If it is true that according to the New Testament lost human beings actually get ultimately destroyed or exterminated for the ages to come, then why do Satan and his messengers, the Beast and the False Prophet, not likewise get exterminated instead of experiencing agelong torment (provided Scripture is not indulging in rhetorical metaphor, which would seem incongruent, even in this book of prophetic symbolism, Rev. 1:1, cf. Acts 11:28)? Might not the reason be precisely because those beings have been intentionally instrumental in the ultimate destruction of all those precious human souls? This would appear to be quite in line with God’s style of overcompensating justice. God not only overcompensated Jesus, the ultimate Victim, but He likewise overcompensated Satan, the ultimate Victimizer. It is not because Satan or his messengers (any more than God’s) have been endowed with some sort of ‘inherent immortality’ (about which all Scripture appears significantly silent).
However, there appear to remain a couple of kinds or degrees of destruction/loss (απωλεια): 1) extermination (ωλεχθρ-, 2 Thess. 1:6-10; cf. Rev. 20:8-9) for unrepentant human beings, and 2) torment for the ages of the ages (Rev. 20:10, 14:9-11) for Satan and his minions, the beast and his image, along with their worshipers (which are not in that contextual scenario intimated to symbolize ‘all unbelievers’, as some readers may wish to infer).
Jesus, the Messiah, because of his voluntary suffering of abuse has been exalted to be Master of the whole universe and Head of the church, his body of spiritual contents with which everything in the universe is getting filled (adapting Eph. 1:22-23). [4/10/02]
The Premial Atonement 