Behold the day cometh burning as a furnace, and all the
     proud and every worker of wickedness shall be stubble; and
     the day that cometh shall set them on fire (Mal. 4:1).

     Babylon is become a habitation of demons.  They cried out
     as they saw the smoke of her burning.  Her smoke goeth up
     unto the ages of the ages (Apoc. 18:2, 18; 19:3).

He opened the pit of the abyss, and there went up a smoke out of the pit as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun was darkened, and the air, by the smoke of the pit (Apoc. 9:2).

Out of the mouth of the horses went forth fire and smoke and brimstone; by these was the third part of men killed, by the fire and by the smoke and by the brimstone (Apoc. 4:17, 18).

If any one adores the beast he shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God mixed with unmixed wine in the cup of His anger, and shall be tormented with fire and brimstone (Apoc. 16:9, 10).

     The fourth angel poured out his bowl upon the sun; and it
     was given unto it to scorch men with fire; therefore men
     were scorched with great heat (Apoc. 16:8, 9).

     They were cast into a lake burning with fire and brimstone
     (Apoc. 19:20; 20:14, 15; 21:8).

     Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit shall be
     hewn down and cast into the fire (Matt. 3:10; Luke 3:9).

The Son of man shall send His angels, and they shall gather out of His kingdom all things that cause stumbling and them that do iniquity, and shall cast them into a furnace of fire (Matt. 13:41, 42, 50).

     The King shall say to them that are on the left hand,
     Depart from Me, ye cursed, into eternal fire, prepared for
     the devil and his angels (Matt. 25:41).

     They shall be sent into everlasting fire, into the hell of
     fire, where their worm shall not die, and the fire shall
     not be quenched (Matt. 18:8, 9; Mark 9:43-49).

     The rich man in hell said to Abraham that he was tormented
     in flame (Luke 16:24).

In these and in many other passages “fire” means the lust pertaining to love of self and love of the world, and the “smoke” therefrom means falsity from evil.

571.  As the lust of doing the evils that are from the love of self and of the world is meant by “infernal fire,” and as such is the lust of all in the hells (as shown in the foregoing chapter) so when the hells are opened there is an appearance of fire with smoke, such as is seen in conflagrations, a dense fire from the hells where the love of self prevails, and a flaming fire from the hells where love of the world prevails.  But when the hells are closed this fiery appearance is not seen, but in its place there is a kind of obscurity like a condensation of smoke; although the fire still rages within, as