Page 95 - Gods Plan of the Ages

Revelation 22:12
"Behold, I am coming quickly, and My reward is with Me, to render to every man
according to what he has done."

The rule of Christ is declared by the Scriptures to be temporal. He will rule UNTIL all
enemies have been brought under subjection. Christ will administer wrath, but not eternal
wrath, for His rule is only until the end of the ages. Being instructed out of faulty
translations, and not studying carefully to discern where error has entered in, the church
has been led to adopt many false doctrines about the punishment of the wicked. Following
is the King James rendering of a verse out of Matthew's gospel.

Matthew 25:41
Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into
everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels.
(KJV)

It is easy to perceive how saints can be led astray through faulty translation work. If
we accept the rendering of the translators who worked on this version of the English Bible
we would certainly conclude that the devil and his angels will be subjected to "everlasting
fire." Contrast this with the following translations of the same verse.

Matthew 25:41
Then will He say to those at His left, "Begone from me, with the curse resting upon you,
into the Fire of the Ages, which has been prepared for the Devil and his angels."
(Weymouth Translation)

Matthew 25:41
Then he will say to those on his left "Go from my presence, accursed, into the aeonian fire
which has been prepared for the Devil and his angels."
(Twentieth Century New Testament - 1904)

Matthew 25:41
He will then also say to those at his Left hand, "Depart from me you cursed ones into that
aionian fire which is prepared for the adversary and his messengers."
(Emphatic Diaglott)

Matthew 25:41
Then will he say unto those also on His left hand: Depart from me, accursed ones! Into
the age-abiding fire which hath been prepared for the adversary and his messengers.
(Rotherham's Emphasized Bible)

Matthew 25:41
Then shall he say also to those on the left hand, Go ye from me, the cursed, to the fire, the
age-during, that hath been prepared for the Devil and his messengers;
(Young's Literal Translation)

If we accept the testimony of the Scriptures that declare Christ's rule to be temporal,
to be concluded at the end of the ages, then we can judge no translation as accurate or
faithful to the original thought of the authors that speaks of eternal punishment. The