Originally posted by AThousandYoung
It seems to me that it is sinful objects and maybe living people will be burnt not souls. See Matthew 13:41. The wailing and gnashing is done by those who value such things or the burning people.
The imagery is that of Gehenna which is a big fire pit in Israel where people were burned to death as a human sacrifice to Moloch.
The end times refers to the end of the Roman Classical era and the start of Dark Ages about 300 CE.
All these things Jesus spoke to the multitude in parables; and without a parable He did not speak to them, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying:
“I will open My mouth in parables;
I will utter things kept secret from the foundation of the world.”
(Matthew 13:34-35 NKJV)
Give ear, O my people, to my law;
Incline your ears to the words of my mouth.
I will open my mouth in a parable;
I will utter dark sayings of old,
Which we have heard and known,
And our fathers have told us.
We will not hide them from their children,
Telling to the generation to come the praises of the Lord,
And His strength and His wonderful works that He has done.
(Psalms 78:1-4 NKJV)