JW's Where will the devil, the wild beast, and the false prophet be ';tormented day and night forever and ever?

';And the Devil who was misleading them was hurled into the lake of fire and sulphur, where both the wild beast and the false prophet [already were]; and they will be tormented day and night forever and ever.) Rev. 20:10 NWTJW's Where will the devil, the wild beast, and the false prophet be ';tormented day and night forever and ever?
In Lydia, contemporaries of Jeremiah discovered something to simplify trade—the use of coins the standard weight of which was guaranteed by an official stamp on each coin. Lydia’s first coins were made of a natural mixture of gold and silver called electrum. When Croesus became king, he replaced them with silver coins and gold coins that were almost pure. Lydians invented a bimetallic coinage system in which 12 coins of a low denomination equaled one of a more valuable metal. But the system was threatened by counterfeit coins of gold mixed with inferior metals. Merchants needed an easy way to test the purity of gold.Lydians discovered that a type of local black stone called Lydian stone would solve their problem. When a coin is rubbed on this smooth, slightly abrasive stone, it makes a mark. When the color of the mark is compared with the color of marks made by sample needles of known gold content, the proportion of gold in the coin is revealed. It was this discovery, the touchstone test, that made reliable coinage possible.


As the testing of gold with a touchstone became a common practice among traders, the word for “touchstone” came to mean a method of testing. In Greek, the language in which part of the Bible was written, the word was also applied to the torment of men being tested with torture.


Because jailers were the ones who tormented prisoners, the word derived from “touchstone” was also applied to jailers. Thus, the Bible records Jesus’ illustration in which an ungrateful slave was handed over to “the jailers,” or in some translations, “the tormentors.” (Matthew 18:34; American Standard Version, Darby, King James Version) Concerning this text, The International Standard Bible Encyclopaedia comments: “Probably the imprisonment itself was regarded as ‘torment’ (as it doubtless was), and the ‘tormentors’ need mean nothing more than jailers.”


Revelation 20:10 is written in symbolic language. The wild beast and the lake of fire are figurative. (Revelation 13:2; 20:14) and “the lake of fire and sulphur” could not be a literal place of torment. Death is the punishment for sin, and according to the Bible, dead creatures feel no pain. (Romans 6:23; Ecclesiastes 9:5, 10) Moreover, we read later that death itself, along with Hades, is cast into this same lake of fire and sulfur. Surely, death and Hades cannot suffer pain!—Revelation 20:14.


As we have seen, the Greek word for “torment” is derived from the word for “touchstone” and may refer to the torment of imprisonment. Thus, Satan’s eternal torment may refer to his being forever locked away in the securest of prisons—death itself. The mention of fire and sulfur calls to mind the fate of ancient Sodom and Gomorrah, destroyed by God because of their gross wickedness. When their time came, “Jehovah made it rain sulphur and fire from Jehovah, from the heavens, upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah.” (Genesis 19:24) What befell the two cities is called “the judicial punishment of everlasting fire.” (Jude 7) Yet, those two cities did not suffer everlasting torment. Rather, they were blotted out, obliterated for all time, along with their depraved inhabitants.


Understanding why traders everywhere adopted Lydia’s touchstone test and understanding the figurative expressions the practice gave rise to shed light on what will happen to Satan. His fate will forever serve as the touchstone of judgment that will make it unnecessary for God ever again to tolerate rebellion.JW's Where will the devil, the wild beast, and the false prophet be ';tormented day and night forever and ever?
You forgot to also include verse 14 of that chapter when it says ';DEATH and HADES'; were also thrown into the lake of fire. Can '; DEATH and HELL (Sheol/Hades)'; be tormented? Lake of fire signifies total destruction. If you throw an object into the volcano lava while it is boiling red hot, would you still hope to it again?





NWT (Revelation 20:14) And death and Ha′des were hurled into the lake of fire. This means the second death, the lake of fire.





(HNV) Death and She'ol were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire.





(ISV) Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. (This is the second death-the lake of fire.)





(KJV-1611) And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire: this is the second death.





(LITV) And death and hell were thrown into the Lake of Fire. This is the second death.


(MKJV) And death and hell were cast into the Lake of Fire. This is the second death.





(MRC) And death and Sheol were thrown into the Lake of Fire. This is the second death, the Lake of Fire.





(MSG) Then Death and Hell were hurled into Lake Fire. This is the second death--Lake Fire.
Going down to Rev. 20:14, it tells us that the lake of fire means the 2nd death. Unlike the first death, there is no escape, no deliverance.





Tormented in the sense that they will know before going that they will never come back to life once they die.
Eternal death. That's what the lake of fire symbolizes.