“And if anyone now wants to harm them, fire now
chooses to flow [discharge, project] out of their mouth and now devours
their enemies; so, if anyone wants to harm them, he now must be caused
to be killed in this way”.
As with the Churches at Smyrna and Philadelphia, this is a
now and then experience of the bondservants of Yahweh (not exclusively
reserved to the End Times). God will grant His witnesses to prophecy and His
prophetic word will be like fire that will doom in judgment those who will harm
them in the way that fire devours wood. And those who have
closed their hearts to God and would choose to harm God’s witnesses will be
killed by the very word that they have rejected.
They also have the authority to restrict blessing, to turn blessings
into disaster, and to strike the earth with all manner of calamity, as often as
they wish.
