Re: the "Furnace of Earth" comment
Eccl. 3:20 All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.
Gen. 2:7 And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
Job 34:15 All flesh shall perish together, and man shall turn again unto dust.
Psa. 103:14 For he knoweth our frame; he remembereth that we are dust.
(emphasis mine)
Is not "earth" also "dust"? How about the hundreds of years of trials and persecution by the Roman Catholic Whore? Is that not Fire? If you insist on making every shred of the verse symbolic, then perhaps this will go far in satisfying your demands.
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