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There's nuance to that, as well. Official Adventist theology is that even after the Judgment there will not be an "ever-burning Hell", with eternal torture and
by eszed 1y ago
There's nuance to that, as well. Official Adventist theology is that even after the Judgment there will not be an "ever-burning Hell", with eternal torture and suffering, but rather that the unrighteous (even including Satan and his evil angels) will be burned - body and soul - into non-being in an instant.
Of course, folk belief and desire for retribution being what they are, many SdA folks will tell you that that instant will "feel like eternity".
There's also a weird bit about how after Jesus returns and takes the righteous away with him Satan will rule the world for, like, a thousand years. That's expected to be pretty awful for everyone left behind - so, you know, don't you kids go swimming on Saturday - but it's intended to demonstrate, once and for all, that Jesus' way is the best way. (I admire the fair-minded impulse behind that narrative, like: gotta give Satan a shot!) After that, though (because obviously life with Satan in charge will be awful), God'll annihilate all them, and (if I recall correctly) all of the righteous, along with God and Jesus and all the angels, will move back to live on Earth.
Source: raised SdA.
(No idea what JWs have to say about any of this. I ask them very nicely not to bother me again, and they've always - the odd pamphlet through the letterbox apart - done so.)