unnecessary here. Totality and completion are clearly expressed by the context in every

passage.  "And He left off talking with him, and God went up from Abraham"

(Gen. 17: 22).  "The famine shall consume the land" (Gen. 41: 30). "The water was

spent in the bottle" (Gen. 21: 15). "My soul fainteth for Thy salvation. . . . mine eyes

fail for Thy Word" (Psa. 119: 81, 82).  "I will not make a full end with you"

(Jer. 5: 18; 30: 11). "The consumption decreed shall overflow in righteousness"

(Isa. 10: 22). Until the day and night come to an end" (Job 26: 10).

The underlying idea of the word kalah may be seem in the fact that kol is the Hebrew

word for "all" and "every." It signifies, as we have observed, totality and the utter end.

It is the word used by the Lord when He said to Moses, "Let Me alone, that I may

consume them" (Exod. 32: 10), or as in Num. 16: 21, 41, "That I may consume them

in a moment." The Psalmist uses this word when speaking of the ungodly. "Consume

them in wrath, consume them that they may not be" (Psa. 59: 13). The added words,

"that they may not be" amplify the inherent meaning of the word "consume." Again, in

Psa. 37: we read, "But the wicked shall perish (abad) and the enemies of the Lord

shall be as the fat of lambs; they shall consume (kalah), into smoke shall they consume

away" (kalah). Here we have not only the figure of the utter consumption of fat by fire,

but also the parallel word "perish," which we have considered together in the first paper

of this series.

Perhaps the passage in the A.V. which gives a complete idea of the nature of the word

is Zeph. 1: 18, "Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in the day

of the Lord's wrath; but the whole land shall be devoured (akal) by the fire of His

jealousy; for He shall make a speedy riddance of all that dwell in the land."

Evil is not to be forever; God's universe is to be cleansed; He shall gather out of His

kingdom all things that offend; He will make a speedy riddance of evil. Again we pause

to consider yet another word used by the Lord in relation to the wages of sin, and again

the unfailing testimony is borne by the Scriptures to the fact, that to perish, to destroy,

and to consume, in their primary meanings are everywhere the words used by God to

describe the penalty of sin.

Nathats.­This word is translated, "beat down," 3 times; "break down," 22 times; and

once or twice "cast down"; "pull down"; "throw down"; &100:, and "destroy," 5 times.

The primary meaning is, "to break down," "to demolish."  It is applied to altars

(Exod. 34: 13;  Deut. 12: 3).

To houses, towns, cities, walls (Lev. 14: 45;

Judges 13: 9; 9: 45; II Kings 10: 27, &100:).  In Psa. 52: 5 we find the word translated

"destroy. . . . take away. . . . root out. . . . pluck out." The Psalm, originally

written with reference to Doeg the Edomite, has prophetic reference to the antichrist, "the

man who made not the Lord his strength" (verse 7). It is interesting to note that the

gematria (the numerical value) of this sentence is 2,197, or 13*13*13, the number of

satan and rebellion. When dealing with the doom of antichrist we shall have to remember

this passage and the primary meaning of the word.