Burning at the Second Coming
"Destruction of the transgressors and the sinners shall be together."
"the string shall be as tow and the maker of it as a spark, and they shall both burn together"
"He that is tithed shall not be burned at his coming."
"And also that of element shall melt with fervent heat;"
- Enoch 48:8-10
- Enoch 52
Describes the inescapable melting heat.
- Enoch 45:6
"I shall destroy them from the face of the Earth."
- Enoch 102:1
Grievous fire in the last days.
- Josephus 1.2.3
"... upon Adams prediction that the world was to be destroyed at one time by the force of fire, and at another time by the violence and quantity of water ..."
- Pres. John Taylor, "The Government of God", p. 114
Pres. Taylor describes that there is to be "a general destruction poured out upon man, which will entirely cleanse the earth and sweep all wickedness from its face. This will be done by the rod of his mouth, and by the breath of his lips ; or, in other words, by fire as universal as the flood."