PURIFICATION !!!

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SHINY707

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DANIEL 12:
[SUP]10 [/SUP]Many shall be purified, and made white, and tried; but the wicked shall do wickedly: and none of the wicked shall understand; but the wise shall understand.


NUMBERS 31:20
[SUP]20 [/SUP]And purify all your raiment, and all that is made of skins, and all work of goats' hair, and all things made of wood.
[SUP]21 [/SUP]And Eleazar the priest said unto the men of war which went to the battle, This is the ordinance of the law which the Lord commanded Moses;
[SUP]22 [/SUP]Only the gold, and the silver, the brass, the iron, the tin, and the lead,
[SUP]23 [/SUP]Every thing that may abide the fire, ye shall make it go through the fire, and it shall be clean: nevertheless it shall be purified with the water of separation: and all that abideth not the fire ye shall make go through the water.

BAPTISM.

John answered them all, "I baptize you with water. But one more powerful than I will come, the thongs of whose sandals I am not worthy to untie. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with fire.

I have learnt of water baptism and Holy spirit baptism but very less have I learned about fire baptism.

In the book of Numbers we learn how fire is for purification.


1 Peter 1:7
7. so that the tested genuineness of you faith - more precious than gold though it is tested by fire - may be found to result in praise and glory and honour at the revelation of Jesus Christ.

Do you think God grants the fire baptism to those whose faith have been tested? Please share any information you may have about baptism of fire.

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paulr

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7. so that the tested genuineness of you faith - more precious than gold though it is tested by fire - may be found to result in praise and glory and honour at the revelation of Jesus Christ.

Do you think God grants the fire baptism to those whose faith have been tested? Please share any information you may have about baptism of fire.

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Correct, you have the right idea of being baptized by fire. We are supposed to be not fake, but original. Which means a fire testing will separate a gold from fake. We all run the race, but not everyone wins as Paul said. The baptism of fire comes in everyone's life. These trials are for for the transformation of a mere believer to honoured believer on Christ's revelation. Imagine how it feels on completion of a journey that all started, but not everyone makes it. Because we persevered through the life in faith. Like all Children s of God in their trials. Examples - Jesus(Lord himself setting the example),Abraham, Moses, Joseph, Daniel, disciples and Paul, the names quickly come to my mind..:)
 
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only the test of fire makes a fine steel ! thats wt came on my mind now :) soo the test of fire makes stronger n stronger!
 
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SHINY707

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Several years ago, a group of women studying the Biblical book of Malachi were struck by the verse, “[God] will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver, and He will purify [the Jewish People]” [Malachi 3:3]. Curious as to how the process of smelting silver applies to God’s treatment of the Jewish People, one woman went to observe a silversmith at work.

As the silversmith held a piece of silver over the fire, he explained that he needed to hold the silver where the flame was hottest in order to burn away all the impurities. The woman, remembering the Biblical verse, asked if he had to sit there the whole time the silver was being refined. The silversmith responded that not only did he have to sit and hold the silver the entire time, but he had to keep a careful eye on it, because if the silver was left in the flame a moment too long, it would be destroyed.


“How do you know when the silver is fully refined?” the woman asked.

“That’s easy," he replied. "When I see my image in it.”

God held the Jewish People in the hottest part of the fire of suffering in order to completely purify them, but He was with them throughout the process and never takes His eyes off them nor allows them to be destroyed. And the purification will be complete only when God can see His image in us.

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[TD]ISAIAH 48:10 Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction.

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[TD]ISAIAH 4:4 When the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion, and shall have purged the blood of Jerusalem from the midst thereof by the spirit of judgment, and by the spirit of burning.
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