REVELATION ITS GRAND CLIMAX AT HAND!/Chapter Thirty - Endurance for the Holy Ones - Continue

 Those who have the mark of the wild beast will also be destroyed completely, as if by fire. As the prophecy later reveals, their dead bodies will be left unburied for animals and birds to eat. (Revelation 19:17, 18)  So, clearly, they are not being literally torture forever!  How are they "tormented with fire and sulfur"?  In that the proclamation of truth exposes them and warns them of God's coming judgment.   Therefore they villify God's people where possible, slyly persuade the political wild beast to persecute and even kill Jehovah's Witnesses.  As a climax, these opposers will be destroyed as with fire and brimstone.  Then "the smoke of their torment ascends foreve and ever" in that God's judgment of them will serve as a touchstone if ever again Jehovah's rightful sovereignty is challenged.  That issue will have been settled for all eternity.

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