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An Intertextuality Pair — one connection between two passages, shown as linked verse cards: the Later text and the Earlier text it quotes, alludes to or echoes. The Significance essay explains why the link matters and where it points in Christ.

Reference Type— how explicit the link is: Quotation, Allusion, or Echo
Connection Method(s)— how it carries meaning: e.g. Typology, Promise-Fulfillment, Analogy, Longitudinal Theme
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Intertextuality Pair

Revelation 20:9-10 → 2 Kings 1:10-14

Allusion

Later text

Revelation 20:9-10BSB

And they marched across the broad expanse of the earth and surrounded the camp of the saints and the beloved city. But fire came down from heaven and consumed them. And the devil who had deceived them was thrown into the lake of fire and sulfur, into which the beast and the false prophet had already been thrown. There they will be tormented day and night forever and ever.

Earlier text

2 Kings 1:10-14BSB

Elijah answered the captain, "If I am a man of God, may fire come down from heaven and consume you and your fifty men." And fire came down from heaven and consumed the captain and his fifty men. So the king sent to Elijah another captain with his fifty men. And the captain said to Elijah, "Man of God, the king declares, 'Come down at once!'" Again Elijah replied, "If I am a man of God, may fire come down from heaven and consume you and your fifty men." And the fire of God came down from heaven and consumed the captain and his fifty men. So the king sent a third captain with his fifty men. And the third captain went up, fell on his knees before Elijah, and begged him, "Man of God, may my life and the lives of these fifty servants please be precious in your sight. Behold, fire has come down from heaven and consumed the first two captains of fifty, with all their men. But now may my life be precious in your sight."

Significance

In 2 Kings 1:10-14, Elijah calls down fire from heaven that consumes two companies of fifty soldiers sent to arrest him — a dramatic demonstration of divine protection of the prophet and judgment on those who oppose God's servant. Revelation 20:9 describes fire coming "down from heaven" that consumes the armies of Gog and Magog assembled against the saints. The verbal parallel — "fire came down from heaven" (pur ek tou ouranou) — directly echoes the LXX of 2 Kings 1:10. The escalation is from localized protection of one prophet to universal protection of the entire people of God. The Elijah fire-from-heaven motif also appears in Revelation 13:13 (the false prophet's counterfeit) and Luke 9:54 (the disciples' misguided request), showing its ongoing significance in the canonical trajectory.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Longitudinal Theme + Analogy

Linked Mentions 1

Trajectory Tables 1

Fire from Heaven (Divine Acceptance and Judgment) Trajectory Table