Chapter Forty/Crushing the Serpent's Head - The Lake of Fire and Sulfur

 Will this final effort by Satan succeed? Certainly not-no more than the attack that Gog of Magog is due to make on spiritual Israel in our day will succeed! (Ezekiel 38:18-23) John vividly describe the outcome: "But fire came down out of heaven and devoured them. And the Devil who was misleading them was hurled into the lake of fire and sulfur, where both the wild beast and the false prophet already were." (Revelation 20:9b-10a) Rather than merely being abyssed, this time Satan, the original Serpent, will actually be crushed out of existence, pulverized, completely annihilated as if by fire. 

We have already noted that "the lake of fire and sulfur could not be a literal place of torment.  (Revelation 19:20) If Satan were to suffer excruciating torture there f0r all eternity, Jehovah would not have to preserve him alive. Yes, life is gift, not a punishment. Death is the punishment for sin, and according to the Bible, dead creatures feel no pain. (Romans 6:23; Ecclesiastes 9:5, 10) Moreover, we read that later that death itself, along with Hades cannot suffer pain! - REVELATION 20:14. 

Next time: Chapter Forty/Crushing the Serpent's Head - The Lake of Fire and Sulfur- Conclusion 

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