Judgment knowledge of their sinfulness is not what causes them to die. They are still very much alive by the time God rains down fire upon them. It is this fire, literal fire, that causes them to suffer in proportion and in duration to their sinfulness - not judgment knowledge of their loss and sinfulness. Neither are they destroyed when exposed to the radiant glory of Jesus.

A) They are exposed to the radiant glory of Jesus on two different occasions and it does not destroy them. It happens before they are judged, before they suffer agony over their sinfulness. Thus, exposure to the radiant glory of Jesus is not what causes them to suffer and die. In fact, in stead of causing them agony and death, it causes them to praise Him. See 1 and 5 above.

B) They are judged and deemed worthy of death. Judgment knowledge of their loss and sinfulness does destroy them. They are still very much alive afterward. See 7-16 above.

C) While they are raging against Satan and his agents of deception, God rains down literal fire upon them. Each sinner suffers in proportion and in duration to their sinfulness and then dies. Satan is the last to die. See 17, 18, 20, and 21 above.

D) The righteous praise God for punishing and destroying them according to their sinfulness. See 19 above.

The glory of God is displayed in His handiwork. Here are mysteries that the mind will become strong in searching out. {4T 581.1}

In his prayer just before his crucifixion, he declared, "I have manifested thy name." "I have glorified thee on the earth; I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do." When the object of his mission was attained,--the revelation of God to the world,--the Son of God announced that his work was accomplished, and that the character of the Father was made manifest to men.

PS - Tom, please explain how God's character causes the wicked to burn up and die.

Could those whose lives have been spent in rebellion against God be suddenly transported to heaven and witness the high, the holy state of perfection that ever exists there,-- every soul filled with love, every countenance beaming with joy, enrapturing music in melodious strains rising in honor of God and the Lamb, and ceaseless streams of light flowing upon the redeemed from the face of Him who sitteth upon the throne,--could those whose hearts are filled with hatred of God, of truth and holiness, mingle with the heavenly throng and join their songs of praise? Could they endure the glory of God and the Lamb? No, no; years of probation were granted them, that they might form characters for heaven; but they have never trained the mind to love purity; they have never learned the language of heaven, and now it is too late. A life of rebellion against God has unfitted them for heaven. Its purity, holiness, and peace would be torture to them; the glory of God would be a consuming fire. They would long to flee from that holy place. They would welcome destruction, that they might be hidden from the face of Him who died to redeem them. The destiny of the wicked is fixed by their own choice. Their exclusion from heaven is voluntary with themselves, and just and merciful on the part of God.

To sin, wherever found, "our God is a consuming fire." Heb. 12:29. In all who submit to His power the Spirit of God will consume sin. But if men cling to sin, they become identified with it. Then the glory of God, which destroys sin, must destroy them. (DA 107)

This doesn't tie in with DA 764 or DA 107-108, or GC 543.

Tom, you have yet to explain how God's unveiled character causes sinners to suffer and die.

How does God make them understand His character so that it causes them to suffer and die?

Are unpardonable sinners capable of comprehending something as pure and sinless as God's character?

Also, how does His character lighten New Jerusalem so that sunshine isn't needed to light it?

How repugnant to every emotion of love and mercy, and even to our sense of justice, is the doctrine that the wicked dead are tormented with fire and brimstone in a ... burning hell ... While the decree of reprobation is eternally executing on the vessels of wrath, the smoke of their torment will be eternally ascending in view of the vessels of mercy, who, instead of taking the part of these miserable objects, will say, Amen, Alleluia! praise ye the Lord!"

Where, in the pages of God's word, is such teaching to be found? Will the redeemed in heaven be lost to all emotions of pity and compassion, and even to feelings of common humanity? Are these to be exchanged for the indifference of the stoic or the cruelty of the savage? No, no; such is not the teaching of the Book of God....

What would be gained to God should we admit that He delights in witnessing ... tortures; that He is regaled with the groans and shrieks and imprecations of the suffering creatures whom He holds in the flames of hell? Can these horrid sounds be music in the ear of Infinite Love? It is urged that the infliction of ... misery upon the wicked would show God's hatred of sin as an evil which is ruinous to the peace and order of the universe. Oh, dreadful blasphemy! ...

When we consider in what false colors Satan has painted the character of God, can we wonder that our merciful Creator is feared, dreaded, and even hated? The appalling views of God which have spread over the world from the teachings of the pulpit have made thousands, yes, millions, of skeptics and infidels. (GC 536)