And he looked toward the face of Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain. And he saw. And, behold, the smoke of the country went up like the smoke of a furnace.
Come now and let us reason together, says Jehovah: Though your sins are as scarlet, they shall be white as snow; though they are red as the crimson, they shall be like wool.
The sinners of Zion are afraid; terror has seized profane ones; who of us shall abide with consuming fire? Who of us shall abide with burnings forever?
when the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion, and the blood of Jerusalem shall have been rinsed away from its midst by a spirit of judgment, and by a spirit of burning.
And many of those who ponder shall stumble, to refine and to purge them, and to make white to the time of the end; for it is yet for the appointed time.
And Jehovah gives His voice before His army, for His camp is very great. For he who does His Word is strong. For the day of Jehovah is great and very terrifying, and who can endure it?
Who can stand before His indignation? And who can rise against the heat of His anger? His fury is poured out like fire, and the rocks are broken down because of Him.
And I will bring the third part through the fire, and I will refine them as silver is refined. And I will test them as gold is tested. They shall call on My name, and I will answer them. I will say, It is My people, and they shall say, Jehovah is my God.
For, behold, the day is coming, burning like a fire pot; and all the arrogant and every doer of wickedness will be chaff. And the coming day will set them ablaze, says Jehovah of Hosts, which will not leave root or branches to them.
And Simeon blessed them and said to His mother Mariam (Mary), Behold, this One is set for the fall and rising up of many in Israel, and for a sign spoken against;
Therefore keep awake in every time, praying that you be counted worthy to escape all these things, the things being about to happen, and to stand before the Son of Man.
whose sifting fan is in His hand; and He will fully purge His threshing-floor, and will gather the wheat into His storehouse, but the chaff He will burn up with fire that cannot be put out.
And also the axe is already laid to the root of the trees; therefore, every tree not producing good fruit is being cut down and being thrown into the fire.
Watch that you do not refuse the One speaking; for if these refusing the One divinely warning them did not escape on the earth, much rather we, the ones turning away from Heaven;
And I will kill her children with death; and all the assemblies will know that I am the One searching the kidneys and hearts. And I will give to you, each one, according to your works.
And I said to him, Sir, you know. And he said to me, These are the ones coming out of the great tribulation; and they washed their robes and whitened them in the blood of the Lamb.