Deuteronomy 4:11

He who believes and is baptized will be saved; but he who disbelieves will be condemned.

before I go where I will not return from, to the land of darkness and of the shadow of death;

Moses turned, and went down from the mountain, with the two tablets of the covenant in his hand; tablets that were written on both their sides. They were written on one side and on the other.

Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me. Your rod and your staff, they comfort me.

though you have crushed us in the haunt of jackals, and covered us with the shadow of death.

Clouds and darkness are around him. Righteousness and justice are the foundation of his throne.

For you have not come to a mountain that might be touched, and that burned with fire, and to blackness, darkness, storm,

All of Mount Sinai smoked, because Yahweh descended on it in fire; and its smoke ascended like the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mountain quaked greatly.

The appearance of Yahweh’s glory was like devouring fire on the top of the mountain in the eyes of the children of Israel.

and Yahweh said to Moses, “Tell Aaron your brother not to come at just any time into the Most Holy Place within the veil, before the mercy seat which is on the ark; lest he die; for I will appear in the cloud on the mercy seat.

He uncovers deep things out of darkness, and brings out to light the shadow of death.

Man sets an end to darkness, and searches out, to the furthest bound, the stones of obscurity and of thick darkness.

Smoke went out of his nostrils. Consuming fire came out of his mouth. Coals were kindled by it.

He made darkness his hiding place, his pavilion around him, darkness of waters, thick clouds of the skies.

Our God comes, and does not keep silent. A fire devours before him. It is very stormy around him.

He sent darkness, and made it dark. They didn’t rebel against his words.

The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light. The light has shined on those who lived in the land of the shadow of death.

For all the armor of the armed man in the noisy battle, and the garments rolled in blood, will be for burning, fuel for the fire.

Give glory to Yahweh your God, before he causes darkness, and before your feet stumble on the dark mountains, and while you look for light, he turns it into the shadow of death, and makes it deep darkness.

A fiery stream issued and came out from before him. Thousands of thousands ministered to him. Ten thousand times ten thousand stood before him. The judgment was set. The books were opened.

Plague went before him, and pestilence followed his feet.

He who rejects me, and doesn’t receive my sayings, has one who judges him. The word that I spoke will judge him in the last day.

However at that time, not knowing God, you were in bondage to those who by nature are not gods.

but a certain fearful expectation of judgment, and a fierceness of fire which will devour the adversaries.

The fifth poured out his bowl on the throne of the beast, and his kingdom was darkened. They gnawed their tongues because of the pain,

All the people perceived the thunderings, the lightnings, the sound of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking. When the people saw it, they trembled, and stayed at a distance.

The people stayed at a distance, and Moses came near to the thick darkness where God was.

When you heard the voice out of the middle of the darkness, while the mountain was burning with fire, you came near to me, even all the heads of your tribes, and your elders;

So I turned and came down from the mountain, and the mountain was burning with fire. The two tablets of the covenant were in my two hands.

The mountains quaked Yahweh’s presence, even Sinai at the presence of Yahweh, the God of Israel.

He made darkness a shelter around himself: gathering of waters, and thick clouds of the skies.

Surely such are the dwellings of the unrighteous. This is the place of him who doesn’t know God.”

For the morning is to all of them like thick darkness, for they know the terrors of the thick darkness.

There is no darkness, nor thick gloom, where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves.

Have the gates of death been revealed to you? Or have you seen the gates of the shadow of death?

Pour out your wrath on the nations that don’t know you, on the kingdoms that don’t call on your name;

Part your heavens, Yahweh, and come down. Touch the mountains, and they will smoke.

Most certainly you are a God who has hidden yourself, God of Israel, the Savior.’ ”

They didn’t say, ‘Where is Yahweh who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, who led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and of pits, through a land of drought and of the shadow of death, through a land that no one passed through, and where no man lived?’

Pour out your wrath on the nations that don’t know you, and on the families that don’t call on your name; for they have devoured Jacob. Yes, they have devoured him, consumed him, and have laid waste his habitation.

and tell them, Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, says: ‘Behold, I will send and take Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will set his throne on these stones that I have hidden; and he will spread his royal pavilion over them.

I will execute vengeance in anger, and wrath on the nations that didn’t listen.”

“For, behold, the day comes, it burns as a furnace; and all the proud, and all who work wickedness, will be stubble; and the day that comes will burn them up,” says Yahweh of Armies, “that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.

the people who sat in darkness saw a great light, to those who sat in the region and shadow of death, to them light has dawned.”

Then he will say also to those on the left hand, ‘Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire which is prepared for the devil and his angels;

to shine on those who sit in darkness and the shadow of death; to guide our feet into the way of peace.”

This is eternal life, that they should know you, the only true God, and him whom you sent, Jesus Christ.

Even as they refused to have God in their knowledge, God gave them up to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not fitting;

But if the service of death, written engraved on stones, came with glory, so that the children of Israel could not look steadfastly on the face of Moses for the glory of his face, which was passing away,

For this Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia, and answers to the Jerusalem that exists now, for she is in bondage with her children.

You were running well! Who interfered with you that you should not obey the truth?

not in the passion of lust, even as the Gentiles who don’t know God,

for our God is a consuming fire.

For the time has come for judgment to begin with the household of God. If it begins first with us, what will happen to those who don’t obey the Good News of God?

But the heavens that exist now and the earth, by the same word have been stored up for fire, being reserved against the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men.

They went up over the width of the earth, and surrounded the camp of the saints, and the beloved city. Fire came down out of heaven from God and devoured them.

The devil who deceived them was thrown into the lake of fire and sulfur, where the beast and the false prophet are also. They will be tormented day and night forever and ever.

But the wheat and the spelt were not struck, for they had not grown up.

Moses stretched out his hand toward the sky, and there was a thick darkness in all the land of Egypt for three days.

Yahweh said to Moses, “Behold, I come to you in a thick cloud, that the people may hear when I speak with you, and may also believe you forever.” Moses told the words of the people to Yahweh.

Yahweh spoke these words to all your assembly on the mountain out of the middle of the fire, of the cloud, and of the thick darkness, with a great voice. He added no more. He wrote them on two stone tablets, and gave them to me.

Know therefore today that Yahweh your God is he who goes over before you as a devouring fire. He will destroy them and he will bring them down before you. So you shall drive them out and make them perish quickly, as Yahweh has spoken to you.

I turned and came down from the mountain, and put the tablets in the ark which I had made; and there they are as Yahweh commanded me.

For a fire is kindled in my anger, that burns to the lowest Sheol, devours the earth with its increase, and sets the foundations of the mountains on fire.

After all that generation were gathered to their fathers, another generation arose after them who didn’t know Yahweh, nor the work which he had done for Israel.

He bowed the heavens also, and came down. Thick darkness was under his feet.

But the man who touches them must be armed with iron and the staff of a spear. They will be utterly burned with fire in their place.”

Then Solomon said, “Yahweh has said that he would dwell in the thick darkness.

Then Solomon said, “Yahweh has said that he would dwell in the thick darkness.

Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it for their own. Let a cloud dwell on it. Let all that makes black the day terrify it.

the land dark as midnight, of the shadow of death, without any order, where the light is as midnight.’ ”

He bowed the heavens also, and came down. Thick darkness was under his feet.

A fire goes before him, and burns up his adversaries on every side.

Some sat in darkness and in the shadow of death, being bound in affliction and iron,

A day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness. As the dawn spreading on the mountains, a great and strong people; there has never been the like, neither will there be any more after them, even to the years of many generations.

For, behold, he who forms the mountains, and creates the wind, and declares to man what is his thought; who makes the morning darkness, and treads on the high places of the earth: Yahweh, the God of Armies, is his name.”

punishing those who don’t know God, and to those who don’t obey the Good News of our Lord Jesus,