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Revelation 9:6
During THOSE DAYS men will seek death but will not find it, they will long to die but death will flee from them"
I argue for annihilation from this verse in addition to the many other verses scripture provides. This is speaking of a period of 5 months when scorpions from the abyss torment men ON EARTH. This is the only time scripture teaches that men will desire to die to escape their torment with no success and for only a period of 5 months. This verse is key in showing that God has not planned for the perpetual suffering of people in flames
Anyone burning in flames would desire to be unconscious in order for their suffering to end so why doesn't scripture say the wicked will desire death when burning in the lake of fire? It only says there will be wailing and gnashing of teeth but no reference to the wicked wanting the torment to stop? It's because the torment will stop. The flames will not burn the wicked eternally, only on the day that fire rains upon them. It will be an unquenchable Fire, the kind that you cannot put out by dropping and rolling or smacking your body. That fire will burn until the wicked are literally devoured, consumed and turned to ashes
And here are other verses for anyone who cares to do some studying on the topic
Genesis 3:22
And the LORD God said, "The man has now become like one of us, knowing good and evil. He must NOT BE ALLOWEDTO reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and LIVE FOREVER."
-Souls are not eternal/immortal by design
Jude 1:7
In a similar way, Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding towns gave themselves up to sexual immorality and perversion. They serve as an example of those who suffer the PUNISHMENT OF ETERNAL FIRE
-punishment of eternal fire is not an ongoing process but a final result
1 Tim 6:15-16
"He who is the blessed and only Sovereign, the King of kings and Lord of lords, who ALONE POSSESSES IMMORTALITY..."
-men are not immortal/eternal souls, only God grants the gift of immortality
Matthew 10:28
"Rather, fear him which is able to DESTROY BOTH SOUL AND BODY in hell.”
-God truly can destroy a soul in hell, and He will
Rom 6:23—"For the wages of sin is DEATH, but the gift of God is ETERNAL LIFE in Christ Jesus our Lord."
Hebrews 10:26-27
"judgment and of raging FIRE THAT WILL CONSUME the enemies of God
Gal 6:8
"For the one who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap CORRUPTION, but the one who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap ETERNAL LIFE
John 3:36
"He who believes in the Son has eternal life; but he who does not obey the Son WILL NOT SEE LIFE, but the wrath of God abides on him."
-Where do we come up with unbelievers being alive forever to be tormented?
Malachi 4:3
Then you will trample on the wicked; THEY WILL BE ASHES under the soles of your feet on THE DAY when I act," says the LORD Almighty.
-Hell fire burning is not forever but for a short time
Psalm 37:20
"But the wicked shall PERISH… they shall CONSUME; into smoke shall they CONSUMED
Psalm 92:7
that though THE WICKED spring up like grass and all evildoers flourish, they WILL BE DESTROYED FOREVER.
Prov. 24:20
"the lamp of the wicked will be SNUFFED OUT
Dan. 2:35
"the wind swept them away WITHOUT LEAVING A TRACE.”
Isa. 1:28, 30–31
"rebels and sinners shall be DESTROYED together, and those who forsake the Lord shall be CONSUMED
Mal 4:1
"All the arrogant and every evildoer will be stubble, and the day that is coming will set them on fire,” says the LORD Almighty. “NOT A ROOT OR A BRANCH WILL BE LEFT TO THEM.”
Revelation 20:14
Then death and the grave were thrown into the lake of fire. THIS LAKE OF FIRE IS THE SECOND DEATH
2 Peter 3:10
"But the day of the Lord will come like a thief, in which the heavens will pass away with a roar and the elements will be DESTROYED WITH INTENSE HEAT and the earth and its works will be BURNED UP"
Matthew 13:41-43
The Son of man shall send forth his angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all things that offend, And them which do iniquity; and shall CAST THEM INTO A FURNACE OF FIRE, there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth
Psalm 37:38
But all sinners will be destroyed;
there will be no future for the wicked
Genesis 3:19
for dust thou art, and UNTO DUST SHALT THOU RETURN
Matthew 3:12
but he will burn up the chaff with UNQUENCHABLE FIRE.
Matthew 25:41
"Then he will say to those on his left, ‘Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels"
Psalms 21:9
Thou shalt MAKE THEM AS A FIERY OVEN in the time of thine anger: the LORD shall SWALLOW THEM UP in his wrath, and THE FIRE SHALL DEVOUR THEM"
Isaiah 47:14
"Behold, they shall be as stubble; the fire shall burn them; they shall not deliver themselves from the power of the flame: there shall not be a coal to warm at, nor fire to sit before it."
-Did you catch that? ....after the wicked are burned up completely there won't even remain a burning coal or a fire to sit before. The flames do die out
Ezequiel 28:18
"Thou hast defiled thy sanctuaries by the multitude of thine iniquities, by the iniquity of thy traffic; therefore will I bring forth a fire from the midst of thee, IT SHALL DEVOUR THEE, AND I WILL BRING THEE TO ASHES UPON THE EARTH in the sight of all them that behold thee."
-Even Satan gets turned into ashes
2 Peter 2:6
if he condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah by BURNING THEM TO ASHES, and made them an example of what is going to happen to the ungodly;
Jude 1:7
"Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the VENGEANCE of ETERNAL FIRE."
Psalm 68:2
May you blow them away like smoke-- as wax melts before the fire, may the wicked perish before God
Psalm 37:10
A little while, and the wicked will be no more;
though you look for them, they will not be found.
Psalm 37:12-13
The wicked plot against the righteous
and gnash their teeth at them;
but the Lord laughs at the wicked,
for he knows their DAY is coming.
Psalm 104:35
Let all sinners vanish from the face of the earth; let the wicked disappear forever