You fail to realize that the "Word of God", the Law and the prophets, is the will of God, and that will is that the kingdoms of the nations will rule and bring judgment upon Judah and Ephraim, until they are taken down by the "stone cut out of the mountain" (Daniel 2:45). In the enterprise of the kingdoms bringing judgment upon Judah and Ephraim (Hosea 5), it is the sons of God, which included Satan, and the sons of the heavenly watchers, produced from the "daughters of men", called the men of "renown", whose demon spirits, according to the book of Enoch, still produce havoc on earth, and lead the leaders of men. And the "serpent" had the powers of persuasion as with respect to Eve, as the "serpent" is the "devil" and the father of lies, and with respect to Job, power over the state of men within the boundaries of staying within the parameters of the will of God. In the "end", the coming time of the "distress of Jacob", which is within the purpose of God, the nations will be "destroyed" (Jeremiah 30:7-11), and the "serpent" of Genesis will be "punished" (Is 27:1) The job of the nations, who were under the power of the serpent, was to bring judgment upon Judah and Ephraim, not to be a "testor of humans". The furnace of fire will be the refiner of the Levites (Malachi 3:1-3), and after 2/3 of sheep are killed (Zech 13:8), the Levites will be refined, not tested. And according to Ezekiel 34:1-16, the "fat" sheep, the "shepherds" of Israel, who eat the fat of the flock, and do not heal or feed the sheep, will be the first to be "destroyed".
Malachi 3:1“Behold, I am going to send My messenger, and he will clear the way before Me. And the Lord, whom you seek, will suddenly come to His temple; and the messenger of the covenant, in whom you delight, behold, He is coming,” says the LORD of hosts.
2“But who can endure the day of His coming? And who can stand when He appears? For He is like a refiner’s fire and like fullers’ soap.
3“He will sit as a smelter and purifier of silver, and He will purify the sons of Levi and refine them like gold and silver, so that they may present to the LORD offerings in righteousness.
4“Then the offering of Judah and Jerusalem will be pleasing to the LORD as in the days of old and as in former years.
Zechariah 13:8 And in all the land, declares the LORD,
two-thirds will be cut off and perish, but a third will be left in it. In the whole land,” declares the LORD, “two-thirds will be struck down and perish; yet one-third will be left in it. Two-thirds of the people in the land will be cut off and die,” says the LORD.