We reject the doctrine of the annihilation of the wicked, and believe that all who die out of Christ shall be turned into hell, the fire of which shall never be quenched, the wicked there suffering for ever the torments of eternal fire.
Mt 25:46, And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal. Re 14:10-11, The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb: and the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever: and they have no rest day nor night, who worship the beast and his image, and whosoever receiveth the mark of his name. Re 19:20, These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone. Re 20:10, And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are, and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever. Re 20:15, And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.
NOTE: It is the same word in the Greek which, in Mt 25:46, declares the eternity of life for the sheep which declares the eternity of punishment for the goats. So in Re 20:15, those who are “not written in the book of life” are “cast into the lake of fire,” where they are “tormented for ever and ever.” Re 20:10. Now the same words which are there translated “for ever and ever” are also used in Re 10:6, where the angel “sware by Him that liveth for ever and ever.” Therefore if God is “to live for ever and ever,” the torment in the lake of fire is to be for ever and ever; for the words are exactly the same in both passages.
