Ruckman's explanation of Revelation 20:14

[Paul]

I just contacted someone over the internet and asked them if they could type up Peter Ruckman's commentary on Rev. 20:14 for me. This ought to be interesting.  :icon_jokercolor:

[Paul]

Here it is:

Revelation 20:14 "And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death."

This is the end of "sheol." This is the end of "Abraham's Bosom." This is the end of all intermediate states; it is probably also the end of all physical death.

"This is the second death." Notice that He didn't say "second resurrection." He said, "This is the first resurrection" in Rev. 20:5, so technically, Rev 20:11-15 is not a resurrection.  We teach two resurrections because to all practical purposes, the two judgments are separated by 1,000 years.  The second resurrection is not a "resurrection" in the sense that dead people are "raised up out of their graves" and "caught up" to a position.  Heaven and earth are blasted away, and there are the sinners already in position.

I was wondering how he reconciled the fact that hell is destroyed in the Lake of Fire with the fact that Jesus said hell was neverending in the gospels (in the KJV, of course.)

He says something interesting about resurrections in the second paragraph, though.

[Paul]

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