“Separate yourselves from among this congregation, that I may consume them in a moment.”
“Get away from the midst of this congregation, that I may consume them in a moment.” And they fell on their faces.
Now therefore let me alone, that my wrath may burn hot against them and I may consume them, in order that I may make a great nation of you.”
Then I heard another voice from heaven saying, “Come out of her, my people, lest you take part in her sins, lest you share in her plagues;
How they are destroyed in a moment, swept away utterly by terrors!
For the Lord had said to Moses, “Say to the people of Israel, ‘You are a stiff-necked people; if for a single moment I should go up among you, I would consume you. So now take off your ornaments, that I may know what to do with you.’”
Therefore let us be grateful for receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, and thus let us offer to God acceptable worship, with reverence and awe, for our God is a consuming fire.
Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience. Therefore do not become partners with them;
Therefore go out from their midst, and be separate from them, says the Lord, and touch no unclean thing; then I will welcome you,
And with many other words he bore witness and continued to exhort them, saying, “Save yourselves from this crooked generation.”
Their quiver is like an open tomb; they are all mighty warriors.
And the angel of the Lord went out and struck down 185,000 in the camp of the Assyrians. And when people arose early in the morning, behold, these were all dead bodies.
Now if you kill this people as one man, then the nations who have heard your fame will say,
I will strike them with the pestilence and disinherit them, and I will make of you a nation greater and mightier than they.”
As morning dawned, the angels urged Lot, saying, “Up! Take your wife and your two daughters who are here, lest you be swept away in the punishment of the city.” But he lingered. So the men seized him and his wife and his two daughters by the hand, the Lord being merciful to him, and they brought him out and set him outside the city. And as they brought them out, one said, “Escape for your life. Do not look back or stop anywhere in the valley. Escape to the hills, lest you be swept away.” And Lot said to them, “Oh, no, my lords. Behold, your servant has found favor in your sight, and you have shown me great kindness in saving my life. But I cannot escape to the hills, lest the disaster overtake me and I die.
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