Glory-Fire

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The LORD considered it was fitting For the element of Fire to be a symbol in the Scriptures as a visible depiction... ...Of His Glorious Essence and Holiest Presence Which is manifesting the Fullness of all His Perfections So a sermon is constructed through burning combustion Of Furious Judgement on those who deserve His destruction (For instance) when Man disobeyed the LORD a FLAMING SWORD Blocked the way that's towards His Holy Place and Courtsthey Can't enjoy his Face no more! Now only He who can endure the "burnings" (Isa. 33:14) Can bring us back into His Courts to serve Him Yet not just punishment but God's Redemption Is represented by Fire in Covenant Condescension: Genesis 15, be attentive to this scene As Abram's wrestling with doubt about the blessing of his seed Yahweh prophecies the Exodus- foreseen And reassures Him of the Land's possession, yes and indeed! As Abram's resting in sleep, the Faithful LORD Descends as a Smoking Fire-Pot and FLAMING TORCH And passes through, the calf that's slashed in two (Hence) showing that "If I am not faithful toward My Covenant--may I undergo this punishment" It's fitting God appears as Fire four hundred and some years later To keep this promise to redeem from bondage as Israel's Dear Savior Now what was Adonai's main desire? For appearing to Moses on Sinai in this Flaming Fire? Why, it's to show COVENANT CONDESCENSION That just as on the bush, The Consuming Fire was not dependent And didn't need it to keep lit So (in the same way) God didn't them to redeem them from Egypt But just as He was in the bush, so He is with us For deliverance from Pharaoh's grip and clutch by His Omnipotence But I skipped a story which is gory: Sodom & Gomorrah, the LORD said that "their sins abhor Me" From piety they were void So the LORD rained down fire from the LORD They were entirely destroyed God's eyes were disgusted because in pride they were lusting From exchanging Truth for lies, in idols they trusted (Rom. 1) ALAS! He who is a Consuming Fire made them a pattern of the Final Fiery Judgment (2 Peter 2, Jude) "All Consuming Fire" "The I AM tells His Famous Name, from the burning bush-the Self-Sustaining Flame" Question: Who can dwell with The Consuming Fire? Who can dwell with the Everlasting Burnings? Answer: the One who walks righteously And speaks uprightly. Isaiah 33! (v. 14) Who can dwell with The Consuming Fire? Who can dwell with the Everlasting Burnings? Only The One who walks righteously And speaks uprightly. (Isa. 33:14) Who can go back through the Holy Flaming Sword To bring us back to the Glory-Blazing LORD? We're now considering the connection Between Fire and Sacrifice, first at Isaac's "figurative resurrection" (Heb. 11) Seen like an awful thing For God to tell Abraham to make his offspring into a whole-burnt offering But as he goes to sacrifice Isaac's life on Moriah What's in his hand? The KNIFE and the FIRE! Isaac asks his dad the question I see you have a weapon, but where's the lamb that we're presenting? Abraham replies God will graciously provide a lamb for a burnt offering In flames yes it will die A ram was slain by the knife, Isaac's taken back alive But Isaac being saved really portrayed him as a type... Of the nation of Israel's salvation on the night, of Passover The final plague is now in sight Yahweh's passing through Egypt, His Wrath is now heated Israel's saved by the blood, He'll pass if He sees it He provided them lambs, He's Jehovah Provider He said "slaughter the lamb then roast it with FIRE" (Ex. 12:8) That's the pattern and prescription of the sacrificial system But at the Red Sea in Fire, He actually is with them To perform the Exodus The Pillar of Cloud and Fire is what the LORD's Glory-Presence is! He's in the Pillar of Fire--He dwelt in it Behold the redemptive-historical development Because as the Fire and Pot passed through the Covenant Curses The Pillar of Fire passed through the "flood" that was bursting Mt. Sinai again, now at the giving of the Law Cloud-Fire descends, they were trembling in awe Dudes were scared stiff, who wouldn't fear this? To look at the LORD--any who breaks through will perish! But Moses actually entered the Fire-Glory By the righteousness of Another, His attire is Holy Who can sojourn into the Consuming Fire? Only one who foreshadows True Messiah! He even spoke face to face with Him who's blazing flames A great display of Amazing Grace He's the Wilderness Rider- the Pillar of Fire and Cloud That's why the Tabernacle was filled with Shekinah Since Sinai was a temple, they're urged to look At the Menorah to remind them of the Burning Bush Read Leviticus 9 and then 10 As His Fire descends upon the sacrifice, God's abiding with them See that same Fire again: On Nadab and Abihu in great wrath to remind you Don't trifle with Him, Who's despising our sin Because either in sacrifice or judgment His Name will be Sanctified in the End Leviticus 10:2 It's the same phrase as 9:24, let the literal Hebrew be read through "Then Fire came forth from the Face of Yahweh" End quote. And this was for forsaking God's way That word for "consumed them" the Spirit used and inspired Is °1kal (אָכלַ) Used for God as consuming fire Because to go into the Most Holy Place and face the LORD You pass through the Cherubim on the veil—the Flaming Sword! "All Consuming Fire" "The I AM tells His Famous Name, from the burning bush-the Self-Sustaining Flame" Question: Who can dwell with The Consuming Fire? Who can dwell with the Everlasting Burnings? Answer: the One who walks righteously And speaks uprightly. Isaiah 33! (v. 14) Who can dwell with The Consuming Fire? Who can dwell with the Everlasting Burnings? Only The One who walks righteously And speaks uprightly. (Isa. 33:14) Deuteronomy, you don't wanna be—a pagan nation in Canaan Because they'll be truly slaughtered, see Yahweh is as a fire devours, going before Israel for them to triumph in power (Deut. 9:1-3) Move to Joshua and Judges, where the fire theme is awesome in abundance And often it confronts us Many cities where pagans lived and stayed, for their sickening ways Their cities were lit ablaze (Josh. 6:24; Judges 1:8) They were evil and unpardoned, after heathens who were slaughtered— Fire judgment—they were treated just like Sodom But at Jericho after they struck and they crushed them What happened to Achan, one of the sons of the covenant? He coveted, lusted some of the stuff that He should offered up to the Lord unto destruction (ח רֵֶם) And what was the punishment? After being stoned, he and his family were burned with fire—covenant judgment! Judges 4 Deborah, "wife of Lapidoth" (אֵ֖שֶׁת לַפִּיד֑וֹת) What's this mean in the Hebrew, which God, He wrote Lapid (לפִַּיד) is the word for torch Which He appeared to Abram as (Gen. 15:17) Which this word the LORD imports Because as He descended in hot flames Deborah is a "woman of torches" Thus a woman of Yahweh Be in awe considering the call of Gideon Yahweh appeared to him to conquer Midian God consumed his offering, the sign of the LORD (Judges 6:21) His army triumphed with sword, and a fiery torch (Judges 7:16-25) Revealed in fire to Gideon and Manoah Then ascended in flames, it's the symbol of Jehovah! (Judges 13:20) But Satan comes against David, tempting him To worship self and impress his flesh, within To give a census of his people—a wretched sin So God brings about His judgment of pestilence The Angel of the LORD in His anger that is towards David 70, 000 He's slaying with the sword So David repents, "surely God I have sinned" Then God's fire consumes his burnt offering To show that God's fiery Wrath is appeased The Angel of the LORD put his sword back into his sheath David's sacrifice was devoured by Fire But where did this occur? On the Mount of Moriah! That's the place of the Temple! we see the dedication By Solomon we're all the people on their face when Sacrifices consumed a recapitulation Like at the Tabernacle a repeated situation They see that He's a blazing and they reverenced Him as Holy The Fire was equated as the Presence of his Glory! Because He is the Living God and he proved this to Elijah Unlike Baal, the offering—He consumed it with His Fire But notice that the Fire is called the Fire of Yahweh Because God is symbolized by the very hot flames 2nd Kings 1 Ahab the wretched king is done But Israel is still set in sin's scum They turned to Baal Twice Elijah called down fire to consume them, the word is 1kal (אָכלַ) Plus none would bury this Elijah Why? Because he ascended to the Father in chariots of fire! "All Consuming Fire" "The I AM tells His Famous Name, from the burning bush-the Self-Sustaining Flame" Who can go back through the holy flaming sword? To bring us back to the Glory Blazing Lord It's Only He Who can endure the burning Who can bring us back into His courts to serve Him Israel is exiled because they are lawless The fatherless were oppressed with idols they're obsessed And just as Yahweh as a fire consumed their enemies--it's a reversal of the Canaanite Conquest Chapter 21:10 in the Prophet Jeremiah Jerusalem destroyed and they conquered it with fire By the king of Babylon But actually for Judah's idolatry this was the very wrath of God The temple was defiled and they burned it Then King Nebuchadnezzar threw 3 exiles in the furnace (Dan. 3) Although the furnace was ablaze Another Person in that place Preserved them by His mercy and His grace (Dan. 3:24-29) Hence Isaiah 43, "When you walk through fire You won't be consumed nor burned up by the flames" (Isa. 43:2) Although they returned to the gates in the land of Palestine Their calloused minds and hearts still have the foulest slime Malachi 3:1-3 it reminds ya To be refined His people still need a Refiner Because since we earned the Wrath of the Lord and Sire We still need one who can endure His fire Who can also be a purifier Who can also purify us from our impure desire Plus on the wicked still pour a fire of the purest fire Hence the Greek word pur (πῦρ) is fire Still in the wilderness, but hear him who is a crier John the Baptist dressed in appearance of Elijah Saying, "Behold! Look—here is the Messiah! He'll baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with Fire!" (Luke 3:16) Fire—He often preached constantly To bad fruit producing rotten trees in apostasy. (Luke 3:7-9) They're hacked down as well My last 4 verses are a Biblical-theological background of hell Which Jesus mentioned more than any men who were prior The chaff He'll consume with unquenchable fire Whether baptized or Jew, fire could be baptizing you Consider Matthew 5:22— This should strike ya An epexegetical genitive, literally it's "the hell which is fire" (τὴν γέενναν τοῦ πυρός) Yet who can fully endure the burnings Concerning the curses that you're works are deserving? (Isa. 33:14) Only the Divine Servant who's perfect (Isa. 33:15) When He died on the cross hence He tore the curtain Because infinite fire fell on Him who's Messiah But it was much worse than visible, physical fire! When He died the veil was torn, (Mark 15:38) To show that this Priest passed through the cherubim's flaming sword He is the Passover Lamb who was roasted with fire (1 Cor. 5:7; Ex. 12:8) When consumed by the Omnipotent Shekinah But His atonement was final, because surely God the King Became the greater Isaac-Lamb whole burnt offering! This is why we needed a Savior who's Divine Who can pass through the flames and be raised up alive! In the Scrolls you have got to see The fulfillment of the Joel 2 prophecy, (Joel 2:28-32; 3:1-3:5 MT) Behold a true Theophany Because just as He appeared as fire to Abram Then to Moses to disclose His desire to save them— The beginning of the end time fire has come At Pentecost the Spirit was as fiery tongues! (Acts 2:1-3) Because with the Spirit-Fire that the Lord sends It's not the end of the world, but the way the world ends Baptized by Jesus with the Spirit of the Christ To purify us Jew-Gentile-Levites (Isa. 66:18-21; Mal. 3:3-4) Because our desires are foul, entirely vile So He's purging His church with these "fiery" trials (πύρωσις, 1 Peter 4:12; Prov. 27:21, LXX) Now as I behold our God and King My whole soul and body brings through Jesus a holy offering (Rom. 12:1; 1 Pt. 2:5; Heb. 12:28) To reverence His Name 2nd Thessalonians the Lord will be revealed from heaven with a flame. (2 Thess. 1:7-8) Then every faithless liar (Rev. 21:8) And Satan's entire Fallen Angel choir (Matt. 25:41) Is placed in the Lake of Fire. (Rev. 20:8) Although we won't be consumed through Messiah in our Union Forever God will still be a fire that's consuming! (Heb. 12:28-29)