When God says "They will be tormented day and night for ever and ever", He is not lying, or deceiving, or being crafty with words.
		
		
	 
Examine this verse carefully,thoughtfully.
Eternity= no beginning and no end ,always was and always will be.
It does not mean from now on.
Sequence of events requires time and space to play out.
If there is a beginning there must be an end.
You can't begin anything eternal.
You can't end anything eternal.
The word proceeded out from eternity and created a beginning.
The alpha and omega breached the eternal now/always and created a beginning.
The point of this breach is the beginning of difference.
Time is relative to the difference of other factors so it is not constant throughout the universe.
John 3:13 And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven.
The word never left heaven but the word he spoke did and the word was manifest in the new environment that could produce change.
Then the word he spoke returned to him.
The word created everything that "is".
Day and night is difference and can only exist outside eternity.
Being outside eternity is being separated from God who is eternal.
"Now" is an eternal word because it has no beginning,no end,always was and always will be.
John 5:25 Verily, verily, I say unto you, The hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God: and they that hear shall live.
It was now 2000 years ago and it's now still because now has no beginning and no end.
If someone does not have Jesus "Now" then they are separated from God eternally right now.
The result of living in time causes the missing of the mark or sin.
If you Have Jesus "now" you have eternal life.
If you don't have him "now" you are already suffering eternal darkness,blackness forever..