The Weight of Eternal Ruin: Destruction as Exclusion from Glory — 2 Thessalonians 1:9-10

who will pay the penalty: eternal destruction from the face of the Lord and from the glory of his might, when he comes in that day to be glorified in his saints, and to be admired among all those who have believed, because our testimony to you was believed. — Paul defines divine judgment not as annihilation but as permanent banishment from the one thing that makes existence bearable.