Therefore let us render thanks that we get an unshaken realm; and in this way let us worship God acceptably ??29 but with godly fear and awe, for our God is indeed a consuming fire.

So when the disciples James and John saw this, they said, "Lord, will you have us bid fire come down from heaven and consume them?"

(His disciples recalled the scripture saying, I am consumed with zeal for thy house.)

whoever tries to harm them, fire will issue from their mouth and consume their enemies; whoever should try to harm them, so must he be killed."

and they swarmed over the broad earth, encircling the leaguer of the saints and the beloved City; but fire descended from heaven and consumed them,