The cowardly and unbelieving and those caused to being
abominable and murderers and immoral and sorcerers and idolaters and all the liars, the part theirs in the lake that is now caused to be burning with fire and brimstone, which now is the second death.
Murderers slay with intent. The immoral refers to those
involved in the procurement, trafficking, and sale of sexual slaves. Sorcerers refer to drug dealers and drug traffickers. Idolators refers to those who worship anything other than Yahweh. The abominable stink in the nostrils of God, they are the hypocrites who act as if they know God but do not.
The cowardly refers to those who live in dread over what might be instead of resting in Jesus who is in control of all things all the time. The antidote is to come to know Jesus as one’s Yahweh Shalom, Yahweh who is their peace. Remembering God’s goal, to make us into His son, helps us understand why He does what He does to us, and why He lets us suffer and be traumatized. It is how He destroys our slavery to religion so we might walk in peace.
