Yes, Peter's words in 2 Peter 2:9 are about the timing of the punishment of the wicked, as anyone reading the Bible with his eyes open can see."The place is not the issue, it's the timing that is the issue?????"
Are you kidding all of us? LOCATION IS THE CONTEXT! We have been talking about Hell, Luke 16 being real or make believe and now you are telling us that it is all about TIMING instead of location???
TIMING........OK, here is the time line for you.........We die!
The bodies of all people go into the ground from whence they came.
The SPIRITS of the saved go to be with God.
The SPIRITS of the wicked lost go to Hades/Sheol where they are "reserved" unto the judgment day.
The bodies of the saved will be resurrected unto life at the 1st Resurrection and glorified and we will be with the Lord for Eternity!!!
The bodies of the wicked lost are "RESERVED" in Hades/Sheol until after the 1000 years rule of Christ.
The bodies of the wicked lost are then resurrected unto DEATH at the 2nd resurrection.
They are lost and judged by Christ and cast into the Lake of Fire where they will be tormented day and night eternally. NO 2nd chances. No Purgatory!
THERE IS NOT ONE SINGLE VERSE IN THE SCRIPTURES THAT TEACH ANNIALIHATION OF THE BODY/SPIRIT!!!. NO NOT ONE!!!!
Phoneman....We all know what you are doing. You are making up stuff to fit what YOU want it to be like instead of understanding WHAT IT IS going to be like. You are making the classic mistake of many others. The Bible is clear and understandable and it says exactly what God wants us to know. YOU however are more concerned with trying to make us understand WHAT YOU WANT IT TO BE.
We (Me) will never come to your side of this debate my brother. Never.
As for if Annihilation is in the Bible, I'll give you two easy verses:
- "Never shalt thou be anymore" Ezekiel 28, God referring to Satan's fate.
- "They shall be as though they had not been." Obadiah 16, referring to the fate of "all flesh" that continue in rebellion.
- **BONUS** "They shall sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the Lord of hosts" Jeremiah 51, referring to the same fate, which is the sleep of a perpetual death from which there will be no resurrection.