#judgment fire

But whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in Me to stumble, it would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck, and he were thrown into the sea. 

If your hand causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter into life maimed, rather than having two hands, to go to hell, into the fire that shall never be quenched -- where ‘Their worm does not die and the fire is not quenched.’ 

And if your foot causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life lame, rather than having two feet, to be cast into hell, into the fire that shall never be quenched -- where ‘Their worm does not die and the fire is not quenched.’ ” 

“So Lot rushed out to tell his daughters’ fiancés, ‘Quick, get out of the city! The LORD is about to destroy it.’ But the young men thought he was only joking. 

At dawn the next morning the angels became insistent. ‘Hurry,’ they said to Lot. ‘Take your wife and your two daughters who are here. Get out right now, or you will be swept away in the destruction of the city!’ When Lot hesitated, the angels seized his hand and the hands of his wife and two daughters and rushed them to safety outside the city, for the LORD was merciful. 

When they were safely out of the city, one of the angels ordered, ‘Run for your lives! And don’t look back or stop anywhere in the valley! Escape to the mountains, or you will be swept away!’ 

‘Oh no, my lord!’ Lot begged. ‘You have been so gracious to me and saved my life, and you have shown such great kindness. But I cannot go to the mountains. Disaster would catch up to me there, and I would soon die.’ ” 

And they journeyed from mount Hor by the way of the Red sea, to compass the land of Edom: and the soul of the people was much discouraged because of the way. And the people spake against God, and against Moses, Wherefore have ye brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? for there is no bread, neither is there any water; and our soul loatheth this light bread. 

And the LORD sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and much people of Israel died. Therefore the people came to Moses, and said, We have sinned, for we have spoken against the LORD, and against thee; pray unto the LORD, that he take away the serpents from us. And Moses prayed for the people.

And the LORD said unto Moses, Make thee a fiery serpent, and set it upon a pole: and it shall come to pass, that every one that is bitten, when he looketh upon it, shall live. 

And Moses made a serpent of brass, and put it upon a pole, and it came to pass, that if a serpent had bitten any man, when he beheld the serpent of brass, he lived. 

“So it was that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels to Abraham’s bosom. The rich man also died and was buried. And being in torments in Hades, he lifted up his eyes and saw Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom. 

Then he cried and said, ‘Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus that he may dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue; for I am tormented in this flame.’ 

But Abraham said, ‘Son, remember that in your lifetime you received your good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things; but now he is comforted and you are tormented.’ ” 

“For the LORD has a day of vengeance,  A year of vindication by Zion’s cause.  And the streams of Edom shall be turned into pitch,  And her soil into sulfur;  Her land shall become burning pitch.  Night and day it shall not be quenched;  Its smoke shall go up forever.  From generation to generation it shall lie waste;  No one shall pass through it forever and ever.  But the hawk and the hedgehog shall possess it;  The owl and the raven shall live in it.  He shall stretch the line of confusion over it,  And the plummet of chaos over its nobles.” 

Then he said, “I beg you therefore, father, that you would send him to my father’s house, for I have five brothers, that he may testify to them, lest they also come to this place of torment.” 

Abraham said to him, “They have Moses and the prophets; let them hear them.” 

And he said, “No, father Abraham; but if one goes to them from the dead, they will repent.” 

But he said tot hem, “If they do not hear Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded though one rise from the dead.”