Did the apostle Peter teach the wicked would live and burn eternally in Hell/Gehenna?
We find Peter mentioning what happens to the wicked in
2 Peter 2:12
12But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be
taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall
utterly perish in their own corruption;
He understood the wicked would be
DESTROYED. He said they would
UTTERLY PERISH.
Nothing about them living for eternity in Hell/Gehenna.
He expands on their punishment in verse 17.
17These are wells without water, clouds that are carried with a tempest; to whom
the mist of darkness is reserved for ever.
Since apostle Jude also mentions this lets bring what he said together with what Peter said.
Jude 1:12-13
12These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds they are without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots; 13Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars,
to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever.
Peter says the wicked will be in the "mist" of darkness. Jude says they will be in the "blackness" of darkness forever.
Does this not sound different than the lake of fire? Do you perceive a lake burning with fire as the mist or blackness of darkness? Lets allow Jesus words to explain.
Matt 13:
41The Son of man shall send forth his angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all things that offend, and them which do iniquity; 42And shall cast them into a
furnace of fire: there shall be
wailing and gnashing of teeth.
Jesus says the wicked are cast into the furnace of fire. Sounds the same as the lake of fire amen?
Now look at this.
Matt 8:11-12
11And I say unto you, That many shall come from the east and west, and shall sit down with Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, in the kingdom of heaven. 12But the children of the kingdom shall be
cast out into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
In one example the wicked are weeping and gnashing teeth in the lake of fire in the other in outer darkness.
The answer is that the lake of fire is the
PLACE where the wicked will die. Then at their death they pass out of existing in other words into outer darkness.
Darkness is a metaphor for death in spiritual language.
Job 18:16-18
16
His roots shall be dried up beneath, and above shall his branch be cut off.
17His remembrance shall perish from the earth, and he shall have no name in the street.
18
He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.
So once cast into the lake of fire for however long their torment will be the wicked will
PERISH just like Jesus said in
John 3:16.
So far no apostle has taught the wicked will live eternally in Hell/Gehenna.