From Isaiah...

Excerpt - Apocalyptic Commentary of the Book of Isaiah by Avraham Gileadi, Ph.D.

66:15-16 See, Jehovah comes with fire, his chariots like a whirlwind, to retaliate in furious anger, to rebuke with conflagrations of fire. For with fire and with his sword shall Jehovah execute judgment on all flesh, and those slain by Jehovah shall be many.

As Jehovah's instrument of punishment, the king of Assyria/Babylon-Jehovah's anger, fire, and sword-constitutes an essential part of Jehovah's coming to the earth: "Behold, Jehovah Omnipotent coming from afar! His wrath is kindled, heavy is his grievance; his lips flow with indignation, his tongue is like a devouring fire" (Isaiah 30:27; emphasis added). The twofold nature of Jehovah's Day of Judgment thus means that the righteous are being delivered even as the wicked are being destroyed from the earth. To the very fire and sword that destroy the wicked, moreover, the righteous are immune:
"Wickedness shall be set ablaze like a fire, and briars and thorns shall it consume; it shall ignite the jungle forests, and they shall billow upward in mushrooming clouds of smoke. At the wrath of Jehovah of Hosts the earth is scorched, and people are but fuel for the fire" (Isaiah 9:18-19; cf. 1:7; 5:24; 47:14); "Who among us can live through the devouring fire? Who among us can abide eternal burning? They who conduct themselves righteously and are honest in word" (Isaiah 33:14-15); "Though you walk through the fire, you shall not be burned; its flame shall not consume you" (Isaiah 43:2);
"Your men shall be felled by the sword, your might [overthrown] in war" (Isaiah 3:25); "I will destine you to the sword; all of you shall succumb to the slaughter. For when I called, you did not respond; when I spoke, you would not give heed. You did what was evil in my eyes; you chose to do what was not my will" (Isaiah 65:12; cf. 1:20; 34:5); "Whatever weapon is devised against you, it shall not succeed; every tongue that rises to accuse you, you shall refute. 'This is the heritage of the servants of Jehovah, and such is their vindication by me,' says Jehovah" (Isaiah 54:17; cf. 41:11-12).

66:17 As for the cultists who fornicate in the parks, the devotees of one in the center, who eat the flesh of swine and prawn and rodents-they with [their practices and ideas] shall be made an end of, says Jehovah.

At the apex on the scale of evil, the satanic cult with its perverse rituals seeks to desecrate all that is sacred. As "slayers of children" who "burn with lust" in a counterfeit paradise (Isaiah 1:29; 57:5), these Perdition types are not only made an end of physically in Jehovah's Day of Judgment but also spiritually. In that day, their particular Covenant with Death-their sacrilegious contract with the powers of darkness-becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy: "They are dead, to live no more, spirits who will not rise up; you appoint them to destruction, wiping out all recollection of them" (Isaiah 26:14; cf. v 24).



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