The same adjective used to describe the length of heavenly life is used to describe the duration of punishment: eternal. Good people live “forever.” Evil people are punished “forever.” 3 Revelation 14:11 is equally disturbing: “The smoke from their burning pain will rise forever and ever. There will be no rest, day or night, for those who worship the beast and his idol or who get the mark of his name.” We would love to believe that sinners will be given a second chance, that a few months or millenniums