Revelation 20:14, The End of Death and Hades

Then Death and Hades were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death.



//In my book about Revelation, I assume that this verse symbolically presents the end of death … that death has been conquered. Hades, the holding place of the dead, is therefore no longer needed. It is emptied and discarded.

There is, however, a deeper way to read the verse. It is by referring back to the four horsemen, where Death and Hades are first introduced as villains:

So I looked, and behold, a pale horse. An...