FIRE

Definition:

Similar or the same as Light/Lamp/Brightness. Something that makes things visible, manifest, exposed (also used in reference to testing, in the sense of proving/revealing the quality of something)

Scripture:

• Fire used as revealing and proving/testing Paul’s “converts” in the last day.

1 Corinthians 3:13 (ASV) each man’s work [the people we preach to] shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it is revealed in fire; and the fire itself shall prove each man’s work of what sort it is.

• Fire used as proving/testing a person’s faith.

1 Peter 1:7 (ASV) that the proof of your faith, being more precious than gold that perisheth though it is proved by fire…

• Burning is used synonymously with brightness and a lamp, in reference to the full manifestation of a believer.

Isaiah 62:1 (NKJV) For Zion’s sake I will not hold My peace, And for Jerusalem’s sake I will not rest, Until her righteousness goes forth as brightness, And her salvation as a lamp that burns.

• Hebrews 12:29 says that God is a consuming fire, but not because fire means consuming. The context is corruptible things being shaken and only incorruptible things remaining. Fire is being used as a “prover,” as something that will prove (manifest) the quality of all things, whether they are corruptible or incorruptible, by consuming the corruptible and only leaving the incorruptible to remain. 

Hebrews 12:27-29 (NKJV) Now this, “YET ONCE MORE,” indicates the removal of those things that are being shaken, as of things that are made, that the things which cannot be shaken may remain. 28 Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom which cannot be shaken, let us have grace, by which we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear. 29 For our God is a consuming fire.