Tuesday, September 20, 2016
Atomic Weapons
Bible Questions Answered:
“Does the bible talk about atomic
bombs?...”
Ralph/ Buffalo, New York U.S.A.
Bible Answer:
Bible Texts:
The following
scriptures may well speak of the sole judgment and power of God or
that of atomic weapons.
Psalm 50:3 KJV
Our God shall come, and shall not
keep silence: a fire shall devour before Him, and it shall be very
tempestuous round about Him.
Psalm 97:3 KJV
A fire goeth before Him, and burneth
up His enemies round about.
Isaiah 13:1-13 KJV
6 Howl ye; for The Day Of The Lord
is at hand; it shall come as a destruction from
The Almighty.
7 Therefore shall all hands be
faint, and every man's heart shall melt:
8 And they shall be afraid: pangs
and sorrows shall take hold of them; they shall be in pain as a woman
that travaileth: they shall be amazed one at another; their faces
shall be as flames.
9 Behold, The Day Of The Lord
cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land
desolate: and He shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it.
10 For the stars of heaven and the
constellations thereof shall not give their light: the sun shall be
darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light
to shine.
11 And I will punish the world for
their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will cause the
arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of
the terrible.
12 I will make a man more precious
than fine gold; even a man than the golden wedge of Ophir.
13 Therefore I will shake the
heavens, and the earth shall remove out of her place, in the wrath of
The Lord Of Hosts, and in the day of His fierce anger.
Isaiah 24:1,19,20 NLT
1 Look! The Lord is about to destroy
the earth and make it a vast wasteland. He devastates the surface of
the earth and scatters the people.
19 The earth has broken up. It has
utterly collapsed; it is violently shaken.
20 The earth staggers like a drunk.
It trembles like a tent in a storm. It falls and will not rise again,
for the guilt of its rebellion is very heavy.
Isaiah 64:2 KJV
As when the melting fire burneth,
the fire causeth the waters to boil, to make thy name known to thine
adversaries, that the nations may tremble at thy presence!
Isaiah 66:15,16 KJV
15 For, behold, The Lord will come
with fire, and with His chariots like a whirlwind, to render His
anger with fury, and His rebuke with flames of fire.
16 For by fire and by His sword will
The Lord plead with all flesh: and the slain of The Lord shall be
many.
Jeremiah 25:30-33 NLT
30 “Now prophesy all these things,
and say to them, “‘The Lord will roar against His own land from
His holy dwelling in heaven. He will shout like those who tread
grapes; He will shout against everyone on earth.
31 His cry of judgment will reach
the ends of the earth, for The Lord will bring His case against all
the nations. He will judge all the people of the earth, slaughtering
the wicked with the sword. I, The Lord, have spoken!’”
32 This is what The Lord Of Heaven’s
Armies says: “Look! Disaster will fall upon nation after nation! A
great whirlwind of fury is rising from the most distant corners of
the earth!”
33 In that day those The Lord has
slaughtered will fill the earth from one end to the other. No one
will mourn for them or gather up their bodies to bury them. They will
be scattered on the ground like manure.
Ezekiel 20:47,48 KJV
47 And say to the forest of the
south, Hear The Word Of The Lord; Thus saith
The Lord God; Behold, I will kindle
a fire in thee, and it shall devour every green tree in thee, and
every dry tree: the flaming flame shall not be quenched, and all
faces from the south to the north shall be burned therein.
48 And all flesh shall see that I
The Lord have kindled it: it shall not be quenched.
Ezekiel 28:1-23 NLT (A Message
for Gog)
1 This is another message that came
to me from The Lord:
2 “Son of man, turn and face Gog
of the land of Magog, the prince who rules over the nations of
Meshech and Tubal, and prophesy against him.
3 Give him this message from The
Sovereign Lord: Gog, I am your enemy!
4 I will turn you around and put
hooks in your jaws to lead you out with your whole army—your horses
and charioteers in full armor and a great horde armed with shields
and swords.
5 Persia, Ethiopia, and Libya will
join you, too, with all their weapons.
6 Gomer and all its armies will also
join you, along with the armies of Beth-togarmah from the distant
north, and many others.
7 “Get ready; be prepared! Keep
all the armies around you mobilized, and take command of them.
8 A long time from now you will be
called into action. In the distant future you will swoop down on the
land of Israel, which will be enjoying peace after recovering from
war and after its people have returned from many lands to the
mountains of Israel.
9 You and all your allies—a vast
and awesome army—will roll down on them like a storm and cover the
land like a cloud.
10 “This is what The Sovereign
Lord says: At that time evil thoughts will come to your mind, and you
will devise a wicked scheme.
11 You will say, ‘Israel is an
unprotected land filled with unwalled villages! I will march against
her and destroy these people who live in such confidence!
12 I will go to those formerly
desolate cities that are now filled with people who have returned
from exile in many nations. I will capture vast amounts of plunder,
for the people are rich with livestock and other possessions now.
They think the whole world revolves around them!’
13 But Sheba and Dedan and the
merchants of Tarshish will ask, ‘Do you really think the armies you
have gathered can rob them of silver and gold? Do you think you can
drive away their livestock and seize their goods and carry off
plunder?’
14 “Therefore, son of man,
prophesy against Gog. Give him this message from
The Sovereign Lord: When My people
are living in peace in their land, then you will rouse yourself.
15 You will come from your homeland
in the distant north with your vast cavalry and your mighty army,
16 and you will attack My people
Israel, covering their land like a cloud. At that time in the distant
future, I will bring you against My land as everyone watches, and My
holiness will be displayed by what happens to you, Gog. Then all the
nations will know that I am The Lord.
17 “This is what The Sovereign
Lord asks: Are you the one I was talking about long ago, when I
announced through Israel’s prophets that in the future I would
bring you against My people?
18 But this is what The Sovereign
Lord says: When Gog invades the land of Israel, My fury will boil
over!
19 In My jealousy and blazing anger,
I promise a mighty shaking in the land of Israel on that day.
20 All living things—the fish in
the sea, the birds of the sky, the animals of the field, the small
animals that scurry along the ground, and all the people on
earth—will quake in terror at My presence. Mountains will be thrown
down; cliffs will crumble; walls will fall to the earth.
21 I will summon the sword against
you on all the hills of Israel, says
The Sovereign Lord. Your men will
turn their swords against each other.
22 I will punish you and your armies
with disease and bloodshed; I will send torrential rain, hailstones,
fire, and burning sulfur!
23 In this way, I will show My
greatness and holiness, and I will make Myself known to all the
nations of the world. Then they will know that I am The Lord.
Joel 2:1-3;30,31
KJV
1 Blow ye the trumpet in Zion, and
sound an alarm in My holy mountain: let all the inhabitants of the
land tremble: for The Day Of The Lord cometh, for it is nigh at hand;
2 A day of darkness and of
gloominess, a day of clouds and of thick darkness, as the morning
spread upon the mountains: a great people and a strong; there hath
not been ever the like, neither shall be any more after it, even to
the years of many generations.
3 A fire devoureth before them; and
behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before
them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall
escape them.
30 And I will shew wonders in the
heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.
31 The sun shall be turned into
darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and terrible Day
Of The Lord Come.
Zephaniah 1:17,18 KJV
17 And I will bring distress upon
men, that they shall walk like blind men, because they have sinned
against The Lord: and their blood shall be poured out as dust, and
their flesh as the dung.
18 Neither their silver nor their
gold shall be able to deliver them in
The Day Of The Lord's Wrath; but the
whole land shall be devoured by the fire of His jealousy: for He
shall make even a speedy riddance of all them that dwell in the land.
Zechariah 14:12 KJV
And this shall be the plague
wherewith The Lord will smite all the people that have fought against
Jerusalem; Their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon their
feet, and their eyes shall consume away in their holes, and their
tongue shall consume away in their mouth.
Malachi 4:1 KJV
For, behold, the day cometh, that
shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do
wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them
up, saith The Lord Of Hosts, that it shall leave them neither root
nor branch.
Matthew 24:6-8;21,22,29 KJV
6 And ye shall hear of wars and
rumors of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things
must come to pass, but the end is not yet.
7 For nation shall rise against
nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and
pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
8 All these are the beginning of
sorrows.
21 For then shall be great
tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this
time, no, nor ever shall be.
22 And except those days should be
shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect's sake
those days shall be shortened.
29 Immediately after the tribulation
of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give
her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of
the heavens shall be shaken:
Luke 12:49 KJV
I am come to send fire on the earth;
and what will I, if it be already kindled?
I Thessalonians 5:3 KJV
For when they shall say, Peace and
safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a
woman with child; and they shall not escape.
II Peter 3:10-12 KJV
10 But The Day Of The Lord will come
as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away
with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat,
the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.
11 Seeing then that all these things
shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy
conversation and Godliness,
12 Looking for and hasting unto the
coming of The Day Of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be
dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat?
Revelation 6:12-17 NKJV
12 I looked when He opened the sixth
seal, and behold, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became
black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became like blood.
13 And the stars of heaven fell to
the earth, as a fig tree drops its late figs when it is shaken by a
mighty wind.
14 Then the sky receded as a scroll
when it is rolled up, and every mountain and island was moved out of
its place.
15 And the kings of the earth, the
great men, the rich men, the commanders, the mighty men, every slave
and every free man, hid themselves in the caves and in the rocks of
the mountains,
16 and said to the mountains and
rocks, “Fall on us and hide us from the face of Him who sits on the
throne and from the wrath of The Lamb!
17 For the great day of His wrath
has come, and who is able to stand?”
Revelation 8:7-12 KJV
7 The first angel sounded, and there
followed hail and fire mingled with blood, and they were cast upon
the earth: and the third part of trees was burnt up, and all green
grass was burnt up.
8 And the second angel sounded, and
as it were a great mountain burning with fire was cast into the sea:
and the third part of the sea became blood;
9 And the third part of the
creatures which were in the sea, and had life, died; and the third
part of the ships were destroyed.
10 And the third angel sounded, and
there fell a great star from heaven, burning as it were a lamp, and
it fell upon the third part of the rivers, and upon the fountains of
waters;
11 And the name of the star is
called Wormwood: and the third part of the waters became wormwood;
and many men died of the waters, because they were made bitter.
12 And the fourth angel sounded, and
the third part of the sun was smitten, and the third part of the
moon, and the third part of the stars; so as the third part of them
was darkened, and the day shone not for a third part of it, and the
night likewise.
Revelation 9:18 KJV
By these three was the third part of
men killed, by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone,
which issued out of their mouths.
Revelation 16:1-3,8
1 And I heard a great voice out of
the temple saying to the seven angels, Go your ways, and pour out the
vials of the wrath of God upon the earth.
2 And the first went, and poured out
his vial upon the earth; and there fell a noisome and grievous sore
upon the men which had the mark of the beast, and upon them which
worshiped his image.
3 And the second angel poured out
his vial upon the sea; and it became as the blood of a dead man: and
every living soul died in the sea.
8 And the fourth angel poured out
his vial upon the sun; and power was given unto him to scorch men
with fire.
Friend, put your
trust in The Lord.
II Peter 2:4-9
KJV
4 For if God spared not the angels
that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into
chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment;
5 And spared not the old world, but
saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing
in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;
6 And turning the cities of Sodom
and Gomorrha into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, making them
an example unto those that after should live ungodly;
7 And delivered just Lot, vexed with
the filthy conversation of the wicked:
8 (For that righteous man dwelling
among them, in seeing and hearing, vexed his righteous soul from day
to day with their unlawful deeds;)
9 The Lord knoweth how to deliver
the Godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day
of judgment to be punished:
Deuteronomy 33:27 KJV
The Eternal God is thy refuge, and
underneath are the everlasting arms: and He shall thrust out the
enemy from before thee; and shall say, Destroy them.
II Samuel 22:2,3 KJV
2 And he said, The Lord is my Rock,
and my Fortress, and my Deliverer;
3 The God of my Rock; in Him will I
trust: He is my Shield, and the Horn (power) of my salvation, my High
Tower, and my Refuge, my Savior; thou savest me from violence.
Nahum 1:7 KJV
The Lord is good, a strong hold in
the day of trouble; and He knoweth them that trust in Him.
Psalm 5:11,12 KJV
11 But let all those that put their
trust in thee rejoice: let them ever shout for joy, because thou
defendest them: let them also that love thy name be joyful in thee.
12 For thou, Lord, wilt bless the
righteous; with favor wilt thou compass him as with a shield.
Psalm 27:5 KJV
For in the time of trouble He shall
hide me in His pavilion: in the secret of His tabernacle shall He
hide me; He shall set me up upon A Rock.
Psalms 32:7 KJV
Thou art my hiding place; thou shalt
preserve me from trouble; thou shalt compass me about with songs of
deliverance. Selah.
Psalm 46:1 KJV
God is our refuge and strength, a
very present help in trouble.
Psalm 71:3 KJV
Be thou my strong habitation,
whereunto I may continually resort: thou hast given commandment to
save me; for thou art my Rock and my Fortress.
Psalm 119:114 KJV
Thou art my hiding place and my
shield: I hope in thy Word.