Psalms 78:21

For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, that through perseverance and through encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.

For Yahweh your God is a devouring fire, a jealous God.

Yahweh has accomplished his wrath. He has poured out his fierce anger. He has kindled a fire in Zion, which has devoured its foundations.

Yet in this thing you didn’t believe Yahweh your God,

The sinners in Zion are afraid. Trembling has seized the godless ones. Who among us can live with the devouring fire? Who among us can live with everlasting burning?

or does he say it assuredly for our sake? Yes, it was written for our sake, because he who plows ought to plow in hope, and he who threshes in hope should partake of his hope.

These things contain an allegory, for these are two covenants. One is from Mount Sinai, bearing children to bondage, which is Hagar.

With whom was he displeased forty years? Wasn’t it with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?

Therefore I will not be negligent to remind you of these things, though you know them, and are established in the present truth.

Fire came out from before Yahweh, and devoured them, and they died before Yahweh.

They said, “Has Yahweh indeed spoken only with Moses? Hasn’t he spoken also with us?” And Yahweh heard it.

But as for you, your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness.

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.

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

Therefore he swore to them that he would overthrow them in the wilderness,

Then I will cause to cease from the cities of Judah, and from the streets of Jerusalem, the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride; for the land will become a waste.”

I will make them to pass with your enemies into a land which you don’t know; for a fire is kindled in my anger, which will burn on you.”

Now it was not written that it was accounted to him for his sake alone,

Do this, knowing the time, that it is already time for you to awaken out of sleep, for salvation is now nearer to us than when we first believed.

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

It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.

The thing which he did was evil in Yahweh’s sight, and he killed him also.

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

keeping loving kindness for thousands, forgiving iniquity and disobedience and sin; and who will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, and on the children’s children, on the third and on the fourth generation.”

The people were complaining in the ears of Yahweh. When Yahweh heard it, his anger burned; and Yahweh’s fire burned among them, and consumed some of the outskirts of the camp.

“Say to the people, ‘Sanctify yourselves in preparation for tomorrow, and you will eat meat; for you have wept in the ears of Yahweh, saying, “Who will give us meat to eat? For it was well with us in Egypt.” Therefore Yahweh will give you meat, and you will eat.

Your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness; and all who were counted of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old and upward, who have complained against me,

even those men who brought up an evil report of the land, died by the plague before Yahweh.

Fire came out from Yahweh, and devoured the two hundred fifty men who offered the incense.

The people quarreled with Moses, and spoke, saying, “We wish that we had died when our brothers died before Yahweh!

The people spoke against God and against Moses: “Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? For there is no bread, there is no water, and our soul loathes this disgusting food!”

At Taberah, at Massah, and at Kibroth Hattaavah you provoked Yahweh to wrath.

This is the reason Joshua circumcised them: all the people who came out of Egypt, who were males, even all the men of war, died in the wilderness along the way, after they came out of Egypt.

Only fear Yahweh, and serve him in truth with all your heart; for consider what great things he has done for you.

After the earthquake a fire passed; but Yahweh was not in the fire. After the fire, there was a still small voice.

Elijah answered them, “If I am a man of God, then let fire come down from the sky, and consume you and your fifty!” Then God’s fire came down from the sky, and consumed him and his fifty.

For you will not leave my soul in Sheol, neither will you allow your holy one to see corruption.

For your loving kindness is great toward me. You have delivered my soul from the lowest Sheol.

How long, Yahweh? Will you hide yourself forever? Will your wrath burn like fire?

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

This will be written for the generation to come. A people which will be created will praise Yah.

A fire was kindled in their company. The flame burned up the wicked.

Therefore the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, will send among his fat ones leanness; and under his glory a burning will be kindled like the burning of fire.

For, behold, Yahweh will come with fire, and his chariots will be like the whirlwind; to render his anger with fierceness, and his rebuke with flames of fire.

For Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel says: “Behold, I will cause to cease out of this place, before your eyes and in your days, the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride.

You, even of yourself, will discontinue from your heritage that I gave you. I will cause you to serve your enemies in the land which you don’t know, for you have kindled a fire in my anger which will burn forever.”

So it will be a reproach and a taunt, an instruction and an astonishment, to the nations that are around you, when I execute judgments on you in anger and in wrath, and in wrathful rebukes—I, Yahweh, have spoken it—

“I watched until thrones were placed, and one who was ancient of days sat. His clothing was white as snow, and the hair of his head like pure wool. His throne was fiery flames, and its wheels burning fire.

The mountains melt under him, and the valleys split apart, like wax before the fire, like waters that are poured down a steep place.

“Therefore wait for me”, says Yahweh, “until the day that I rise up to the prey, for my determination is to gather the nations, that I may assemble the kingdoms, to pour on them my indignation, even all my fierce anger, for all the earth will be devoured with the fire of my jealousy.

Five of them were foolish, and five were wise.

Even now the ax also lies at the root of the trees. Every tree therefore that doesn’t produce good fruit is cut down, and thrown into the fire.”

You didn’t choose me, but I chose you and appointed you, that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain; that whatever you will ask of the Father in my name, he may give it to you.

Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.

Let your gentleness be known to all men. The Lord is at hand.

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

For this cause, I remind you that you should stir up the gift of God which is in you through the laying on of my hands.

For if the word spoken through angels proved steadfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just penalty,

We see that they weren’t able to enter in because of unbelief.

or else he must have suffered often since the foundation of the world. But now once at the end of the ages, he has been revealed to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.

and turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes, condemned them to destruction, having made them an example to those who would live in an ungodly way;

This is now, beloved, the second letter that I have written to you; and in both of them I stir up your sincere mind by reminding you,

Little children, these are the end times, and as you heard that the Antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have arisen. By this we know that it is the final hour.

I have not written to you because you don’t know the truth, but because you know it, and because no lie is of the truth.

He who doesn’t love doesn’t know God, for God is love.

Moses heard the people weeping throughout their families, every man at the door of his tent; and Yahweh’s anger burned greatly; and Moses was displeased.

Balaam said to Yahweh’s angel, “I have sinned; for I didn’t know that you stood in the way against me. Now therefore, if it displeases you, I will go back again.”

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.

When the mourning was past, David sent and took her home to his house, and she became his wife, and bore him a son. But the thing that David had done displeased Yahweh.

Then the earth shook and trembled. The foundations also of the mountains quaked and were shaken, because he was angry.

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

You will make them as a fiery furnace in the time of your anger. Yahweh will swallow them up in his wrath. The fire shall devour them.

when the anger of God went up against them, killed some of their fattest, and struck down the young men of Israel.

As the fire that burns the forest, as the flame that sets the mountains on fire,

Lord, you have been our dwelling place for all generations.

Therefore I swore in my wrath, “They won’t enter into my rest.”

For the mountains may depart, and the hills be removed; but my loving kindness will not depart from you, and my covenant of peace will not be removed,” says Yahweh who has mercy on you.

therefore the Lord Yahweh says: “Surely in the fire of my jealousy I have spoken against the residue of the nations, and against all Edom, that have appointed my land to themselves for a possession with the joy of all their heart, with despite of soul, to cast it out for a prey.” ’

The mountains saw you, and were afraid. The storm of waters passed by. The deep roared and lifted up its hands on high.

If your eye causes you to stumble, pluck it out, and cast it from you. It is better for you to enter into life with one eye, rather than having two eyes to be cast into the Gehenna of fire.

But I say this, brothers: the time is short, that from now on, both those who have wives may be as though they had none;

However with most of them, God was not well pleased, for they were overthrown in the wilderness.

Now all these things happened to them by way of example, and they were written for our admonition, on whom the ends of the ages have come.

“In a very little while, he who comes will come, and will not wait.

for our God is a consuming fire.

Now I desire to remind you, though you already know this, that the Lord, having saved a people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who didn’t believe.

Fire devoured their young men. Their virgins had no wedding song.