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Smoke Rising Forever.
October 16, 2025
People in New York don’t typically see vivid red sunsets caused by smoke that has traveled thousands of miles to their state, but that’s what happened in the summer of 2021. Giant fires on the West Coast caused pollution in the Big Apple to rise above an unhealthy 170 on the air quality index.
But what does it mean in today’s text that the smoke from the destruction of Babylon “rises up forever and ever”? Does this support the doctrine of eternally burning fires of hell?
The word translated as “forever” in the Bible does not always mean “without end.” In fact, the Bible uses this term 56 times in connection with things that have ended. For instance, in Exodus 21:1–6, the Hebrew servant was to serve his master “forever,” but it was clearly only as long as he lived.
The term is also defined in Psalm 48:14: “For this is God, our God forever and ever; He will be our guide even to death.” The desolation of Edom was to ascend “forever” (Isaiah 34:10), yet we know that it does not still burn but, as the Bible says, lies in “waste.”
According to this information, the wicked will suffer as long as they continue to live in the fire. Then, as the Bible states, “The wicked … shall be destroyed forever” (Psalm 92:7 KJV). The Bible says these fires will “burn them up” and will leave them “neither root nor branch” and will leave “ashes under the soles of your feet” (Malachi 4:1–3). When the work of the fire is completed, it will go out.
And so the destruction of Babylon will be forever complete. It is not an everlasting state of torment for the wicked. Our loving Lord will blot sin out of existence because He knows it would eventually destroy our world and everyone in it.
Father in heaven, I trust Your righteous work in destroying Babylon and all who choose to worship the beast.
For Further Study: Psalm 37:10, 20, 36; 2 Peter 2:6; Matthew 3:11, 12
Key Bible Texts
And again they said, Alleluia. And her smoke rose up for ever and ever. (Revelation 19:3 KJV)
Daily Devotionals
Smoke Rising Forever.
October 16, 2025
People in New York don’t typically see vivid red sunsets caused by smoke that has traveled thousands of miles to their state, but that’s what happened in the summer of 2021. Giant fires on the West Coast caused pollution in the Big Apple to rise above an unhealthy 170 on the air quality index.
But what does it mean in today’s text that the smoke from the destruction of Babylon “rises up forever and ever”? Does this support the doctrine of eternally burning fires of hell?
The word translated as “forever” in the Bible does not always mean “without end.” In fact, the Bible uses this term 56 times in connection with things that have ended. For instance, in Exodus 21:1–6, the Hebrew servant was to serve his master “forever,” but it was clearly only as long as he lived.
The term is also defined in Psalm 48:14: “For this is God, our God forever and ever; He will be our guide even to death.” The desolation of Edom was to ascend “forever” (Isaiah 34:10), yet we know that it does not still burn but, as the Bible says, lies in “waste.”
According to this information, the wicked will suffer as long as they continue to live in the fire. Then, as the Bible states, “The wicked … shall be destroyed forever” (Psalm 92:7 KJV). The Bible says these fires will “burn them up” and will leave them “neither root nor branch” and will leave “ashes under the soles of your feet” (Malachi 4:1–3). When the work of the fire is completed, it will go out.
And so the destruction of Babylon will be forever complete. It is not an everlasting state of torment for the wicked. Our loving Lord will blot sin out of existence because He knows it would eventually destroy our world and everyone in it.
Father in heaven, I trust Your righteous work in destroying Babylon and all who choose to worship the beast.
For Further Study: Psalm 37:10, 20, 36; 2 Peter 2:6; Matthew 3:11, 12
Key Bible Texts
And again they said, Alleluia. And her smoke rose up for ever and ever. (Revelation 19:3 KJV)
Amazing Facts
Daily Devotionals
Smoke Rising Forever.
October 16, 2025
People in New York don’t typically see vivid red sunsets caused by smoke that has traveled thousands of miles to their state, but that’s what happened in the summer of 2021. Giant fires on the West Coast caused pollution in the Big Apple to rise above an unhealthy 170 on the air quality index.
But what does it mean in today’s text that the smoke from the destruction of Babylon “rises up forever and ever”? Does this support the doctrine of eternally burning fires of hell?
The word translated as “forever” in the Bible does not always mean “without end.” In fact, the Bible uses this term 56 times in connection with things that have ended. For instance, in Exodus 21:1–6, the Hebrew servant was to serve his master “forever,” but it was clearly only as long as he lived.
The term is also defined in Psalm 48:14: “For this is God, our God forever and ever; He will be our guide even to death.” The desolation of Edom was to ascend “forever” (Isaiah 34:10), yet we know that it does not still burn but, as the Bible says, lies in “waste.”
According to this information, the wicked will suffer as long as they continue to live in the fire. Then, as the Bible states, “The wicked … shall be destroyed forever” (Psalm 92:7 KJV). The Bible says these fires will “burn them up” and will leave them “neither root nor branch” and will leave “ashes under the soles of your feet” (Malachi 4:1–3). When the work of the fire is completed, it will go out.
And so the destruction of Babylon will be forever complete. It is not an everlasting state of torment for the wicked. Our loving Lord will blot sin out of existence because He knows it would eventually destroy our world and everyone in it.
Father in heaven, I trust Your righteous work in destroying Babylon and all who choose to worship the beast.
For Further Study: Psalm 37:10, 20, 36; 2 Peter 2:6; Matthew 3:11, 12
Key Bible Texts
And again they said, Alleluia. And her smoke rose up for ever and ever. (Revelation 19:3 KJV)
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