The fact that 37 Hebrew and Greek words are translated “destruction” in the AV emphasizes the awful destiny of the lost. The first reference to perishing men is found in Num. 16:31-33. The earth opened, and Korah and his company “went down alive into the pit,” a subterranean prison called Sheol in the OT and Hades in the NT. They had rejected Moses, God’s mediator. In Luke 16: 19-31 a believer after death is found with Abraham, separated by a great gulf from an unsaved man who is in Hades, conscious but without hope.
After the church has been translated all living men who have heard and rejected the gospel are lost, 2 Thess. 2:10-12. They become the tormented earth dwellers of Revelation. Those who have never heard the truth are given opportunity to hear a message from God, Matt. 24:14. A great multitude will be saved and enter the kingdom, Rev. 7:1-14; Matt. 25:34.
At Christ’s return in judgment, He will cast all the ungodly out of His kingdom, Matt. 13:41, 42. Haters of the Lord born during the millennium, Psa. 81:15, unite under Satan and are destroyed, Rev. 20:7-9.
The ungodly dead of all ages appear before the great white throne for the final judgment, Rev. 20:11-15. They are cast into the lake of fire before eternity dawns, Rev. 21:1.
William Evans, The Great Doctrines of the Bible, (Chicago: Bible Institute Colportage Assoc., 1912), WORDsearch CROSS e-book, Under: “Destiny of the Ungodly”.