JETS 29:3 (September 1986) p. 289 as a burning furnace that will utterly consume the arrogant and the evildoer. As we shall see, Peter’s thought runs in the same direction: The fire of God’s presence comes first to the “house of God” to purify and prove those who serve in his presence, and then it moves out in the eschatological judgment to consume the godless and disobedient (1 Pet 4:17–18). Malachi 3—4 alludes to one of the visible portrayals of the divine presence that permeates the OT, from Abraham’s