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302 "THIS MEANS EVERLASTING LIFE"
graves and sea, will feel the test . All will have to
take a faithful stand in the "camp of the holy
ones" . All are then deciding their destiny for
eternity. Their decision in support of Jehovah's
universal sovereignty, if faithfully held to, will
give them a part in vindicating him against his
nefarious reproacher Satan the Devil . Standing
the final test loyally, they will rejoice to witness
the divine fire descend from heaven and consume
the rebellious hosts of Gog and Magog, whose
number is not disclosed to us but is left as indeterminate
as the sand by the sea . Isaiah 66 :24
The names of these rebels are not written in the
scroll of life. "The name of the wicked shall rot ."
-Proverbs 10 :7.
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Although the devoted survivors of the test
cannot see it with the natural eye, the Devil and
his demons, who mislead the rebellious human
hosts, are cast into the "lake of fire and sulphur" .
That is the same place where the symbolic beast
and false prophet were cast a thousand years previous,
while still living, going concerns, able to
feel the torment of going down into disgraceful
destruction . This betokens the unending destruction
of Satan and his demons, for that symbolic
lake "means the second death" . Revelation 19 :20
and 21 :8, NW The statement that the wild beast
and the false prophet and Satan are to be tormented
day and night forever and ever in that
"lake" proves that Satan and his demons are never
released from destruction as once they were from
the abyss . At last in a complete sense for all time
Jesus Christ finishes his mission to "destroy the
7 . Where is the Devil then cast? How is he tormented
forever?