rebellion , there are none now to acknowledge his supremacy . His power is at an end . The wicked are filled with the same hatred of God that inspires Satan ; but they see that their case is hopeless , that they cannot prevail against Jehovah . Their rage is kindled against Satan and those who have been his agents in deception , and with the fury of demons they turn upon them .
Saith the Lord : " Because thou hast set thine heart as the heart of God ; behold , therefore I will bring strangers upon thee , the terrible of the nations : and they shall draw their swords against the beauty of thy wisdom , and they shall defile thy brightness . They shall bring thee down to the pit ." " I will destroy thee , O covering cherub , from the midst of the stones of fire . . . . I will cast thee to the ground , I will lay thee before kings , that they may behold thee . . . . I will bring thee to ashes upon the earth in the sight of all them that behold thee . . . . Thou shalt be a terror , and never shalt thou be any more ." Ezekiel 28:6-8 , 16-19 .
" Every battle of the warrior is with confused noise , and garments rolled in blood ; but this shall be with burning and fuel of fire ." " The indignation of the Lord is upon all nations , and His fury upon all their armies : He hath utterly destroyed them , He hath delivered them to the slaughter ." " Upon the wicked He shall rain quick burning coals , fire and brimstone and an horrible tempest : this shall be the portion of their cup ." Isaiah 9:5 ; 34:2 ; Psalm 11:6 , margin . Fire comes down from God out of heaven . The earth is broken up . The weapons concealed in its depths are drawn forth . Devouring flames burst from every yawning chasm . The very rocks are on fire . The day has come that shall burn as an oven . The elements melt with fervent heat , the earth also , and the works that are therein are burned up . Malachi 4:1 ; 2 Peter 3:10 . The earth ' s surface seems one molten mass--a vast , seething lake of fire . It is the time of the judgment and perdition of ungodly men-- " the day of the Lord ' s vengeance , and the year of recompenses for the controversy of Zion ." Isaiah 34:8 .
The wicked receive their recompense in the earth . Proverbs 11:31 . They " shall be stubble : and the day that cometh shall burn them up , saith the Lord of hosts ." Malachi 4:1 . Some are destroyed as in a moment , while others suffer many days . All are punished " according to their deeds ." The sins of the righteous having been transferred to Satan , he is made to suffer not only for his own rebellion , but for all the sins which he has caused God ' s people to commit . His punishment is to be far greater than that of those whom he has deceived . After all have perished who fell by his deceptions , he is still to live and suffer on . In the cleansing flames the wicked are at last destroyed , root and branch-Satan the root , his followers the branches . The full penalty of the law has been visited ; the demands of justice have been met ; and heaven and earth , beholding , declare the righteousness of Jehovah .
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