4. Death and hades cast into the lake of fire. “ And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death:--20: 14. These were the figurative representatives of the realms of opposition to the cause of the saints, and they were consigned to the same figurative oblivion with the beast. The symbolism meant that the period of martyrdom had ended, and there was surcease from persecution. This judgment on the evil instigators of the persecutions and martyrdom of the saints of God and Christ was specifically named the second death, which again was as visional and metaphorical as “ the first resurrection.” It denoted in symbolic language the destruction of the evil forces which had moved against the church to destroy i t