1. Our GOD IS A CONSUMING FIRE
1 Kings 18:24 I will call on the name of the LORD….Who answers by fire-He is God.
Job 1:16 The fire of God fell from the sky…
Leviticus 9:24 Fire came out from the presence of the LORD.
2 Samuel 22:9 Smoke rose from his nostrils; consuming fire came from his mouth, burning coals blazed out of it.
Job 41:20 Smoke pours from his nostrils as from a boiling pot over a fire of reeds.
Job 41:19 Firebrands stream from his mouth; sparks of fire shoot out.
Job 41:21 His breath sets coals ablaze, and flames dart from his mouth.
Exodus 24:17 The glory of the LORD looked like a consuming fire.
Deut 4:24 For the LORD your God is a consuming fire, a jealous God.
Deut 5:25 This great fire will consume us.
Psalm 83:14 fire that consumes the forest or a flame sets the mountains ablaze,
Hebrews 12:29 For our God is a consuming fire.
Psalm 97:3 Fire goes before him and consumes his foes on every side.
Deut 9:3 Be assured today that the LORD your God is the one who goes across ahead of you like a devouring fire.
2. HE SPEAKS OUT FROM THE FIRE
Exodus 13:21 By day the LORD went ahead of you in a pillar of cloud to guide them on you way and by night in a pillar of fire to give you light, so that you could travel by day or night.
Exodus 13:22 Neither the pillar of cloud by day nor the pillar of fire by night left its place in front of the people.
Deut 1:33 The Lord your God, who went ahead of you, in fire by night and in a cloud by day, to search out places for you and to show you the way you should go.
Exodus 40:38 So the cloud of the LORD was over the tabernacle by day, and fire was in the cloud by night, in the sight of all during all your travels.
Numbers 9:15 From evening till morning the cloud above the tabernacle looked like fire.
Psalm 105:39 He spread out a cloud as a covering, and a fire to give light at night.
Is 9:1 The people walking in darkness have seen a great light; on those living in the land of the shadow of death, a light has dawned.
Jn 1:5 -1:9 The light shines in the darkness…The true light that gives light to every man… but the darkness has not understood it…
Numbers 9:16 That is how it continued to be; the cloud covered it, and at night it looked like fire.
Isaiah 4:5 Then the LORD will create over all of Mount Zion and over those who assemble there a cloud of smoke by day and a glow of flaming fire by night; over all the glory will be a canopy.
Deut 4:36 From heaven he made you hear his voice to discipline you. On earth he showed you his great fire, and you heard his words from out of the fire.
Deut 5:24 "The LORD our God has shown us his glory and his majesty, and we have heard his voice from the fire.
Jn 12:30 This voice was for our benefit.
Hebrews 12:18 You have not come to a mountain that can be touched;
Deut 4:11 You came near and stood at the foot of the mountain while it blazed with fire to the very heavens, with black clouds and deep darkness.
Exo 10:21 Darkness that can be felt
Deut 5:23 When you heard the voice out of the darkness, while the mountain was ablaze with fire.
Exodus 19:18 Covered with smoke, because the LORD descended on it in fire. The smoke billowed up from it like smoke from a furnace, the whole mountain trembled violently,
Deut 5:4 The LORD spoke to you face to face out of the fire on the mountain.
Deut 4:15 You saw no form of any kind the day the LORD spoke to you.
Deut 4:12 The LORD spoke to you out of the fire. You heard the sound of words but saw no form; there was only a voice.
Deut 5:22 These are the commandments the LORD proclaimed in a loud voice to your whole assembly there on the mountain from out of the fire, the cloud and the deep darkness.
Deut 5:26 For what mortal man has ever heard the voice of the living God speaking out of fire, as we have, and survived?
Deut 4:33 Has any other people heard the voice of God speaking out of fire, as you have, and lived?
Deut 5:24 Today we have seen that a man can live even if God speaks with him.
3. REBELLION
*** LORD SPEAKING***
Jer 21:12 This is what the LORD says: " 'Administer justice every morning; rescue from the hand of his oppressor the one who has been robbed, or my wrath will break out and burn like fire because of the evil you have done- burn with no one to quench it.
Jer 17:27 If you do not obey me to keep the Sabbath day holy by not carrying any load as you come through the gates on the Sabbath day, then I will kindle an unquenchable fire.' "
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Joshua 23:16 If you violate the covenant of the LORD your God, which he commanded you, and go and serve other gods and bow down to them, the LORD's anger will burn against you, and you will quickly perish from the good land.
Numbers 29:13 Present an offering made by fire
Numbers 28:13 A burnt offering, a pleasing aroma, an offering made to the LORD by fire.
Leviticus 6:9 The burnt offering is to remain on the altar hearth throughout the night, till morning, and the fire must be kept burning on the altar.
Joshua 7:1 But we acted unfaithfully in regard to the devoted things... So the LORD's anger burned against us.
Leviticus 10:1; and we offered unauthorized fire before the LORD, contrary to his command.
2 Samuel 6:7 The LORD's anger burned against us because of our irreverent act.
*** LORD SPEAKING***
Exo 22:29 This is what the Lord says, “Do not hold back your offerings from your granaries and your vats.”
Isaiah 43:22 “ Yet... you have not wearied yourselves for me. You have not brought me sheep for burnt offerings, not honoured me with your sacrifices… you have not bought any fragrant calamus for me, or lavished on me the fat of your sacrifices. But you have burdened me with your sins and wearied me with your offences.”
Isaiah 50:11 But now, all you who light fires and provide yourselves with flaming torches, go, walk in the light of your fires and of the torches you have set ablaze. This is what you shall receive from my hand: You will lie down in torment.
2 Kings 22:17 Because they have forsaken me and burned incense to other gods and provoked me to anger by all the idols their hands have made, and by everything they have done, my anger will burn against this place and will not be quenched.'
Isaiah 37:19 For they were not gods but only wood and stone, fashioned by human hands. (Isaiah’s words)
Micah 2:7 “Do not my words do good to him whose ways are upright? Lately my people have risen up like an enemy
Exo 22:20 Whoever sacrifices to any god other than the Lord must be destroyed.
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Isaiah 5:24 Therefore, as tongues of fire lick up straw and as dry grass sinks down in the flames, so their roots will decay and their flowers blow away like dust; for they have rejected the law of the LORD Almighty and spurned the word of the Holy One of Israel.
Deut 6:15 for the LORD your God, who is among you, is a jealous God and his anger will burn against you.
Zechariah 8:2 This is what the LORD Almighty says: "I am very jealous for Zion; I am burning with jealousy for her."
Deut 29:27 Therefore the LORD's anger burned against this land, so that he brought on it all the curses written in this book.
Deut 29:20 The LORD will never be willing to forgive us; his wrath and zeal will burn us. All the curses written in this book will fall upon us, and the LORD will blot out our name from under heaven.
Exodus 32:33 The Lord says, “Whoever sins against me I will blot out of my book”.
2 Kings 22:13 Great is the LORD's anger that burns against us because we have not obeyed the words of this book; we have not acted in accordance with all that is written there concerning us.
Isaiah 24:6 Therefore a curse consumes the earth; its people must bear their guilt.
Exodus 22:6 "If a fire breaks out and spreads… the one who started the fire must make restitution.
Exodus 21:25 burn for burn, wound for wound, bruise for bruise.
Exodus 15:7 In the greatness of majesty threw down those who opposed Him. He unleashed His burning anger; it consumed Us like stubble.
Job 28:5 The earth… is transformed below as by fire.
4. HIS WRATH BURNS
Deut11:17 Then the LORD's anger will burn
Psalm 78:21 he was very angry; his fire broke out … and his wrath rose …
Job 31:12 It is a fire that burns to Destruction
Isa 10:22 Destruction has been decreed, overwhelming and righteous. The Lord, the Lord Almighty will carry out the Destruction upon the whole land.
Hos 7:13 Destruction to us , for we have rebelled…
Isaiah 10:16 Therefore, the Lord, the LORD Almighty, will send a wasting disease… a fire will be kindled like a blazing flame.
Lamentations 2:3 In fierce anger he has cut off every horn…He has burned… like a flaming fire that consumes everything around it.
Isaiah 10:17 The Light of Israel will become a fire, their Holy One a flame; in a single day it will burn and consume his thorns and his briers.
Job 20:23 God will vent his burning anger … and rain down his blows upon us.
Lamentations 4:11 The LORD has given full vent to his wrath; he has poured out his fierce anger. He kindled a fire in Zion that consumed her foundations.
Lamentations 2:4 Like an enemy he has strung his bow; his right hand is ready. Like a foe he has slain all who were pleasing to the eye; he has poured out his wrath like fire on the tent of the Daughter of Zion.
Isaiah 26:11 O LORD , your hand is lifted high, but they do not see it. Let them see your zeal for your people and be put to shame; let the fire reserved for your enemies consume them.
Jer 43:12 He will set fire to the temples of the gods; he will burn their temples and take their gods captive.
Psalm 46:9 He makes wars cease to the ends of the earth; he breaks the bow and shatters the spear, he burns the shields with fire.
Psalm 120:4 He will punish you with a warrior's sharp arrows, with burning coals of the broom tree.
Isaiah 42:25 So he poured out on them his burning anger, the violence of war. It enveloped them in flames, yet they did not understand; it consumed them, but they did not take it to heart.
Isaiah 27:11 For this is a people without understanding; so their Maker has no compassion on them, and their Creator shows them no favor.
James 5:3 Gold and silver are corroded. Their corrosion will testify against you and eat your flesh like fire. You have hoarded wealth in the last days.
Zephaniah 1:18 Neither your silver nor your gold will be able to save you on the day of the LORD's wrath. In the fire of his jealousy the whole world will be consumed, for he will make a sudden end of all who live in the earth.
1 Corinthians 3:13 Each of our work will be shown for what it is, because the Day will bring it to light. It will be revealed with fire, and the fire will test the quality of each man's work.
Deut29:23 The whole land will be a burning waste of salt and sulfur-nothing planted, nothing sprouting, no vegetation growing on it. It will be like the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the LORD overthrew in fierce anger.
*** LORD SPEAKING ***
Deut 32:22 But now this is what the Lord says- he who created you… He who formed you… (Is 43:1) , For a fire has been kindled by my wrath, one that burns to the realm of death below. It will devour the earth and its harvests and set afire the foundations of the mountains.
Isaiah 65:1 To a nation who did not call on my name…all day long I held out my hands to an obstinate people… a people who continually provoke me to my very face, offering sacrifices… and burning incense on altars of brick… and who say, 'Keep away; don't come near me, for I am too sacred for you!' Such people are smoke in my nostrils, a fire that keeps burning all day.
Gen 3:13 What is this you have done?
Hosea 8:5 Throw out your calf-idol…! My anger burns against them.
Malachi 1:10 "Oh, that one of you would shut the temple doors, so that you would not light useless fires on my altar! I am not pleased with you and I will accept no offering from your hands.
Eze 28:18 By your many sins and dishonest trade you have desecrated your sanctuaries. So I made a fire come out from you, and it consumed you.
Psalm 50:21 These things you have done and I kept silent; you thought I was altogether like you. But I will rebuke you and accuse you to your face.
Isaiah 65:6 I will not keep silent but will pay back in full; I will pay back into their laps… I will measure into their laps the full payment for their former deeds.
Eze 7:4 I will surely repay for your conduct and detestable practices among you. Then you will know that I am the LORD.
Eze 7:3 I will judge you according to conduct
Eze 7:27 I will deal with them according to their conduct, and by their own standards I will judge them. Then you will know that I am the LORD.
Eze 15:7 I will set my face against them. Although they have come out of the fire, the fire will yet consume them. And when I set my face against them, you will know that I am the LORD.
Jer 17:4 Through your own fault you will lose the inheritance I gave you… for you have kindled my anger, and it will burn forever."
Jer 7:20 " My anger and my wrath will be poured out on this place, on man and beast, on the trees of the field and on the fruit of the ground, and it will burn and not be quenched.
Isaiah 13:13 I will make the heavens tremble; and the earth will shake from its place at the wrath of the LORD Almighty, in the day of his burning anger.
Isaiah 41:20 So that the people may see and know, may consider and understand, that the hand of the Lord has done this, that the Holy One of Israel has created it.
Isaiah 41:4 Who has done this and carried it through, calling forth generations from the beginning? I the Lord, with the first of them and with the last of them- I am he.
Isaiah 54:16 "See, it is I who created the blacksmith who fans the coals into flame and forges a weapon fit for its work. And it is I who have created the destroyer to work havoc
Isaiah 45:7 I form the light and create darkness, I bring prosperity and create disaster; I the Lord do all these things.
Amos 4:12 Therefore this is what I will do to you… and because I will do this to you, prepare to meet your God.
Amos 4:2 The time will surely come
Zephaniah 3:8 “Therefore wait for me for the day I will stand up to testify. I have decided to assemble the nations, to gather the kingdoms and to pour out my wrath on them- all my fierce anger. The whole world will be consumed by the fire of my jealous anger.
Jer 4:18 Your own conduct and actions have brought this upon you. This is your punishment. How bitter it is! How it pierces to the heart!
This Place
Amos 2:5 “I will send fire upon Judah that will consume the fortresses of Jerusalem."
Jer 15:14 I will enslave you to your enemies in a land you do not know, for my anger will kindle a fire that will burn against you.
Isaiah 1:7 Your country is desolate, your cities burned with fire.
Obadiah 1:18 The house of Jacob will be a fire and the house of Joseph a flame; the house of Esau will be stubble, and they will set it on fire and consume it. … The LORD has spoken.
Eze 36:5 “In my burning zeal I have spoken against the rest of the nations, and against all Edom, for with glee and with malice in their hearts they made my land their own possession so that they might plunder its pastureland.
Amos 1:11 "For three sins of Edom, even for four, I will not turn back my wrath.
Isaiah 34:9 Edom's streams will be turned into pitch, her dust into burning sulfur; her land will become blazing pitch!
Isaiah 30:33 Topheth has long been prepared…Its fire pit has been made deep and wide, with an abundance of fire and wood; the breath of the LORD, like a stream of burning sulfur, sets it ablaze.
Amos 1:7 I will send fire upon the walls of Gaza that will consume her fortresses.
Eze 30:8 Then they will know that I am the LORD, when I set fire to Egypt and all her helpers are crushed.
Amos 1:14 I will set fire to the walls of Rabbah that will consume her fortresses amid war cries on the day of battle, amid violent winds on a stormy day.
Jer 49:2 The days are coming when I will sound the battle cry against Rabbah of the Ammonites; it will become a mound of ruins, and its surrounding villages will be set on fire.
Amos 2:2 I will send fire upon Moab that will consume the fortresses of Kerioth.
Moab will go down in great tumult amid war cries and the blast of the trumpet.
Jer 48:45 "In the shadow of Heshbon the fugitives stand helpless, for a fire has gone out from Heshbon, a blaze from the midst of Sihon; it burns the foreheads of Moab, the skulls of the noisy boasters.
Eze 39:6 I will send fire on Magog and on those who live in safety in the coastlands, and they will know that I am the LORD .
Amos 1:10 I will send fire upon the walls of Tyre that will consume her fortresses."
Amos 1:12 I will send fire upon Teman that will consume the fortresses of Bozrah."
Jer 49:27 "I will set fire to the walls of Damascus; it will consume the fortresses of Ben-Hadad."
Amos 1:4 I will send fire upon the house of Hazael that will consume the fortresses of Ben-Hadad.
Jer 51:30 Babylon's warriors have stopped fighting; they remain in their strongholds... Her dwellings are set on fire; the bars of her gates are broken.
Jer 51:32 the river crossings seized, the marshes set on fire, and the soldiers terrified.
Jer 51:49 Babylon must fall because of Israel’s slain, just as the slain in all the earth have fallen because of Babylon.
Micah 2:3 “ I am planning disaster against this people, from which you cannot save yourselves. You will no longer walk proudly, for it will be a time of calamity.”
Jer 50:32 The arrogant one will stumble and fall and no one will help her up; I will kindle a fire in her towns that will consume all who are around her." (Babylon)
Jer 51:25 "I am against you, O destroying mountain, you who destroy the whole earth," declares the LORD . "I will stretch out my hand against you, roll you off the cliffs, and make you a burned-out mountain. (About Babylon)
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Micah 1:4 The mountains melt beneath him and the valleys split apart, like wax before the fire, like water rushing down a slope.
Revelation 18:8 Therefore in one day her plagues will overtake her: death, mourning and famine. She will be consumed by fire, for mighty is the Lord God who judges her.
** Man and Beast
Isaiah 10:16 Therefore, the Lord, the LORD Almighty, will send a wasting disease upon the Assyrian sturdy warriors; under his pomp a fire will be kindled like a blazing flame.
Daniel 3:22 The king's command was so urgent and the furnace so hot that the flames of the fire killed the soldiers
Isaiah 9:5 Every warrior's boot used in battle and every garment rolled in blood will be destined for burning, will be fuel for the fire.
Isaiah 1:31 The mighty man will become tinder and his work a spark; both will burn together, with no one to quench the fire.
Job 15:30 He will not escape the darkness; a flame will wither his shoots, and the breath of God's mouth will carry him away.
Psalm 78:63 Fire consumed their young men, and their maidens had no wedding songs.
Isaiah 33:12 The peoples will be burned as if to lime; like cut thornbushes they will be set ablaze.
Nahum 3:15 There the fire will devour you; the sword will cut you down and… consume you.
Nahum 3:13 The gates of your land are wide open to your enemies; fire has consumed their bars.
*** LORD SPEAKING ***
Nahum 2:13 "I am against you," declares the LORD Almighty. "I will burn up your chariots in smoke, and the sword will devour your young lions."
Isaiah 31:9 Their stronghold will fall because of terror; at sight of the battle standard their commanders will panic," declares the LORD, whose fire is in Zion, whose furnace is in Jerusalem.
Isaiah 33:11 You conceive chaff, you give birth to straw; your breath is a fire that consumes you.
Eze 23:25 I will direct my jealous anger against you, and they will deal with you in fury….They will take away your sons and daughters, and those of you who are left will be consumed by fire.
Zechariah 10:3 "My anger burns against the shepherds, and I will punish the leaders.
Jer 4:13 From the least to the greatest, all are greedy for gain; prophets and priests alike, all practise deceit. They dress the wound of my people as though it were not serious. ‘Peace, peace’, they say, when there is not peace… So they will fall among the fallen; they will be brought down when I punish them.
Hos 7:7 All of them fall, but none of them call on me.
Amos 4:11 "I overthrew some of you as I overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. You were like a burning stick snatched from the fire, yet you have not returned to me," declares the LORD.
Jer 4:4 Circumcise yourselves to the LORD , circumcise your hearts…or my wrath will break out and burn like fire because of the evil you have done- burn with no one to quench it.
Joel 2:12 “Even now… return to me with all your heart, with fasting and weeping and mourning.
Eze 18:23 Do I take any pleasure in the death of the wicked?.. Rather, am I not pleased when they turn from their ways and live?
Is 27:5 Let them make peace with me, yes, Let them make peace with me.
Amos 5:4 “Seek me and live”
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***Trees and Fruit- The Forest
Amos 5:6 Seek the LORD and live, or he will sweep through the house like a fire; it will devour, and will have no one to quench it.
Joel 1:19 To you, O LORD, I call - for fire has devoured the open pastures and flames have burned up all the trees of the field.
Joel 1:20 Even the wild animals pant … the streams of water have dried up and fire has devoured the open pastures.
Psalm 80:16 Your vine is cut down, it is burned with fire; at your rebuke your people perish.
Jer 11:16 The LORD called you a thriving olive tree with fruit beautiful in form. But with the roar of a mighty storm he will set it on fire, and its branches will be broken.
Hebrews 6:8 Land that produces thorns and thistles is worthless and is in danger of being cursed. In the end it will be burned.
Mt 3:10 The ax is already at the root of the trees, and every tree that does not produce good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire.
Mt 3:12 His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will clear his threshing floor, gathering his wheat into the barn and burning up the chaff with unquenchable fire.
Is 10:18 The splendor of his forests and fertile fields it will completely destroy… and the remaining trees of his forest will be so few.
Psalm 118:12 … they died out as quickly as burning thorns; in the name of the LORD.
*** LORD SPEAKING ***
Eze 20:47 This is what the Sovereign LORD says: Say to the southern forest: 'Hear the word of the LORD. I am about to set fire to you, and it will consume all your trees, both green and dry. The blazing flame will not be quenched, and every face from south to north will be scorched by it.
Eze 15:6 As I have given the wood of the vine among the trees of the forest as fuel for the fire, so will I treat the people.
John 15:1 I am the true vine, and my Father is the gardener. He cuts off every branch… that bears no fruit, while every branch… that bears fruit he prunes so that it will be even more fruitful….
John 15:5 I am the vine and you are the branches. If a man remains in me and I in him, he will bear much fruit.
John 15:4 Remain in me, and I will remain in you. No branch can bear fruit by itself, it must remain in the vine. Neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in me.
John 15:6 If anyone does not remain in me, he is like a branch that is thrown away and withers; such branches are picked up, thrown into the fire and burned.
Mt 13:30 At that time I will tell the harvesters: First collect the weeds and tie them in bundles to be burned; then gather the wheat and bring it into my barn.'
Jer 22:7 I will send destroyers against you, each man with his weapons, and they will cut up your fine cedar beams and throw them into the fire.
Mt 13:40 "As the weeds are pulled up and burned in the fire…
Mt 7:19 Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.
Mt 7:17 Every good tree bears good fruit but a bad tree bears bad fruit.
Mk 11:20 May no one ever eat fruit from you again.
Eze 19:12 It was uprooted in fury and thrown to the ground. The east wind made it shrivel, it was stripped of its fruit; its strong branches withered and fire consumed them.
Eze 19:14 Fire spread from one of its main branches and consumed its fruit. No strong branch is left on it.'
Mt 7:16, 20A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, and a bad tree cannot bear good fruit… By their fruit you will recognize them…
Malachi 4:1 "Surely the day is coming; it will burn like a furnace. All the arrogant and every evildoer will be stubble, and that day that is coming will set them on fire," says the LORD Almighty. "Not a root or a branch will be left to them.
Jer 21:14 I will punish you as your deeds deserve, declares the LORD . I will kindle a fire in your forests that will consume everything around you.' "
Isaiah 66:24 "And they will go out and look upon the dead bodies of those who rebelled against me; their worm will not die, nor will their fire be quenched, and they will be loathsome to all mankind."
Eze 21:32 You will be fuel for the fire, your blood will be shed in your land, you will be remembered no more; for I the LORD have spoken.' "
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WICKED
Psalm 11:6 On the wicked he will rain fiery coals and burning sulfur; a scorching wind will be their lot.
Psalm 106:18 Fire blazed among their followers; a flame consumed the wicked.
Isaiah 9:18 Surely wickedness burns like a fire; it consumes briers and thorns, it sets the forest thickets ablaze, so that it rolls upward in a column of smoke.
Psalm 68:2 As smoke is blown away by the wind… blow them away; as wax melts before the fire, may the wicked perish before God.
Psalm 140:10 Let burning coals fall upon them; may they be thrown into the fire, into miry pits, never to rise.
Eze 24:11 Then set the empty pot on the coals till it becomes hot and its copper glows so its impurities may be melted and its deposit burned away.
Jer 6:29 The bellows blow fiercely to burn away the lead with fire
Job 15:34 For the company of the godless will be barren, and fire will consume the tents of those who love bribes.
Job 18:15 Fire resides in his tent; burning sulfur is scattered over his dwelling.
Job 20:26 Total darkness lies in wait for his treasures. A fire unfanned will consume him and devour what is left in his tent….
JUDGMENT
Hebrews 10:27 But only a fearful expectation of judgment and of raging fire that will consume the enemies of God.
Amos 7:4 The Sovereign LORD was calling for judgment by fire; it dried up the great deep and devoured the land.
Isaiah 66:16 For with fire and with his sword the LORD will execute judgment upon all men, and many will be those slain by the LORD.
Isaiah 4:4 The Lord will wash away the filth of the women of Zion; he will cleanse the bloodstains from Jerusalem by the Spirit of judgment and the Spirit of fire.
Jn 17:8 When He comes, he will convict the world of guilt in regard to sin and righteousness and judgment.
Daniel 11:33 "Those who are wise will instruct many, though for a time they will fall by the sword or be burned or captured or plundered.
QUESTIONS
Isaiah 33:14 The sinners in Zion are terrified; trembling grips the godless: "Who of us can dwell with the consuming fire? Who of us can dwell with everlasting burning?"
Deut29:24 All the nations will ask: "Why has the LORD done this to this land? Why this fierce, burning anger?"
Habakkuk 2:13 Has not the LORD Almighty determined that the people's labor is only fuel for the fire, that the nations exhaust themselves for nothing?
Proverbs 6:27 Can a man scoop fire into his lap without his clothes being burned?
Psalm 89:46 How long, O LORD ? Will you hide yourself forever? How long will your wrath burn like fire?
Psalm 79:5 How long, O LORD ? Will you be angry forever? How long will your jealousy burn like fire?
Nahum 1:6 Who can withstand his indignation? Who can endure his fierce anger? His wrath is poured out like fire; the rocks are shattered before him.
Rev 6:17 For the great day of their wrath has come, and who can stand?
Malachi 3:2 But who can endure the day of his coming? Who can stand when he appears?
*** LORD SPEAKING ***
Mal 3:5 This is what the Sovereign Lord says So I will come near to you for judgment. I will be quick to testify against sorcerers, adulterers and perjurers, against those who defraud laborers of their wages, who oppress the widows and the fatherless, and deprive aliens of justice, but do not fear me.
Hos 5:1 This is judgment against you
Eze 38:22 I will execute judgment upon him with plague and bloodshed; I will pour down torrents of rain, hailstones and burning sulfur on him and on his troops and on the many nations with him.
Eze 20:48 Everyone will see that I the LORD have kindled it; it will not be quenched.'"
Joel 2:30 I will show wonders in the heavens and on the earth, blood and fire and billows of smoke.
Eze 11:10 I will execute judgment on you… Then you will know that I am the Lord.
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2 Kings 23:26 Nevertheless, the LORD did not turn away from the heat of his fierce anger, which burned against Judah because of all that Manasseh we had done to provoke him to anger.
Isaiah 5:25 Therefore the LORD's anger burns against his people; his hand is raised and he strikes them down. The mountains shake, and the dead bodies are like refuse in the streets. Yet for all this, his anger is not turned away, his hand is still upraised.
5. Destruction
Revelation 8:5 Then the angel took the censer, filled it with fire from the altar, and hurled it on the earth; and there came peals of thunder, rumblings, flashes of lightning and an earthquake.
Revelation 8:7 The first angel sounded his trumpet, and there came hail and fire mixed with blood, and it was hurled down upon the earth. A third of the earth was burned up, a third of the trees were burned up, and all the green grass was burned up.
Revelation 16:8 The fourth angel poured out his bowl on the sun, and the sun was given power to scorch people with fire.
Revelation 9:17 The fifth angel sounded his trumpet… and out of the smoke locusts came down upon the earth and were given power like that of a scorpion of the earth… The horses and riders I saw in my vision looked like this: Their breastplates were fiery red, dark blue, and yellow as sulfur. The heads of the horses resembled the heads of lions, and out of their mouths came fire, smoke and sulfur.
Joel 2:4 They have the appearance of horses, they gallop like cavalry. With a noise like that of chariots they leap over the mountaintops, like a crackling fire consuming stubble, like a mighty army drawn up for battle.
Revelation 9:18 A third of mankind was killed by the three plagues of fire, smoke and sulfur that came out of their mouths.
Revelation 15:2 And I saw what looked like a sea of glass mixed with fire and, standing beside the sea.
Daniel 7:9 "As I looked, "thrones were set in place, and the Ancient of Days took his seat. His clothing was as white as snow; the hair of his head was white like wool. His throne was flaming with fire, and its wheels were all ablaze.
Revelation 1:14 His head and hair were white like wool, as white as snow, and his eyes were like blazing fire.
Daniel 7:10 A river of fire was flowing, coming out from before him. Thousands upon thousands attended him; ten thousand times ten thousand stood before him. The court was seated, and the books were opened.
Revelation 20:15 If anyone's name was not found written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire.
Revelation 20:14 The lake of fire is the second death.
Revelation 21:8 But the cowardly, the unbelieving, the vile, the murderers, the sexually immoral, those who practice magic arts, the idolaters and all liars–their place will be in the fiery lake of burning sulfur. This is the second death."
Mt 25:41 "Then he will say to those on his left, 'Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels.
Mark 9:48 where " 'their worm does not die, and the fire is not quenched.
Rev 14:7 Fear God and give Him glory, because the hour of his judgment has come.
6. HE COMES IN FIRE
Psalm 50:3 Our God comes and will not be silent; a fire devours before him, and around him a tempest rages.
Isaiah 29:6 the LORD Almighty will come with thunder and earthquake and great noise, with windstorm and tempest and flames of a devouring fire.
Isaiah 30:30 The LORD will cause men to hear his majestic voice and will make them see his arm coming down with raging anger and consuming fire, with cloudburst, thunderstorm and hail.
Isaiah 66:15 See, the LORD is coming with fire, and his chariots are like a whirlwind; he will bring down his anger with fury, and his rebuke with flames of fire.
Isaiah 30:27 See, the Name of the LORD comes from afar, with burning anger and dense clouds of smoke; his lips are full of wrath, and his tongue is a consuming fire.
Eze 1:4 I looked, and I saw a windstorm coming out of the north-an immense cloud with flashing lightning and surrounded by brilliant light. The center of the fire looked like glowing metal, and in the fire was what looked like four living creatures. In appearance their form was that of a man
Eze 1:22 Spread out above the heads of the living creatures was what looked like an expanse, sparkling like ice, and awesome.
Eze 1:26 Above the expanse was what looked like a throne of sapphire, and high above on the throne was a figure like that of a man from his waist up he looked like glowing metal, as if full of fire, and that from there down he looked like fire; and brilliant light surrounded him. Like the appearance of a rainbow in the clouds on a rainy day, so was the radiance around him. This was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the Lord.
Isaiah 64:2 As when fire sets twigs ablaze and causes water to boil, come down to make your name known to your enemies and cause the nations to quake before you!
Psalm 21:9 At the time of His appearing He will make them like a fiery furnace. In his wrath the LORD will swallow them up, and his fire will consume them.
Psalm 46:8 Come and see the works of the Lord, the desolations he has brought on the earth.
2 Thessalonians 1:7 This will happen when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven in blazing fire with his powerful angels.
2 Peter 3:10 But the day of the Lord will come like a thief. The heavens will disappear with a roar; the elements will be destroyed by fire, and the earth and everything in it will be laid bare and be burned up.
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Rev 16:15 Behold, I come like a thief! Blessed is he who stays awake and keeps his clothes with him, so that you may not go naked and he shamefully exposed.
Luke 12:49 "I have come to bring fire on the earth, and how I wish it were already kindled!
Jn 9:39 For judgment I have come into this world.
Jn 12:30 Now is the time for judgment on this world
Jn 5:30 I judge only as I hear, and my judgment is just.
Malachi 4:1 "Surely the day is coming; it will burn like a furnace. All the arrogant and every evildoer will be stubble, and that day that is coming will set them on fire," says the LORD Almighty. "Not a root or a branch will be left to them.
Zechariah 2:5 “And I myself will be a wall of fire around it,' declares the LORD , 'and I will be its glory within.'
Jn 12:23 The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified.
Jn 13:31 Now is the Son of Man glorified and God is glorified in him. If God is glorified in him, God will glorify the Son in himself, and will glorify him at once.
Rev 22:20 Yes, I am coming soon.
Rev 2:25 Hold on to what you have until I come.
AMEN HOLY SPIRIT
7. WE ARE THE FIRE OF OUR GOD
When the Perfect Storm of the Holy Spirit comes, it will come with thunder and earthquake and great noise, with windstorm and tempest and flames of a devouring fire, (Is 29:6) and at the same time, Rain will come in torrents… hailstones hurtling down and violent winds will burst forth (Eze 13:11). But neither the rain nor the winds, nor the hailstones will put out the devouring fire, because it will be an inextinguishable eternal fire of God. As fire is a part of God’s creation, so too are we part of His creation, for we are the fire of God that burns for Him below the heavens and on the earth. We are the fire than burns for Him and in Him, by Him and through Him. He makes winds his messengers, flames of fire his servants. (Psalm 104:4) We are the servants which bear the fire of our God in our hearts and keep His flame burning until all He has set out to do is achieved and His grief is released and His wrath is spent, and peace for God is finally here.
"The lamp of the wicked is snuffed out; the flame of his fire stops burning.” Job 18:5, but we are the fire that must be kept burning on the altar continuously; our fire must not go out. (Lev 6:13) We are the ones who listen to Jesus and obey Him when He says, "Be dressed ready for service and keep your lamps burning” (Luke 12:35), we must keep our lamps burning continuously before the Lord from evening till morning and till evening again (Lev 28:20). We will not let our flames of love for Jesus grow cold, but will stand firm with our lamps ablaze to the end. If we do not stand firm with fires ablaze, we do not stand at all. And if we allow our flames of burning desire for Jesus and the glory that He can bring to the Father to cool or flicker or go out in the coming storm, then because our flames our lukewarm- neither cold nor hot, or non-existent, He will spit out of His mouth. If we are spat out of the Lord’s mouth, we are no longer good for anything, except to be thrown out and trampled by men, we will be cut down and thrown into the fire, burning us up with an unquenchable fire of eternal contempt since we failed to keep our flames burning for Him in the first place.
Jesus came and sanctified us by the truth, God’s word is truth. We are already clean because of the word He has spoken to us, and the obeying and practising of His word allows us to remain in Him and His word remains in us. It is a process of purification and refining, as when the Lord says in Zech 13:9 “This third I will bring into the fire; I will refine them like silver and test them like gold. They will call on my name and I will answer them; I will say, 'They are my people,' and they will say, 'The LORD is our God.”
Because anything else that can withstand fire must be put through the fire, and then it will be clean. It must also be purified with the water of cleansing. And whatever cannot withstand fire must be put through that water. (Num 31:23) Everyone will be salted with fire. (Mark 9:49) Salt is good, but if it loses its saltiness, how can it be made salty again? It is fit neither for the soil nor for the manure pile; it is thrown out. (Lk 14:34)
I tell you the truth, no one can enter the kingdom of God unless he is born of water and the Spirit. Flesh gives birth to flesh, and the Spirit gives birth to spirit. (Jn 3:5). We have already been baptized with water for repentance, and with the Holy Spirit and with fire. He let us ride over our heads; we went through fire and water, and He brought us to a place of abundance. (Psalm 66:12)
The Lord’s Word is the fire that has been aroused and awakened in our hearts. The seed for our burning desire to come close to God through His Word has been planted, and our flames of love for Him have been ignited, but the heat and the temperature of our fire is up to us. It is still our freewill to have our fire red hot, icy cool or mildly lukewarm. But when we set ourselves outside to allow the Lord’s word to fully dwell in us in all of its intended heat and fiery passion, and with His word brings His love, His glorification, His peace, the power of His Holy Spirit and the fulfilment of His dreams and hopes, then we are like the 3 men in Daniel (Shadrach, Meschach and Abednego) who was thrown into the blazing furnace- fire had not harmed their bodies, nor was a hair of their heads singed; their robes were not scorched, and there was no smell of fire on them. (Daniel 3:25_ King Nebuchadezzar said, "Look! I see four men walking around in the fire, unbound and unharmed, and the fourth looks like a son of the gods.” Likewise, we who are fire cannot be harmed by fire, and the Lord Himself will walk amongst His fire in us and fellowship with us in the heat of our desire for our closeness with Him in all the elements of this Creation. The Lord says to us: “When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and when you pass through the rivers, they will not sweep over you. When you walk through the fire, you will not be burned; the flames will not set you ablaze.” (Isaiah 43:2)
In Jer 23:29 The LORD declares, "Is not my word like fire, and like a hammer that breaks a rock in pieces?” His Word is a fire sent from on high, sent down into our bones. (Lam 1:13) Were not our hearts burning within us while he talked with us and opened the Scriptures to us? (Luke 24:32) But if we say, "I will not mention him or speak any more in his name," his word is in our heart like a fire, a fire shut up in our bones. We are weary of holding it in; indeed, we cannot. (Jer 20:9) The Word of God has to be released by us for Him once its fullness is formed in us, so that it will accomplish all He desires. Whatever we bind on earth will be bound in heaven; whatever we loose on earth will be loosed in heaven. What we bind in heaven is the Word of God to our hearts, and what we loose on earth is His Word from His heart.
It is not something we should take for granted or treat with lukewarm respect. We must fan into flame the gift of God, which is in us (2 Timothy 1:6). We do not put out the Spirit’s fire in us (1 Thess 5:19). If the Spirit’s fire in us goes out, we have become lamps that have gone out before the Lord as we failed to tend to the lamps continually. When we put out the Spirit’s fire in us, the word of God in us will cease to be a burning and devouring flame which is useful for the Lord as all Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness (2 Tim 3:16), and we ourselves can no longer be used effectively by the Lord to correct, rebuke and encourage ourselves and others. (2 Tim 4:6).
The Word of God came through our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. It was sown in our hearts and we received and retained it in our hearts through perseverance. If we treasure the Word of God as a fire our hearts - for we have this treasure in clay jars to show that this all surpassing power is from God, and not from us- and if we completely and totally immerse our hearts into Him and His Word, then out of the overflow of our hearts, we will speak the fire which is the Word of God, for out of the overflow of the heart, the mouth speaks. Since we are One with the Father, Son and Holy Spirit, then we can be used by the Lord to bring out all the things stored up in Him.
This is what the LORD God Almighty says: "Because the people have spoken these words, I will make my words in your mouth a fire and these people the wood it consumes.” (Jer 5:14) Our hearts will grow hot within us, and as we meditated, the fire burned; then we spoke with our tongue (Psalm 39:3), and what we speak is the words of fire that is our God- Words that pierces the heart and cause the weeping and gnashing of teeth. Just like the 2 Witnesses in Revelation 11:5 - If anyone tries to harm them, fire comes from their mouths and devours their enemies- the word of God is a fire that burns from within for His justice and victory. The fire is the Word that from His heart into our hearts, and then from His mouth to our mouths -as One heart and One mouth- to release and accomplish all that His wrath and anger have set out to achieve. We are the fire of our God. Just like when the Spirit of God came upon Saul in power, and he burned with anger, and he went forth and carried out the Lord’s purposes. (1 Sam 11:6) Make no mistake, it is always the Holy Spirit doing His work through us, and not the other way around.
When Mary Magdalene had seven demons driven out by the Lord, from then on her fire for the Lord was aroused and awakened, and from thereon, she did whatever is right to her because of the fire in her heart for Jesus and Jesus alone. When she sat listening at the Lord’s feet, when she poured perfume and ran it through His hair, when she stood afar watching His crucified body, when she ran to the tomb when the earthquake rumbled, and when she held on to dear life of His resurrected body, she was burning for Jesus with a fire of Godly intensity, holy and beautiful unto the Lord. She was the first in her generation to have her flames for Jesus ignited at full strength. Mary was the bush that was on fire which Moses saw, the bush that was set on fire but did not burn up. Mary Magdalene’s flame was burning alight and displayed for all the people to see, a strange sight which the people did not understand because they did not look past and into the fire to see the fire of God burning within her, and so they missed it and their hearts remained cold towards Jesus. Previously, the Father had to send an angel to appear in the flames of fire from within a bush (Exo 3:2), but now, the Father sends us as flames of fire for Jesus and to accomplish the things of God for His Son’s return. Mary was the first to have her fire of God fully ignited by God for Jesus, but she must not be the last, nor the only one in her generation.
To end: The Song of Solomon 8:6 sings: Place me like a seal over your heart, like a seal on your arm; for love is as strong as death, its jealousy unyielding as the grave. It burns like blazing fire, like a mighty flame, like the very flame of the LORD…. Do not arouse or awaken love until it so desires.
The question to you today is: Has the Lord awakened and aroused your fire for Him?
AMEN HOLY SPIRIT
