Is Yahweh true? Watch Israel.

[Darkstar]

The majority of my answer was already in my expanded post that was in response to persuademe.
But I'll say that this can not be literal for the following reasons:
--death is cast into the fire? (Rev 14:10)
--hell is cast into the lake of fire (Rev 20:14)- hades can mean the grave or, as I should have said before - the power of death. The power of death will come to complete destruction (Rev 21:4; 1 Cor 15:55)
--symbols are frequently interpreted- e.g. the women is a great city (Rev 17:18), 'waters' are peoples (Rev 17:15). The lake of fire is 'the second death'- Rev 20:14; 21:8.
Other than that, refer to what I said in my previous post.

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Yeah, I think the pastors at my old church interpreted it as non-literal because it was so out there (and some things appeared symbolic), but I still wonder why god would give John a completely symbolic vision and not tell him it wasn't literal. It just seems like poor communication.