, what you think/believe words mean. You have no evidence of any kind for the statement highlighted in red!
Everything in this world is finite, and everything was created by God who is Eternal. Man is NOT immortal, God is immortal and He must give to us immortality for us to live eternally.
And do you think that God being omnipotent can cause men to have conscious existence without granting them the ζωην αιωνιον/"Zoen aionion," transalted eternal life, given to the righteous? But wait that term uses the word αιωνιον so according to you it will end when the ages end. OBTW God himself describes dead men in Sheol speaking, moving, having knowledge, etc. in Isa 14:9-11 and Ezek 32:18-22. Jesus also describes dead men in Hades moving, seeing, speaking, feeling pain, etc. separated from the righteous who are comforted in Luk 16:19-31.
Our finite world will end at some point, when, I do not know, but it will be at the consumation of the Ages. and absolutely everything that excist with in the Ages is finite and will end.
Where is the scripture which describes the ending of the finite world as the "consummation of the ages?"
I do not believe in a literal interpretation of Rev. 14:11 I believe much of it to be spiritual in context and certainly the Holy Spirit used much symbolisim and hyperpole. for instance; if our body returns to the dust of the earth, how is it that a soul produces literal smoke? How is it that day and night are in hell? Silly to think this is literal! How do you distinguish between day and night with no eyes? do souls have eyes?
Of course, you don't believe in a literal interpretation. I call this the SPAM-Fig copout, whenever scripture, as written, contradicts a false teaching then it is dismissed as symbolic, poetic, allegory, metaphor, or figurative. There is a well known maxim about Bible interpretation, "If the plain sense makes good sense, it is nonsense, to look for any other sense."
While our body does return to the dust, our spirit returns to God who gave it. God is capable of making smoke where he wants it! John was talking to people of his day in language they understood! It is silly for people to reject the language that John used because you think there is no day or night in hell. His audience clearly understood the double reference to eternal, unending, etc. i.e. "unto the aion of the aions," and "no rest night or day." I have already shown from irrefutable sources, which you have ignored, that "aionios" did mean eternal, unending, everlasting, etc.
Ignatius of Antioch
"Corrupters of families will not inherit the kingdom of God. And if they who do these things according to the flesh suffer death, how much more if a man corrupt by evil teaching the faith of God for the sake of which Jesus Christ was crucified? A man become so foul will depart into unquenchable fire: and so will anyone who listens to him" (Letter to the Ephesians 16:12 [A.D. 110]).
Second Clement
"If we do the will of Christ, we shall obtain rest; but if not, if we neglect his commandments, nothing will rescue us from eternal punishment" (Second Clement 5:5 [A.D. 150]).
"But when they see how those who have sinned and who have denied Jesus by their words or by their deeds are punished with terrible torture in unquenchable fire, the righteous, who have done good, and who have endured tortures and have hated the luxuries of life, will give glory to their God saying, There shall be hope for him that has served God with all his heart!" (ibid., 17:7).
Justin Martyr
"No more is it possible for the evildoer, the avaricious, and the treacherous to hide from God than it is for the virtuous. Every man will receive the eternal punishment or reward which his actions deserve. Indeed, if all men recognized this, no one would choose evil even for a short time, knowing that he would incur the eternal sentence of fire. On the contrary, he would take every means to control himself and to adorn himself in virtue, so that he might obtain the good gifts of God and escape the punishments" (First Apology 12 [A.D. 151]).
"[Jesus] shall come from the heavens in glory with his angelic host, when he shall raise the bodies of all the men who ever lived. Then he will clothe the worthy in immortality; but the wicked, clothed in eternal sensibility, he will commit to the eternal fire, along with the evil demons" (ibid., 52).
The Martyrdom of Polycarp
"Fixing their minds on the grace of Christ, [the martyrs] despised worldly tortures and purchased eternal life with but a single hour. To them, the fire of their cruel torturers was cold. They kept before their eyes their escape from the eternal and unquenchable fire" (Martyrdom of Polycarp 2:3 [A.D. 155]).
Mathetes
"When you know what is the true life, that of heaven; when you despise the merely apparent death, which is temporal; when you fear the death which is real, and which is reserved for those who will be condemned to the everlasting fire, the fire which will punish even to the end those who are delivered to it, then you will condemn the deceit and error of the world" (Letter to Diognetus 10:7 [A.D. 160]).
Theophilus of Antioch
"Give studious attention to the prophetic writings [the Bible] and they will lead you on a clearer path to escape the eternal punishments and to obtain the eternal good things of God. . . . For the unbelievers and for the contemptuous, and for those who do not submit to the truth but assent to iniquity, when they have been involved in adulteries, and fornications, and homosexualities, and avarice, and in lawless idolatries, there will be wrath and indignation, tribulation and anguish; and in the end, such men as these will be detained in everlasting fire" (To Autolycus 1:14 [A.D. 181])
Irenaeus
"[God will] send the spiritual forces of wickedness, and the angels who transgressed and became apostates, and the impious, unjust, lawless, and blasphemous among men into everlasting fire" (Against Heresies 1:10:1 [A.D. 189]).
"The penalty increases for those who do not believe the Word of God and despise his coming. . . . t is not merely temporal, but eternal. To whomsoever the Lord shall say, Depart from me, accursed ones, into the everlasting fire, they will be damned forever" (ibid., 4:28:2).
Tertullian
"After the present age is ended he will judge his worshipers for a reward of eternal life and the godless for a fire equally perpetual and unending" (Apology 18:3 [A.D. 197]).
The worshipers of God shall always be with God, clothed in the proper substance of eternity. But the godless and those who have not turned wholly to God will be punished in fire equally unending, and they shall have from the very nature of this fire, divine as it were, a supply of incorruptibility" (ibid., 44:1213).
Hippolytus
"Standing before [Christs] judgment, all of them, men, angels, and demons, crying out in one voice, shall say: Just is your judgment! And the righteousness of that cry will be apparent in the recompense made to each. To those who have done well, everlasting enjoyment shall be given; while to the lovers of evil shall be given eternal punishment. The unquenchable and unending fire awaits these latter, and a certain fiery worm which does not die and which does not waste the body but continually bursts forth from the body with unceasing pain. No sleep will give them rest; no night will soothe them; no death will deliver them from punishment; no appeal of interceding friends will profit them" (Against the Greeks 3 [A.D. 212]).
Minucius Felix
"I am not ignorant of the fact that many, in the consciousness of what they deserve, would rather hope than actually believe that there is nothing for them after death. They would prefer to be annihilated rather than be restored for punishment. . . . Nor is there either measure nor end to these torments. That clever fire burns the limbs and restores them, wears them away and yet sustains them, just as fiery thunderbolts strike bodies but do not consume them" (Octavius 34:125:3 [A.D. 226]).
Cyprian of Carthage
"An ever-burning Gehenna and the punishment of being devoured by living flames will consume the condemned; nor will there be any way in which the tormented can ever have respite or be at an end. Souls along with their bodies will be preserved for suffering in unlimited agonies. . . . The grief at punishment will then be without the fruit of repentance; weeping will be useless, and prayer ineffectual. Too late will they believe in eternal punishment, who would not believe in eternal life" (To Demetrian 24 [A.D. 252]).
Lactantius
But that divine fire always lives by itself, and flourishes without any nourishment. . . . The same divine fire, therefore, with one and the same force and power, will both burn the wicked and will form them again, and will replace as much as it shall consume of their bodies, and will supply itself with eternal nourishment. . . . Thus, without any wasting of bodies, which regain their substance, it will only burn and affect them with a sense of pain.(Divine Institutes 7:21 [A.D. 307]).
I do not believe that God is going to torture MOST of mankind in this fabeled pit of Hell for all eternity, nor the lake of fire. what real purpose is their in that? What does it please God? I know this makes since to you when you consider Hitler and the likes, but consider some less arbitrary victim? Let's say the 17 year old son of a Jewish Rabbi who adore's his father, and loves God, Does He suffer eternally in Hell with his smoke and torment going up forever and ever?
Where does scripture say "a 17 year old son of a Jewish Rabbi who adore's his father, and loves God" will be punished in hell? Maybe you should familiarize yourself with Roman's chap. 1 and chap. 11.
Why do you think God will never be satisfied with HIS eternal punishment on this Jewish boy? For his mere 17 years of life, he will suffer eternally, not hardly! I am sad to say that I am not smart enough to scripturally refute all the false interpretations of Anglosaxon Christian doctrine, but this is not the God I know! Truly though it was those individuals who had that understanding of God that started the Holy Wars, the Crusades, Killed the Indians and mutilated the Jews! Why? because God hates them and they are destined for eternal hell anyway. All of these groups and organizations killed at the instruction of their interpretation of Christian beliefs.
This is the image of God you have chosen to accept whether you can support your assumptions/presuppositions from scripture, or not.
I went to seminary for only 1 year. They taught that the world was some 6000 years old and pretty much to believe otherwise was heresy! I am Gemologist by trade and let me tell you if you do not already know it, the world is not 6000 years old.
Earlier you said you had a master's degree. I don't know of anyone who can earn a master's degree in one year. Looks like we can't believe anything you say.