[FONT="]Punishment[/FONT][FONT="] [/FONT]
[FONT="]Matthew 25:46[/FONT][FONT="][/FONT]
[FONT="]“Then they will go away to eternal
punishment, but the righteous to eternal life.”[/FONT]
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[FONT="]2 Peter 2:9[/FONT][FONT="][/FONT]
[FONT="]if this is so, then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials and to hold the unrighteous for
punishment on the day of judgment.[/FONT]
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[FONT="]ude 1:7[/FONT][FONT="][/FONT]
[FONT="]In a similar way, Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding towns gave themselves up to sexual immorality and perversion. They serve as an example of those who suffer the
punishment of eternal fire. [/FONT]
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[FONT="]Revelation 17:1[/FONT][FONT="][/FONT]
[FONT="]One of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came and said to me, “Come, I will show you the
punishment of the great prostitute, who sits by many waters.[/FONT]
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Revelation 14:10[/FONT]
[FONT="]they, too, will drink the wine of God’s fury, which has been poured full strength into the cup of his wrath. They will be (tormented /
punished) with burning sulfur in the presence of the holy angels and of the Lamb.[/FONT]
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Revelation 14:11[/FONT]
[FONT="]And the smoke of their (torment /
punishment) will rise forever and ever. There will be
no rest day or night for those who worship the beast and its image, or for anyone who receives the mark of its name.” [/FONT]
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[FONT="]Basanizo / Basanismos[/FONT][FONT="]
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[FONT="]In Revelation 14:10, the word “basanizo” is translated as “tormented” (past tense verb)[/FONT][FONT="]
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[FONT="]In Revelation 14:11, the word “basanismos” is translated as “torment” (noun)[/FONT][FONT="] [/FONT]
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[FONT="]Both these words come from the root “basanos,” which is defined by Strong’s as “a touchstone.” Webster defines the word “touchstone” as: “1. A stone by which metals are examined; a black, smooth, glossy stone… 2. Any test or criterion by which the qualities of a thing are tried; as money, the touchstone of common honesty.”[/FONT][FONT="] [/FONT]
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[FONT="]You find this interesting considering that the definition of the Greek word that was translated as “torment,” not only has nothing to do with eternal conscious torment, but it is actually a process that tests purity. So we can see that to be tormented in these verses is compared to being rubbed upon a touchstone.[/FONT][FONT="] [/FONT]
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[FONT="]Touch·stone[/FONT]
[FONT="]noun[/FONT][FONT="][/FONT]
[FONT="]noun:
touchstone; plural noun:
touchstones[/FONT]
- [FONT="]a piece of fine-grained dark schist or jasper formerly used for testing alloys of gold by observing the color of the mark that they made on it.[/FONT]
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[FONT="]a standard or criterion by which something is judged.[/FONT]
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Psalm 95:11[/FONT]
[FONT="]So I declared on oath in my anger,
‘They shall never enter my rest.’”[/FONT]
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Hebrews 3:11[/FONT]
[FONT="]So I declared on oath in my anger,
‘They shall never enter my rest.’ ”[/FONT]
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Hebrews 4:3[/FONT]
[FONT="]Now we who have believed enter that rest, just as God has said, “So I declared on oath in my anger,
‘They shall never enter my rest.’” And yet his works have been finished since the creation of the world.[/FONT]
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Hebrews 4:5[/FONT]
[FONT="]And again in the passage above he says,
“They shall never enter my rest.”[/FONT]
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