who will pay the penalty: eternal destruction from the face of the Lord and from the glory of his might,
It is called "the glory of his power" because it is a token of the great power with which the Father has vested in Him, as Lord and judge of the world. In the description the Apostle Peter has given of the burning of the earth, we have an account of the order in which it will proceed (2 Peter 3:10-11).