G'day All:
Crazy how things can just " happen ":
Looked at the brimstone referred to in relation to the lake o fire burning brimstone:
" a divine insence, because burning brimstone was regarded as having power to purify and to ward off disease. "
Used for them under the beast
Second death seems to be that purification.
https://radical-reaction.com/lol/index.html
Cheers.
Clarifies quite well.
?It?s curious to me how the three mentions of lake of fire are at large, earthly, fiery events..
I?ve come to believe that God?s ?wrath? is cause and effect, Ps.90:3,5-7 You return man to dust, and say, Return, O children of man! 5 You sweep them away as with a flood; they are like a dream, like grass that is renewed in the morning: 6 in the morning it flourishes and is renewed, in the evening it fades and withers. 7 For we are brought to an end by your anger, by your wrath we are dismayed. :dontknow: