REVELATION ITS GRAND CLIMAX AT HAND!/Chapter Forty - The Lake of FIre and Sulfur - Continue

All of this reinforces the view that the lake of fire and sulfur is symbolic.  Further, the menton of fire and sulfur  calls to mind the fate of ancient Sodom and Gormorrah, destroyed by God because of their gross wickedness. When their time came, "Jehovah made it rain fire and sulfur from Jehovah from the heavens, upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah." (Genesis 19:24) What befell the two cities is called "the judicial punishment of everlasting fire."  (Jude 7) Yet, those two cities did not suffer everlasting torment.  Rather, they were blotted out, obliterated for all time, along with their depraved  inhabitants. Those cities do not exist today, and no one can say for sure where they were located. 

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