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The other gospels have a more muted description of the angel: Mark 16:5 and John 20:12 refer to a figure clad in white, while Luke 24:4 in the Revised Standard Version and some other translations describes the clothes as "dazzling", perhaps combining the lightning face and white clothes of this verse. [3]
(Quran, 24:43). The preceding verse, after mentioning clouds and rain, speaks about hail and lightning, "...And He sends down hail from mountains (clouds) in the sky, and He strikes with it whomever He wills, and turns it from whomever He wills." In India, the Hindu god Indra is considered the god of rains and lightning and the king of the ...
The Pillar of Fire by Paul Hardy, The Art Bible (1896) The pillars of cloud and fire are first mentioned in Exodus 13, shortly after Moses leads the Israelites out of their captivity in Egypt. The narrative states that the pillar of cloud went ahead of them by day to guide their way, and the pillar of fire by night, to give them light. [1]
A fire comes down from God out of heaven and devours them and Satan is finally placed in torment, in the Lake of Fire, forever, with those who follow him (Revelation 20:7–10). The wicked dead and all of those who died during the thousand-year reign of Christ are resurrected and judged ( Revelation 20:11–14 ).
The Old Testament uses the phrase "fire and brimstone" in the context of divine punishment and purification. In Genesis 19, God destroys Sodom and Gomorrah with a rain of fire and brimstone (Hebrew: גׇּפְרִ֣ית וָאֵ֑שׁ), and in Deuteronomy 29, the Israelites are warned that the same punishment would fall upon them should they abandon their covenant with God.
In the King James Version of the Bible the text reads: And thou, Capernaum, which art exalted unto heaven, shalt be brought down to hell: for if the mighty works, which have been done in thee, had been done in Sodom, it would have remained until this day. The New International Version translates the passage as:
And when God, by his almighty power, overcame the strength of Satan, and sent him like lightning from heaven to hell with all his army; Satan still hoped to get the victory by subtlety[.] [7] In the Catholic Encyclopedia (1911) article "St. Michael the Archangel", Frederick Holweck wrote: "St. John speaks of the great conflict at the end of ...
His face is made of fire, his eyes spark of light, and his lashes are lightning bolts. Fire spews forth with every word that he speaks, and he is covered with wings from head to toe. Thunder, lightning, and earthquakes are his constant companions, and the splendor of the Shekinah shines upon him. In Enoch's words, Kerubiel is "full of burning ...