Some 30 years ago the Lord began to reveal the message of the Fire Baptism. It was during a time I was asking the Lord to help me through all the confusion of the doctrines I had heard. One would say this and another would say something else. I had to know the truth for myself. Little by little he began to reveal himself and his plan for all mankind to me. When I would study on what I had seen, it seemed as though the scriptures would jump off the pages at me. It would excite me to no end. I couldn?t wait till I went to church to preach this great word from God. I received much criticism from not the people, but the ministries that I had preached with for years. But even in that the Lord opened up the Spirit and let me to see what was going on. A few times I would do my best to try to prove the things that I was seeing wrong, but the more I tried to prove it wrong the more God poured into my spirit. Many would say that when you preached the truth that you would not have but two or three people. The church I pastored was booming and there was 175 people each Saturday night, and the anointing was very strong. And here we are after all these years and the truth is still marching on. At one time you had to travel 1,000 miles to preach the message to two or three. Now, it seems there is a church on every corner. But still, the truth is going forth and the carnal systems are crying enough. Friends, as long as there is only two or three in a place of worship the church crowd will not say much. But when we can all get together and there are hundreds of us gathered in one place, it causes the beast nature to tremble for fear their little man made kingdoms are coming down. AND THEY ARE!
To begin with in this article, let me remind you that God has always worked with and in the fire. As a matter of fact Hebrews 12:29 says that our God is a consuming fire. We must keep that thought in mind as we travel through the various scriptures. In Genesis 3:24 we find out that God has driven Adam, Eve, and the serpent out side of the garden of Eden, and he placed a flaming sword before the garden of Eden to keep the way of the tree of life. This flaming sword would cut the flesh all to pieces if they tried to re-enter into the garden of Eden. Man would not be able to partake of the tree of life unless their flesh was cut away. It would be a new creature that was to partake of the tree of life.
Even before that we see where God caused a deep sleep to come upon Adam and he made a woman from the rib (?) of Adam. The church was taken or came forth from Adam, who was a Son of God. His side was closed up. The church would not be able to enter back into the Son of God, Adam, who was God?s Word.( Genesis 2:21-22). At Calvary, Jesus had his side opened and it was not closed up. Why? In order for the church to re-enter back into the Word of God. This flaming sword was to cut away at the flesh if they attempted to partake of the tree of life. This was the Word of God anointed with the Fire, which was God. They were left with the tree of knowledge to know both good and evil.
Genesis 19:24 God allowed fire to come down from heaven and destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah. Sodom was an enemy to the children of God and He used a fire to destroy them. He destroyed the wicked, yet he saved Lot and his family.
Exodus 3:2 tells us that Moses was on the backside of the desert when he saw a bush that was on fire and it was not consumed. You know what? God has a way to get your attention. He will always put you in a position to make you set up and take notice. This bush was enough to get the attention of the vessel God was going to use. There was a voice that spoke to him out of the bush, but all he could see was the bush. This flame of fire was the Lord. He was working in the fire. All through the Bible you will see where God will manifest Himself by the Fire. Many times during the ministry of Moses we will see God working by the fire. God the Fire spoke to Moses out of a bush. Of all that Moses had to face as God was preparing him for the work ahead, the fire was the final process in his calling. It was at this place, out of the fire and in the bush that God gave Moses the mission of bringing the children of Israel out of bondage. It was here that God told Moses that he was to tell all that the I AM THAT I AM had sent him. Whenever Moses was asked that was his answer. I would like to suggest here that the I Am was Moses. He did not say that the I AM was in him or with him, he only spoke and said, "I AM THAT I AM".
In Exodus 9:24, we see that when the great plague of hail fell upon Egypt, it was mingled with fire. This tells me that God was in the plagues that fell upon Egypt. He did not just send them, He was in them. Since God was a consuming Fire(Hebrews 12:29), He was in this hail mingled with Fire. His judgements were upon the people. In Exodus 12:8,God sent manna from heaven for the children of Israel.They were not to eat it raw, but were to roast it over the Fire. God was the Fire so therefore he purified all that they were to eat. Then they were to burn all that they did not eat.God was not about to give that which was holy to the dogs to eat, or as it says in the New Testament, not to cast your pearls before the swine." ( Matthew 7:6)
Another point here is that when they ate, it was to be in the darkness. ( Read Let There Be Light). The darkness plays a very important part in the plan and the purpose of God.
Exodus 13:21-22, "And the Lord went before them by day in a pillar of a cloud to lead them the way;and by night in a pillar of fire, to give them light; to go by day and night. He took not away the pillar of the cloud by day, nor the pillar of the fire by night; from before the people". When Pharoah obeyed God and let the children of Israel go, God was there to lead the way. I have heard some say that the children of Israel must have been a bumb bunch because it took them forty years to cross the wilderness, from the land of Egypt to the land of Cannan. If they had obeyed Him in all things that He required, it would have taken less time. Because of their idols, God had to prepare a people to enter into the promised land. You and I are no different! As soon as we allow God to get all the hell out of us, we too will enter into the place he went to prepare for us. And I am not talking about mansions nor streets of gold either.As a matter of fact preachers today are teaching their people that they are going to fly away to heaven and they will inherit a mansion in heaven. Since we are the house of God, the mansions are in us, and we can abide in them now.There is the mansion of love,peace,joy,etc. These mansions are the place the son of man will lay his head, and when we abide in love, joy, and peace we will be living where he is. And he said in Saint John that where he is we would be also.
The cloud and the fire are very important to us in the truth today. The clouds in the day was to let them see where they were. They could see everything that went on around them. But with the fire it was a little different. The fire burned in the darkness which was a time that they could not see what was going on around them. This is one time each day that they had to trust God for everything. In Noah's day, the bow was in the clouds. ( Genesis 9:16) This bow was God's Word that had been placed in them for a sign. When God saw the bow, or his sign,his Word in the clouds he would pass over them and spare them from his judgements. The judgements would fall on man, but God would not destroy all flesh again as he had just done. In this particular place in the scriptures God did not say destroy all flesh by the flood again. Instead he said he would not again smite every living thing as he had done before. (Genesis 8:21) The fire was at it's best "in the darkness". The cloud and the fire never left them. This reminds me of the Apostle Paul when he wrote and
taught in Hebrews 13:5 that He said "I'll never leave nor forsake you".
The Fire blazed all through the hours of darkness. That is just like God. The Fire gave them heat from the coldness of the night.It kept the beast of the fields away. It gave them light in the midst of their darkest hours. You see it was in the wilderness that they learned to trust God.The same holds true even today. We don't hear a lot about the Fire that is to follow the Holy Ghost. Most folks stop there. Between the words Holy Ghost and Fire is a little word,"and."This little word is a conjunction which means that there is something to follow. So when the Bible says Holy Ghost and the little word "and' is placed there, it means that there is something is to follow, and in this case it is "Fire". So to all who says they have received the Holy Ghost, I say that there is another baptism to follow, which is the Fire baptism. This Fire Baptism will keep the beast nature away from you. It will give you warmth when that cold hearted church crowd comes at you like a flood. It will in these last days, the day of the Lord, give you light in the midst of all that spiritual darkness that tries to smother the life of God out of you. The Baptism of Fire will cause your enemies to tremble, for they are afraid they will lose what they have built themselves.The Fire Baptism will shake the very foundation of the carnal church realm. In Exodus 19:18 we see where God descended upon the mount in a fire that shook the whole mountain.
In Exodus 22:6 the Lord was speaking about the one that kindled the fire.
If when the fire was kindled, it broke out and destroyed anything, the one who started the fire was to make restitution. And thus it was with Christ! Saint Luke 12:50,"But I have a baptism to be baptized with; and how I am straightened till it be accomplished!" There was another baptism that was to come besides the Holy Ghost and Jesus was straightened until it came. He was going away in order to return as the Holy Ghost and then later he would send the baptism of Fire. At Calvary, he came and made that restitution by the sacrifice of himself. He redeemed it all and returned it back unto the will of the Father. When he finished the work he came to do, he returned to receive the glory that he had with the Father before the world was. Restitution was accomplished!!! Yet man was so far in a carnal state that he didn't know how to get back to the Father. As far as God was concerned man was not lost anywhere except in his mind. God knew where he was all the time. ( 2 Timothy 2:19) All God ever wanted in the first place was for man to come forth in his image and in his likeness in love.Everything man needed, God supplied. God wanted man to take his rightful place in him, not because they were afraid, but because they loved him. Love is the key to the whole thing. God is and always will be pure and simple love.
Nunbers 31:23 the Word of the Lord says," everything that may abide the fire, ye shall make it go through the fire, and it shall be clean; nevertheless,it shall be purified by the water of separation; and all that abideth not the fire shall make pass through the water". This is speaking of two baptisms. After Jesus came we learned that the water was referring to the Spirit. There is a baptism that will bring us to the stage of purification. This is the Holy Ghost. When most folks receive the Holy Ghost they feel they have it all. But this is not so. The Holy Ghost is the vehicle that brings you to perfection, or as you may say it, all truth. Saint John 16:13, "Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth is come,he will guide you into all truth:for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak; and he will shew you things to come."God was to begin the great move of his plan in the last day so as to have some Christ's that would be just like him. Deut. 4:24," For the Lord thy God is a consuming fire, even a jealous God." Leviticus 1:7 tells us of where fire was placed upon the alter of the Lord. Then wood was placed upon the fire. Wood is a type of humanity. The sacrifice then was placed upon the wood. This shows me that the sacrifice was a type of blood and we were to be covered by the blood. But then he was to be purifyed by the fire. I would like to say something here.The purifying of man is to be the mind, not all else. It was the fire that finished the work here.
Deuteronomy 4:11," and ye came and stood under the mountain; and the mountain burned with fire unto heaven, with darkness, with clouds, and thick darkness. Compare this to Joel, chapter two, verses one through three. These two events are so similiar in details. The day of the Lord is as thick darkness. This day is here now, today, not somewhere off in the future somewhere, or even in our past.
Now is the day of the Lord and He has a lot of suprises for a lot of preachers in this, the last day. Not the last day of the planet of earth, but the last day of carnal man running the show. Joshua 7:15,"and it shall be, that he that is taken with the accursed thing shall be burnt with fire, he and all that he hath; because he hath trangressed the covenant of the Lord, and because he hath wrought folly in Israel."
This accursed thing is that which gives the glory of God to another. Another statement will I make here and it will mean much more when we get into the New Testament. It is not that which goeth into a man that defiles him, rather it is that which is in him that cometh out.( Matthew 15:11) This Fire is not a natural fire as some would suppose, but it is a supernatural Fire. This Fire will burn out that which is within, while it brings salvation to that which is without.
I Kings 18:38,Then the fire of the Lord fell, and consumed the burnt sacrifice,and the wood and the stones, and the dust, and licked the water that was in the trench. Here again we can see that the fire was the one that did the final work. The sacrifice, the wood, the stones and dust all had their place, but it was the fire that did the work that was to last forever.
I Kings 19:12 and after the earthquake was a fire; but the Lord was not in the fire: and after the fire was a small still voice. This shows us that the day is coming upon the church in which that which used to work will not work anymore. When God gets through purifying our minds with the Fire Baptism, we will be able to hear and know the true voice of God. All that God speaks to his body in that day will be pure for there will be no more carnal mind to contend with. In 2 Kings 1:9-15 there is a type of what has happened to the church. There was three captains who were sent at different times to bring Elijah to the king. The first captain, which was a type of grace went to the prophet and told him to come down in the name of the king. Since the law was fulfilled, this only left us with three baptisms. Blood,Spirit and the Fire. Also the number 50 is the number of anointing. So here came a messenger from the king to the prophet and when the prophet prayed, the first anointing was destroyed. Next came the second captain with his fifty with the same type of anointing and the same thing happened to him. Finally, the third captian came.His anointing was different. The others were trying to please the king and to bring in the prophet to him. But this captain came and fell on his knees and ask the prophet to spare his life, and the lives of his men. This captain was humble and he asked for life instead of behaving as the others did. This shows me that the first two anointings were done away with by the Fire. To you that can understand, this was a type of the 2,000 year period from Pentecost until today. This will all be fulfilled and the Baptism of Fire will try all of the works of man and all that is not of him will be in the Fire Baptism. Only that which is in the last day will remain for they are mindful of life and they are humble and full of mercy. It was the Fire that worked in the first two anointings, but it was mercy that took center stage in the last day. The last part on Elijah here is when a chariot of fire appeared and there appeared horses of fire and Elijah was taken up into heaven. God is the fire, and this was not a natural fire, and God took Elijah back to where he was before the world was. Elijah did not die. The ministry ended, but the life continued on as it was before the foundations of the world. If you think Elijah died, then tell me who it was that appeared on the mount of transfiguration with Jesus?
Before I go on to other verses I would like to say that a lot of people thinks fire destroys. Fire don't destroy, it changes one substance into another substance. Paper is not paper when the fire is finished,rather it is another substance,ashes.It will burn, or change the paper into a substance that the fire cannot burn,ashes. Change is what it is all about. Paul said that he would show you a mystery, and that mystery was that we will not all sleep,but we would all be changed.(1 Corinthians 15:51) So God will change all, not just a handfull who thinks they have all the revelation. We cannot stop it! Isaiah 42:16," and I will bring the blind by a way they know not; I will lead them in paths that they have not known; I will make darkness light before them,and crooked things straight. These things will I do unto them and not forsake them." Isaiah 42:7," To open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisnors from the prisons;and them that sit in darkness out of the prison house". This does not just speak of one certain group of people, but unto all creation. If they are living in the outer court, the sanctuary, or even in the holy place, they will all be tried by Fire.
I hope you will not let me lose you here for I am going to go in another direction here for a word or two. I will then try to tie it all in for you. First, I want to say that there was the law. The law couldn't make the comers perfect, so the ministry was changed and so was the message. The law is a type of one day in the Lord. This is the outer court where the alter of sacrifice and the laver were located.This was a type of Calvary and water baptism. And we read where Jesus came and told us that the law was fulfilled. Matthew 5:17,"Think not that I am come to destroy the law,or the prophets: I am come to fulfill."Saint John 1:17, for the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ. Jesus was all that the law said he was for he fulfilled the entire law. He became the law expressed, or even the law in action. Hebrews 2:10, For it became him,for whom are all things, in bringing many sons unto glory,to make the captian of their salvation perfect through sufferings. Hebrews 5:9, and being made perfect,he became the author of salvation unto all them that obey him.Hebrews 7:19, For the law made nothing perfect, but the bringing in of a better hope did, by the which we draw nigh unto God. Hebrews 10:1, For the law having a shadow of good things to come,and not the very image of the things,can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect. Hebrews 11:40, God having something better for us,that they without us should not be made perfect. Now as I said earlier, the law was fulfilled with the coming of Jesus in the manger at Bethlehem. This would make the law of none effect on us and we would count it as one day or one dispensation. This will all add up shortly. I base all this upon the fact that there were four baptism's in the scripitures. 1.Water 2. Blood 3. Holy Ghost 4. Fire. If the first dispensation, which included water baptism, was finished, then we only have three dispensations left to deal with. I say a day and a dispensation are the same. If this is so, we have three days, or dispensations The water baptism was administered by God himself in the days of Noah. Man cannot take credit for this, even though many do, for it was God himself who sent it. The baptism of water only dealt with the flesh of man.
The next two baptisms came in the same dispensation. These were the baptism of blood at the cross and the baptism of the Holy Ghost 50 days after Passover. The blood was applied by grace and the Holy Ghost came as truth. Since it has been almost 2,000 years since the Holy Ghost came on the day of Pentecost, this adds up to two days in the Lord. 2 Peter 3:8 says that one day with the Lord is as a thousand years and a thousand years as one day. Adding the law, grace and truth together we have three days or dispensations. Under the second day, we were given the baptism of blood. The blood dealt with the soul of man. Next, also in the second day was the baptism of the Spirit. or Jesus coming back to this earth to take up his abode in us. This Holy Ghost baptism was for the spirit of man. This coincides with The tabernacle Of God in the wilderness. The outer court was as one day and the sacnctuary was two days. The sanctuary was 2,000 square cubits which also represented two days in God's time. The priest did not stop any where along the line. He continued on until he entered into the prescense of God in the Holy Place which is where he found mercy. When he arrived here he was in the same place God was, and friend,that is what Jesus told us. He went to prepare a place for us that where he is there we might be also. The last day is when the baptism of Fire is to do His work. Remember, Holy Ghost and Fire. This is so important because when I begin to get into these other verses you will need to see how the days line up in order to better understand it. As an example! When the first and the second captain came to Elijah, that represented two days. It was the third captain that found mercy. So let us go on now to the rest of the scriptures.
Joel 2:1-3, Blow ye the trumpet in Zion,( the church) and sound an alarm in mu holy mountain: let all the inhabitants of the land tremble; for the day of the Lord cometh, for it is nigh at hand. A day of darkness, and of gloominess, a day of clouds and of thick darkness, as the morning spread upon the mountains: a great people and a strong; there hath not ever the like, neither shall be any more after it, even to the years of many generations. A Fire devoureth before them; and behind them a flame burneth; the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them. This is a people that will be in the land during the day of the Lord. This is a people that will be anointed as no other, and there will not be another people ever to have an anointing as great as these. The Fire will go before them and will burn out all that is of the carnal realm. They see the promise of the Father ahead of them, meaning they have a vision. Behind them will be a desolate wilderness. This people will not be looking back but ahead to that which they are to inherit. They will not be defiled for the Fire will purify all that they face. This people will be brought forth from the systems and will be perfected by the Fire. This will be just as it was in the wilderness. The Fire appeared in the darkness. These people in Joel will be manifesting the Fire in the day of the Lord, which is nothing but darkness and thick darkness. And all that they touch will be purified and they will leave Fire behind them. It will touch everything and everyone. Psalms 97:3, A fire goeth before him, and burneth up his enemies round about. Psalms 50:3, Our God shall come, and shall not keep silence; a fire shall devour before him, and it shall be very tempestuous round about him. Psalms106:18, And a fire was kindled in their company; the flame burned up the wicked.Psalms 104:4, Who maketh his angels spirits; and his ministers a flaming fire. This should leave no doubt as to what is going to take place. These ministers will be the ones that goes to and fro over all the earth to bring about the return of all creation unto the Father.Our God is come in his temples and he shall operate within them and he will manifest himself from them as the Fire. This will be a people who has had their heart,(mind) cleansed by the Fire. That which is wicked will be burned and will be changed. Matthew 13:41, The Son of man shall send forth his angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all things that offend, and them which do iniquity.
1 Corinthians 3:16-17, Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the spirit of God dwelleth in you? If any man defileth the temple of God, him shall God destroy;for the temple of God is holy, which temple you are. Now, we are seeing that the word from the Old Testamemt applies to our day, today. The people are the benefactors of all that God is doing. The kingdom of God is what we have within us. The kingdom of heaven is the place where we will abide. Jesus is the king, and he will gather out of His kingdom all things that is offensive, not to us, but to Him. How? By the baptism of Fire in the last day. As we saw in Joel 2, the day of the Lord is darkness, and this Fire will be our salvation.But let us go back to the verses on the dispensations of God here. What we have just studied was that which is to happen to us in the last day, the day of the Lord. Isaiah 64:2, and when the melting fire burneth, the fire causeth the waters to boil; to make thy name known to thy adversaries, that all nations may tremble at thy presence!
Obadiah 1:18,and the house of Jacob shall be a Fire, and the house of Joesph a flame,and the house of Essau for stubble, and they shall kindle in them, and devour them; there shall not be any remaining of the house of Essau; for the Lord has spoken it. Zechariah 13:7-9, "Awake, O sword, against my shepherd,and against the man that is my fellow," saith the Lord of Host; "smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered: and I will turn my hand upon the little ones." The sword as we all should know represented the Word of God. He is telling us to bring his Word to life,( it has slept long enough at the hands of the ministries) and to use it against, not the sinner, but the shepherds, those who were to be caretakers of the sheep. The sheep will be scattered. Do you know that today his sheep are scattered across the earth? You can find a religious system any where, but there are not many places to find His Word. Verse 8, "And it shall come to pass that in all the land," saith the Lord, "two parts shall be cut off and die; but the third shall be left therein."Verse 9, " And I will bring the third part through the fire,and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on my name, and I will hear them; I will say, It is my people:and they shall say, The Lord is my God." Here we find out that the first two parts, days, or dispensations will be cut off. This is the two days of the Lord, 2,000 years period. It is to happen in "ALL" the land. Remember, the law was as one day, but we don't count it, for it was finished, or as you say, fulfilled. So these two days are the dispensations of grace and truth. This is the completion of the work of the priest in the sanctuary of the Tabernacle in the wilderness of Sinai. After the priest finished his work in the sanctuary, he did not return to the outer court, for that too was finished. It was at the end of this time that the priest was to enter into the Holy Place, into the very presence of God himself. Just as Jesus finished the work he came to do, he returned to the Father, in order to have the Comforter to come and take up his abode in us. The Comforter of course, was the Father and the Son. Saint John 17:4," I have glorified thee on the earth; I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do."But there was someone left to do the work of the Father. The work of grace was finished and the work of the Holy Ghost began. The long journey towards all truth was upon the saints.
Malachi 3:2, but who may abide the day of his coming? and who shall stand with his appearing? for he is like a refiner's fire, and like a fullers soap: Notice here, the verse says "the day", not days. This refers to just one single day. All that we have seen thus far has shown us from the Old Testament that God always had worked as a Fire, and it also tells us that there is a continuation of this work. God has given the baptism of water in the days of Noah. We were there for we were the dust of the earth that the waters covered. We were there when the blood of Jesus flowed into the earth at calvary. The cross was placed in us, for we were the earth, and the blood flowed freely from his wounds and covered us, the dust of the earth.We were there when the Spirit was given on the day of Pentecost, for it was for as many as afar off as the Lord called. (Acts) The only baptism that has not come in it's fullness is the Fire Baptism. The water baptism was for the flesh of man. The blood baptism was for the soul of man. The Holy Ghost baptism was for the spirit of man. The Fire baptism is for the mind of man, the only part that is double minded and is at enmity against God. It is the mind of man that must be perfected towards God. If you noticed there was four baptisms mentioned here. Three of the four has already been given, with the fourth one about to really take hold in the lives of the elect.
Matthew 3:11," I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance: but He that cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worhty to bear; He shall baptise you with the Holy Ghost, and with Fire." Since the law and the prophets were until John, ( Saint Luke 16:16), he came preaching a new way. It was not the law he pointed them to, but it was the baptism's of Christ. John, along with the law and the prophets were to decrease, but the ministries that were to begin with Christ was to increase. The old was to be pushed aside while the new was to take hold, beginning with Jesus, the Christ. Then Matthew 3:12 tells us that the chaff,(works of the flesh) will be burned by a Fire that is unquenchable. This is not a natural fire but it is a fire that cannot be put out, the Baptism of Fire. We are the trees of the garden. Matthew 7:19 says that every tree that brings not forth good fruit will be hewn down and cast into the fire. Before you get the idea that all these barren trees will be sent to" hell", let me remind you of something I said before. Fire does not destroy, but it changes. Keep this all in mind as we go on for it will have a greater meaning as we go along. We should also keep in mind the verse in Genesis 8 where God said he would not distroy all flesh again. As a matter of fact it is not your flesh body that needs correcting, but rather it is your mind. The body only does what the mind tells it to do,and until you have a pure heart,(mind) you will never be able to bring your body under subjection. It is not that which is on the outside that defiles, it is that which is on the inside. As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.( Proverbs 23:7). The heart is not a muscle that pumps blood. The heart is that which thinks, and that is what God is after. The fruit will come forth from the heart, not the body. The body will only manifest what is in the mind,or heart. Spirit,Thought, Word and deed is the proper order.
Matthew 13-40, As therefore the tares are gathered and burned in the fire ; so shall it be in the end of this world. This burning will take place in the end of the world. This would be the last day. The end of the world is the ending of flesh rule in the earth, when all carnality will be consumed with the brightness of his coming. This coming is in the clouds of glory. (read our article,In The Clouds). Mathew 13:42, "and shall cast them into a furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth." All of the works of the flesh will be cast into this fire and will be changed. Just look at the church crowd today. Boy, if you disagree with them they will light in on you and they will tear you apart with their teeth and they will all wail about the message we are bringing forth. The gnashing of the teeth comes from the so-called church leaders, not the so-called sinners. Matthew 25:41, Then shall he say also to them on his left hand, "Depart from me ye cursed,into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels." This is where we find out that the devil and all the spirits with him will be placed in the Fire. All that there is will end up where it came from and that is God. All that is unlike him will be changed by the Fire Baptism in it's fulness. We can even see the fulness of the Fire baptism in the book of Revelations. ( Rev. 20:10-14-15 ). Saint John 15:6, "If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch,and is withered; and men gathered them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned. "Here men are portrayed as trees.
Then in the books of the Acts of the Apostles we find that the Holy Ghost has descended upon the believers and they were filled with the Spirit of God. It was accompanied by tongues of Fire. The Spirit came first and then the cloven tongues of Fire sat upon each of them. This was to represent the fact the Fire was to follow the baptism of the Holy Ghost. From that day to this, almost 2,000 years, the Holy Ghost has been preached through all the land. But as with all other messages that God has given, the church has polluted it with their carnal mind. Every message God ever gave was pure when he gave it and once man got a hold on it they polluted it with the carnal mind and it caused division among them. Now God is going to bring forth the Fire baptism and he will purify the mind of the elect, and then he will reveal unto them the message of the seven thunders. ( Rev. Chapter 10 ). That is one message that cannot be misused by anyone, for it has not yet been revealed. But these things are those that will come forth in the last day. Every great work Jesus spoke of came in the last day. Lets go for a moment and explore the last day. I do not wish for you to lose sight of the Fire Baptism, but it is tied to the last day.
Saint John6:40, " and this is the will of him that sent me, that every one which seeth the Son, and believeth on him, may have everlasting life; and I will raise him up at the last day." Saint John 6:44," No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him; and I will raise him up at the last day." Saint John 6:54," Whoso eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood,hath eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day."Saint John 12:48," He that rejecteth me, and not receiveth my words, hath one that judgeth him: the Word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in the last day." Saint John 11:24 Martha said unto him,"I know that he shall rise again in the resurrection at the last day." All of these tells us that there will be a resurrection, not after the third day, but at, or during the last day.
I am especially partial to the portion of scripture concerning Lazarus.
A woman in the Bible is a type of the church. The number two is a type of the anointing. So, in this set of verses, we find there was two women, Mary and Martha. This says that Jesus gave his Word to a Spirit filled church. He told them in verse 4,"This sickness is not unto death, but for the glory of God, that the Son might be glorified thereby." Yet he stayed where he was for two more days. Then in verse 11, as he had decided to go into Judea, he said," Our friend Lazarus sleepeth: but I go, that I may awake him out of his sleep."In verse 14, he even said, "Lazarus is dead......". They arrived at the grave two days later where Lazarus had lain for four days already. Martha went out to meet Jesus as he arrived and said to Him," Lord, Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died." Jesus answer was, " Thy brother shall rise again."Her reply was that she knew that her brother would rise again at the last day. Jesus told her that He was the resurrection. And of course, she did not understand him. He called for Mary to come to the cave where their brother was buried. Jesus wept. I feel the reason he wept was that he had given the Holy Ghost church his Word and they did not believe Him. They had buried him and was looking for him to come forth in a resurrection out there somewhere. And all the time what they needed was right there talking to them. This is the same spirit the church has today. They are all looking for a resurrection out there somewhere and all the time the resurrection is here in the earth among us. Jesus brought Lazarus forth, but it was in the "last day". Jesus brought Lazarus forth from darkness into light, which is to say from death unto life. Most folks believe that one of these days they will be in eternal life, but it is over there somewhere. I believe if they could accept Jesus now, they could be in eternal life now, instead of living in the realm of death. The real point here is that Jesus is not out there somewhere, but He is right here under our nose and the church cannot see him, neither do they know him. And he is doing a work in this, the last day of the flesh rule in the earth. Just keep in mind that there is a fire baptism and it will be doing it's work in the last day, or dispensation of God. The Fire Baptism will do it's work in the midst of darkness! It will do it's work in the last day. The Holy Ghost will lead the elect into this Baptism of Fire.
The Fire is to bring forth a change in the mind of man. The Fire will not destroy all flesh, just the works of the flesh.The church world is teaching that there is to be a fire that will be poured out on the earth and all the trees and the rocks, etc. will be burned up. Friend, I have never known a tree, or a rock, or sea. or even the grass to sin. The thing that is to be burnt by this fire in not in the natural earth, but it is the sin within you and I. That is where our troubles comes from.
In Acts 28th chapter we read where Paul was involved in a shipwreck and they were stranded on an island called Melita. There was a barbarous people that lived on the island and they were not very friendly. It was very cold and it was raining on the island. Paul decided to build a fire. He began to gather sticks to put on the fire, and as he laid some sticks on the fire, a viper came out of the sticks and fastened itself on the arm of Paul. Wood, as we have stated before is a type of man, of flesh. So Paul started a fire, and as the flesh was put in the fire, a viper come forth and attacked Paul.The fire is a type of God. A viper is a type of the carnal mind, or the beast nature. This tells me then that when the Fire, or God begins to do a work, the flesh will attack you. The carnal mind was hidden in the flesh until the Fire was put to it and then he had to reveal himself. When the message of the Fire is preached it will reveal the beast nature every time. But as you read on you will see that Paul was not affected by the viper, for he just shook it off. When the viper came out of the wood and attached itself to the arm of Paul, the people thought Paul must have been a murderer. They thought he escaped the sea, but he was doomed to death, and the viper would surely kill him. After awhile, Paul was still alive they changed their minds and thought he must have been a God. When we begin to preach and teach the Fire Baptism, it will cause the church world, who are a barbarous people, to come against us, and they will gnash upon you with their teeth. They will take ahold of us and try to kill us thinking they did God a service. But we will, as Paul did, just shake it off. The Fire Baptism will reveal the beast and they cannot harm us in any way.
1 Corinthians 3:13-15, Every man's work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by Fire; and the Fire shall try every man's work of what sort it is. If any man's work abide which he hath built thereupon
he shall receive a reward. If any man's work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire. Can it be any plainer than this? It is not your body of flesh that is going to be destroyed, but it is that carnal mind that causes you to do works that will be burned. For years the church thought if they trimmed the limbs of the trees, then it would be o.k. But the same old carnal mind was still at work.This time it is not the branches only that will be burned, but it will be the root also that is to be cast into the fire. For years we have triedto treat the condition, but in the last day, we will attack the cause of the condition. Everything that we have done,thinking we have done God a service,will be tried by the Fire,and all that he did not ordain before the foundation of the world will be destroyed, yet there will be salvation for all.
Now we have to see that we are not to do anything except love all mankind. God will do all the judging and vengance is his job.He dwells within you and I and he will perfect his will in us. He will work in us, through us, and will go forth from us to do his will. 2 Thessalonians 1:7, And to you who are troubled rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels. Saint Matthew 10:26," Fear them not therefore: for there is nothing covered that shall not be revealed; and hid, that shall not be known." Every work of man will be revealed whether it is of God or not. I have said for so many years that the day is coming when men will not be able to hide behind the flesh anymore, for we all will know the Spirit of God. Most folks think the revealing of Jesus will be from up in the sky among the rain clouds, but that is nowhere near the truth. 2 Thessalonians 1:8, In flaming fire taking vengance on them that know not God, and obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ: Here is the fire again which is going to be used against all that is not of God. Verse 9, Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the prescence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power. This quite simply means that never again will the power of the carnal mind be able to cause the envy and strife among the elect that it caused in the times past. It will be stopped forever, never again to bring the divisions that it has caused and the truth will forever be established without any warfare from the beast nature. Verse 10, When he shall come to be glorified in his saints,and to be admired in all them that believe,( because our testimony among you was believed) in that day. In this day, the last day, he will be glorified, not from up there somewhere, but in his people.
( Please read the article, In The Clouds.) As you know Jesus is in us! ( Please read the article, Christ in You.) He is in his kingdom, which is in you and I,and he is sending forth his angels to gather out of his kingdom all things that offend. (Saint Matthew 13:41) All these things that are to be removed from the kingdom will be placed into the everlasting fire never to resurrect again. They will no longer exist. The negatives will be changed to the positives by the Fire. It isn't the water that will perfect us! It isn't the blood that will perfect us! It isn't the Spirit that will perfect us! It is the Fire that will bring perfection to the body! Saint Luke 17:30 tells us that there is a day when the Son of Man is to be revealed. This speaks not of the Lord Jesus coming in the sky, but a day when he will appear. That appearing is to take place within us. he is in us and the world don't know him but the day will come when they will see him as he is, and will know where he is, for the Fire will reveal him in the midst of their darkness. ( Please read the article,Let There Be Light) Hebrews 9:28, So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation. It did not say here that he would come again without sin unto salvation, but that he would "appear". There is a difference here you know. When Jesus was born, he was in the world and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not. ( Saint John 1:10) He was walking around in the flesh and yet they did not recognize him until the crucifixion. It is the same today. He is in us, He who created us, and is walking around the world in his saints and the world don't even know He is there. They are still looking for him to come and all the while he has come and is in his temple.
We are the temples of God and he dwells in us, and he is cleaning house.(Matthew 21:12) Malachi 3:1, Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me; And the Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple, aven the messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in: behold, he shall come saith the Lord of host. This is not talking of John the Baptist, but it is talking of the temple of his body, which is you and I. ( Saint John 2:21)We are the temple of God and the Lord is to come to his temple, not after the temple. This is the temple he was refering to when he said that he was able to destroy the temple and build it again in three days.( Matthew 26:61) When you consider that the law was fufilled by his coming on the scene, and the law was one day, the the temple he was talking about was going to be raised in the third day, which was the last day. He is in his temple and is bringing forth fire upon all that defiled the temple. That which defiles the temple is not a body of flesh, but it is the nature which is in control the flesh. 2 Corinthians 6:16,And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols?for ye are the temple of the living God;as God hath said,I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. Since God is a Spirit, he is our Spirit and we are his flesh. Ephesians 2:21, In whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto a holy temple in the Lord.
One more verse before we go on to the conclusion of this message. I always thought Jesus was already perfect. Saint Luke 13:33," Nevertheless,I must walk to day, and tomorrow, and the day following; for it cannot be that a prophet perish out of Jerusalem." Now, how do we take this verse? What He was really talking about was that he and his body are one, for he spoke and said in Saint John 17: 23,"I in them,and thou in me,that they may be perfect in one;" And this body was to be made perfect through and by him, the Author and the Finisher of our faith.
The Fire baptism was the thing that was to perfect the body , for the mind was going to be purified, and that is the thing that controls the body. The Fire was to burn out every thing from the mind that was against the very nature of God. It is the anti-Christ that was to be destroyed. The anti-Christ is he that setteth itself up in the temple of God, as God, showing himself that he is God. He is trying to convince himself that he is God. But he, and all his works will be tried by Fire and all that is not of God will be burned, never to be again.
Also we are the 42nd generation that follows Jesus. We are a generation unto the Lord. Psalms 22:30 tells us that there is a seed that shall be accounted unto the Lord for a generation. We are that great people and a strong people, and there shall never be another people like unto it. ( Joel 2). When you go to the first chapter of St. Matthew, verse 18, you will find that there are fourteen generations that are listed. Jesus is the thirteeneth generation in the third order or the 41st one in the total order, and we are the 42nd generation. We are the people that will be perfected by the Fire. And all his works will be tried by the Fire and God shall have perform a perfect work in his body. All of the verses on the temple are to show that the work that is being performed is with in the body of the Lord, not out there beyond the moon and the stars.
1 Peter 1:7, That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ. Our very journey in this walk we have with God will be tried by Fire. All that is not of him will be consumed by the brightness of his coming. ( 2 Thess. 2:8). Now I want you to pay close attention to this verse. 2 Peter 3:12, Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with ferverent heat. This does not say that they are looking for the coming of Jesus in the sky. It is the looking for a certain day! The day of God!!! This is the last day. It is in this day that the heavens are to be on fire. If you take this literally, then the heavens will be on fire when Jesus comes. But the truth to this verse is that in the day of God the heavens,( our minds) shall be baptised by Fire, and our earthly vessels will be melted to the will of our Father. Go to 2 Peter 3:7, But the heavens and earth, which are now by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against fire against the day of judgement and peridition of ungodly men. See? This Fire baptism has been reserved for the last day of God, when he will pour out the baptism of Fire on the heavens and the earth, and it will purify the mind, and there is to be a people who will come forth and will follow the Lamb whithersoever he goes.
Revelations 11:5 we find out that those who comes against the witnesses of God, fire will come out of their mouth and will devour their enemies. This is not talking about killing people, but it is talking about destroying the enemy. Your enemy is not a human body standing there in front of you. Your enemies are those of your own household, and this is not talking about your parents, or aunts and uncles, etc., but it is your own carnal thoughts.( Matthew 10:36) Your enemy is the one who is trying to seperate you from the Mind of the Spirit. There are those, again, who will try to kill you thinking they have done God a great service. They have done so thinking they were justified in doing so, all in the name of the Lord. Peter tried that and was rebuked by Jesus, and even went as far as to address that spirit as satan. Peter was upset that some came against Christ and wanted Fire to come down from heaven to destroy those who opposed them. Jesus came and he has left the same message with us that we are not come to destroy, but to save. While we are called and chosen to destroy the works of the flesh while saving the flesh. The author of the works of the flesh is the carnal mind. So we need to destroy the root of the problem, which is the carnal mind, while at the same time we need to save the flesh. We are to change it into a vessel that is glorious. The Fire will do this. It will destroy your enemies yet at the same time it will save you.
Daniel 3 there is an account of where the king was tricked into signing a decree that would bring the fiery furnace to those who were in violation of the decree. Really, it was all planned to entrap Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. When the music began to play all the inhabitants of the land had to bow down and worship the image that had been set up by Nebuchadnezzar. When the three Hebrew boys did not bow, they were taken before the king who ordered them to be placed in the fiery furnace. The king ordered the furnace to be heated one seven times hotter, and ordered the mightiest men in the kingdom to bind them up and to cast them into the furnace of fire. This fire was so hot that it destroyed the strongest men whom had thrown them into the fire. Soon the king was astonished, for as he looked into the fire, he saw four men instead of three. He stated that he had three men bound and cast into the fire, but now he saw four men in the fire walking around. When they came out of the fire, they were not harmed at all. Now, there was one thing I noticed about this event. There was only three men that came out of the fire, not four. But yet the king saw a fourth man, one like unto the Son of God. Nowhere did he say he saw the Son of God, but he saw one "like unto the Son of God." For years I have heard the ministry preach that the fourth man in the fire was Jesus, but that is not the case. First let me say that this was a most unusual fire. This fire destroyed the enemies of the three Hebrew boys and at the same time it brought salvation to them. Is this the same as the unquenchable fire that is mentioned in Saint Matthew and in 1 Corinthians? I feel it is! Remember that the Fire Baptism will try our works and will burn them and yet we shall be saved as by Fire. Secondly, the form of the fourth one was one like unto the Son of God. This form was not Jesus, but it was one that was like unto Jesus. Philippians 3:21 says,Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things to himself. 1 John 3:2, Beloved, now are we the Sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear,we shall be like him; for we shall see him like he is. He appeared once in the end time to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself and he has appeared the second time without sin. These events have already taken place. The form of the fourth man in the fire was his body that was to be baptised in the Fire,whose works was to be tried. That was you and I. Then comes the question,Where was God? Wasn't he there somewhere?He sure was!!! He was the fire. All the strong men did was to put the three Hebrews into God. Another point here is that the three Hebrew children were a type of the four baptisms of God.They were a type of the law, grace, Holy Ghost and the Fire. The law, grace and the Spirit baptism all had their place, yet all that was given to us before from the Father was to go into, or through the Fire with us, that all the works of the flesh could be removed from us. All the pollution would be removed by the Fire and all that was to remain was the purity of God. It was the Fire that was to mold us into the image of the Son of God.
Revelation 15:2, And I saw as it were a sea of glass mingled with Fire; and them that had gotten the victory over the beast, and over his image, and over his mark, and over the number of his name,stand on the sea of glass, having the harps of God. If you would go to Revalations 13th chapter you will read where John had stood upon the sand of the sea. The sea is a type of the people. Sand is a type of the doctrines of men. Here John was standing upon the doctrines of men, and all he could see coming forth from the people was the beast. When we build our beliefs on the doctrines of men we will always see the bad in them. When we move to Revelation 15, we see a different picture. All of a sudden we see John standing on a sea of glass. Glass is nothing more that sand that has been placed in the fire and has become a unified vessel. Instead of seeing a beast nature coming out of the people, he saw a people that had been woven together that held God in their midst. God is a consuming fire, so God has applied the Fire baptism to the doctrines of men and now all you can see is Him. This is where God is about to bring his body. We are about to come to the place where all we will follow is the Lamb whithersoever he goeth.( Rev.
14:4).
Revelations 19:20,And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that had worshipped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of Fire burning with brimstone.Revelation 20:10 And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are, and shall be tormented forever and ever. Revelation 20:13, and the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works.
Revelation 20: 14,And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death. Revelation 20:15, And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire. This is the final resting place, if you could call it that. All the works of man that was by the carnal mind will stop and take up it's abode in the lake of fire. All the negative's will end up in the lake of fire. Every man in this world will have his works tried by Fire and if his works is not of God, they will end up here, never to surface again. The great people mentioned in the book of Joel will be manifested and they will have taken over the kingdoms of the world. Now they will become the property of the Lord's Christ.( Revelation 11:15.) Death and hell, the beast nature along with the false prophet will all return back to where they came from. They came from God to do a work for him and when they are finished they will be no need for them to remain here. They will be submerged into God where they will remain forever and ever. At last the people of the most high God will have a pure mind and they will operate only by the Spirit of their God. As a matter of fact God himself will be their Spirit, and they are his body on the earth. God will be so pleased for we too, as David of old wanted, the mind of Christ. This people will be so powerful, yet you will not see the temples. You will only see the light of the temples. No more dying; no more tears; no more sickness; no more iniquity, for all has been defeated by you and I through Him.
30 years ago, God gave me a dream. I was so shaken by this dream, yet I was so honored by it. He knows just how to give you purpose for your life. In this dream, the Lord had me to go to a place in West Virginia to preach. When I got there I saw two other preachers who had a great ministry. One of them preached a lot on the move of the Spirit while the other preached very strong on water baptism in the name of Jesus. When I arrived, the place was packed out. I asked the Lord why he had sent me here to preach when there was already other great preachers there that could bring forth his Word. The Lord told me that he had called me to preach a new message. He then instructed me to take a box of cake mix and follow the directions on the back. The first step was to empty the ingredients into a bowl. The dry ingredients were like the members of the church. The bowl was like the church where the members were all gathered together. Next, I was to pour a cup of water into the dry ingredients and mix it together. The water was the water baptism that would keep the dry ingredients from being blown away until the process was finished. Then I was to add two eggs. The eggs were like the Holy Ghost that would give the cake it's texture and it would bond the ingredients together. I began to rejoice and praise the Lord as I thought the cake was finished. The Lord then spoke to me and said that the cake was not finished, for there was another step to complete before the cake was finished. He said that I was called to bring forth the final step before the cake was finished. I was to turn the oven on and the place the cake into the fire and leave it there until it was done. When the cake had stayed in the fire for a period on time, it was to be removed. The time spent in the oven depended on how quickly the cake baked. When it was removed, it would look like a cake; it would smell like a cake; it would taste like a cake, and it would be a cake.
The other preachers had their part to do, but I was to preach that the body was to be put in the fire. For thirty years now,I have done my best to fulfill my calling to preach the Fire Baptism. It is the Fire baptism that will bring the body to prefection, for the mind will be cleansed from all carnal doctrines. I pray we all accept the purification process soon so we can all be just like him!
There are many many more scriptures that goes along with the Fire Baptism. I could not in such an article bring them all forth. My intention here was not to bring forth all that I could have, but only to lay a foundation for others to build upon. To sow a seed to those who need to see the truth of the Fire Baptism and to add to what many others has been blessed with. And I pray you have really been blessed with this article. If so, please sign our guest book, or e-mail us with your comments.