The Red Sea Rift

The orientation of this satelite image would be rotated 80 degrees clockwise if it were accurate. The triangular shape in the middle is the Sinai Peninsular and the sea to its left, right and following through to what should be the south is the Red Sea. The part of the Red Sea to the right of the peninsular is the Gulf of Aquaba and to the right of that is Saudi Arabia. To the north is Jordan, Syria and Israel.

The Red Sea Rift runs from Israel all the way down through the Dead Sea (small lake shape), through the Gulf of Aquaba and down through the Red Sea with East Africa on the left and Saudi Arabia to the right.

A tectonic rift is...

In geology, a rift or chasm is a place where the Earth's crust and lithosphere are being pulled apart^[1] and is an example of extensional tectonics.^[2] Typical rift features are a central linear downfaulted segment, called a graben, with parallel normal faulting and rift-flank uplifts on either side forming a rift valley, where the rift remains above sea level. The axis of the rift area commonly contains volcanic rocks, and active volcanism is a part of many, but not all active rift systems.

The Red Sea Rift is what actually caused the creation of the Red Sea. Some out of this world natural events must surely have occured in this highly volcanic region in times past.

This is a partially complete list of volcanoes in the Middle East.

On the Rift Valley....

Stretching across Africa like a gigantic wound, the Rift Valley is more than 6,430km (3,987 miles) long and in places up to 1,520m (4,986 ft.) deep. It cuts through the continent from Jordan all the way down to Mozambique and, when viewed from outer space, is apparently the single most identifiable geographic landmark on the face of the planet.

Read more: http://www.frommers.com/destinations/theriftvalley/4272010001.html#ixzz1elW8xGZJ

This image shows how the 'Holy Land' was sited bang smack in the middle of this highly seismic area. No wonder it became the 'Hoy Land'. Everywhere in the world where volcanoes exist has been 'holy' at some point in time. The holiness of Judaism has only survived because the Hebrews eventually moved away from their 'holy' volcanoes. Muslims became part of the Abrahamic clan long after volcano worship, although they still revere their 'holy' mountains near Mecca, which certainly does suggest those same mountains might well have been revered by Jews.

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This comment, meant sarcastically, was left on a post on Jihad Watch by 'Ebonystone', who is probably now wishing she'd not been so cocky....

Gosh yes, volcano-worship, why didn't I realize that before now? Really, with all those volcanoes around the Holy Land, it's no wonder that people worshipped them.

It's always better to at first establish the facts before trying to be funny.

More info on the Jordan Rift Valley here.

Was Israel in Arabia?

Kamal Salibi wrote three books advocating the controversial "Israel in Arabia" theory. In this view, the place names of the Hebrew Bible actually allude to places in southwest Arabia; many of them were later reinterpreted to refer to places in Palestine, when the Arabian Hebrews migrated to what is now called Eretz Israel, and where they established the Hasmonean kingdom under Simon Maccabaeus in the second century B.C. In this new Israel, they switched from Hebrew to Aramaic. It was this switch in language that created the confusions which lead to the distortion of the immigrants' stories.^[15] He also argued that 'Lebanon' itself in high antiquity was a place in the Southern Arabian peninsula-^[16]

The (literally) central identification of the theory is that the geographical feature referred to as הירדן, the “Jordan”, which is usually taken to refer to the Jordan River, although never actually described as a “river” in the Hebrew text, actually means the great West Arabian Escarpment, known as the Sarawat Mountains. The area of ancient Israel is then identified with the land on either side of the southern section of the escarpment that is, the southern Hejaz and 'Asir, from Ta’if down to the border with Yemen.

The theory has not been widely accepted anywhere, and embarrassed many of his colleagues.^[17] and several academic reviewers^[18][19][20] criticised Cape for having accepted “The Bible Came from Arabia” for publication. Salibi argued that early epigraphic evidence used to vindicate the Biblical stories has been misread. Mesha, the Moabite ruler who celebrated a victory over the kingdom of Israel in a stone inscription, the Mesha stele found in 1868, was, according to Salibi, an Arabian, and Moab was a village 'south (yemen) of Rabin' near Mecca. The words translated 'many days' actually meant 'south of Rabin'.^[21]

He shared the view of such scholars as Thomas L. Thompson that there is a severe mismatch between the Biblical narrative and the archaeological findings in Palestine. Thompson's explanation was to discount the Bible as literal history but Salibi's was to locate the centre of Jewish culture further south.^[22]

His theory has been both attacked and supported for its supposed implications for modern political affairs, although Salibi himself has made no such connection. Tudor Parfitt wrote “It is dangerous because Salibi's ideas have all sorts of implications, not least in terms of the legitimacy of the State of Israel”.^[20] Since the theory casts no doubt on the existence, location or legitimacy of the Hasmonean kingdom, nor rewrites in any way the history of Palestine in the last 2200 years or more, it can only have that implication for those who take literally the divine award of the Promised Land to Abraham and his successors.^{[citation needed]}

The location of the Promised Land is discussed in chapter 15 of “The Bible Came from Arabia”. Salibi argues that the description in the Bible is of an extensive tract of land, substantially larger than Palestine which includes a very varied landscape, ranging from well-watered mountain-tops via fertile valleys and foothills to lowland deserts. In the southern part of Arabia there are recently-active volcanoes, near to which are, presumably, the buried remains of Sodom and Gomorrah.

Read more about Kamal Salibi here.

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Judaism......the old Islam.

"The difference between a Muslim soul and souls of non-Muslims—all of them in all different levels—is greater and deeper than the difference between a human soul and the souls of cattle."

Would such a statement surprise you? Probably not as most people are arriving from Jihad Watch at the moment. It's a pretty disgusting comment to make and does suggest the author believes 'the rest of us' are not very human, which is the evil that spurned Nazism....some people are more human than others. It's elitism at its worst as it offers no charitable hand for us lesser human beings. I can't imagine the author doing anything to even out the differences, which I suspect he likes. This is very different to most people who worry about muslim immigration as the differences are very unsettling and not things to feel smug about.

The author is not Muslim but Jewish. I changed the words Jewish to Muslim.

I've done this because it's important people talk about things openly and honestly. Muslims cannot bare to hear truths, Christians don't seem capable of it either and Jews seem to have always evaded the religious spotlight. The reason I say 'always' is because Jews have not, in modern times, had a Jewish state. Even Israel is secular. The Jewish fundies would no doubt like Israel to become a Jewish state and for their will to be enforced, and then we would see what Judaism is capable of for the first time since historical times. I think people would then realise it is very similar to Islam, baring all the same nasties so many people, myself included, find intollerable.

Please read this article, written by a Jew, about fundamentalist Judaism, read the stories of the OT (cross-reference with current day Islamic jihad and war) and ask yourself honestly if you could imagine a purely Jewish state becoming very similar to an Islamic one. Imagine the whole of Israel without democracy, with everyone going through religious schools, with all women hiding their hair, with men all wearing the same clothes, with very strict rules about behaviour, with absolute adherence to rituals, with animal sacrifice, with zero tollerance of sin (homosexuality, infidelity, sex outside of marriage, etc), with lots of death penalities and with a desire to remove all acum (infidels) as often occured in the Torah.

What's the difference? Mohammad? Well Moses was also a murderer and instructed many others to murder thousands of his own people! The truth is, we haven't seen Judaism in action. We've seen plenty of Islam because muslims have had plenty of opportunity to show it to us. To know what Judiasm is, your only option is to study the Old Testament, the Torah. There is a reason why fundamentalists are called fundamentalists and that is because they adhere very strictly to their religious texts. Find out what Jewish fundamentalists would like to see happen just as you do with muslim fundamentalists.

From the article....'We believe that awareness is the necessary first step in opposition. We realize that by criticizing Jewish fundamentalism we are criticizing a part of the past that we love. We wish that members of every human grouping would criticize their own past, even before criticizing others. This, we further believe, would lead to a better understanding between human groups and would be followed, perhaps slowly and hesitantly, by better treatment of minorities.'

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The Iron Furnace of the Bible.....Santorini?

'But the LORD hath taken you, and brought you forth out of the iron furnace, even out of Egypt, to be unto him a people of inheritance, as ye are this day.' Deuteronomy 4:20

For they be thy people, and thine inheritance, which thou broughtest forth out of Egypt, from the midst of the furnace of iron. 1 Kings 8:51

Which I commanded your fathers in the day that I brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, from the iron furnace, saying, Obey my voice, and do them, according to all which I command you: so shall ye be my people, and I will be your God. Jeremiah 11:4

Why would the phrase 'iron furnace' be used? What could have made the authors or story tellers use such a phrase?

Suggestions as to the meaning of this are skant, but heres is one...

A furnace, on the other hand, has the specific function of refining gold. We can learn from here that God sent us into the Egyptian exile because He considers the Jewish people to be as precious as gold. No one bothers to refine ordinary rocks, because the result is worthless; however, people will expend great effort to refine gold, because we know that the outcome is valuable.

You can read the full explanation for the 'iron furnace' here.

Does that sound logical or does that sound like a far fetched explanation that fits the purpose? Considering the furnace is described as an iron furnace, to turn it into a gold refining furnace just to perpetuate the myth that the Jewish race is the golden children is a clear case of a delluded mindset and a sense of superiority.

The logical explanation for the iron furnace is the Santorini volcano eruption that happened arguably around the time of the Exodus.

You can fnd out more about the eruption here.

Given the Bible tells us that the Hebrews were treated like slaves in Egypt, would it be stretching the imagination to picture the Hebrews leaving Santorini, Crete and other parts of Greece, arriving in Northern Egypt as refugees, being taken on as servants by the Egyptians (only being paid in food and shelter, which is not a bad deal for a refugee), witnessing the fallout of the main Santorini eruption, fleeing with the trusting Egyptian masters' gold? Given the Santorini eruption happened in stages, giving everyone plenty of time to make their escapes by boat, Greek refugees must have flooded the shores of Egypt.

Studies have identified four major eruption phases, and one minor precursory tephra fall. The thinness of the first ash layer, along with the lack of noticeable erosion of that layer by winter rains before the next layer was deposited, indicate that the volcano gave the local population a few months' warning. Since no human remains have been found at the Akrotiri site, this preliminary volcanic activity probably caused the island's population to flee.

Another piece of proof for this theory is in the first Biblical verse above....'brought you forth out of the iron furnace, even out of Egypt'. The iron furnace is seperate to Egypt, but the two things are tied together by the author.

During the Hebrews' stay in Egypt, they were likely described as Habiru, and you can find out more about them here.

One more thing that I've noticed is the golden calf, which of course the Hebrews quickly reverted to at Mount Sinai while waiting for Moses to descend the mountain of God. The Minoans' (Cretians') sacred symbols included the bull and its 'horns of consecration', and they used horn-topped altars. This correlates to the Hebrews' use of symbolism...

This is a digital recreation of the altar of incence, which was used in the Hebrew tabernacle tent...

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Notice the horns at the corners?

....and this is a digital recreation of the Hebrew Brazen Altar...

Notice the horns on the corners?

Given Santorini is tiny in comparison to Crete, which is its neighbour, most refugees leaving the area would have been from Crete and would have been Minoan. The Minoan civilisation was wiped out, at least indigenously, around the time of the eruption.

Could it be that the people who were, for thousands of years, without a homeland are in fact descendents of people who lost their homeland? Could it be that the magnitude of the eruption and the devastation it caused on these people compelled them to worship the eruption and all eruptions after it, and reject their other gods and goddesses? Of course, old habits die hard, hence the golden calf and the horns.

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What in heaven was Moses thinking?!

On arrival at Mount Sinai....

Moses: Oh Christ. I can't believe I've got to climb that damn thing. What on earth was I thinking bringing all these nomads all the way to Arabia? Oh lord.....here goes. huff puff huff puff...pant pant....huff puff....pant pant.......phew!

As he climbs Mount Sinai, Moses sings a few tunes including his favourite......

We're off to see the Wizard
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
We hear he is a Whiz of a Wiz
If ever a Wiz there was
If ever, oh ever, a Wiz there was
The Wizard of Oz is one because
Because, because, because, because, because
Because of the wonderful things he does
We're off to see the wizard
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz!
.

Moses: Oh my god, what a bugger that was! Phew! It's a good job I kept up the gym visits. Ok, what have we here then? Cough! Splutter! 

'Um....hello? Hello?! Anybody in there? Yoo-hoo! God? Are you there?'

Good lord it's hot! Phew! What is that stuff? Molten metal? The glory of that thing is blinding! I've never seen such a devouring fire. Even that laser pen I use to bring down eagles is no match for this unapproachable light.

'Are you there then? Oh come on. Do you have any idea how long it's taken to get to you? If you're not there then who put out that ensign to lead us here? That massive pillar of smoke and pillar of fire? And all that hissing. My god, do you know how annoying that has been for us all day and all night? Hiss, hiss, hiss. I've not had a wink's sleep in days!'

Time passes while Moses flicks bits of pumice stone into the devouring fire and draws heart shaped tattoos on his arms using fallen ash.....

Moses: Ok, right, well, that's a bugger isn't it? I knocked but there's nobody home. What a brain dump. And look at all those daft brushes down there. What am I going to say to them? We came all this way for nothing? I'm a dead man walking! Am I crazy? Ok, where are those tablets. Now then.....ha ha....I always wanted to make up my own rules. Perfect. I can sneak in a rule that ensures jobs for the boys. Lovely!

More time passes......Moses finally descends the mountain of god.....

Ok...here goes....come on, come on....you can do it! Work it, work it, wooooork it!!!



'Moses! Moses! What's happened to your face? It's all shiny! It's all red, glowing and shiny! What happened? Did you come face to face with our fiery god?'

The whole camp gawped at Moses's face as it shon so he quickly grabbed his pashmina and with one big swish of the wrist was wrapped up like a Saudi princess and his blushing face could be seen no more.

Footnote: story simplified for entertainment value and to help the penny drop.

Lightning in the Bible

Psalm 18:14 He shot his arrows and scattered the enemies, great bolts of lightning and routed them.

(arrows might be the same as 'fiery darts', which mean brimstone fired out of the vent).

Revelation 11:19 Then God's temple in heaven was opened, and within his temple was seen the ark of his covenant. And there came flashes of lightning, rumblings, peals of thunder, an earthquake and a great hailstorm.

(Heaven, I believe, is the cloud filled area above the volcano, 'his temple' is the volcano).

2 Samuel 22:13 Out of the brightness of his presence bolts of lightning blazed forth.

('his presence' suggests lightning blazed forth from him...from god...from the volcano. This is a good verse to use to explain how god was site specific, at least at first, and the origin of the lightning, fiery darts, etc)

Psalm 18:12 Out of the brightness of his presence clouds advanced, with hailstones and bolts of lightning.

(Volcanic eruptions can cause hail storms.)

Exodus 19:16 On the morning of the third day there was thunder and lightning, with a thick cloud over the mountain, and a very loud trumpet blast. Everyone in the camp trembled.

(Trumpet blast = loud noise emitted by an erupting volcano)

Exodus 20:18 When the people saw the thunder and lightning and heard the trumpet and saw the mountain in smoke, they trembled with fear. They stayed at a distance

(I bet they did!)

Ezekiel 1:4 I looked, and I saw a windstorm coming out of the north-an immense cloud with flashing lightning and surrounded by brilliant light. The center of the fire looked like glowing metal,

('The center of the fire looked like glowing metal'......a very good metaphor for the epicenter of a volcano.)

Revelation 4:5 From the throne came flashes of lightning, rumblings and peals of thunder. Before the throne, seven lamps were blazing. These are the seven spirits of God.

(The throne....the elevated seat....the top of the mountain.....for the king of the castle.)

Revelation 8:5 Then the angel took the censer, filled it with fire from the altar, and hurled it on the earth; and there came peals of thunder, rumblings, flashes of lightning and an earthquake.

Lots of volcanic doom and gloom.

Moses and Mount Sinai

Click me to buy this artist's impression of Mount Sinai.

It really is amazing that for thousands of years countless hundreds of millions of people have not been able to put two and two together to get four. What is it that prevented the connection? The simplist thing to work out has been missed in the most gargantuan way. This penny is one serious bugger to drop, but drop it will very soon in the most gargantuan way.

The glory of God

Ding dong merrily on high, Hosanna in the highest...glory, glory, glory. glooory, glory glory.....

What does the 'glory' of God mean? Could it just mean the glow of him? The visual and physical sensations of being in his magmatic presence?

When Moses came down from the mountain with the tablets of stone that the commandments were written on...

“Moses did not know that the skin of his face shone while he talked with Him. So when Aaron and all the children of Israel saw Moses, behold, the skin of his face shone , and they were afraid to come near him.(

V.35 “And whenever the children of Israel saw the face of Moses, that the skin of Moses' face shone , then Moses would put the veil on his face again, until he went in to speak with Him”.

In 2 Corinthians 3:7 Paul writes “the children of Israel could not look steadily at the face of Moses because of the glory of his countenance, which glory was passing away.” As awesome as this was, it was only temporary.God's glory was certainly having a physical impression on Moses!

Revelation 15:8 And the temple was filled with smoke from the glory of God and from his power, and no one could enter the temple until the seven plagues of the seven angels were completed.

....smoke from the glory of God. It really doesn't take a genius to work it out. It takes looking at it in its most simplistic terms.

Exodus 24:16 And the glory of the LORD abode upon mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it six days: and the seventh day he called unto Moses out of the midst of the cloud.

...and we know 'the Lord was like a devouring fire upon Mount Sinai'.

God's glory = the physical or visual impression felt upon seeing the fire or lava produced by Mount Sinai, or his miriad of angels or 'little ones' (flaming gas leaks) or subsequent abodes.

God's glory is often associated with visible displays of light, e.g. thunderbolts, fire, brightness.

Ezekeil 1

²⁷ And I saw as the colour of amber, as the appearance of fire round about within it, from the appearance of his loins even upward, and from the appearance of his loins even downward, I saw as it were the appearance of fire, and it had brightness round about.

²⁸ As the appearance of the bow that is in the cloud in the day of rain, so was the appearance of the brightness round about. This was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the Lord. And when I saw it, I fell upon my face, and I heard a voice of one that spake.

S. B. Segall in Understanding the Exodus: And Other Mysteries of Jewish History:

When Moses went up the mountain he expected to see God. When he came down from the mountain he told the Israelites that no one could see God's face and live, but that by shielding himself behind a rock and looking through a crack in the rock he cold see the dazzling light of the Lord's presence (Exodus, Chapter 33). Moses wanted to stand at the rim of the volcano to see God, but the heat from the red-hot rock and swirling ash would have killed him. The closest he could get to seeing inside the volcano was to see the light from the volcano while he was shielded by a boulder.

What Moses saw on the mountain matched what he thought God would be--a spirit without form; a pure source of energy radiating heat and light; a being so powerful that no one could face him directly and remain alive. When Moses saw the light radiating from the volcano, he truly believed that he had seen God.

It's important to bare in mind that whatever is said in latter parts of the Bilbe are pretty irrelevant as that is just window dressing. To understand the origins of the Biblical story, you need to get back to basics and close to source.

The smoking furnace in the Bible

In the future there will be many psychological explanations for why so many people, experts included, could not see the blatantly obvious when it stared them in the face. Even this article uses a photo of a volcano, yet fails to make the connection. A whole list of Bible experts manage to come up with every conceivable interpretation of 'smoking furnace' and 'burning lamp' but fail to hit the nail on the head. It seems Bible experts prefer to expand on metaphors, pushing the poetic licence to extreme limits, rather than to take them back to source.

'Smoking furnace'......live volcano

'Burning lamp'......in this instance, flaming gas vent inside the Tabernacle Tent.

The smoking furnace and burning lamp in the Bible.

Why did the Hebrews ban the name of God?

The Hebrews left Egypt during the aftermath of the Santorini volcanic explosion (happened around the time of the Exodus). The ten plagues of Egypt were not divine but due to the eruption.....red sea caused by sulpher, parting of sea caused by tsunami, days turned into nights caused by smoke filled skies, etc. Santorini (Thera) was possibly the largest eruption in recorded history and its effects were documented throughout the globe, including in China where crops failed and darkness fell. Despite Santorini being 650m north of Egypt (not far away), not a mention of it is in the Bible, apart from the ten plagues. So, the Bible author didn't know there was a volcano happening but thought it was just plagues sent from god. So the Hebrews leave and, led by Moses to Arabia (where he'd been earlier and seen the burning bush), walk towards a 'plume of smoke by day and a plume of fire by night'. So this thing starts to emit the same strange things as the plague God had done in Egypt so the Hebrews believe it must be THEIR God beckoning them.....'I'm over 'ere lads!'. Three cheers for the God who saved us from Egyption slavery!!!! Oh my volcano! They make it all the way to the foot of the 'mountain of God' and bow down to him despite the terrible living conditions. The conditions were so bad apparently a lot of the Hebrews wanted to return to slavery in Egypt! Of course, they'd never seen a volcano before because Egypt has no volcanos, hence the reason why some people believe Mount Sinai was not in the Sinai Peninsular but in Saudi Arabia, a hotbed for not only gay sex but volcanic eruptions, earthquakes and all sorts of freak weather.

The burning bush Moses came across might have been none other than a flaming gas vent positioned near to a bush but not close enough to burn it. Moses was the only person allowed into the 'holy of holies', which was a part of the tabernacle tent, and every time he came out his face was flushed bright red. Staring desperately at a flaming lava vent perhaps, waiting for divine inspiration? Near the base of the mountain of God, animals were sacrificed to Yahweh, the blood thirsty volcano. Sometimes virginal female war booty was also sacrificed to yahweh too. One time he got 32 in one go. What happened to them? Possibly positioned over a lava vent so they would be 'consumed' by the 'devouring fire'. And the penalty for disobedience? Death followed by an eternity in.....the lake of fire/the pit. It's all coming together nicely isn't it?

Add the fact that Moses wrote not only Exodus, Genesis, Leviticus, Numbers and Dueteronomy at the same time, it all seems to have mushroomed from this one act of wishful thinking and superstition. Maybe long after the Hebrews left the mountain of god they worked out to their horror that it had been just a naturally occuring volcano and decided to ban the name of God to ensure no-one worked it out in the long run. Tracks covered.

Santorini eruption

The Santorini (Thera) volcanic eruption is likely the catalyst that set off the ten plagues of Egypt.
 
'The Bronze Age eruption of Thera near mainland Greece would have devastated ancient civilisations in the region. Ash would likely have plunged much of the Mediterranean into darkness, and tsunami would have wrecked local ports. A survey around what is now the island arc of Santorini shows volcanic pumice to a depth of 80m covering the ocean floor for 20-30km in all directions. By examining echoes from volcanic deposits on the ocean floor, researchers have shown that the Aegean eruption of Thera 3,600 years ago may have propelled 60 cubic km of magma out of the volcano's crater.'
 
Continue reading article on the Thera/Santorini volcanic eruption....here.

List of Biblical verses that suggest God was a volcano

This list of Bible verses that prove beyond all reasonable doubt god was a volcano will be regularly updated and re-circulated. The 'God' referred to here is Yahweh of the Abrahamic religions of Judaism, Christianity and Islam. If you would like to submit some verses for the collection then please add them as a comment.

(Latest additions thanks to the huge efforts of RockGnostic).

Exodus 3:12 And God said, "I will be with you. And this will be the sign to you that it is I who have sent you: When you have brought the people out of Egypt, you will worship God on this mountain."

Exodus 13:21 By day the LORD went ahead of them in a pillar of cloud to guide them on their way and by night in a pillar of fire to give them light, so that they could travel by day or night.

Exodus 15:7 In the greatness of your majesty you threw down those who opposed you. You unleashed your burning anger; it consumed them like stubble.

Exodus 19:18 Mount Sinai was covered with smoke, because the LORD descended on it in fire. The smoke billowed up from it like smoke from a furnace, and the whole mountain trembled violently.

Exodus 24:17 To the Israelites the glory of the LORD looked like a consuming fire on top of the mountain.

Exodus: 32:14 And the LORD repented of the evil which he thought to do unto his people.

Exodus 40:38 So the cloud of the LORD was over the tabernacle by day, and fire was in the cloud by night, in the sight of all the Israelites during all their travels.

Leviticus 9:24 Fire came out from the presence of the LORD and consumed the burnt offering and the fat portions on the altar. And when all the people saw it, they shouted for joy and fell facedown.

Leviticus 10:2 So fire came out from the presence of the LORD and consumed them, and they died before the LORD.

Leviticus 10:6 Then Moses said to Aaron and his sons Eleazar and Ithamar, “Do not let your hair become unkempt and do not tear your clothes, or you will die and the LORD will be angry with the whole community. But your relatives, all the Israelites, may mourn for those the LORD has destroyed by fire.

Numbers 11:1 Now the people complained about their hardships in the hearing of the LORD, and when he heard them his anger was aroused. Then fire from the LORD burned among them and consumed some of the outskirts of the camp.

Numbers 11:3 So that place was called Taberah, because fire from the LORD had burned among them.

Numbers 14:14 And they will tell the inhabitants of this land about it. They have already heard that you, LORD, are with these people and that you, LORD, have been seen face to face, that your cloud stays over them, and that you go before them in a pillar of cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night.

Numbers 16:35 And fire came out from the LORD and consumed the 250 men who were offering the incense.

Numbers 26:10 The earth opened its mouth and swallowed them along with Korah, whose followers died when the fire devoured the 250 men. And they served as a warning sign.

Deuteronomy 1:33 who went ahead of you on your journey, in fire by night and in a cloud by day, to search out places for you to camp and to show you the way you should go.

Deuteronomy 4:11 You came near and stood at the foot of the mountain while it blazed with fire to the very heavens, with black clouds and deep darkness.

Deuteronomy 4:12 Then the LORD spoke to you out of the fire. You heard the sound of words but saw no form; there was only a voice.

Deuteronomy 4:15 You saw no form of any kind the day the LORD spoke to you at Horeb out of the fire. Therefore watch yourselves very carefully.

Deuteronomy 4:24 For the LORD your God is a consuming fire, a jealous God.

Deuteronomy 4:33 Has any other people heard the voice of God speaking out of fire, as you have, and lived?

Deuteronomy 4:36 From heaven he made you hear his voice to discipline you. On earth he showed you his great fire, and you heard his words from out of the fire.

Deuteronomy 5:4 The LORD spoke to you face to face out of the fire on the mountain.

Deuteronomy 5:5 At that time I stood between the LORD and you to declare to you the word of the LORD, because you were afraid of the fire and did not go up the mountain.

Deuteronomy 5:22 These are the commandments the LORD proclaimed in a loud voice to your whole assembly there on the mountain from out of the fire, the cloud and the deep darkness; and he added nothing more. Then he wrote them on two stone tablets and gave them to me.

Deuteronomy 5:23 When you heard the voice out of the darkness, while the mountain was ablaze with fire, all the leaders of your tribes and your elders came to me.

Deuteronomy 5:24 And you said, “The LORD our God has shown us his glory and his majesty, and we have heard his voice from the fire. Today we have seen that a person can live even if God speaks with them.

Deuteronomy 5:25 But now, why should we die? This great fire will consume us, and we will die if we hear the voice of the LORD our God any longer.

Deuteronomy 5:26 For what mortal has ever heard the voice of the living God speaking out of fire, as we have, and survived?

Deuteronomy 9:3 But be assured today that the LORD your God is the one who goes across ahead of you like a devouring fire. He will destroy them; he will subdue them before you. And you will drive them out and annihilate them quickly, as the LORD has promised you.

Deuteronomy 9:10 The LORD gave me two stone tablets inscribed by the finger of God. On them were all the commandments the LORD proclaimed to you on the mountain out of the fire, on the day of the assembly.

Deuteronomy 9:15 So I turned and went down from the mountain while it was ablaze with fire. And the two tablets of the covenant were in my hands.

Deuteronomy 10:4 The LORD wrote on these tablets what he had written before, the Ten Commandments he had proclaimed to you on the mountain, out of the fire, on the day of the assembly. And the LORD gave them to me.

Deuteronomy 18:16 For this is what you asked of the LORD your God at Horeb on the day of the assembly when you said, “Let us not hear the voice of the LORD our God nor see this great fire anymore, or we will die.”

Deuteronomy 33:2 He said: "The LORD came from Sinai and dawned over them from Seir; he shone forth from Mount Paran. He came with myriads of holy ones from the south, from his mountain slopes.

2 Samuel 22:9 Smoke rose from his nostrils; consuming fire came from his mouth, burning coals blazed out of it.

Psalm 18

“In my distress I called to the Lord;

I called out to my God.

From his temple he heard my voice;

my cry came to his ears.

⁸ The earth trembled and quaked,

the foundations of the heavens

shook;

they trembled because he was angry.

⁹ Smoke rose from his nostrils;

consuming fire came from his mouth,

burning coals blazed out of it.

¹⁰ He parted the heavens and came down;

dark clouds were under his feet.

¹¹ He mounted the cherubim and flew;

he soared on the wings of the wind.

¹² He made darkness his canopy around him—

the dark rain clouds of the sky. 

¹³ Out of the brightness of his presence

bolts of lightning blazed forth.

¹⁴ The Lord thundered from heaven;

the voice of the Most High resounded.

¹⁵ He shot his arrows and scattered the enemy,

with great bolts of lightning he routed them.

¹⁶ The valleys of the sea were exposed

and the foundations of the earth laid bare

at the rebuke of the Lord,

at the blast of breath from his nostrils.

 Joshua 10¹¹ As they fled before Israel on the road down from Beth Horon to Azekah, the Lord hurled large hailstones down on them, and more of them died from the hail than were killed by the swords of the Israelites.1. “hailstones” can also be translated to rocks according to Dr. Pigott.

1 Kings 18:24 Then you call on the name of your god, and I will call on the name of the LORD. The god who answers by fire—he is God.” Then all the people said, “What you say is good.”

 1 Kings 18:38 Then the fire of the LORD fell, and consumed the burnt sacrifice, and the wood, and the stones, and the dust, and licked up the water that was in the trench.

 1 Kings 19:11 The Lord said, “Go out and stand on the mountain in the presence of the Lord, for the Lord is about to pass by.” Then a great and powerful wind tore the mountains apart and shattered the rocks before the Lord, but the Lord was not in the wind. After the wind there was an earthquake, but the Lord was not in the earthquake. ¹² After the earthquake came a fire, but the Lord was not in the fire. And after the fire came a gentle whisper. ¹³ When Elijah heard it, he pulled his cloak over his face and went out and stood at the mouth of the cave.

2 Kings 1:10 Elijah answered the captain, “If I am a man of God, may fire come down from heaven and consume you and your fifty men!” Then fire fell from heaven and consumed the captain and his men.

2 Kings 1:12 “If I am a man of God,” Elijah replied, “may fire come down from heaven and consume you and your fifty men!” Then the fire of God fell from heaven and consumed him and his fifty men.

2 Kings 1:14 See, fire has fallen from heaven and consumed the first two captains and all their men. But now have respect for my life!”

2 Kings 2:11 As they were walking along and talking together, suddenly a chariot of fire and horses of fire appeared and separated the two of them, and Elijah went up to heaven in a whirlwind.

(Chariot of fire was a metaphor for fire from a volcano).

2 Kings 6:17 And Elisha prayed, “Open his eyes, LORD, so that he may see.” Then the LORD opened the servant’s eyes, and he looked and saw the hills full of horses and chariots of fire all around Elisha.

2 Chronicles 7:3 When all the Israelites saw the fire coming down and the glory of the LORD above the temple, they knelt on the pavement with their faces to the ground, and they worshiped and gave thanks to the LORD, saying, “He is good; his love endures forever.”

Nehemiah 9:12 By day you led them with a pillar of cloud, and by night with a pillar of fire to give them light on the way they were to take.

Nehemiah 9:19 “Because of your great compassion you did not abandon them in the wilderness. By day the pillar of cloud did not fail to guide them on their path, nor the pillar of fire by night to shine on the way they were to take.

Job 1:16 While he was still speaking, another messenger came and said, “The fire of God fell from the heavens and burned up the sheep and the servants, and I am the only one who has escaped to tell you!”

Job 20:25 Terrors will come over him;
²⁶ total darkness lies in wait for his treasures.

A fire unfanned will consume him

and devour what is left in his tent.

²⁷ The heavens will expose his guilt;

the earth will rise up against him.

Psalms 18

In my distress I called to the Lord;
I cried to my God for help.
From his temple he heard my voice;
my cry came before him, into his ears.
⁷ The earth trembled and quaked,

and the foundations of the mountains shook;

they trembled because he was angry.

⁸ Smoke rose from his nostrils;

consuming fire came from his mouth,

burning coals blazed out of it.

⁹ He parted the heavens and came down;

dark clouds were under his feet.

¹⁰ He mounted the cherubim and flew;

he soared on the wings of the wind.

¹¹ He made darkness his covering, his canopy around him—

the dark rain clouds of the sky.

¹² Out of the brightness of his presence clouds advanced,

with hailstones and bolts of lightning.

¹³ The Lord thundered from heaven;

the voice of the Most High resounded.^[d]

¹⁴ He shot his arrows and scattered the enemy,

with great bolts of lightning he routed them.

¹⁵ The valleys of the sea were exposed

and the foundations of the earth laid bare

at your rebuke, Lord,

at the blast of breath from your nostrils.

Psalm 21:9--When you appear for battle, you will burn them up as in a blazing furnace. The LORD will swallow them up in his wrath, and his fire will consume them.

Psalm 50:3 Our God comes and will not be silent; a fire devours before him, and around him a tempest rages.

Psalm 68:2 May you blow them away like smoke— as wax melts before the fire, may the wicked perish before God.

Psalm 78:14 He guided them with the cloud by day and with light from the fire all night.

Psalm 78:21 When the LORD heard them, he was furious; his fire broke out against Jacob, and his wrath rose against Israel.

Psalm 79:5 How long, LORD? Will you be angry forever? How long will your jealousy burn like fire?

Psalm 83:13-15

¹³ Make them like tumbleweed, my God, like chaff before the wind. ¹⁴ As fire consumes the forest or a flame sets the mountains ablaze,15 so pursue them with your tempest and terrify them with your storm.

Psalm 97

¹ The Lord reigns, let the earth be glad; let the distant shores rejoice.² Clouds and thick darkness surround him;righteousness and justice are the foundation of his throne.³ Fire goes before him and consumes his foes on every side.⁴ His lightning lights up the world;the earth sees and trembles.⁵ The mountains melt like wax before the Lord,before the Lord of all the earth.⁶ The heavens proclaim his righteousness,and all peoples see his glory.

Psalm 105:38-40

³⁸ Egypt was glad when they left,
because dread of Israel had fallen on them.

³⁹ He spread out a cloud as a covering,
and a fire to give light at night.
⁴⁰ They asked, and he brought them quail;

he fed them well with the bread of heaven.

Psalm 144:5 Part your heavens, LORD, and come down; touch the mountains, so that they smoke.

Isaiah 4:4 The Lord will wash away the filth of the women of Zion; he will cleanse the bloodstains from Jerusalem by a spirit of judgment and a spirit of fire.

Isaiah 4:5 Then the LORD will create over all of Mount Zion and over those who assemble there a cloud of smoke by day and a glow of flaming fire by night; over everything the glory will be a canopy.

Isaiah 5:23-26

²³ who acquit the guilty for a bribe,
but deny justice to the innocent.
²⁴ Therefore, as tongues of fire lick up straw

and as dry grass sinks down in the flames,

so their roots will decay

and their flowers blow away like dust;

for they have rejected the law of the Lord Almighty

and spurned the word of the Holy One of Israel.

²⁵ Therefore the Lord’s anger burns against his people;

his hand is raised and he strikes them down.

The mountains shake,

and the dead bodies are like refuse in the streets.
26 And he will lift up an ensign to the nations from far, and will hiss unto them from the end of the earth: and, behold, they shall come with speed swiftly.

Isaiah 6:3-5 ³ And they were calling to one another: “Holy, holy, holy is the Lord Almighty; the whole earth is full of his glory.”⁴ At the sound of their voices the doorposts and thresholds shook and the temple was filled with smoke.
Isaiah 9:19 By the wrath of the LORD Almighty the land will be scorched and the people will be fuel for thefire; they will not spare one another.

Isaiah 10:17 The Light of Israel will become a fire, their Holy One a flame; in a single day it will burn and consume his thorns and his briers.

Isaiah 26:11 LORD, your hand is lifted high, but they do not see it. Let them see your zeal for your people and be put to shame; let the fire reserved for your enemies consume them.

Isaiah 29:6 the LORD Almighty will come with thunder and earthquake and great noise, with windstorm and tempest and flames of a devouring fire.

Isaiah 30:27 See, the Name of the LORD comes from afar, with burning anger and dense clouds of smoke; his lips are full of wrath, and his tongue is a consuming fire.

Isaiah 30:30 The LORD will cause people to hear his majestic voice and will make them see his arm coming down with raging anger and consuming fire, with cloudburst, thunderstorm and hail.

Isaiah 30:33 Topheth has long been prepared; it has been made ready for the king. Its fire pit has been made deep and wide, with an abundance of fire and wood; the breath of the LORD, like a stream of burning sulfur, sets it ablaze.

Isaiah 31:9 Their stronghold will fall because of terror; at the sight of the battle standard their commanders will panic,” declares the LORD, whose fire is in Zion, whose furnace is in Jerusalem.

Isaiah 33:14 The sinners in Zion are terrified; trembling grips the godless: "Who of us can dwell with the consuming fire? Who of us can dwell with everlasting burning?"

Isaiah 64:2 As when fire sets twigs ablaze and causes water to boil, come down to make your name known to your enemies and cause the nations to quake before you!

Isaiah 65:5 who say, ‘Keep away; don’t come near me, for I am too sacred for you!’ Such people are smoke in my nostrils, a fire that keeps burning all day.

Isaiah 66:15 See, the LORD is coming with fire, and his chariots are like a whirlwind; he will bring down his anger with fury, and his rebuke with flames of fire.

Isaiah 66:16 For with fire and with his sword the LORD will execute judgment on all people, and many will be those slain by the LORD.

Jeremiah 4:13 Look! He advances like the clouds, his chariots come like a whirlwind, his horses are swifter than eagles. Woe to us! We are ruined!

Jeremiah 4:4 Circumcise yourselves to the LORD, circumcise your hearts, you people of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem, or my wrath will flare up and burn like fire because of the evil you have done— burn with no one to quench it.

Jeremiah 5:14 Therefore this is what the LORD God Almighty says: “Because the people have spoken these words, I will make my words in your mouth a fire and these people the wood it consumes.

Jeremiah 11:16 The LORD called you a thriving olive tree with fruit beautiful in form. But with the roar of a mighty storm he will set it on fire, and its branches will be broken.

Jeremiah 23:29 “Is not my word like fire,” declares the LORD, “and like a hammer that breaks a rock in pieces?

Jeremiah 25:37 The peaceful meadows will be laid waste because of the fierce anger of the LORD.

Jeremiah 49:26-28 Surely, her young men will fall in the streets;all her soldiers will be silenced in that day,”declares the Lord Almighty.²⁷ “I will set fire to the walls of Damascus; it will consume the fortresses of Ben-Hadad.”

Lamentations 1:12-14

¹² “Is it nothing to you, all you who pass by?

Look around and see.
Is any suffering like my suffering
that was inflicted on me,
that the Lord brought on me
in the day of his fierce anger?

¹³ “From on high he sent fire,
sent it down into my bones.
He spread a net for my feet
and turned me back.
He made me desolate,
faint all the day long.

Lamentations 2:2-4

² Without pity the Lord has swallowed up
all the dwellings of Jacob;
in his wrath he has torn down
the strongholds of Daughter Judah.
He has brought her kingdom and its princes
down to the ground in dishonor.

³ In fierce anger he has cut off
every horn^[a][b] of Israel.
He has withdrawn his right hand
at the approach of the enemy.
He has burned in Jacob like a flaming fire
that consumes everything around it.


Lamentations 4:11 The LORD has given full vent to his wrath; he has poured out his fierce anger. He kindled a fire in Zion that consumed her foundations.

Ezekiel 1:4  I looked, and I saw a windstorm coming out of the north—an immense cloud with flashing lightning and surrounded by brilliant light. The center of the fire looked like glowing metal.

Ezekiel 1:27  I saw that from what appeared to be his waist up he looked like glowing metal, as if full of fire, and that from there down he looked like fire; and brilliant light surrounded him.

Ezekiel 7:8 I am about to pour out my wrath on you and spend my anger against you; I will judge you according to your conduct and repay you for all your detestable practices.


Ezekiel 22:31 So I will pour out my wrath on them and consume them with my fiery anger, bringing down on their own heads all they have done, declares the Sovereign LORD."

Ezekeil 28:14

You were anointed as a guardian cherub, for so I ordained you. You were on the holy mount of God; you walked among the fiery stones.

Ezekeil 28:16

Through your widespread trade you were filled with violence, and you sinned. So I drove you in disgrace from the mount of God, and I expelled you, guardian cherub, from among the fiery stones.

Enoch 17:1 They raised me up into a certain place, where there was ⁽²⁸⁾ the appearance of a burning fire; and when they pleased they assumed the likeness of men.
(28) Where there was. Or, "where they [the angels] were like" (Knibb, p. 103).

Enoch 17:2 They carried me to a lofty spot, to a mountain, the top of which reach to heaven.

Enoch 17:3 And I beheld the receptacles of light and of thunder at the extremities of the place, where it was deepest. There was a bow of fire, and arrows in their quiver, a sword of fire, and every species of lightning.

Enoch 17:4 Then they elevated me to a babbling stream, ⁽²⁹⁾ and to a fire in the west, which received all the setting of the sun. I came to a river of fire, which flowed like water, and emptied itself into the great sea westwards.

Daniel 7:8-10

⁸ “While I was thinking about the horns, there before me was another horn, a little one, which came up among them; and three of the first horns were uprooted before it. This horn had eyes like the eyes of a human being and a mouth that spoke boastfully.

⁹ “As I looked,

“thrones were set in place,
and the Ancient of Days took his seat.
His clothing was as white as snow;
the hair of his head was white like wool.
His throne was flaming with fire,
and its wheels were all ablaze.
¹⁰ A river of fire was flowing,

coming out from before him.

Thousands upon thousands attended him;

ten thousand times ten thousand stood before him.

The court was seated,

and the books were opened.

Joel 2

An Army of Locusts

2 Blow the trumpet in Zion;
sound the alarm on my holy hill.

Let all who live in the land tremble,
for the day of the Lord is coming.
It is close at hand—
² a day of darkness and gloom,

a day of clouds and blackness.

Like dawn spreading across the mountains

a large and mighty army comes,

such as never was in ancient times

nor ever will be in ages to come.

³ Before them fire devours,

behind them a flame blazes.
Before them the land is like the garden of Eden,
behind them, a desert waste—
nothing escapes them.
⁴ They have the appearance of horses;

they gallop along like cavalry.

⁵ With a noise like that of chariots

they leap over the mountaintops,

like a crackling fire consuming stubble,

like a mighty army drawn up for battle.

⁶ At the sight of them, nations are in anguish;

every face turns pale.
⁷ They charge like warriors;

they scale walls like soldiers.

They all march in line,

not swerving from their course.

⁸ They do not jostle each other;

each marches straight ahead.

They plunge through defenses

without breaking ranks.

⁹ They rush upon the city;

they run along the wall.

They climb into the houses;

like thieves they enter through the windows.

¹⁰ Before them the earth shakes,

the heavens tremble,
the sun and moon are darkened,
and the stars no longer shine.
¹¹ The Lord thunders

at the head of his army;

his forces are beyond number,

and mighty is the army that obeys his command.

The day of the Lord is great;

it is dreadful.

Who can endure it?

Amos 7:4 This is what the Sovereign LORD showed me: The Sovereign LORD was calling for judgment byfire; it dried up the great deep and devoured the land.

Micah 1:3-5 Judgment Against Samaria and Jerusalem

³ Look! The Lord is coming from his dwelling place;
he comes down and treads on the heights of the earth.
⁴ The mountains melt beneath him

and the valleys split apart,

like wax before the fire,

like water rushing down a slope.

Nahum 1:5-6 The mountains quake at him, and the hills melt, and the earth is burned at his presence, yea, the world, and all that dwell therein. Who can stand before his indignation? and who can abide in the fierceness of his anger? his fury is poured out like fire, and the rocks are thrown down by him.

Malachi 4:1 For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.

Zephaniah 3:8 Therefore wait for me,” declares the LORD, “for the day I will stand up to testify. I have decided to assemble the nations, to gather the kingdoms and to pour out my wrath on them— all my fierce anger. The whole world will be consumed by the fire of my jealous anger.

Zechariah 2:5 And I myself will be a wall of fire around it,’ declares the LORD, ‘and I will be its glory within.’

Matthew 3:11 “I baptize you with water for repentance. But after me comes one who is more powerful than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.

Matthew 3:12 His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will clear his threshing floor, gathering his wheat into the barn and burning up the chaff with unquenchable fire.”

Matthew 17:14-16 ¹⁴ When they came to the crowd, a man approached Jesus and knelt before him. ¹⁵ “Lord, have mercy on my son,” he said. “He has seizures and is suffering greatly. He often falls into the fire or into the water. ¹⁶ I brought him to your disciples, but they could not heal him.”

Luke 3:16 John answered them all, “I baptize you with water. But one who is more powerful than I will come, the straps of whose sandals I am not worthy to untie. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire. ¹⁷ His winnowing fork is in his hand to clear his threshing floor and to gather the wheat into his barn, but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.” ¹⁸ And with many other words John exhorted the people and proclaimed the good news to them.

Luke 9:54 When the disciples James and John saw this, they asked, “Lord, do you want us to call fire down from heaven to destroy them ?”

Luke 12:49 have come to bring fire on the earth, and how I wish it were already kindled! ⁵⁰ But I have a baptism to undergo, and what constraint I am under until it is completed! ⁵¹ Do you think I came to bring peace on earth? No, I tell you, but division.

Acts 2:18-20

¹⁸ Even on my servants, both men and women, I will pour out my Spirit in those days, and they will prophesy. ¹⁹ I will show wonders in the heavens above and signs on the earth below, blood and fire and billows of smoke. ²⁰ The sun will be turned to darkness and the moon to blood before the coming of the great and glorious day of the Lord.

2 Thessalonians 1:7 and give relief to you who are troubled, and to us as well. This will happen when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven in blazing fire with his powerful angels.

Hebrews 1:7 In speaking of the angels he says, “He makes his angels spirits, and his servants flames of fire.”

Hebrews 10:27 but only a fearful expectation of judgment and of raging fire that will consume the enemies of God.

Hebrews 10:31 It is a dreadful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.

The Mountain of Fear and the Mountain of Joy (Hebrews 12)

¹⁸ You have not come to a mountain that can be touched and that is burning with fire; to darkness, gloom and storm; ¹⁹ to a trumpet blast or to such a voice speaking words that those who heard it begged that no further word be spoken to them, ²⁰ because they could not bear what was commanded: “If even an animal touches the mountain, it must be stoned to death.”^{[c] 21} The sight was so terrifying that Moses said, “I am trembling with fear.”^[d]

²² But you have come to Mount Zion, to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem. You have come to thousands upon thousands of angels in joyful assembly, ²³ to the church of the firstborn,whose names are written in heaven. You have come to God, the Judge of all, to the spirits of the righteous made perfect, ²⁴ to Jesus the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood that speaks a better word than the blood of Abel.

²⁵ See to it that you do not refuse him who speaks. If they did not escape when they refused him who warned them on earth, how much less will we, if we turn away from him who warns us from heaven?²⁶ At that time his voice shook the earth, but now he has promised, “Once more I will shake not only the earth but also the heavens.”^{[e] 27} The words “once more” indicate the removing of what can be shaken—that is, created things—so that what cannot be shaken may remain.

²⁸ Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, let us be thankful, and so worship God acceptably with reverence and awe, ²⁹ for our “God is a consuming fire.”^[f]

Hebrews 12:29 for our “God is a consuming fire.”

2 Peter 3:7 By the same word the present heavens and earth are reserved for fire, being kept for the day of judgment and destruction of the ungodly.

2 Peter 3:12 as you look forward to the day of God and speed its coming. That day will bring about the destruction of the heavens by fire, and the elements will melt in the heat.

Revelation 9:2 When he opened the Abyss, smoke rose from it like the smoke from a gigantic furnace. The sun and sky were darkened by the smoke from the Abyss.

Revelation 11:5 If anyone tries to harm them, fire comes from their mouths and devours their enemies. This is how anyone who wants to harm them must die.

Revelation Then God's temple in heaven was opened, and within his temple was seen the ark of his covenant. And there came flashes of lightning, rumblings, peals of thunder, an earthquake and a great hailstorm.

Revelation 20:14 Then Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death – the lake of fire.

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