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AN EXPOSITION OF THE APOCALYPSE
Sixth Edition, 1915
By Dr. John Thomas (first edition written 1861)
Chapter 9
Section 4 Subsection 9
"Lake of Fire Burning with Sulphur"
It will be in place here to remark, that "these plagues," as
they are fitly termed in verse 20, will be terribly operative
in the destroying of the body of the beast, and in the binding
of the dragon, and casting of him into the abyss (Dan. vii.
11). They will be swamped in "a fiery stream," and "be
given to the burning flame." This is apocalyptically
styled, "a Lake of Fire burning with sulphur" (xix.
20). The territory upon which the beast and false prophet
dominion exist, will be turned into a lake of fire by this
sulphur-burning machinery of war. The saints will be in that
lake, "executing the judgment written," in tormenting
with fire and sulphur the worshippers of the beast (xiv. 10).
Fire, sulphur, and smoke, in these places, symbolize the same
agent as they do in the second woe. The governments are not
casting great guns, and storing up munitions of war in vain.
They are preparing them blindly for their own destruction.
Their arsenals will fall into the hands of the Lamb and his
people, who will plunge incessant fire upon their enemies,
the smoke of whose torment will ascend, until their power
shall be totally and finally destroyed. From thenceforth,
war will be no more for a thousand years.