THE FIRE PREPARED FOR SATAN AND HIS ANGELS.
This fire is referred to many times in the Bible. Rather, it is spoken of in connection with these wicked beings in quite a large number of passages. There can be no reasonable doubt that the personage described in Eze. xxviii, called the anointed cherub, whose covering was the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, and who had walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire, and who was perfect in his ways from the day that he was created till iniquity was found in him, is none other than Satan. Yet it is said that the fire shall devour him and bring him to ashes upon the earth in the sight of all them that behold him. Again, THE KING for whom Tophet is ordained of old, whose pile is fire and much wood, a fuel, which shall be kindled by the breath of the Lord as a stream of brimstone, this king must be Satan himself. Isa. xxxi, 33. And thus also in Isa. xxvi, 11, when it is said that the fire of God's enemies shall devour the wicked, it is evident that allusion is made to the fact that the wicked are to be punished in fire originally prepared for the devil and his angels. Indeed, the nineteenth chapter of Revelation plainly teaches that the lake of fire, where the devil is to be punished, is also to be shared with him by all those whose names are not found written in the book of life. And this great truth is also announced by our Lord in Matt. xxv, 41, where he says to those on the left hand, "Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels." And now, may not this fact, that the wicked shall be punished in the fire that is to devour the evil angels, be referred to when it is said of certain apostates, There remaineth no more sacrifice for sin (in their cases), "but a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries?" Heb. x, 27. Is it not the idea that they must inevitably share the devouring fire with these adversaries?