Studying Revelation this month in Sunday School. We had an interesting discussion about Hell so I went looking for some more info. Macarthur's commentary says:
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The evidence is irrefutable, the verdict rendered; judgment will be swiftly carried out. As the sentence is passed, death and Hades (the grave, and the temporary place of punishment for everyone whose name was not found written in the book of life) were thrown into the lake of fire, meaning that they will go out of existence, swallowed up by the final hell. Their inmates, currently suffering in their spirits only, will be united with specially designed resurrection bodies and cast into eternal hell (cf. Matt. 10:28). That final hell, described as the lake of fire, may already exist (cf. Matt. 25:41), but if so, it is currently unoccupied. Its first two occupants, the beast and the false prophet, will not arrive until the end of the Tribulation (19:20).

The bold part is what I'm thinking about. Is this something like purgatory or what? (Now I'm not going RC on you, just curious)

(BTW, missed you guys but had some computer hardware issues and just couldn't get it back online. Thanks!--D)

Josh
"...the word of God is not bound."--2 Timothy 2:9