“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.”
The description of the fire that devours before them and the flame that burns after them, with the land like the garden of Eden before them and behind them a desolate wilderness, suggests transformation of abundance into desolation through divine judgment. The reference to Eden indicates a return to primal chaos, the undoing of creation's order. This verse presents the day of the LORD as a cosmic reversal of creation.
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