What happens to the two deceivers of the beast's followers in Revelation 19:20?
Revelation 19:20 states that the two men who deceived those who received the mark of the beast and worshiped his image are both cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone. They are not sent to hell, but directly into the lake of fire.
Les explains that these two men deceived those who received the mark of the beast and those who worshiped his image. At the end of verse 20, both of them are cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone. He distinguishes hell from the lake of fire: hell will one day go into the lake of fire, so they are not one and the same. These men are cast alive not to hell, where lost people go today, but to the lake of fire, where no one at all is at this point in time. Then verse 21 describes the remnant, those who survived the battle of Armageddon and all the cataclysmic events, being slain with the sword of Him who sat upon the horse, which sword proceeded out of His mouth. Les clarifies that this is not a literal great big sword or a machine gun in His teeth; the sword of the Lord is His Word.
And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone.
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Who is the false prophet according to Revelation 19:20?
In Revelation 19:20, the Bible clearly defines the false prophet as the one who performed miracles before the beast and, through those miracles, deceived those who had received the mark of the beast and those who worshipped the beast's image.