The Psalmist tells us again that:
"Our God shall come, a fire shall devour before Him. A fire goeth before Him and burneth up His enemies."
The prophet Jeremiah proclaims:
"Wherefore, thus saith the Lord God of hosts, Behold, I will make my words in thy mouth fire."
The Psalmist answers:
"While I was musing the fire burned."
Thus, how plain the revelations that God's Spirit is fire. Not necessarily manifested at all times, by the burning and consuming our mortal bodies—this only in His wrath—but by the purifying of our natures; "burning up the dross, and base desires," and thus fitting us for the enjoyment of heaven and happiness, for
"He shall be as a refiner's fire, and the righteous are saved as by fire."
Let us hear what the prophet Jeremiah saith:
"For behold the Lord will come with fire; and with His chariots like a whirlwind, to render his anger with fury, and His rebukes with flames of fire, and the slain of the Lord shall be many."