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[John Wick]

Does it mean some people are predestined to Hell?

[jimwalton]

No, it doesn't. The term translated "prepared" (κατηρτισμένα) is in the adjectival passive sense: because of their disobedience they "ready and ripe for destruction." They are agents of their own destruction. God is the one, then, who gives them what they have chosen. 1 Thessalonians 2.16 gives the same thought: they have heaped up their sins to the limit, and they have in essence called God's wrath down upon themselves.