The OP asks "what are your thoughts"... I'm pulling forward a post I made in the past:
Post #46 [& #47] - (changed up the formatting & edited somewhat for this present post) -
https://christianchat.com/threads/too-late-after-our-death.194282/post-4350490
Consider a post I made in the past:
[quoting]
Consider the specific phrase below [
in distinction from other similar phrases that refer to distinct things]...
the blanks are where this particular phrase should be inserted, in the following:
"unto the ages [plural] of the ages [plural]" -
(what we call "forever" / "eternity" / "eternal" / endlessness, etc),
...found in the following verses:
--Galatians 1:5;
Philippians 4:20;
1 Timothy 1:17;
2 Timothy 4:18;
Hebrews 13:21
(
"[to Whom] be glory _____" ; "be honour and glory _____");
--1 Peter 4:11;
1 Peter 5:11;
Revelation 1:6
(
"to Him/Whom be glory/praise/dominion ____");
--Revelation 1:18;
Revelation 4:9;
Revelation 4:10;
Revelation 5:14;
Revelation 10:6;
Revelation 15:7
(
"I am alive ____" ; "[Him] Who/that liveth ____" ; "God, Who liveth ____");
--Revelation 5:13;
Revelation 7:12;
Revelation 11:15;
Revelation 22:5
(
"and unto the Lamb ___" ; "be unto our God ____" ; "and He shall reign ____" ; "and they shall reign ___");
[which ones of the above look to be saying something like "long-but-limited-time-period"??]
--and used in the 3 verses usually "under question":
Revelation 14:11 [regarding those who receive the mark and worship the beast and his image]; and...
Revelation 19:3 [regarding the judgment of "the great whore"]; and...
Revelation 20:10 [regarding "the devil" and where "the beast and the false prophet" already are/will have been for the 1000 yrs]
--and "These two cast ALIVE into" Rev19:20 (@2nd Coming of Christ)... before Satan/the devil is thereafter (after the 1000 yrs) "cast into the lake of fire" where, it says,
"they [plural] shall be tormented day and night [that is, continually] unto the ages [plural] of the ages [plural] ";
--and the same place that (of "the dead [/unsaved of all times]") "whosoever was
not found written in the book of life was cast into" also
(see Psalm 69:28 where TWO DISTINCT things/actions/
writings are named);
--not to mention where "death and hell/hades" are also to be "cast into" per v.14
--this being the equivalent of the SECOND of the TWO "PUNISH" words in Isaiah 24:21-22,[23], found in v.22b...
...in other words, "hell/hades" (and "death") is what PRECEDES this point in the chronology,
...and thus what FOLLOWS this point in the chronology is "death and hell/hades
DELIVERED UP the DEAD that were in them"
for this final carrying out of the sentence, so to speak, of which this passage states that it ('the lake of fire') is:
"for ever and ever"/
"unto the ages [plural] of the ages [plural]"
i.e. there is no "escaping" this, no "
dying [escape / separation] out-from this / out-of this," as "death" is the last enemy to be "destroyed [G2673 -
katargeó/katargeitai - 'to make completely inoperative' or 'to put out of use,']" at that time (@GWTj point in the chronology)
[21x total, I believe]
[end quoting that post]
____________
[after someone had mentioned
"torture"]
The word is
"tormented [G928]" not
"torture."
The same word is used in the Gospels @ Matthew 8:5-6 - "5 And He having entered into Capernaum, a centurion came to Him, imploring Him, 6 and saying, “Lord, my servant is lying in the house paralyzed, grievously
tormented [G928].”
[and Post #47]
... and
a related word in Matthew 4:24 - "And the news of Him went out into all Syria. And they brought to Him all the sick having various diseases and
oppressing pains [G931], and being possessed by demons, and having seizures, and paralytics--and He healed them."
[found in Lk16:23,28 also]
____________
[and from another thread...a related post...]
[
note to readers: Matt24:3 is not this ^ phrase, but is instead the phrase
"the end [singular] of the age [singular]" (see also Matt13:24,30,39,40,49-50), and is speaking of an entirely distinct point-in-time in the chronology, that is, at the time surrounding Christ's Second Coming to the earth
FOR the promised and prophesied earthly Millennial Kingdom
...(i.e. the FIRST of TWO "PUNISH" words in Isaiah 24:21-22[23]--i.e. Rev19:19,21/16:14-16/20:3,5),
...
aka [for the MK-->] "the age [singular] to come"...
...(not at the GWTj point in time [the SECOND of the TWO "PUNISH" words in that Isaiah passage], to be clear)]
[end quoting from old posts]
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