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"For behold,
the day is coming,
burning like
a furnace;
and all the
arrogant and
every evildoer
will be chaff;
and the day
that is coming
will set them
ablaze."
says the LORD
of hosts,
"so that it
will leave them
neither root
nor branch."
Malachi 4: 1
Behold the LORD
lays the earth
waste,
devastates it,
distorts its surface
and scatters
its inhabitants.
And the people
will be like the priest,
the servant
like his master,
the maid like
her mistress,
the buyer like
the seller.
the lender like
the borrower,
the creditor
like the debtor.
The earth will
be
completely laid
waste
and completely
despoiled,
for the LORD
has spoken this word.
The earth mourns
and withers,
the world fades
and withers,
the exalted
of the
people of the
earth fade away.
The earth is
also
polluted by
its inhabitants,
for they transgressed
laws,
violated statutes,
broke the everlasting
covenant.
Therefore, a
curse devours the earth,
and those who
live in
it are held
guilty.
Therefore, the
inhabitants of the earth are burned,
and few men
are left.
Isaiah 24: 1-6
Near is the
great day of the LORD,
near and coming
very quickly;
Listen, the
day of the LORD!
In it the warrior
cries out bitterly.
A day of wrath
is that day,
a day of trouble
and distress,
a day of destruction
and desolation,
a day of darkness
and gloom,
a day of clouds
and thick darkness,
a day of trumpet
and battle cry against the fortified cities
and the high
corner towers.
I will bring
distress on men
so that they
will walk like the blind,
because they
have sinned
against the
LORD;
And their blood
will be
poured out like
dust
and their flesh
like dung.
Neither their
silver nor their gold
will be able
to deliver them on the day of the LORD'S wrath;
And all the
earth will be devoured
in the fire
of His jealousy,
for He will
make a complete end, indeed a terrifying one,
of all the inhabitants
of the earth.
Zephaniah 1:
14-18
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For the wrath
of God
is revealed
from heaven
against all
ungodliness and unrighteousness of men
who suppress
the truth in unrighteousness,
because that
which is known about God
is evident within
them;
for God made
it evident to them.
For since the
creation of the world
His invisible
attributes,
His eternal
power and divine nature,
have been clearly
seen,
being understood
through
what has been
made,
so that they
are without excuse.
For even though
they knew God,
they did not
honor Him
as God or give
thanks,
but they became
futile in their
speculations,
and their foolish
heart was darkened.
Professing to
be wise,
they became
fools,
and exchanged
the glory of the incorruptible God
for an image
in
the form of
corruptible man
and of birds
and four-footed animals
and crawling
creatures.
Therefore God
gave them over
in the lusts
of their hearts to impurity,
so that their
bodies would be
dishonored among
them.
For they exchanged
the truth of
God for a lie,
and worshiped
and served the creature
rather than
the Creator,
who is blessed
forever. Amen.
For this reason
God gave
them over to
degrading passions;
for their women
exchanged
the natural
function
for that which
is unnatural,
and in the same
way also the men
abandoned the
natural
function of
the woman
and burned in
their
desire toward
one another,
men with men
committing indecent acts
and receiving
in their own persons
the due penalty
of their error.
And just as
they did not see fit
to acknowledge
God any longer,
God gave them
over to a depraved mind,
to do those
things which are not proper,
being filled
with all unrighteousness,
wickedness,
greed, evil;
full of envy,
murder,
strife, deceit,
malice;
they are gossips,
slanderers,
haters of God,
insolent, arrogant,
boastful, inventors
of evil,
disobedient
to parents,
without understanding,
untrustworthy,
unloving, unmerciful;
and although
they
know the ordinance
of God,
that those who
practice such things
are worthy of
death,
they not only
do the same,
but also give
hearty approval to those who practice them.
Romans 1: 18-32
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"Therefore,
wait for Me,"
declares the
Lord,
"for the day
when
I rise up as
a witness.
Indeed, My decision
is
to gather nations,
to assemble
kingdoms,
to pour out
on them
My indignation,
all my burning
anger.
For all the
earth will be devoured
by the fire
of My zeal."
Zephaniah 3:
8
A jealous and
avenging
God is the LORD;
The LORD is
avenging
and wrathful.
The LORD takes
vengeance on
His adversaries,
and He reserves
wrath for
His enemies.
The LORD is
slow to anger and great in power,
and the LORD
will by no means
leave the guilty
unpunished.
In whirlwind
and storm is His way,
and clouds are
the dust
beneath His
feet.
He rebukes the
sea and
makes it dry;
He dries up
all the rivers.
Mountains quake
because of Him,
and the hills
dissolve;
Indeed the earth
is upheaved by His presence,
The world and
all
the inhabitants
in it.
Who can stand
before His indignation?
Who can endure
the burning
of His anger?
His wrath is
poured out like fire
and the rocks
are
broken up by
Him.
The LORD is
good,
a stronghold
in the day of trouble,
and He knows
those
who take refuge
in Him.
Nahum 1: 2-7
Who among us
can live with
the consuming
fire?
Who among us
can live with continual burning?
He who walks
righteously and speaks with sincerity,
He who rejects
unjust gain
and shakes his
hands so that
they hold no
bribe;
He who stops
his ears from
hearing about
bloodshed
and shuts his
eyes from
looking upon
evil;
He will dwell
on the heights,
His refuge will
be
the impregnable
rock;
His bread will
be given him,
His water will
be sure.
Isaiah 33: 14,15
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