The Eternity of Punishment

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I have read a good deal of what has been written on the subject of eternal punishment (of course, not perhaps a hundredth part of what has been written), but I found one passage of Scripture which so quietly and explicitly settled the whole question forever for my own soul, that I would like to show it to you for your consideration also. It was this. In Revelation 20 where the scene of final judgment is foretold, God waits till the thousand years are expired, before the last temptation of the unsaved on earth and the last judgment is set for the final doom of the wicked. Then He raises them. But they are raised in God's eternity and not in time at all. What is raised in eternity cannot cease to exist in time, for if it ceased to exist in time, it could not be raised in eternity. What happens in eternity is, and must be, eternal. The existence of the wicked, raised for and receiving then their doom, remains while eternity rolls on.