Imagine a super volcanic eruption, splitting the crust of the earth open with a crack/cavern descending down to the Abyss. 200 million demon locusts come out to torture mankind for 5 months, then later appear as horsemen during the battle of Armageddon. The volcanic eruption also creates a massive lava lake ( lake of fire). Elements of volcanic lava are mentioned in the scripture: brimstone.
Key scriptures that describes this event.
> Rev. 8:8 "Then the second angel sounded: And something like a great mountain burning with fire was thrown into the sea, and a third of the sea became blood."
> Deut. 32:22 "For a fire is kindled by my anger, and it burns to the depths of Sheol, devours the earth and its increase, and sets on fire the foundations of the mountains."
People are thrown into this pit where there is a lake of fire. Whether it is formed close to the surface or it is deep within the crust of the earth, it is a literal fire that consumes. I liken it to the scene in the Lord of the RIngs when Golum falls into the lava lake/river.
So people from the surface are thrown into the PIT by angels:
What a lot of hog wash in answer to this question: -
What about Revelation 19:20? When are the beast and false prophet cast into the lake of fire, before the millennium or after the millennium?
The correct answer is that they will be cast into the lake of fire after they are released from their 1,000 years of imprisonment in the Bottomless pit during the little while period.
They are imprisoned in the Bottomless pit after their judgement mentioned in Daniel 7:11-12 and Isaiah 24:21-22 which will occur at the time of the change over from this present age to the seventh age. After the end of this present sixth age, God will again start gathering all of Israel to Himself and will plant them in His fertile field and teach them on His mountain about Christ, His Son. God will also establish His everlasting Kingdom at this same time and the Son of Man will be given dominion over the peoples of the earth such that they should worship Him.
After the 1,000 years when the Bottomless pit is unlocked the locusts, i.e. the judged kings of the earth, will come up out of the Bottomless pit to inflict pain and suffering on the people who do not worship God for a period of five months. The king/ruler of the locusts is the destroyer who brings great destruction, Satan.
After the Locusts, the beasts and Satan were released to lead an army across the face of the earth and a third of mankind will be killed by the three plagues of fire, smoke, and sulphur that proceeded from their mouths. Then they will encircle Jerusalem and the Beasts and the False Prophet, i.e., the Little Horn of the OT, will after they perform signs and wonders and force the people to take the Mark of the Beast after which they will be captured by Christ and dispatched into the Lake of Fire.
Shortly after this, Satan too will be captured and also dispatched into the Lake of Fire.
Now during the 1,000 years that the judged kings of the earth and the hosts of heaven are imprisoned in the bottomless pit, Christ and the Saints who have been beheaded for their faith will have a priestly reign with Christ.
Now if your understanding is that this priestly reign of 1,000 years is the Millennium Reign of Christ, then from your perspective the Beast, the False prophet and Satan are all cast into the Lake of Fire after this Priestly Millennium reign in Heaven.
I hope that this simplified explanation helps.
Shalom