GOD'S CONSUMING FIRE

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The Three Angels Messages Of Revelation 146-12
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THE THREE ANGELS' MESSAGES

• 14. GODS CONSUMING FIRE

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GODS PUNISHMENT BY FIRE

• REVELATION 149-11
• And the third angel followed them, saying with a
  loud voice, If any man worship the beast and his
  image, and receive his mark in his forehead, or
  in his hand, The same shall drink of the wine of
  the wrath of God, which is poured out without
  mixture into the cup of his indignation and he
  shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the
  presence of the holy angels, and in the presence
  of the Lamb And the smoke of their torment
  ascendeth up for ever and ever and they have no
  rest day nor night, who worship the beast and his
  image, and whosoever receiveth the mark of his
  name.

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IS THIS FIRE EVERLASTING?

• LUKE 1728-30
• Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot they
  did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they
  planted, they builded But the same day that Lot
  went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone
  from heaven, and destroyed them all. Even thus
  shall it be in the day when the Son of man is
  revealed.
• Same punishment REVELATION 149-11?
• GENESIS 1313
• But the men of Sodom were wicked and sinners
  before the LORD exceedingly.

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WHAT WICKEDNESS WAS SODOM GOMORRAH GUILTY OF?

• GENESIS 195 Guilty Sexual immorality
• And they called unto Lot, and said unto him,
  Where are the men which came in to thee this
  night? bring them out unto us, that we may know
  them.
• GENESIS 1933-35 Guilty Incest
• And they made their father drink wine that
  night and the firstborn went in, and lay with
  her father Let us make him drink wine this
  night also and go thou in, and lie with him,
  that we may preserve seed of our father. And they
  made their father drink wine that night also and
  the younger arose, and lay with him and he
  perceived not when she lay down, nor when she
  arose.

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SODOM AND GOMORRAH GUILTY OF VIOLENCE

• GENESIS 199
• And they said, Stand back. And they said
  again, This one fellow came in to sojourn,
  and he will needs be a judge now will we deal
  worse with thee, than with them. And they pressed
  sore upon the man, even Lot, and came near to
  break the door.
• EZEKIEL 1649, 50 Guilty Covetousness
  selfishness
• Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister
  Sodom, pride, neither did she strengthen the
  hand of the poor and needy. And they were
  haughty, and committed abomination before me
  therefore I took them away as I saw good.

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WHERE DID THE FIRE COME FROM?

• GENESIS 1924, 25
• Then the LORD rained upon Sodom and upon
  Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the LORD out of
  heaven And he overthrew those cities, and all
  the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities,
  and that which grew upon the ground.
• Third angels message Fire and brimestone
  REVELATION 1410.
• Third angels message Smoke ascends for ever and
  ever REVELATION 1411.
• Third angels message Wicked being tormented
• REVELATION 1410

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SIMILARITIES SODOM THE THIRD ANGELS MESSAGE?

• Angelic visitations Messages of warnings prior
  to the cities destruction
• Messages delivered Precise order as those of
  REVELATION 149-11?
• Illustration Sodom Gomorrah probable or
  possible REVELATION 149-11?
• First Fire and brimestone descends destroys
  the wicked
• Second Smokes ascend to heaven

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DOES THE BIBLE EVER CONTRADICT ITSELF?

• JUDE 17
• Even as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities about
  them in like manner, giving themselves over to
  fornication, and going after strange flesh, are
  set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance
  of eternal fire.
• 2 PETER 26
• And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah
  into ashes condemned them with an overthrow,
  making them an ensample unto those that after
  should live ungodly.

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HARMONIZATION BURNING BY ETERNAL FIRE AND
REDUCING TO ASHES?

• Are the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah still
  burning right now?
• Have the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah being
  reduced to ashes?
• Fire Eternal results

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HAS THIS ETERNAL FIRE EVER GONE OUT?

• DEUTERONOMY 423, 24
• Take heed unto yourselves, lest ye forget the
  covenant of the LORD your God, which he made with
  you, and make you a graven image, or the
  likeness of any thing, which the LORD thy God
  hath forbidden thee. For the LORD thy God is a
  consuming fire, even a jealous God.
• HEBREWS 1228, 29
• Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be
  moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve
  God acceptably with reverence and godly fear For
  our God is a consuming fire.

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DWELLERS FIREPROOF!

• EXODUS 2415-17
• And Moses went up into the mount, and a cloud
  covered the mount. And the glory of the LORD
  abode upon mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it
  six days and the seventh day he called unto
  Moses out of the midst of the cloud. And the
  sight of the glory of the LORD was like
  devouring fire on the top of the mount in the
  eyes of the children of Israel.
• REVELATION 152
• And I saw as it were a sea of glass mingled with
  fire

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UNRIGHTEOUS/WICKED GODS CONSUMING FIRE?

• MALACHI 41-3
• For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as
  an oven and all the proud, yea, and all that do
  wickedly, shall be stubble and the day that
  cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of
  hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor
  branch. But unto you that fear my name shall the
  Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his
  wings and ye shall go forth, and grow up as
  calves of the stall. And ye shall tread down the
  wicked for they shall be ashes under the soles
  of your feet in the day that I shall do this,
  saith the LORD of hosts.

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GODS CONSUMING FIRE ROOT NOR BRANCH

• MATTHEW 1513
• But he answered and said, Every plant, which my
  heavenly Father hath not planted, shall be rooted
  up.
• JOHN 844
• Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts
  of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from
  the beginning, and abode not in the truth,
  because there is no truth in him. When he
  speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own for he is
  a liar, and the father of it.
• 1 JOHN 38
• He that committeth sin is of the devil for the
  devil sinneth from the beginning.

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• GODS CONSUMING FIRE SUSTAINER
• JOHN 151, 2
• I am the true vine, and my Father is the
  husbandman. Every branch in me that beareth not
  fruit he taketh away and every branch that
  beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring
  forth more fruit.

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GODS CONSUMING FIRE NADAB ABIHU

• LEVITICUS 102
• And there went out fire from the LORD, and
  devoured them, and they died before the LORD.
• O.T. EXAMPLES DISOBEDIENCE/PUNISHMENT
• Is the experience of Nadab and Abihu going to be
  similar to the end-time destruction by fire?
• Were they drunk with wine prior to their
  destruction?
• N.T. EXAMPLES DISOBEDIENCE/PUNISHMENT
• Are the inhabitants of earth going to be drunk
  with wine prior to their destruction?
• Will this allow them to distinguish between the
  HOLY and UNHOLY?

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GODS CONSUMING FIRE VENGEANCE ON THE DISOBEDIENT

• 2 THESSALONIANS 17-9
• And to you who are troubled rest with us, when
  the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven
  with his mighty angels, In flaming fire taking
  vengeance on them that know not God, and that
  obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ
  Who shall be punished with everlasting
  destruction from the presence of the Lord, and
  from the glory of his power

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• REVELATION 209, 10
• And they went up on the breadth of the earth,
  and compassed the camp of the saints about, and
  the beloved city and fire came down from God out
  of heaven, and devoured them. And the devil that
  deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and
  brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet
  are, and shall be tormented day and night for
  ever and ever.
• MATTHEW 2541
• Then shall he say also unto them on the left
  hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting
  fire, prepared for the devil and his angels....

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PARABLE SOWER AND THE SEED

• Sower
• Birds

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THIRD ANGELS MESSAGE CHOOSE GODS SIDE

• REVELATION 615-17
• And the kings of the earth, and the great men,
  and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the
  mighty men, and every bondman, and every free
  man, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks
  of the mountains And said to the mountains and
  rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of
  him that sitteth on the throne, and from the
  wrath of the Lamb For the great day of his wrath
  is come and who shall be able to stand?

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• REVELATION 73
• Saying, Hurt not the earth, neither the sea, nor
  the trees, till we have sealed the servants of
  our God in their foreheads.

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WHO WILL LIVE IN THE PRESENCE OF GODS CONSUMING
FIRE?

• ISAIAH 3314-16
• ...Who among us shall dwell with the devouring
  fire? who among us shall dwell with everlasting
  burnings? He that walketh righteously, and
  speaketh uprightly he that despiseth the gain of
  oppressions, that shaketh his hands from holding
  of bribes, that stoppeth his ears from hearing of
  blood, and shutteth his eyes from seeing evil He
  shall dwell on high his place of defence shall
  be the munitions of rocks bread shall be given
  him his waters shall be sure.

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2 PETER 310-14

• But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in
  the night in the which the heavens shall pass
  away with a great noise, and the elements shall
  melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the
  works that are therein shall be burned up. Seeing
  then that all these things shall be dissolved,
  what manner of persons ought ye to be in all
  holy conversation and godliness, Looking for and
  hasting unto the coming of the day of God,
  wherein the heavens being on fire shall be
  dissolved, and the elements shall melt with
  fervent heat? Nevertheless we, according to his
  promise, look for new heavens and a new earth,
  wherein dwelleth righteousness. Wherefore,
  beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be
  diligent that ye may be found of him in peace,
  without spot, and blameless.

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MATTHEW 58

• Blessed are the pure in heart for they shall
  see God.
• ISAIAH 3314
• The sinners in Zion are afraid fearfulness hath
  surprised the hypocrites. Who among us shall
  dwell with the devouring fire? who among us shall
  dwell with everlasting burnings?

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1 JOHN 32, 3

• Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth
  not yet appear what we shall be but we know
  that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him
  for we shall see him as he is. And every man that
  hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as
  he is pure.
• HEBREWS 1228, 29
• Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be
  moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve
  God acceptably with reverence and godly fear for
  our God is a consuming fire.

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THREE HEBREW BOYS FIREPROOF CHARACTER

• PSALMS 1199, 11
• Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way?
  by taking heed thereto according to thy word.
  Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might
  not sin against thee.

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A FIREPROOF CHARACTER FIREPROOF ENVIRON

• EPHESIANS 525-27
• Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also
  loved the church, and gave himself for it That
  he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing
  of water by the word, That he might present it to
  himself a glorious church, not having spot, or
  wrinkle, or any such thing but that it should be
  holy and without blemish.
• 2 CORINTHIANS 318
• But we all, with open face beholding as in a
  glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the
  same image from glory to glory, even as by the
  Spirit of the Lord.

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METAMORPHOSIS CREATURES

• Caterpillar Butterfly?
• 2. Tad pole Frog?
• 3. Chameleon?
• Cow?