Joel 3:14
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14 Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision!
For (A)the day of the Lord is near in the valley of decision.
Philippians 3:2
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2 (A)Beware of dogs, beware of (B)evil workers, (C)beware of the mutilation!
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Isaiah 34:2-8
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2 For the indignation of the Lord is against all nations,
And His fury against all their armies;
He has utterly destroyed them,
He has given them over to the (A)slaughter.
3 Also their slain shall be thrown out;
(B)Their stench shall rise from their corpses,
And the mountains shall be melted with their blood.
4 (C)All the host of heaven shall be dissolved,
And the heavens shall be rolled up like a scroll;
(D)All their host shall fall down
As the leaf falls from the vine,
And as (E)fruit falling from a fig tree.
5 “For (F)My sword shall be bathed in heaven;
Indeed it (G)shall come down on Edom,
And on the people of My curse, for judgment.
6 The (H)sword of the Lord is filled with blood,
It is made [a]overflowing with fatness,
With the blood of lambs and goats,
With the fat of the kidneys of rams.
For (I)the Lord has a sacrifice in Bozrah,
And a great slaughter in the land of Edom.
7 The wild oxen shall come down with them,
And the young bulls with the mighty bulls;
Their land shall be soaked with blood,
And their dust [b]saturated with fatness.”
8 For it is the day of the Lord’s (J)vengeance,
The year of recompense for the cause of Zion.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 34:6 Lit. fat
- Isaiah 34:7 Lit. made fat
Revelation 19:19-21
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19 (A)And I saw the beast, the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against Him who sat on the horse and against His army. 20 (B)Then the beast was captured, and with him the false prophet who worked signs in his presence, by which he deceived those who received the mark of the beast and (C)those who worshiped his image. (D)These two were cast alive into the lake of fire (E)burning with brimstone. 21 And the rest (F)were killed with the sword which proceeded from the mouth of Him who sat on the horse. (G)And all the birds (H)were filled with their flesh.
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Revelation 16:14-16
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14 For they are spirits of demons, (A)performing signs, which go out to the kings [a]of the earth and of (B)the whole world, to gather them to (C)the battle of that great day of God Almighty.
15 (D)“Behold, I am coming as a thief. Blessed is he who watches, and keeps his garments, (E)lest he walk naked and they see his shame.”
16 (F)And they gathered them together to the place called in Hebrew, [b]Armageddon.
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- Revelation 16:14 NU, M omit of the earth and
- Revelation 16:16 Lit. Mount Megiddo; M Megiddo
2 Peter 3:7
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7 But (A)the heavens and the earth which are now preserved by the same word, are reserved for (B)fire until the day of judgment and [a]perdition of ungodly men.
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- 2 Peter 3:7 destruction
Joel 3:2
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2 (A)I will also gather all nations,
And bring them down to the Valley of Jehoshaphat;
And I (B)will enter into judgment with them there
On account of My people, My heritage Israel,
Whom they have scattered among the nations;
They have also divided up My land.
Joel 1:15
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15 (A)Alas for the day!
For (B)the day of the Lord is at hand;
It shall come as destruction from the Almighty.
Ezekiel 39:8-20
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8 (A)Surely it is coming, and it shall be done,” says the Lord God. “This is the day (B)of which I have spoken.
9 “Then those who dwell in the cities of Israel will go out and set on fire and burn the weapons, both the shields and bucklers, the bows and arrows, the [a]javelins and spears; and they will make fires with them for seven years. 10 They will not take wood from the field nor cut down any from the forests, because they will make fires with the weapons; (C)and they will plunder those who plundered them, and pillage those who pillaged them,” says the Lord God.
The Burial of Gog
11 “It will come to pass in that day that I will give Gog a burial place there in Israel, the valley of those who pass by east of the sea; and it will obstruct travelers, because there they will bury Gog and all his multitude. Therefore they will call it the Valley of [b]Hamon Gog. 12 For seven months the house of Israel will be burying them, (D)in order to cleanse the land. 13 Indeed all the people of the land will be burying, and they will gain (E)renown for it on the day that (F)I am glorified,” says the Lord God. 14 “They will set apart men regularly employed, with the help of [c]a search party, to pass through the land and bury those bodies remaining on the ground, in order (G)to cleanse it. At the end of seven months they will make a search. 15 The search party will pass through the land; and when anyone sees a man’s bone, he shall [d]set up a marker by it, till the buriers have buried it in the Valley of Hamon Gog. 16 The name of the city will also be [e]Hamonah. Thus they shall (H)cleanse the land.” ’
A Triumphant Festival
17 “And as for you, son of man, thus says the Lord God, (I)‘Speak to every sort of bird and to every beast of the field:
(J)“Assemble yourselves and come;
Gather together from all sides to My (K)sacrificial meal
Which I am sacrificing for you,
A great sacrificial meal (L)on the mountains of Israel,
That you may eat flesh and drink blood.
18 (M)You shall eat the flesh of the mighty,
Drink the blood of the princes of the earth,
Of rams and lambs,
Of goats and bulls,
All of them (N)fatlings of Bashan.
19 You shall eat fat till you are full,
And drink blood till you are drunk,
At My sacrificial meal
Which I am sacrificing for you.
20 (O)You shall be filled at My table
With horses and riders,
(P)With mighty men
And with all the men of war,” says the Lord God.
Footnotes
- Ezekiel 39:9 Lit. hand staffs
- Ezekiel 39:11 Lit. The Multitude of Gog
- Ezekiel 39:14 Lit. those who pass through
- Ezekiel 39:15 build
- Ezekiel 39:16 Lit. Multitude
Ezekiel 38:8-23
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8 (A)After many days (B)you will be visited. In the latter years you will come into the land of those brought back from the sword (C)and gathered from many people on (D)the mountains of Israel, which had long been desolate; they were brought out of the nations, and now all of them (E)dwell safely. 9 You will ascend, coming (F)like a storm, covering the (G)land like a cloud, you and all your troops and many peoples with you.”
10 ‘Thus says the Lord God: “On that day it shall come to pass that thoughts will arise in your mind, and you will make an evil plan: 11 You will say, ‘I will go up against a land of (H)unwalled villages; I will (I)go to a peaceful people, (J)who dwell [a]safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates’— 12 to take plunder and to take booty, to stretch out your hand against the waste places that are again inhabited, (K)and against a people gathered from the nations, who have acquired livestock and goods, who dwell in the midst of the land. 13 (L)Sheba, (M)Dedan, the merchants (N)of Tarshish, and all (O)their young lions will say to you, ‘Have you come to take plunder? Have you gathered your army to take booty, to carry away silver and gold, to take away livestock and goods, to take great plunder?’ ” ’
14 “Therefore, son of man, prophesy and say to Gog, ‘Thus says the Lord God: (P)“On that day when My people Israel (Q)dwell safely, will you not know it? 15 (R)Then you will come from your place out of the far north, you and many peoples with you, all of them riding on horses, a great company and a mighty army. 16 You will come up against My people Israel like a cloud, to cover the land. It will be in the latter days that I will bring you against My land, so that the nations may (S)know Me, when I am (T)hallowed in you, O Gog, before their eyes.” 17 Thus says the Lord God: “Are you he of whom I have spoken in former days by My servants the prophets of Israel, who prophesied for years in those days that I would bring you against them?
Judgment on Gog
18 “And it will come to pass at the same time, when Gog comes against the land of Israel,” says the Lord God, “that My fury will show in My face. 19 For (U)in My jealousy (V)and in the fire of My wrath I have spoken: (W)‘Surely in that day there shall be a great [b]earthquake in the land of Israel, 20 so that (X)the fish of the sea, the birds of the heavens, the beasts of the field, all creeping things that creep on the earth, and all men who are on the face of the earth shall shake at My presence. (Y)The mountains shall be thrown down, the steep places shall fall, and every wall shall fall to the ground.’ 21 I will (Z)call for (AA)a sword against Gog throughout all My mountains,” says the Lord God. (AB)“Every man’s sword will be against his brother. 22 And I will (AC)bring him to judgment with (AD)pestilence and bloodshed; (AE)I will rain down on him, on his troops, and on the many peoples who are with him, flooding rain, (AF)great hailstones, fire, and brimstone. 23 Thus I will magnify Myself and (AG)sanctify Myself, (AH)and I will be known in the eyes of many nations. Then they shall know that I am the Lord.” ’
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- Ezekiel 38:11 securely
- Ezekiel 38:19 Lit. shaking
Isaiah 63:1-7
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The Lord in Judgment and Salvation
63 Who is this who comes from Edom,
With dyed garments from Bozrah,
This One who is [a]glorious in His apparel,
Traveling in the greatness of His strength?—
“I who speak in righteousness, mighty to save.”
2 Why (A)is Your apparel red,
And Your garments like one who treads in the winepress?
3 “I have (B)trodden the winepress alone,
And from the peoples no one was with Me.
For I have trodden them in My anger,
And trampled them in My fury;
Their blood is sprinkled upon My garments,
And I have stained all My robes.
4 For the (C)day of vengeance is in My heart,
And the year of My redeemed has come.
5 (D)I looked, but (E)there was no one to help,
And I wondered
That there was no one to uphold;
Therefore My own (F)arm brought salvation for Me;
And My own fury, it sustained Me.
6 I have trodden down the peoples in My anger,
Made them drunk in My fury,
And brought down their strength to the earth.”
God’s Mercy Remembered
7 I will mention the lovingkindnesses of the Lord
And the praises of the Lord,
According to all that the Lord has bestowed on us,
And the great goodness toward the house of Israel,
Which He has bestowed on them according to His mercies,
According to the multitude of His lovingkindnesses.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 63:1 Or adorned
Psalm 37:13
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