The final state of the wicked and the righteous
1 – The place the wicked are sent
There are a few different views: annihilationism where we are destroyed. But scripture teaches eternal punishment
Mat 25:30,46 – Luke 16:19-31 – Matt 23:33 – Matt 18:8-9
Eternal judgment. It will be a real place. It will be a terrible place and Gods eternal judgment. Matt 13:42 “furnace of fire” – Rev 20:14, Rev 20:14-15 “lake of fire” – 1 Peter 3:19 “prison” – Luke 8:31 “abyss” – II Pet 2:4 “tartarus”
2 – The nature of their existence
A place of total absence of the favor God. Rev 14:10, 2 Thessalonians 1:9
A place of pain and suffering and torment. Luke 16:23,28
Bitterness, rage, and anger. Matt 8:12, 13:50
Things that men greatly fear. Luke 16:24, Rev 20:10, Matt 22:13, Matt 8:12, Matt 25:30, 1 Corinth 15:54-56 – Rev 29:14, 2:11, 20:6, 21:8
3 – punished eternally
Matt 18:8, 2 Thess 1:9, Rev 14:11, Rev 20:10
Eternal in some places is very long time
Other scriptural expressions reveal punishment forever
Mark 9:43, 48; Luke 16:26
Same word, in some context, used to describe the ongoing existence of the wicked is used for the ongoing existence of the righteous
Matthew 25:46
He will and he must pay for his sins for eternity or God is not just
aiōnios – ahee-o’-nee-os
Outline of Biblical Usage:
without beginning and end, that which always has been and always will be
without beginning
without end, never to cease, everlasting
Daniel 12:2 (NKJV) And many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, Some to everlasting life, Some to shame [and] everlasting contempt.