Revelation 14 Footnotes

14:8-11 Babylon the Great (and her just judgment) is introduced here and will be expanded in 16:17–19:3. All who worship the beast and take his mark will be judged with eternal torment. Although the torment is pictured as fire and sulfur, this is not earthly flammable material that will eventually burn out, so that the torment will stop (i.e., that the punishment of unbelievers is limited in duration). Nor are those being punished consumed by the flames. Their torment goes on forever.