Re 20:14...And death and Hell were hurled into the lake of fire.
How can death be sent to the lake of fire? How can hell, a fiery place of torment, be sent to another place of fire?
2007-10-28 10:58:11 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Actually, there is no need for anyone to give their private interpretation of what the lake of fire represents. The reason being: God interprets his own symbolism.
Revelation 20:14. It clearly states that the lake of fire is the second death. What is the second death? Well, what is the first death?
The first death is the death we die because of Adam's sin. But, because of Jesus' victory over death, the first death is going to be abolished. That's why Revelation even says that death and the grave are also tossed into the lake of fire.
That means that after the general resurrection of the dead no one will have to die again because of inherited sin. From that point on, after the resurrection, death will only be the result of willful rebellion against God and not the result of inherited adamic condemnation.
According to the Scriptures, Jehovah purposes to resurrect virtually all of mankind, most of whom lived unrighteous lives. But not every resurrected person will automatically live forever. Jesus spoke about a resurrection of judgment for those who practiced vile things.
A resurrection of judgment refers to the ultimate outcome of adverse judgment for those who unappreciatively fail to respond to God's love even after their resurrection. So, back to death they must go! That will literally be the second death for them—from which they will never recover.
The second death, then, is permanent non-existence. For some creatures though, like the Devil and his demons, and those who foolishly worship the image of the beast during the judgment, their first death will also be their second death—meaning they will receive no resurrection. So, the lake of fire, and the similar term "Gehenna" that Jesus used, merely symbolizes everlasting destruction.
2007-10-28 11:21:43 · answer #1 · answered by keiichi 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Because "hell" in the bible is never a place of fiery torment. Rather, "hell" is simply the grave.
That death and hell are thrown into the lake of fire, symbolizes that death and the grave will be done away with. In the same text, hell is mentioned as giving up those dead in it.
In other words, people who have died will be resurrected to life again, and from that time onward there will be no more death, nor such a thing as the grave. It will be as if death and hell were crumpled up like a peice of paper and pitched into the fire... gone forever.
If hell was a place of sheer torture, then why did faithful patriarchs pray to go there when they were suffering adversity?
- Bob
2007-10-28 11:12:50 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Well if Death and Hell were going to be thrown into a lake of fire then why create them in the first place?
2007-10-28 11:15:53 · answer #3 · answered by Chapter and Verse 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Death and Hell is a state or a condition of being under God's wrath but not necessarily suffering from God's wrath. It's a holding place where people await the final judgment when God will judged them according to all their works and their sins. (This may or may not be a literal place, I'm inclined to believe that it is not a literal place from studying the scriptures)
After this final judgment "Death and Hell" meaning all those all those who have physically died on earth never coming to faith will finally experience God's wrath first hand in the lake of fire.
Hence those who are in "Death and Hell" are doomed to be condemned but have not been officially condemned yet.
2007-10-28 11:11:14 · answer #4 · answered by Archangel 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He's talking about hades - which is essentially a jail while the lake of fire is more a prison. Those in hades - all the dead will be thrown into the lake of fire in accordance with the context of that section (See Rev 21 for more details)
2007-10-28 11:54:01 · answer #5 · answered by Steve Amato 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is physical death and spiritual death.
Lake of fire is the final hell, the place of eternal punishment for all unrepentant rebels, angels or humans.
The NT says a lot about the eternal punishment Mt 3:40-42, 25:41, Mk 9:43-48 )
2007-10-28 11:08:11 · answer #6 · answered by Nina, BaC 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
NO MORE DEATH OR GRAVES OR CEMETERIES
!Cor.15:22-28; All are made alive, the last enemy destroyed is death and the cause Heb.2:9,14,16; Rev.20:7-10; Rev.20:1-5; All is made as new as before Eden, 8 [ there is the second death ].
2007-10-28 11:18:14 · answer #7 · answered by jeni 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Death is a spirit
Hell may have fire but there is a lake of fire
2007-10-28 11:02:09 · answer #8 · answered by sego lily 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
easy How can one lake empty into another.. God will just put it in ..
Death is not a part of the life of the Christian after this time period. Nobody will die any more spiritually or physically.. Hell is spiritual death (separation from God) And physical death will never again happen in the new world..
2007-10-28 11:01:25 · answer #9 · answered by † PRAY † 7 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Perhaps there is a lake of fire and Hell sits above it, Hell may well have it`s own fire independent of any other source, but I am only conjecturing you understand.
2007-10-28 11:04:04 · answer #10 · answered by Sentinel 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋