Fire and brimstone for the Wicked

Israel Shekinah
Jan 25, 2020
4 min read

Our reading is about the punishment of the wicked. God eill rain down fire and brimstone- this is literally the verse for that. Also, sword outside and plague and famine inside, as well as an invasion of sorts.

The problem is before, the Bible just applies to my life, but it seems it has also at the very same time been applying to the state of the world.

In any case, as said before, call on the name of Yah, and be hidden away in the times of hardship.

Psalm 11 1 To the chief musician. A Psalm of David.

I sought refuge in YAHWEH;

how can you say to my soul, Flee like a bird to your hill.

2 For behold! The wicked will tread the bow; they fixed their arrow on the string, in order to shoot with it at the upright of heart in the dark.

3 When the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do? 4 YAHWEH is in His holy sanctuary;

YAHWEH, His throne is in the heavens; His eyes see; His eyelids will examine the sons of man. 5 YAHWEH tries the righteous, but His soul hates the wicked and the one loving violence.

6 He shall rain snares on the wicked; fire and brimstone and a scorching wind shall be the portion of their cup.

7 For YAHWEH is righteous; He

loves righteous deeds; the upright look

upon His face.

Ezekiel 7:10

(Some interpretations say the day of the Lord is here, but in Hebraic

Roots, it says the encirclement)

O dwellers of the earth. The time has

come, the day of tumult is near, and

not a shout of the hills.

8 I will soon pour out My fury on you

and fulfill My anger on you. And I will

judge you according to your ways and

will put on you all your abominations.

9 And My eye shall not spare, and I

will not have pity; I will put on you

according to your ways and your

abominations that are in your midst.

And you shall know that I am

YAHWEH who strikes.

10 Behold the day! Behold, it has

come, the encirclement has gone out,

the rod has blossomed, and pride has

budded. (Pr 16:18)

11 Violence has risen for a rod of

wickedness. None of them shall

remain, even none of their multitude,

and none of their riches, and none

lamenting among them.

12 The time has come, the day has

arrived. Do not let the buyer rejoice,

and do not let the sellers mourn, for

wrath is on all her multitude.

13 For the seller shall not return to

that which is sold, although they still

are among the living (for the vision is

to all her multitude, and it shall not

return); and a man shall not hold his

life strong in his iniquity.

14 They have blown the trumpet,

even to make all ready, but no one

goes to the battle, for My wrath is on

all her multitude.

15 The sword is outside, and the plague, and the famine are inside. He who is in the field shall die with the sword. And he who is in the city, famine and plague shall devour him.

16 But if their fugitives shall escape,

then they shall be on the mountains

like doves of the valleys, all of them

mourning, each for his iniquity.

17 All hands shall be feeble, and all

knees shall go as water.

18 They shall also gird on sackcloth,

and trembling shall cover them. And

shame shall be on all faces, and

baldness on all heads.

19 They shall throw their silver in

the streets, and their gold shall be an

impure thing. Their silver and their

gold shall not be able to deliver them

in the day of the wrath of YAHWEH.

They shall not satisfy their soul, and

they shall not fill their bowels, for their

iniquity has become a stumbling-block

for them1. ( Zeph 1:18, Pr 11:4)

20 And the beauty of His ornament,

He set it in majesty. But they made it

the images of their abominations, and

of their hateful things. Therefore, I

have put it to them as an impure thing.

21 And I will also give it into the hand of the strangers for a prize, and to the wicked of the earth for a spoil. And they shall defile it. 22 I also will turn My face from them, and they shall defile My hidden place. And violent ones shall enter into it and defile it. 23 Take the chain, for the land is full of bloody judgments, and the city is full of violence2.

24 And I will bring the most evil of the nations, and they shall possess their houses. And I will make cease the pomp of the strong ones, and their holy places shall be defiled.

25 Anguish comes! And they shall

seek peace, but none shall be.

26 Disaster on disaster shall come,

and rumor to rumor shall be. And they

shall seek a vision from the prophet,

but the Torah shall perish from the

priest, and counsel from the elders.

27 The king shall mourn, and the

ruler shall be clothed with despair.

And the hands of the people of the

land shall be terrified.