REVELATION ITS GRAND CLIMAX AT HAND!/Chapter Forty - Torment Day and Night Forever - Continuue

 The Greek word here used for "torment," ba-sa-ni'zo, means primarily "to test (metals) by the touchstone."  To question by applying torture" is a second meaning. (The  New Thayer's Greeek-Englis Lexicon of the New Testament)  In the context, the use of this Greek word indicates that what happens to Satan will serve, for all eternity, as a touchstone on the issue of righteouses of  Jehovah's rule.  That issue of sovereign rulership will have been settled once and for all time. Never again will a challenge to Jehovah's sovereignty need to be tested over an extended period of time in order to be proved wrong. - Compare  PSALM 92:1, 15. 

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