ETERNAL PUNISHMENT CONSTRUED AS ANNIHILATION Just as the Apocalypse gives us a picture of the state of the glorified church in heaven in Revelation 21:1–22:5 that is sheer rapture, so it gives us an equally graphic representation of hell that is sheer horror. In Revelation 14:9–11 John declares that he who has the mark of the beast “will drink of the wine of God’s fury, which has been poured full strength into the cup of his wrath,” and that he “will be tormented in fire … and the smoke of their