Well, if you are looking for the word "thrown" or "cast", then you will find that word to be in association with the words "death and hell", of which are descriptive of " sheol", the graves or the "pits" of the dead that are in the earth, being typically 6 feet deep.
Now of course one must make use of sensible understanding. Will God take all the millions of graves of the dead, pick them up, and throw/cast them into a Lake of Fire, that some do think is only a little lake, somewhere in eternity, eternally burning?
The ONLY Eternal Fire, that is ALWAYS burning is God Himself, of which in Jesus' return, He will be that "flaming fire".
There is NOTHING eternal about the elements of this earth, and is therefore subject to burning. What is Lava?
So then, when Eternal flaming fire (God) comes into close proximity with that which is subject to burning, IT WILL BURN and be "consumed" with Eternal fire, until the fuel of itself is exhausted, and then becomes ash. Even 6 feet down.
However, the Eternal flaming fire of Christ, will never go out, nor be extinguished.
Hence the reason why "flesh and blood cannot inherit the KoG". 1 Corinthians 15:50.
First of all the words Sheol or Hades has nothing to do with graveyards where people have dug six feet deep holes to bury corpses nor does it have to do with individual tombs where people have laid their loved ones corpses.
Hades is the same as Sheol it does not refer to a single grave (Gr.,
taʹphos), or to a single tomb (Gr.,
mneʹma), or to a single memorial tomb (Gr.,
mne·meiʹon), but to the
common grave of mankind, where the dead and buried ones are unseen.
The lake of fire is a symbolic place that “burns with fire and sulfur,” also described as “the second death.” Unrepentant sinners, the Devil, and even death and the Grave (or, Hades) are thrown into it. The inclusion of death and Hades, all of which cannot be affected by fire, indicates that this lake is a symbol, not of everlasting torment, but of everlasting destruction.—
Re 19:20; 20:14, 15; 21:8.
Because death and Hades are cast into “the lake of fire,” “the second death.” They thereby figuratively ‘die out’ of existence, and this signifies the end of Hades (Sheol), the common grave of mankind, as well as the end of death inherited through Adam.
The way you talk about the flaming fire of God it's like your reasoning that you believe this flaming fire controls The True God rather than The True God controls the flaming fire. I find that's very interesting that so many people think that God is controlled by his abilities instead of The True God controlling his abilities. It's not that I believe that the fire that the scriptures talk about destroying the wicked is to be literal fire, but instead I believe it to be symbolic of total obliteration, but even if it were literal fire, for someone to believe that God can't control it, is interesting. The point I'm trying to make is, if God were using literal fire to destroy wicked mankind off the planet, I know God could do that without burning up the planet. If someone thinks that's impossible for God to do. Then so be it. I know when people try to say such things are impossible for God, I'm certainly not going to agree with that.
I have read scripture where Jesus himself tells us to pray to God asking that his will be done as it is done in heaven. Also Jesus said at
Matthew 5:5: “Happy are the mild-tempered ones, since they will inherit the earth.” Do you think that this inheritance from Jehovah will be a polluted earth? If you ask God will be done on Earth as it is in heaven you certainly not asking him to destroy planet Earth.
Will God himself destroy the earth by fire?
Does 2 Peter 3:7, 10 (
KJ)
support that view? “The heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition [“destruction,”
RS] of ungodly men. . . . The day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up [“burned (burnt) up,”
RS, JB; “will vanish,”
TEV; “will be made manifest,”
NAB; “will be laid bare,”
NE; “will be discovered,”
NW].” (Note: The Codex Sinaiticus and Vatican MS 1209, both of the 4th century C.E., read “be discovered.” Later manuscripts, the 5th-century Codex Alexandrinus and the 16th-century Clementine recension of the Vulgate, read “be burned up.”)
Does Revelation 21:1 (
KJ)
indicate that our planet will be destroyed? “And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea.”
To be correct, the explanation of these verses must agree with the context and with the rest of the Bible
If these texts (
2 Peter 3:7, 10 and
Revelation 21:1) mean that the literal planet Earth is to be consumed by fire, then the literal heavens (the stars and other heavenly bodies) are also to be destroyed by fire. Such a literal view, however, conflicts with the assurance contained in such texts as
Matthew 6:10, Psalm 37:29 and
104:5, also
Proverbs 2:21, 22. So the term “earth” in the above-quoted texts must be understood in a different sense.
At
Genesis 11:1, First Kings 2:1, 2, First Chronicles 16:31, Psalm 96:1, etc., the term “earth” is used in a
figurative sense, referring to mankind, to human society. Might that be the case at
2 Peter 3:7, 10 and
Revelation 21:1?
Note that, in the context, at
2 Peter 3:5, 6 (also
2:5, 9), a parallel is drawn with the Flood of Noah’s day, in which wicked human society was destroyed, but Noah and his household, as well as the globe itself, were preserved. Likewise, at
2 Peter 3:7 it says that the ones to be destroyed are “ungodly men.” The view that “the earth” here refers to wicked human society fully agrees with the rest of the Bible, as is illustrated by the texts cited above. It is that symbolic “earth,” or
wicked human society, that is “discovered”; that is, Jehovah will sear away as by fire all disguise,
exposing the wickedness of ungodly human society and showing it to be worthy of complete destruction. That wicked society of humans is also “the first earth,” referred to at
Revelation 21:1 (
KJ).
