The Lake of Fire

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Oct 14, 1897

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 23, No. 40.

No. 643. The Lake of Fire.

PLEASE explain how the beast and false prophet are cast into the lake of fire (Rev. 19:19, 20) a thousand years before the utter destruction of the wicked, and before the devil is cast in, as stated in Rev. 20:10 and 2 Peter 3:10. Where is this lake of fire at that time? SEARCHER OF TRUTH.

The beast and false prophet represent systems and governments. These systems or governments will be destroyed when Christ shall come, when his presence will set on fire the earth. See Isa. 30:33; Ps. 50:3; 2 Thess. 2:8. At the end of the 1,000 years the whole earth will be converted into a lake of fire, and in it Satan and all the wicked, not as systems or governments, but as individuals, will be consumed. This is shown in 2 Peter 3:10, and other scriptures.