No “intellect” involved, friend.
You’re right, there’s a lake of fire mentioned in Revelation 20:10 and those who don’t make it or overcome will go there.
However, as mentioned, in Matthew 10:28 Christ says fear not he who can only harm or kill the body but to fear He Who can destroy BOTH body AND soul in hell.
And again, I’ll ask, if Satan is going to be turned to ashes, what’s left to torment “forever and ever”?
The word “forever”, “aion” in the Greek, means age.
It can mean a limited amount of time, or it can mean an eternity.
One of the best explanations for this, on a site I literally just found, states it thusly.
If something is given in the context of one who is eternal, immortal, what have you, forever and ever means an eternity.
If something is given in the context of something liable to die, i.e., mortal, forever is only as long as they’re alive.
As mentioned in Deuteronomy Chapter 15, it speaks of someone being another’s servant FOREVER. Well, naturally “forever” only occurs for however long they live.
Here is the site.
http://www.creation-science-prophecy.com/special1.htm
Human beings are composed of body, soul, and spirit. These are distinct.
Destroy does not mean annihilate.
Sin has corrupted mankind’s ability to discern right from wrong and justice from injustice, at least to varying degrees.
What seems fair to you or anyone else does not really matter. God can and will do as He chooses.
God speaks as to the torment of the Devil in the lake of fire in the same language as those who are appointed to eternal life. Eternal life is given, not because it is fair or because finite good works deserves infinite reward. It is because God ordained it so that those who believe inherit eternal life.
There is eternal life and eternal suffering. The judgment of eternal torment was made for the Devil and his angels. God made a way to escape the judgment of death that He pronounced on mankind. This escape is through faith in Christ’s payment on the cross for our sins and becoming partakers of the power of His resurrection. Those who trust in Him receive the gift of eternal life. Those who remain in unbelief and reject Christ will incur His eternal wrath.
Matthew 25:41
Then shall He say also unto them on the left hand, “Depart from Me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire prepared for the devil and his angels.”
Saying that eternal torment could mean temporary torment is foolishness based on conjecture. It is quite similar to the Devil telling Adam and Eve, “You shall not surely die.”
God is good and merciful toward those who are His own. But He is also fierce, powerful, and severe in His wrath toward His enemies.
John 3:36
He who believes in the Son has everlasting life; and he who does not believe the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God abides on him.