Revelation 20:9
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9 They marched up over the breadth of the earth and surrounded the camp of the saints and the beloved city. And fire came down from heaven[a] and consumed them.(A)
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Ezekiel 38:16
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16 you will come up against my people Israel like a cloud covering the earth. In the latter days I will bring you against my land, so that the nations may know me, when through you, O Gog, I display my holiness before their eyes.(A)
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Ezekiel 39:6
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6 I will send fire on Magog and on those who live securely in the coastlands, and they shall know that I am the Lord.(A)
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Ezekiel 38:22
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22 With pestilence and bloodshed I will enter into judgment with him, and I will pour down torrential rains and hailstones, fire and sulfur upon him and his troops and the many peoples who are with him.(A)
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Ezekiel 38:9
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9 You shall advance, coming on like a storm; you shall be like a cloud covering the land, you and all your troops and many peoples with you.(A)
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2 Thessalonians 1:8
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8 in a fiery flame, inflicting vengeance on those who do not know God and on those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus.(A)
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Psalm 106:18
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18 Fire also broke out in their company;
the flame burned up the wicked.(A)
Psalm 97:3
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3 Fire goes before him
and consumes his adversaries on every side.(A)
Revelation 13:13
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13 It performs great signs, even making fire come down from heaven to earth in the sight of all,(A)
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Revelation 11:5
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5 And if anyone wants to harm them, fire pours from their mouth and consumes their foes; anyone who wants to harm them must be killed in this manner.(A)
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Luke 17:29
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29 but on the day that Lot left Sodom it rained fire and sulfur from heaven and destroyed all of them;
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Psalm 125:1-2
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Psalm 125
The Security of God’s People
A Song of Ascents.
1 Those who trust in the Lord are like Mount Zion,
which cannot be moved but abides forever.(A)
2 As the mountains surround Jerusalem,
so the Lord surrounds his people
from this time on and forevermore.(B)
2 Kings 1:10-15
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10 But Elijah answered the captain of fifty, “If I am a man of God, let fire come down from heaven and consume you and your fifty.” Then fire came down from heaven and consumed him and his fifty.(A)
11 Again the king sent to him another captain of fifty with his fifty. He went up[a] and said to him, “O man of God, this is the king’s order: Come down quickly!” 12 But Elijah answered him,[b] “If I am a man of God, let fire come down from heaven and consume you and your fifty.” Then the fire of God came down from heaven and consumed him and his fifty.
13 Again the king sent the captain of a third fifty with his fifty. So the third captain of fifty went up and came and fell on his knees before Elijah and entreated him, “O man of God, please let my life and the life of these fifty servants of yours be precious in your sight.(B) 14 Look, fire came down from heaven and consumed the two former captains of fifty men with their fifties, but now let my life be precious in your sight.” 15 Then the angel of the Lord said to Elijah, “Go down with him; do not be afraid of him.” So he set out and went down with him to the king(C)
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Luke 9:54
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54 When his disciples James and John saw this, they said, “Lord, do you want us to command fire to come down from heaven and consume them?”[a](A)
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Isaiah 37:36
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Sennacherib’s Defeat and Death
36 Then the angel of the Lord set out and struck down one hundred eighty-five thousand in the camp of the Assyrians; when morning dawned, they were all dead bodies.(A)
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Isaiah 8:7-8
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7 therefore the Lord is bringing up against it the mighty flood waters of the River, the king of Assyria and all his glory; it will rise above all its channels and overflow all its banks; 8 it will sweep on into Judah as a flood and, pouring over, will reach up to the neck, and its outspread wings will fill the breadth of your land, O Immanuel.(A)
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Psalm 48:1-3
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Psalm 48
The Glory and Strength of Zion
A Song. A Psalm of the Korahites.
1 Great is the Lord and greatly to be praised
in the city of our God.
His holy mountain,(A) 2 beautiful in elevation,
is the joy of all the earth,
Mount Zion, in the far north,
the city of the great King.(B)
3 Within its citadels God
has shown himself a sure defense.(C)
Numbers 16:35
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35 And fire came out from the Lord and consumed the two hundred fifty men offering the incense.(A)
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Numbers 11:1
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Complaining in the Desert
11 Now when the people complained in the hearing of the Lord about their misfortunes, the Lord heard it, and his anger was kindled. Then the fire of the Lord burned against them and consumed some outlying parts of the camp.(A)
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Leviticus 10:2-3
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2 And fire came out from the presence of the Lord and consumed them, and they died before the Lord.(A) 3 Then Moses said to Aaron, “This is what the Lord meant when he said,
‘Through those who are near me
I will show myself holy,
and before all the people
I will be glorified.’ ”
And Aaron was silent.(B)
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Exodus 9:23-24
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23 Then Moses stretched out his staff toward heaven, and the Lord sent thunder and hail, and fire came down on the earth. And the Lord rained hail on the land of Egypt;(A) 24 there was hail with fire flashing continually in the midst of it, such heavy hail as had never fallen in all the land of Egypt since it became a nation.
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Hebrews 13:13
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13 Let us then go to him outside the camp and bear the abuse he endured.
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Habakkuk 1:6
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6 For I am rousing the Chaldeans,
that fierce and impetuous nation,
who march through the breadth of the earth
to seize dwellings not their own.(A)
Micah 2:13
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13 The one who breaks out will go up before them;
they will break through and pass the gate,
going out by it.
Their king will pass on before them,
the Lord at their head.(A)
Isaiah 30:33
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33 For his burning place[a] has long been prepared, also for the king;[b] its pyre is made deep and wide, with fire and wood in abundance; the breath of the Lord, like a stream of sulfur, kindles it.(A)
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