Neither will satan exist "forever and ever", but that term aion means "age". The devil will be tormented for the thousands of years of his sins, touting himself as a god, suffering the humiliation of the truth, but not eternally. Ages can have an end,
the end of the "world" (age, aion) Mt.24:3
Consider the following (old post) very carefully:
[quoting old post]
Consider the specific phrase below [in distiction 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 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/have been for the 1000 yrs
(and "
These two cast ALIVE into" Rev19:20) before Satan/the devil is thereafter "cast into the lake of fire" where, it says, "
they [plural] shall be tormented day and night [that is, continually] ____";
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 of the ages" i.e. there is no "escaping" out of this, no "dying [escape /
separation] 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 (i.e. the 'second death' / @GWTj point in the chronology)]
[
21x total, I believe]
[end quoting old 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 "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)]