and with the fury of demons they turn upon them.

Saith the Lord: "Because thou hast set thine heart as the heart of God;
behold, therefore I will bring strangers upon thee, the terrible of the
nations: and they shall draw their swords against the beauty of thy
wisdom, and they shall defile thy brightness. They shall bring thee down
to the pit." "I will destroy thee, O covering cherub, from the midst of
the stones of fire.... I will cast thee to the ground, I will lay thee
before kings, that they may behold thee.... I will bring thee to ashes
upon the earth in the sight of all them that behold thee.... Thou shalt be
a terror, and never shalt thou be any more."(1165)

"Every battle of the warrior is with confused noise, and garments rolled
in blood; but this shall be with burning and fuel of fire." "The
indignation of the Lord is upon all nations, and His fury upon all their
armies: He hath utterly destroyed them, He hath delivered them to the
slaughter." "Upon the wicked He shall rain quick burning coals, fire and
brimstone, and a horrible tempest: this shall be the portion of their
cup."(1166) Fire comes down from God out of heaven. The earth is broken
up. The weapons concealed in its depths are drawn forth. Devouring flames
burst from every yawning chasm. The very rocks are on fire. The day has
come that shall burn as an oven. The elements melt with fervent heat, the
earth also, and the works that are therein are burned up.(1167) The
earth's surface seems one molten mass,--a vast, seething lake of fire. It
is the time of the judgment and perdition of ungodly men,--"the day of the
Lord's vengeance, and the year of recompenses for the controversy of
Zion."(1168)

The wicked receive their recompense in the earth.(1169) They "shall be
stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the Lord of
hosts."(1170) Some are destroyed as in a moment, while others suffer many
days. All are punished "according to their deeds." The sins of the
righteous having been transferred to Satan, he is made to suffer not only
for his own rebellion, but for all the sins which he has caused God's
people to commit. His punishment is to be far greater than that of those
whom he has deceived. After all have perished who fell by his deceptions,
he is still to live and suffer on. In the cleansing flames the wicked are
at last destroyed, root and branch,--Satan the root, his followers the
branches. The full penalty of the law has been visi