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The earth will become burning pitch, night and day it will not be put
out, its smoke will rise up forever. (Isaiah 34 : 9 – 10 )Behold, the day is coming that will burn like an oven, and all the
proud and all that do wickedness will be stubble, and the coming day
will burn them up. (Malachi 4 : 1 )Babylon has become the dwelling of demons, those who saw the smoke
of her burning cried aloud, the smoke rose up forever and ever. (Rev-
elation 18 : 2 , 18 ; 19 : 2 [ 19 : 3 ])He opened the pit of the abyss and smoke came up out of the pit like the
smoke of a huge furnace, and the sun was darkened, and the air, by
the smoke from the pit. (Revelation 9 : 2 )From the mouth of the horses came forth fi re and smoke and sulfur;
and a third part of the people were killed by the fi re and the smoke and
the sulfur. (Revelation 11 : 17 – 18 [ 9 : 17 – 18 ])Whoever worships the beast will drink the wine of the wrath of God
mixed with myrrh in the cup of his wrath and will be tortured with fi re
and sulfur. (Revelation 14 : 9 – 10 )The fourth angel poured out his vial on the sun, and it was allowed to
burn people by fi re with its heat, and so it scorched people with intense
heat. (Revelation 16 :[ 8 –] 9 )They were thrown into a swamp burning with fi re and sulfur. (Revela-
tion 19 : 20 ; 20 : 14 – 15 , 21 : 8 )Every tree that does not produce good fruit will be cut down and
thrown into the fi re. (Matthew 3 : 10 ; Luke 3 : 9 )The Son of Humanity will send his angels, and they will gather from his
kingdom everything that gives offense and everyone who does iniquity
and consign them to a furnace of fi re. (Matthew 13 : 41 – 42 , 50 )The king will say to those on his left, “Leave me, cursed ones, for the
eternal fi re prepared for the Devil and his angels.” (Matthew 25 : 4 [ 25 : 41 ])And they will be sent off into eternal fi re, into a Gehenna of fi re, where
their worm does not die and their fi re is not quenched. (Matthew 18 : 8 –
9 ; Mark 9 : 43 – 49 )The rich man in hell said to Abraham that he was being tormented in
fl ame. (Luke 16 : 24 )