The Israelites
Nowhere does the Bible (KJB) teach that God will ever cast living humans into the lake of fire. In Revelation 14:9-11, the Bible does teach that humans who receive the mark of the beast during the Tribulation and who worship him will be cast into the lake of fire. During the Tribulation, the Devil will have devised a method by which anyone who receives his mark in their body will become totally evil, spiritually dead, and a worshiper of him. The goal of the Devil in his war with God has always been to cause the living souls and spirits of humans to become totally evil and lost from God's Love forever. The Devil believes that if he can annul just one soul and spirit that God created, he can prove that God's Love is not Almighty, gain an advantage over God, and eventually murder Him. Job 1:11; Job 2:5; Job 2:9; John 8:44.
The Devil will believe that he has achieved his goal when he puts his mark on those who will receive it because they will become totally evil. However, Revelation 14:13 assures all who read it that these dead will "die in the Lord," which means that God will extract their living souls and spirits from their systems and recover their good works at the same time that they receive the mark of the beast.
The only scriptures in the New Testament that can be interpreted to teach that God casts all living humans not saved by grace into an everlasting fire occurs in Mark 9:43-48. But Jesus did not teach that at all. God does cast the worst humans into Hell, but Hell is not an everlasting fire. Revelation 20:14 teaches that God will cast Hell into the everlasting fire so that Hell comes to an end. God will also cast the dead into the lake of fire, but these dead are not living humans. Revelation 20:15. Revelation 20:5 teaches that God will raise all of His living humans from the regions of the dead before He casts the dead into the lake of fire.
Jesus could not have meant that cutting off body parts will keep one out of Hell. Jesus' teaching symbolizes the fact that one must go through some spiritual pain in order to repent of one's sins and receive God's grace. Repentance means to die to self in order to become born again as a child of God. Even spiritual death requires some pain. Galatians 2:20; John 3:3-7.
In Mark 9:44, 46, and 48, Jesus did not teach that living humans would ever be cast into the lake of fire. Jesus taught that their "worm dieth not." Jesus used the word "worm" to symbolize the nastiness of their total evil, which is also their spiritual deaths, which He will separate from them and cast into the lake of fire. God used the same symbolism in Psalm 22:6 which is a prophecy that Jesus will become a "worm" on the cross which means He took all of the nastiness of sin and evil on Himself on the cross in order to purge it all from all living humans, some by His shed blood and water and all others by the use of His consuming fire when He left all of their sins and evil behind in Hell when He rose immaculate from the dead. I John 1:7; I Corinthians 3:11-15; Revelation 22:11-12.
Isaiah used this same symbolism in Isaiah 66:24 when he prophesied that living humans will be able to observe the "worms" in the lake of fire that came from the dead bodies of all the humans that God destroys in the final battle with evil as recorded in Revelation 20:7-9. God will use the wrath of His consuming fire to separate the living souls and spirits of these humans from their "worms" which are their spiritual deaths that He will cast into the lake of fire. Revelation 22:11-12.
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