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The answer is yes.
The Devil and His angels are confined there; humans are destroyed there, both body and soul, Mt 10:28.
Jesus said that God can destroy both body and soul in Hell, Mt 10:28.
The spirit returns to God who gave it –
Ecclesiastes 12:7 KJV —Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.
It’s clear from Genesis that God never intended humans to live forever in sin.
Gen 3:22 ¶And Jehovah God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil; and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever—
Unbelievers can’t perceive the Kingdom of God, and to them, faith seems like foolishness, as noted in Matthew 13:11-12.
1Co 2:14 But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
God set up our lives in this way.
We should remember that God is choosing a bride for His Son, Jesus, Rev 21:9.
When unbelievers pass away, they’ll never realize they were mistaken.
This is veiled, and the veil is only taken away in Christ.
This Unawareness is God’s mercy –
The idea of eternal torment is not supported by scripture and was introduced by nonbelievers.
Hell is termed to be everlasting fire because it was created to be a realm of punishment for eternal beings, and not because humans will endure there forever.
The Spiritual Second Coming is separate and distinct (Acts 3:19-21) from the Day of the Lord.
Every eye will see Jesus coming in Judgment (this is the Day of the Lord’s judgment, Joel 1:15). It represents God trying to wake people up.
Only those who look for Jesus will experience His Spiritual presence (Second Coming), Heb 9:28, and Acts 3:20.
One is for salvation – Heb 9:28, and one is for Judgment – Joel 1:15-16.
Eze 30:3 For the day is near, even the day of the LORD is near, a cloudy day; it shall be the time of the heathen.
Jesus said that the soul and body can be destroyed in Hell and in the presence of those beings.
Mt 10:28 And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.
Hebrews 2:9 KJV — But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honour; that he by the grace of God should taste death for every man.
To be subject to death, Jesus was made lower than the Angels, which means that they are not subject to death – they are everlasting, therefore the fire that is their punishment must also be eternal.
Matt 25:41 ¶Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels:
Lu 13:27 But he shall say, I tell you, I know you not whence ye are; depart from me, all ye workers of iniquity.
Notice that both sheep and goats call Jesus Lord, and He will reject no person who comes to Him.
Joh 6:37 All that the Father giveth me shall come to me; and him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out.
Jesus uses Hell – He sends Disobedient goats who call Him Lord there to learn to deny ungodliness, and when they have paid the uttermost farthing, they are released, Matt 5:26.
Like much of God’s wisdom, this parable is meant to conceal its meaning from the unbelieving and the inexperienced or unlearned, much like how a message in tongues can be misunderstood by someone new to the faith 1 Cor 14:23.
Hell is where the Eternal beings called fallen angels exist, Mt 25:41.
These evil spirits are used to facilitate the judgment of Christians 2 Pet 2:4.
2Pe 2:4 For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment;
Christians can be sent there during their earthly life as discipline for ungodly behavior.
They are then released when the behavior is corrected, as Jesus said in Matt 5:26.
Mt 5:26 Verily I say unto thee, Thou shalt by no means come out thence, till thou hast paid the uttermost farthing.
Through this discipline, God corrects the behavior and restores them to His kingdom, as seen in 1 Corinthians 11:32.
1Co 11:32 But when we are judged, we are chastened of the Lord, that we should not be condemned with the world.
In Luke 16:19-26, Jesus explains there is a great gulf separating the Kingdom of God from Hell (the Prison), and in Revelation 1:18, He declares that only He holds the keys.
Re 1:18 I am he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death.
Lu 16:26 And beside all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed: so that they which would pass from hence to you cannot; neither can they pass to us, that would come from thence.
Neither Lazarus nor the Rich man was physically dead in the parable from Lk 16.
They had both become followers of God and were in the process of being conformed by God’s grace.
The “Death” to which Jesus refers in the parable is mentioned by Paul in Col 2:20 and Romans 6:3 and 5. They chose faith, as Paul put it; they had become dead to the rudiments of the world.
Col 2:20 Wherefore if ye be dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, are ye subject to ordinances, {rudiments: or, elements}
Ro 6:3,5.
Hence, the elements melt on the Day of the Lord.
Paul described the “Day” of the Lord most clearly in 1 Corinthians 5:5.
1Co 5:5 To deliver such an one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.
The Bible clearly tells us that unbelievers perish in John 3:16, and people have then decided to debate what the word “perish” means to disallow this truth.
John 3:16 ¶For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth on him should not perish, but have eternal life.
Matthew 25:46 YLT — And these shall go away to punishment age-during, but the righteous to life age-during.’
Matthew 25:46 means that Jesus sends disobedient believers into the everlasting fire as a form of discipline—it doesn’t say they stay there forever, only that the fire or torment itself is eternal.
Rev 14:11 and the smoke of their torment goeth up for ever and ever; and they have no rest day and night, they that worship the beast and his image, and whoso receiveth the mark of his name.
Faith is the rest of the sabbath, as is indicated in Heb 4:3 and Heb 4:9.
Heb 4:3 For we which have believed do enter into rest, as he said, As I have sworn in my wrath, if they shall enter into my rest: although the works were finished from the foundation of the world.
Heb 4:9 There remaineth therefore a rest (Strong’s #4520 <sabbatismos> ) to the people of God. {rest: or, keeping of a sabbath}
- sabbatismov sabbatismos, sab-bat-is-mos’
- from a derivative of 4521; a “sabbatism”, i.e., (figuratively) the repose of Christianity (as a type of heaven):–rest.
- See Greek 4521 (sabbaton)
Smoke rising in Rev 14:11 does not mean the same people are there eternally.
It means that hell will burn forever, as was intended by its being used to punish the Devil and His angels.
Jas 5:20 Let him know, that he which converteth the sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall hide a multitude of sins.