[Ezekiel 5:4]

Then take some of them again and throw them into the midst of the fire, and burn them in the fire. From there a fire will go out into all the house of Israel. [NKJV]

Then take a few of them out again, throw them in the fire, and let them burn up. From them fire will spread to the whole nation of Israel.” [GNT]

THE FIRE AND ITS CAST OF ESCALATION

Under this instruction, the son of man, Ezekiel, would eventually cast some of those hair (he bound in his skirts) into the furnace of fire (In the bible verse above). In like manner, that dragon (Satan) that was bound in the bottomless pit shall be taken from where it's bound and cast into the lake of fire (Revelation 20).

However, as soon as those hair that were previously bound were cast into the fire, where some of their colleagues had previously been cast sometime earlier, then the fire spread or expanded and the fire extended into the entire nation and house of Israel (In the bible verse above).

In like manner, as soon that dragon (Satan, Devil) that were previously bound was cast into the lake of fire, where some of his colleagues (antichrist, false prophet, false ministers) had previously been cast sometime (a thousand years) earlier, then the lake of fire (second death) spread or expanded and the fire extended into the entire human race and generations of mankind who's names are not found in the book of life (Revelation 20).

So the reason for binding and sparing those hair from the fire when their colleagues were already cast into the fire, though they all have been judged and doomed to the same fire, is because delaying their contact with the fire is delaying the fire from getting into the people of the nation. Even so, the reason for delaying God delays casting Satan, Death and Hell, into the Lake of Fire is because delaying their contact with the lake of fire is delaying the fire from getting into the entire earth and world, including getting all those who's names are not in the Book of Life.

No matter how much you hate Satan, Death and Hell, still know that their continuity is the continuity of the this material world and this system of matter. I don't want to call him the god of this world, but I am saying to you that:

*1* If the prince of this world (Satan) is judged, the world is judged (John 16:11)

*2* If the lake of fire was prepared for the devil and his angels, and the devil be cast into the fire, the goats or people who are not of God's sheep shall also be cast into the fire prepared for the devil and his angels (Matthew 25:41).

*3* If the devil goes down, many people and things shall go down with or after him.

As a mere human, I would have thought that as soon as the devil and his angels are removed and destroyed, God would then forgive and rehabilitate those whom the devils made to sin. As in, remove the cause and then heal the rest. But God does not operate like that. To show you He is not sending people into the lake of fire because of Satan, there would be no Satan and no devil, and yet there would be no manipulation of the Justice, Righteousness or Judgment of God for or against Satan. For all those who belong to Satan, antichrist, hell and death, shall be sent after Satan, antichrist, hell and death, when they are absent and have no advocate to insist they are not cheated. The Lord and Judge would not use the absent or death of those devils for forgive mankind and giving them second chance. The Book of Life will not be rewritten after the antichrist, Satan, Death and Hell, are cast into the lake of fire. For even the lake of fire, Second Death must not be cheated from having every man, woman, boy, girl, child, baby, old, young, and everything of the material heaven and earth that belong to the lake of fire including all the glories and pride of men.