Garee, you have to abide by the meanings of the words provided in the context. The everlasting destruction is complete loss of well being, ruination of one's status with God for all eternity, not annihilation or extinction.
There is no spirit life in dust.
Ecclesiastes 12:7 Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.
According to all related scriptures, Life and death are both states of existence. Life is being in the joyful presence of God and death is separation from God and complete loss of well being. Everyone who comes into the world, whether righteous or wicked, exists for ever. Everyone whether righteous or wicked will both receive a resurrected body - (Dan.12:2, Acts 24:15).
Complete loss of all being... no spirit the essence of life . The dead know nothing they feel nothing .
Unless a person is Catholic with their list of the legion who might be sought after 3500 and rising what they call patron saints and scriptures calls workers with familiar spirits then necromancy becomes the foundation.
Psa 90:10 The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.
It would make no sense for the wicked to also receive a resurrected body if it was just going to be immediately burnt up in the lake of fire. The bodies that the wicked will receive will not be destroyed by the flame, but will experience to torment of the heat. This is how the smoke of their torment can rise up forever and ever.
And this is not a matter of me looking forward to people going to judgment and being cast into the lake of fire, which I am not. But this is a matter of contending for the truth and accuracy of God's word against those who are claiming and teaching annihilation who have simply departed from the truth..
Jam 2:26 For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.
Search the meaning of the parable “heart of the earth” (the earth with her bars was about me forever)
and compare it to the “belly of the whale” the belly of hell as to the reason of his affliction.( living suffering)
Then Jonah prayed unto the LORD his God out of the fish's belly,And said, I cried by reason of mine affliction unto the LORD, and he heard me; out of the belly of hell cried I, and thou heardest my voice.For thou hadst cast me into the deep, in the midst of the seas; and the floods compassed me about: all thy billows and thy waves passed over me.Then I said, I am cast out of thy sight; yet I will look again toward thy holy temple.The waters compassed me about, even to the soul: the depth closed me round about, the weeds were wrapped about my head.I went down to the bottoms of the mountains; the earth with her bars was about me for ever: yet hast thou brought up my life from corruption, O LORD my God Jon 2:1