OUR FATHER WHOSE JUDGEMENT IS FEARSOME

Isaiah chapter 33 verses 11 - 12 says this;

You conceive chaff, you give birth to straw; your breath is a fire that consumes you.

The peoples will be burned to ashes; like cut thornbushes they will be set ablaze.”

The prophet Isaiah describes the Lord God of Israel arising in judgement over the whole earth.

A strange pronouncement is made over the people where they will conceive chaff and give birth to straw and that their own breath will be a fire that will consume them.

This passage is mirrored in Mathew chapter 3 verses 11 - 12, in the words of John the Baptist, which say;

 “I baptize you with water for repentance. But after me comes one who is more powerful than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.  

His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will clear his threshing floor, gathering his wheat into the barn and burning up the chaff with unquenchable fire.”

The one of whom John speaks is Jesus and He is the one who will gather His wheat into the barn and the chaff, who are people produced by the work of His enemies to contaminate the wheat crop, are burned to ashes in an unquenchable fire.

Mathew chapter 12 verse 37, capturing words that the Lord Jesus spoke the religious leaders of His time, says this;

For by your words you will be acquitted, and by your words you will be condemned.”

This appears to mirror the phrase that reads "your breath is a fire that consumes you".

Fearsome is the day of the Lord's judgement.

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