Psalm 50:3

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Our God shall come, and shall not keep silence: a fire shall devour before him, and it shall be very tempestuous round about him.

Our

Psalm 48:14

Psalm 68:20

Revelation 22:20

Keep

A fire

It shall

Psalm 18:7

Psalm 97:4

General references

Bible References

Our

For this is God,
Our God forever and ever;
He will be our guide even until death.

God is to us a God of acts of salvation;
And to God the Lord belong escapes from death [setting us free].

He who testifies and affirms these things says, “Yes, I am coming quickly.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus.

Keep

“These things you have done and I kept silent;
You thought that I was just like you.
Now I will reprimand and denounce you and state the case in order before your eyes.

Do not keep silent, O God;
Do not hold Your peace or be still, O God.

The Lord will go forth like a warrior,
He will stir up His zeal like a man of war;
He will shout out, yes, He will raise a war cry.
He will prevail [mightily] against His enemies.

“Indeed, it is written before Me,
I will not keep silent, but I will repay;
I will even repay it [directly] into their arms,

A fire

Fire goes before Him
And burns up His adversaries on all sides.

Mount Sinai was wrapped in smoke because the Lord descended upon it in fire; its smoke ascended like the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mountain quaked violently.

And fire came out from the presence of the Lord and devoured them, and they died before the Lord.

Fire also came forth from the Lord and consumed the two hundred and fifty men who were offering the incense.

So know today [with confident assurance] that the Lord your God is crossing [the Jordan] before you like a devouring fire. He will destroy them and He will subdue them before you, and you shall drive them out and destroy them quickly, just as the Lord has promised you.

So He said, “Go out and stand on the mountain before the Lord.” And behold, the Lord was passing by, and a great and powerful wind was tearing out the mountains and breaking the rocks in pieces before the Lord; but the Lord was not in the wind. And after the wind, [there was] an earthquake, but the Lord was not in the earthquake.

“A river of fire was flowing
And coming out from before Him;
A thousand thousands were attending Him,
And ten thousand times ten thousand were standing before Him;
The court was seated,
And the books were opened.

The mountains quake before Him
And the hills melt away;
Indeed the earth is shaken by His presence—
Yes, the world and all that dwell in it.

Before Him goes the pestilence [of judgment as in Egypt],
And [the burning] plague [of condemnation] follows at His feet [as in Sennacherib’s army].

But who can endure the day of His coming? And who can stand when He appears? For He is like a refiner’s fire and like launderer’s soap [which removes impurities and uncleanness].

“For behold, the day is coming, burning like a furnace, and all the arrogant (proud, self-righteous, haughty), and every evildoer shall be stubble; and the day that is coming shall set them on fire,” says the Lord of hosts, “so that it will leave them neither root nor branch.

His winnowing fork is in His hand, and He will thoroughly clear out His threshing floor; and He will gather His wheat (believers) into His barn (kingdom), but He will burn up the chaff (the unrepentant) with unquenchable fire.”

dealing out [full and complete] vengeance to those who do not [seek to] know God and to those who ignore and refuse to obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus [by choosing not to respond to Him].

how will we escape [the penalty] if we ignore such a great salvation [the gospel, the new covenant]? For it was spoken at first by the Lord, and it was confirmed to us and proved authentic by those who personally heard [Him speak],

Anyone who has ignored and set aside the Law of Moses is put to death without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses.

For you have not come [as did the Israelites in the wilderness] to a mountain that can be touched and to a blazing fire, and to gloom and darkness and a raging windstorm,

It shall

Then the earth shook and quaked,
The foundations of the mountains trembled;
They were shaken because He was indignant and angry.

His lightnings have illuminated the world;
The earth has seen and trembled.

General references

So pursue them with Your tempest
And terrify them with [the violence of] Your storm.

Fire goes before Him
And burns up His adversaries on all sides.

For the Father judges no one, but has given all judgment [that is, the prerogative of judging] to the Son [placing it entirely into His hands],

for our God is [indeed] a consuming fire.