If Revelation 14:9 states that whoever "worships the beast and his image, ?

why do people think that this torment also applies to unbelievers of Christianity?

Because in other passages in the Bible it talks about other people who aren't alive during this time. Just because one passage identifies a particular group of people during a particular time period, doesn't mean that what happens to those people doesn't happen to other people when they stand before the Lord in judgment.

Revelation 20:10 The devil, who deceived them, was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone where the beast and the false prophet are. And they will be tormented day and night forever and ever.

11 Then I saw a great white throne and Him who sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away. And there was found no place for them. 12 And I saw the dead, small and great, standing before God, and books were opened. And another book was opened, which is the Book of Life. And the dead were judged according to their works, by the things which were written in the books.

13 The sea gave up the dead who were in it, and Death and Hades delivered up the dead who were in them. And they were judged, each one according to his works. 14 Then Death and Hades were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death. 15 And anyone not found written in the Book of Life was cast into the lake of fire.

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lets just say that worship is an type of one that approves of, not necessarily falling down on your knees. For there are many ways to worship, you may approve of some one. You can nominate this person, you could vote for this person, you can buy into this literally.

I don't know why people believe a mark has to be an inscription or tattoo. Worship is adopting this person in any manner. Every thing is not spiritual

Remember in the time of the writing of Revelation, the ways of describing things were different, and now we have broadened terms in many degrees. Smoke is not smoke nor is torment the torment we first come to know.

Remember the prayers of the righteous who died in Christ were taken put into a vial, so why can't the cursed be taken in symbolism as the believers. you are looking to make believers looking possibly to slander the word of God, and to make Christians look bad, there is nothing more to add. Sorry, I cant answer in fully your question

A statue (like the Catholics have only bigger) will be erected (like in the days of Nebuchadnezzar and it will be mandatory to worship that image such as the North Koreans are subject to do now. There will be an unholy trinity for the Antichrist as an ultimate mockery of God. This image of the beast will be part of it and there will also be a false prophet. You ask HOW do they worship it? Simply by acting like they are by bowing to it when they go past the image---other than that I don't know or care to know.

It does not have to say any unbeliever in particular; that is presumptuous to think so. Besides there are many anti-christ´s who live their lives contrary to heavenly principles and practices. When one comes to God´s Word, we have to fit it as a hand in a glove, so therefore shall this scripture shall connect with whatsoever Christ has said; and concerning your particular point of the denial that Jesus is the Messiah, He said: "for if you believe not that I am he, you shall die in your sins". Many shall attempt to climb up some other way, as you are attempting to here; but none shall prevail.

Christ clearly states in john 14:6 that he is the way the truth and the life.... and no man comes unto the father ( God-> meaning his kingdom) but by him (jesus)... so clearly its not about a religion, a mark of the beast or anything else. . . it is to an extent but ANYONE that comes to christ can be saved.

The mark shows that those who accept it show their allegiance to Satan, their willingness to operate within the economic system he promotes, and their rebellion against God. It includes "anyone" or "whoever" worships the beast will gets the same judgment. This verse refers to God's judgment as a final world appeal. God is a just God and does not want anyone to perish but have everlasting life.

You find one verse and say that sums up the whole Bible. It's all through the book who will be cast out. Jesus said He is the way ,the truth and the life, no one comes to the Father but through Him. That verse sums it up, without a doubt, Jesus is the only way.

Uh Sean, you need to read the rest of the Bible before jumping to conclusions about a verse in a book that you clearly do not understand.

Endurance for the Holy Ones--Now the third angel speaks. Listen! “And another angel, a third, followed them, saying in a loud voice: ‘If anyone worships the wild beast and its image, and receives a mark on his forehead or upon his hand, he will also drink of the wine of the anger of God that is poured out undiluted into the cup of his wrath.’” (Revelation 14:9, 10a) At Revelation 13:16, 17, it was revealed that during the Lord’s day those who do not worship the image of the wild beast would suffer—even be killed. Now we learn that Jehovah has determined to bring to judgment those “having the mark, the name of the wild beast or the number of its name.” They will be forced to drink a bitter ‘cup of wrath’ of Jehovah’s anger. What will this mean for them? In 607 B.C.E., when Jehovah forced Jerusalem to drink “his cup of rage,” the city experienced “despoiling and breakdown, and hunger and sword” at the hands of the Babylonians. (Isaiah 51:17, 19) Similarly, when idolizers of earth’s political powers and their image, the United Nations, get to drink the cup of Jehovah’s wrath, the result will be a calamity for them. (Jeremiah 25:17, 32, 33) They will be utterly destroyed.

Even before that happens, however, those with the mark of the beast have to undergo the tormenting effects of Jehovah’s disapproval. Speaking of the worshipper of the wild beast and its image, the angel informs John: “And he shall be tormented with fire and sulphur in the sight of the holy angels and in the sight of the Lamb. And the smoke of their torment ascends forever and ever, and day and night they have no rest, those who worship the wild beast and its image, and whoever receives the mark of its name.”—Revelation 14:10b, 11.

Some have viewed the mention here of fire and sulfur (“fire and brimstone,” King James Version) as a proof of the existence of a hellfire. But a brief look at a similar prophecy shows the real import of these words in this context. Back in the days of Isaiah, Jehovah warned the nation of Edom that they would be punished because of their enmity toward Israel. He said: “Her torrents must be changed into pitch, and her dust into sulphur; and her land must become as burning pitch. By night or by day it will not be extinguished; to time indefinite its smoke will keep ascending. From generation to generation she will be parched; forever and ever no one will be passing across her.”—Isaiah 34:9, 10. Was Edom hurled into some mythical hellfire to burn forever? Of course not. Rather, the nation completely disappeared from the world scene as if she had been totally consumed with fire and sulfur. The final result of the punishment was not everlasting torment but “emptiness . . . wasteness . . . nothing.” (Isaiah 34:11, 12) The smoke ‘ascending to time indefinite’ vividly illustrates this. When a house burns down, smoke keeps coming from the ashes for some time after the flames have died down, providing onlookers with evidence that there has been a destructive conflagration. Even today God’s people remember the lesson to be learned from the destruction of Edom. In this way ‘the smoke of her burning’ is still ascending in a symbolic way. Those who have the mark of the wild beast will also be destroyed completely, as if by fire. As the prophecy later reveals, their dead bodies will be left unburied for animals and birds to eat. (Revelation 19:17, 18) So, clearly, they are not being literally tortured forever! How are they “tormented with fire and sulphur”? In that the proclamation of truth exposes them and warns them of God’s coming judgment. Therefore they vilify God’s people and, where possible, slyly persuade the political wild beast to persecute and even kill Jehovah’s Witnesses. As a climax, these opposers will be destroyed as with fire and brimstone. Then “the smoke of their torment ascends forever and ever” in that God’s judgment of them will serve as a touchstone if ever again Jehovah’s rightful sovereignty is challenged. That issue will have been settled for all eternity. Who deliver the tormenting message today? Remember, the symbolic locusts have authority to torment the men who do not have the seal of God on their foreheads. (Revelation 9:5) Evidently, these ones under angelic direction are the tormentors. Such is the persistence of the symbolic locusts that “day and night they have no rest, those who worship the wild beast and its image, and whoever receives the mark of its name.” And finally, after their destruction, the monumental evidence of that vindication of Jehovah’s sovereignty, “the smoke of their torment,” will ascend forever and ever. May the John class endure until that vindication is complete! As the angel concludes: “Here is where it means endurance for the holy ones, those who observe the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus.”—Revelation 14:12. Yes, “endurance for the holy ones” means their worshipping Jehovah in exclusive devotion through Jesus Christ. Their message is not popular. It leads to o

Rev 20:15 And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.