The lake of fire is a place of non existance.
Revelation 20:10 And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are, and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever.
Revelation 19:20 And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone.
There will be no more devil as the devil will not be a devil anymore, he will be reconciled to God and be a good angel again. Get it?
When all is reconciled there will be no more evil, no more beast, false prophet, these things will be things of the past tense.
Quoting: _2 swords_ What part of "tormented forever" means "non-existence"?
Get it?
Interesting that the definition for tormented says
TORMENT'ED, pp. Painted to extremity; teased; harassed.
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link to www.1828-dictionary.com]
Since the devil is only a devil because of his rebellion, he is no longer a devil when reconciled.
The devil(rebelliousness), beast (gov't powers), false prophet (false religious powers) are all conditions and systems and are not people.
They will be tormented forever and ever in that they will always be a thing of abhorance and scorn by all of creation that has been reconciled to God. They will forever and ever be an abomination to be hated.(ie. There smoke ascendeth forever and ever)
Hard to explain in few words and I may not be the best to do so, but I am trying.
When it comes to the book of Revelation, we have to remember that it is given in sign language and that it is descriptive/figurative and not a literal/physical language.
Revelation 1:1 The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and
signified it by his angel unto his servant John:
