This is a message about Babylonia. Like a whirlwind sweeping across the desert, disaster will come from a terrifying land.

Then the LORD spoke to me again. "What else do you see?" he asked. I answered, "I see a pot boiling in the north, and it is about to tip over this way."

He said to me, "Destruction will boil over from the north on all who live in this land,

Point the way to Zion! Run for safety! Don't delay! The LORD is bringing disaster and great destruction from the north.

People of Benjamin, run for safety! Escape from Jerusalem! Sound the trumpet in Tekoa and build a signal fire in Beth Haccherem. Disaster and destruction are about to come from the north.

His anger is a storm, a furious wind that will rage over the heads of the wicked,

'I am going to send for all the peoples from the north and for my servant, King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylonia. I am going to bring them to fight against Judah and its inhabitants and against all the neighboring nations. I am going to destroy this nation and its neighbors and leave them in ruins forever, a terrible and shocking sight. I, the LORD, have spoken.

The LORD Almighty says that disaster is coming on one nation after another, and a great storm is gathering at the far ends of the earth.

"Their horses are faster than leopards, fiercer than hungry wolves. Their cavalry troops come riding from distant lands; their horses paw the ground. They come swooping down like eagles attacking their prey.

"Their armies advance in violent conquest, and everyone is terrified as they approach. Their captives are as numerous as grains of sand.

God said to the man wearing linen clothes, "Go between the wheels under the creatures and fill your hands with burning coals. Then scatter the coals over the city." I watched him go.

The dazzling light of the LORD's presence rose up from the creatures and moved to the entrance of the Temple. Then the cloud filled the Temple, and the courtyard was blazing with the light.

On the morning of the third day there was thunder and lightning, a thick cloud appeared on the mountain, and a very loud trumpet blast was heard. All the people in the camp trembled with fear.

All of Mount Sinai was covered with smoke, because the LORD had come down on it in fire. The smoke went up like the smoke of a furnace, and all the people trembled violently.

The dazzling light of the LORD's presence came down on the mountain. To the Israelites the light looked like a fire burning on top of the mountain. The cloud covered the mountain for six days, and on the seventh day the LORD called to Moses from the cloud.

(SEE 24:16)

"Tell your children how you went and stood at the foot of the mountain which was covered with thick clouds of dark smoke and fire blazing up to the sky.

Tell them how the LORD spoke to you from the fire, how you heard him speaking but did not see him in any form at all.

(SEE 5:11)

(SEE 5:11)

Then King Solomon prayed, "LORD, you have chosen to live in clouds and darkness.

When King Solomon finished his prayer, fire came down from heaven and burned up the sacrifices that had been offered, and the dazzling light of the LORD's presence filled the Temple.

When the people of Israel saw the fire fall from heaven and the light fill the Temple, they fell face downward on the pavement, worshiping God and praising him for his goodness and his eternal love.

He covered himself with darkness; thick clouds, full of water, surrounded him.

Then the LORD thundered from the sky; and the voice of the Most High was heard.

Our God is coming, but not in silence; a raging fire is in front of him, a furious storm around him.

Clouds and darkness surround him; he rules with righteousness and justice.

Fire goes in front of him and burns up his enemies around him.

and built your home on the waters above. You use the clouds as your chariot and ride on the wings of the wind.

You use the winds as your messengers and flashes of lightning as your servants.

This is a message about Egypt. The LORD is coming to Egypt, riding swiftly on a cloud. The Egyptian idols tremble before him, and the people of Egypt lose their courage.

The LORD does not easily become angry, but he is powerful and never lets the guilty go unpunished. Where the LORD walks, storms arise; the clouds are the dust raised by his feet!

Mountains quake in the presence of the LORD; hills melt before him. The earth shakes when the LORD appears; the world and all its people tremble.

God is coming again from Edom; the holy God is coming from the hills of Paran. His splendor covers the heavens, and the earth is full of his praise.

He sends disease before him and commands death to follow him.

because our God is indeed a destroying fire.

The figure seemed to be shining like bronze in the middle of a fire. It shone all over with a bright light

I looked up and saw a vision of a fiery human form. From the waist down his body looked like fire, and from the waist up he was shining like polished bronze.

I saw that each creature had what looked like a human hand under each of its wings.

I also saw that there were four wheels, all alike, one beside each creature. The wheels shone like precious stones, and each one had another wheel which intersected it at right angles.

his feet shone like brass that has been refined and polished, and his voice sounded like a roaring waterfall.