The Book of Hebrews – Heb 12:1-8 “Our God is a Consuming Fire” – Part 1

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Heb 12:1-8 “Our God is a consuming fire” – Part 1

[Study Aired April 8, 2021]

Heb 12:1   Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,
Heb 12:2  Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.
Heb 12:3  For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds.
Heb 12:4  Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin.
Heb 12:5  And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him: 
Heb 12:6  For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth. 
Heb 12:7  If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not? 
Heb 12:8  But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons.

The very first verse (Heb 12:1) of our study reveals something reiterated in the last verse of chapter twelve of Hebrews that should help us possess our souls patiently as we “press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus” (Heb 12:29, Luk 21:19), and that something is who we are in Christ Jesus as the light of the world (Mat 5:14-16) explained by our Lord in this manner: “At that day ye shall know that I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you” (Joh 14:20). That is what it means to have His righteousness, His light, that has been given unto us as His workmanship (Eph 2:10).

That new clothing of righteousness is made possible through fiery judgement “TeachingG3811 us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world” (Tit 2:12) which is how God destroys the grass of the field (2Pe 3:10-13) that represents all flesh. “But if God doth so clothe the grass of the field, which to-day is, and to-morrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith?” (Psa 104:1-7, Eph 2:10). It’s critical we realize right from the start that this process of being clothed is accompanied with God’s mercy that rules over that judgment (Jas 2:13). God will save all men by casting flesh “into the oven” a metaphor for the lake of fire, but for God’s elect today that judgment and clothing is taking place right now via our merciful Father and Christ so we can be among those few first fruits in the blessed and holy first resurrection (Rev 20:6) who will be used to administer God’s judg ments and show mercy in that regard to the rest of humanity (1Co 10:13, Rom 8:18, 1Pe 4:17, Rom 11:25, Rom 11:31-32).

Joh 14:20  In that day ye shall know that I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you.

2Pe 3:10  But the day of the Lord will come as a thief; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall be dissolvedG3089 with fervent heat, [1Pe 4:12] and the earth and the works that are therein shall be burned upG2618. [1Co 3:13-15, Jer 23:29]

1Co 3:13  Every man’s work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it [“the day of the Lord“], because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man’s work of what sort it is.
1Co 3:14  If any man’s work abide which he hath built thereupon, he shall receive a reward.
1Co 3:15  If any man’s work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire.

Jer 23:29  Is not my word like as a fire? saith the LORD; and like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces?

2Pe 3:11  Seeing that these things are thus all to be dissolvedG3089, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy living and godliness, (Tit 2:12)
2Pe 3:12  looking for and earnestly desiring the coming of the day of God, by reason of which the heavens being on fire shall be dissolvedG3089, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat?
2Pe 3:13  But, according to his promise, we look [Mat 6:33] for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness [‘the new clothing of Christ’s righteousness‘].

Psa 104:1  Bless Jehovah, O my soul. O Jehovah my God, thou art very great; Thou art clothed with honor and majesty: [Mat 6:28-33]

As this section of the gospel shows us in Matthew 6:28-33, we are clothed with the righteousness of Christ, and this is something that happens as a result of God blessing us with the mind of Christ (1Co 2:16) in which we are growing (2Pe 3:18). That mind of power, love and soundness (2Ti 1:7) makes it possible for us to become more and more like the “lilies of the field” which typify Christ (Son 2:2). Solomon in all his glory that represents our confidence in our flesh was not arrayed as beautifully as one of these little lilies of the field that is used to contrast with Solomon the new creation we have become in Christ (1Co 2:5).

Christ in us gives us the ability to be clothed as one of these with the gift of faith that He gives God’s elect today, which was the subject of Hebrews 11 and is the subject of this parable: “But if God doth so clothe the grass of the field, which to-day is, and to-morrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith?” Therefore we are told “Be not therefore anxious, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed? For after all these things do the Gentiles seek; for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things. But seek ye first his kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.” [Joh 6:27, Heb 11:6]

Reading the next few verses of Psalm 104, we then learn where God’s honor and majesty are manifest, and we will see that it is in the lives of those who were called to be the light of the world in this age and the temple of God where His glory was to be made manifest (Eph 3:10, 1Co 3:16, Mat 5:14).

Psa 104:2  Who coverest thyself with light as with a garment [Isa 61:10, Rev 19:8]; Who stretchest out the heavens like a curtain; [Exo 26:31-33, Eze 1:4, Heb 10:19-22, Eph 5:30]
Psa 104:3  Who layeth the beams of his chambers in the waters; [Jas 1:17, 1Ti 3:15, Rev 3:12] Who maketh the clouds his chariot; [2Ki 2:11, 2Ki 6:17] Who walketh upon the wings of the wind; [Exo 25:18-21]

Eze 1:4  And I looked, and, behold, a whirlwind came out of the north, a great cloud, and a fire infolding itself, and a brightness was about it, and out of the midst thereof as the colour of amber, out of the midst of the fire.

Heb 10:19  Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holy place by the blood of Jesus,
Heb 10:20  by the way which he dedicated for us, a new and living way, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh;

Heb 10:21  and having a great priest over the house of God;
Heb 10:22  let us draw near with a true heart in fulness of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience [1Jn 3:20, Gal 6:1-2, 1Pe 4:8, Jas 5:20]: and having our body washed with pure water, [“Is not my word like as a fire?”]

Eph 5:30  For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.[“We enter into that holiest place through His flesh which is the church where the manifest knowledge of God is being made known“]

1Jn 3:20  For if our heart condemn us, God is greater than our heart, and knoweth all things.

Gal 6:1  Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such an one in the spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted.
Gal 6:2  Bear ye one another’s burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ.

1Pe 4:8  And above all things have fervent charity among yourselves: for charity shall cover the multitude of sins.

Jas 5:19  Brethren, if any of you do err from the truth, and one convert him;
Jas 5:20  Let him know, that he which converteth the sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall hide a multitude of sins.

God is working all this workmanship in our heavens for a reason, and that reason is eluded to in the next few verses of this Psalm that show the fruit that is produced as a result of Christ clothing us with His righteousness: we become “flames of fire“(Psa 104:4), a consuming fire because God has placed his words in our mouth, words that have the ability to “devour them” (Jer 5:14) meaning we can now judge righteous judgement in the earth so men can learn righteousness (Isa 26:9, 1Pe 4:17). God’s family will be the ministers and are today the ministers who are laying “the foundations of the earth (‘the church, the temple of God we are’ Mat 7:24, Mat 13:11, Mat 13:16, Psa 127:1, 1Ti 3:15), that it should not be moved for ever” (Mal 3:6).

Psa 104:4  Who maketh winds his messengers; Flames of fire his ministers;
Psa 104:5  Who laid the foundations of the earth, That it should not be moved for ever.
Psa 104:6  Thou coveredst it with the deep as with a vesture; The waters stood above the mountains.
Psa 104:7  At thy rebuke they fled; At the voice of thy thunder they hasted away.

Luk 12:49  I am come to send fire on the earth; and what will I, if it be already kindled?

Isa 50:11  Behold, all ye that kindle a fire, that gird yourselves about with firebrands; walk ye in the flame of your fire, and among the brands that ye have kindled. This shall ye have of my hand; ye shall lie down in sorrow [Isa 53:3-4, 1Jn 4:17]. Hearken to me, ye that follow after righteousness, ye that seek Jehovah: look unto the rock whence ye were hewn, and to the hole of the pit whence ye were digged.

1Jn 3:3  And every man that hath this hope in him [Col 1:27] purifieth himself, [“look unto the rock whence ye were hewn“] even as he is pure.

1Jn 1:7  But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light [1Jn 4:17], we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin [1Co 10:16].

Heb 12:1   Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,
Heb 12:2  Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.
Heb 12:3  For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds.

God’s elect are that great “cloud of witnesses” and the singleness of the body of Christ is represented with these verses, (Eze 1:4-28, Rev 6:4-9), that are accompanied with the word ‘fire’ which represents the much tribulation (Act 14:22) we will have to go through in order to have that unity in the body of Christ. We can now look through the ages with the mind of Christ and be given hope of what has happened to others who, being just like us, were easily beset by sin and had to learn to “lay aside every weight” and overcome the accuser of the brethren by “looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.”

Eze 1:4  And I looked, and, behold, a whirlwind came out of the north, a great cloud, and a fire infolding itself, and a brightness was about it, and out of the midst thereof as the colour of amber, out of the midst of the fire.

Eze 1:27  And I saw as the colour of amber, as the appearance of fire round about within it, from the appearance of his loins even upward, and from the appearance of his loins even downward, I saw as it were the appearance of fire, and it had brightness round about.

We look to Christ’s example in each other, and when we see what others are able to endure through Christ, we are learning of “him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself” (Act 26:15). That is the powerful witness God creates in each of our lives for one another so that we don’t become “wearied and faint in your minds“. Stephen was the first recorded martyr in the church (Act 7:59, Act 22:20), and we learn from his example that where there is no vision people will perish (Pro 29:18), but God will always be faithful to provide us the vision we need in our time of need making a way for His little flock in whom it is His good pleasure to give us the kingdom (Luk 12:32) to bear the trial and see the gates of hell not prevail against us (Mat 16:18). In Stephen’s case it was a supernatural event of having a vision to help him cross that finish line called enduring until the end (Mat 24:13), resisting sin unto the shedding of blood as he did, God making “a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear” through the vision of “Jesus standing on the right hand [power] of God” whom we reflect (Joh 17:3) as Christ did our Father. This example of Stephen was written for our sakes to give us comfort that God will never leave or forsake us (Act 7:55-56, Joh 20:21, 1Co 10:13, Joh 14:9).

Act 7:55  But he, being full of the Holy Ghost, looked up stedfastly into heaven, and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing on the right hand of God, [‘power of God‘]
Act 7:56  And said, Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of man standing on the right hand of God.

Joh 17:3  And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.

Joh 20:21  Then said Jesus to them again, Peace be unto you: as my Father hath sent me, even so send I you.

If we are as Christ was in this world, we are going to be accused by the accuser who works in the children of darkness that we all were at one point (1Th 5:5, Eph 5:8). When we consider Christ  who “endured such contradiction of sinners against himself“, we are being reassured that we can drink the cup by the same power that was given to our Lord to endure all that he had to endure (Php 4:13, Mat 20:23). God held Christ in His hand just as Christ holds us in His hand today, and so when we truly are dragged to Christ we need to know that He can give us the power to overcome so that we don’t become “wearied and faint in your minds“. We are being dragged to Christ for that very reason (Joh 6:44), to come to learn that nothing can separate us from the love of God and that we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us (Rom 8:36-37).

In order to continue to look to the joy that was set before him, Christ needed to be strengthened by an angel in the garden (Luk 22:43), which resulted in him enduring the cross as well as despising the shame. This was all being made possible because of the power that God was giving him, and so in earnest he was “set down at the right hand of the throne of God” and knew that the fullness of the relationship He had with God would return to Him after He was resurrected, and He would be more than a conqueror through the strength that would be given Him of God to lay down His life (Joh 10:18, Joh 5:30). For Christ, “the joy that was set before him” was the vision to which God gave him to hold fast so He could endure the cross, and endure “such contradiction of sinners against himself“, just as Stephen was given hope with the vision that was given to him. We are called to consider what He endured, looking to that joy set before us, and so we cry out to God and He hears us because we fear Him and keep His commandments, just as Christ did (Heb 5:7, 1Jn 4:17). Then we are delivered, otherwise we would “be wearied and faint in your minds“. We are that angel in the garden for each other that strengthens each other so that we can endure to the end through Christ and His body through whom He works, strengthened in our time of need and given the vision we need so that we don’t perish spiritually (Luk 21:17-19).

Joh 10:18  No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This commandment have I received of my Father.

Joh 5:30  I can of mine own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is just; because I seek not mine own will, but the will of the Father which hath sent me.

Heb 5:7  Who in the days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death, and was heard in that he feared;

Luk 21:17  And ye shall be hated of all men for my name’s sake.
Luk 21:18  But there shall not an hair of your head perish.
Luk 21:19  In your patience possess ye your souls.

So when we consider him who “endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds“, let’s consider what we are covering and understand that what Christ went through was for our sakes to give us the absolute assurance that nothing can separate us from the love of God (Rom 5:10).

Our last study with Hebrews chapter 11 brought this point out in a very telling way via the life of all those who died in various ways, demonstrating the typical patience and faith of the saints in which we are growing day-by-day (Jas 5:10). Now in chapter 12 we see who all those people who were martyred were typical of – Christ and His Christ (Act 4:26-29).

Act 4:26  The kings of the earth stood up, and the rulers were gathered together against the Lord, and against his Christ.
Act 4:27  For of a truth against thy holy child Jesus, whom thou hast anointed, both Herod, and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles, and the people of Israel, were gathered together,
Act 4:28  For to do whatsoever thy hand and thy counsel determined before to be done.
Act 4:29  And now, Lord, behold their threatenings: and grant unto thy servants, that with all boldness they may speak thy word,

Heb 12:4  Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin. 
Heb 12:5  And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him:

God loves us with a perfect love that does not falter in any way (Joh 16:27, 2Co 13:11). Christ’s wounds (1Co 10:16) are faithful toward us because God loves us (Pro 27:6). Nobody naturally wants to resist “unto blood, striving against sin“, including Christ who is our example of how this can be done (Luk 22:40-46).

Pro 27:6  Faithful are the wounds of a friend [Joh 15:15-20]; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.

Joh 15:15  Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you.
Joh 15:16  Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: [Jas 1:18] that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you [Rev 12:11].
Joh 15:17  These things I command you, that ye love one another.
Joh 15:18  If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you.
Joh 15:19  If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.
Joh 15:20  Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also [Luk 21:17-19].

Luk 22:40  And when he was at the place, he said unto them, Pray that ye enter not into temptation.
Luk 22:41  And he was withdrawn from them about a stone’s cast, and kneeled down, and prayed,
Luk 22:42  Saying, Father, if thou be willing, remove this cup from me: nevertheless not my will, but thine, be done.
Luk 22:43  And there appeared an angel unto him from heaven, strengthening him.
Luk 22:44  And being in an agony he prayed more earnestly: and his sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down to the ground.
Luk 22:45  And when he rose up from prayer, and was come to his disciples, he found them sleeping for sorrow,
Luk 22:46  And said unto them, Why sleep ye? rise and pray, lest ye enter into temptation.

Heb 12:6  For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.
Heb 12:7  If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not?
Heb 12:8  But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons.

This is a very familiar section of scripture to God’s people, to the sons of God (1Jn 3:1), that explains what it is to have true sonship with Him, and it explains what it means to be received of our Father and to be loved of God stated this way: “For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth“.

Initially we want to be accepted of God, or received of him, on our own terms and conditions (Isa 4:1), but God loves His sons with whom He is working in this age and burns up those idols of our hearts so that we go from thinking we are rich and increased with goods like the rich young ruler (Rev 3:17, Mat 19:21). By the grace of God He destroys those filthy garments and defiled bread which represent our own righteousness, bringing us to acknowledge that we are “miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked”. It is because we say we see that our sins remain, and the only solution to overcoming that blindness is to have our Father cleanse us of these powers and principalities in our heavens via fiery trials (1Pe 4:12). So, we are told: “I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see.”(Rev 3:18)

We don’t of ourselves by our own might or power endure the chastening (Zec 4:6) whereof all are partakers, but rather we endure all things through Christ who strengthens us (Php 4:13) so that we are not sifted like wheat as Christ told Peter of Satan’s desire of him, but alas Christ prayed for Peter that his faith fail not (Luk 22:31-32).

Zec 4:6  Then he answered and spake unto me, saying, This is the word of the LORD unto Zerubbabel, saying, Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, saith the LORD of hosts.

Php 4:13  I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.

Luk 22:31  And the Lord said, Simon, Simon, behold, Satan hath desired to have you, that he may sift you as wheat:
Luk 22:32  But I have prayed for thee, that thy faith fail not: and when thou art converted, strengthen thy brethren.

Flesh has to learn obedience by the things that it suffers, and this includes Christ’s flesh (Heb 5:8-9, 1Jn 4:17, Psa 73:26, 2Co 12:9-11). The difference between Christ and ourselves is that our own iniquities chasten or correct us (Jer 2:19, Pro 24:16) whereas Christ was spotless and never had a self-righteous attitude, which would be sinful (1Pe 1:19). Christ’s mind was without fault “as of a lamb without blemish and without spot” so we could become the righteousness of God through him “which is of God by faith” (2Co 5:21, Php 3:9).

2Co 5:21  For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.

Php 3:9  And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith:

We see how Christ was made sin being “made of a woman, made under the law”, shapened in iniquity, which is what self-righteous flesh is by nature (Gal 5:17, Heb 4:15, Jas 1:14), yet always did what was pleasing and obedient to our Father (Gal 4:4, Psa 51:5) to the end that He would “redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons” (Gal 4:5-6).

Gal 5:17  For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.

Gal 4:4  But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law,
Gal 4:5  To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons.
Gal 4:6  And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father.

Both goats of (Lev 16:8) were beasts [representing sinful flesh] of the field, but one represented the perfect sacrifice of Christ’s life, and the other represented what Christ’s spirit could do within the scapegoat that was taken by the hands of a fit man into the wilderness (Lev 16:10). Our sonship is explained by the story of that scapegoat that, in type, must fill up what is behind of the afflictions of Christ through the power of God’s holy spirit, that gives us the ability to endure to the end through the much tribulation, which must accompany us throughout our journey in the wilderness (Col 1:24, Act 14:22, 2Co 1:5-7, 2Co 4:10, Gal 6:2).

To be dealt with as a son means we must wrestle with our flesh all through this life and endure until the end to be saved (Mat 24:13), and that is what this verse means: “If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not?” The scapegoat that represents the beasts we are must be dragged through the wilderness by the hand of a fit man (Jesus Christ) and be made to err or stumble (Isa 63:17, Pro 24:16) as we bow down to our flesh as Jacob did with Esau seven times (Gen 33:3). When we’re granted to acknowledge our need for the blood of the dove that will be used to sanctify the live bird being sent into the field (the world), that bird typifies our being alive in Christ and dead to sin (Lev 14:7, Gal 2:20). It will be because of God’s goodness that has led us to repentance (Rom 2:4) that we will overcome in this life.

We need to acknowledge our sins and our need for the seven last plagues to purify our heavens through chastening and scourging so that we can enter into the temple of God. We know we could never endure this process without Christ having prayed for us that our faith fail not (Luk 22:32). The fervent prayers of the body will avail much (Jas 5:16) and help us bear about in our bodies the dying of the Lord Jesus, witnessing to the world our discipleship that is in Christ (Joh 13:35, Rev 15:8, 2Co 4:10).

Jas 5:16  Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.

Luk 22:32  But I have prayed for thee, that thy faith fail not: and when thou art converted, strengthen thy brethren.

Joh 13:35  By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.

Rev 15:8  And the temple was filled with smoke from the glory of God, and from his power; and no man was able to enter into the temple, till the seven plagues of the seven angels were fulfilled.

2Co 4:10  Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body.

Our God is a consuming fire, and He is using the body to minister today in each of our lives those red hot coals that are around the altar (Isa 6:6-7). We are being purified so that we can properly discern good and evil by experiencing the plagues that must be poured out upon our heavens in this age if we are going to rule in the next, otherwise this verse would apply to us if we did not go through this sanctification process: “But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons.” (Rev 15:6-7, 2Ti 2:12)

Isa 6:6  Then flew one of the seraphims unto me, having a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with the tongs from off the altar:
Isa 6:7  And he laid it upon my mouth, and said, Lo, this hath touched thy lips; and thine iniquity is taken away, and thy sin purged.

Rev 15:6  And the seven angels came out of the temple, having the seven plagues, clothed in pure and white linen, and having their breasts girded with golden girdles.
Rev 15:7  And one of the four beasts gave unto the seven angels seven golden vials full of the wrath of God, who liveth for ever and ever.

2Ti 2:12  If we suffer, we shall also reign with him: if we deny him, he also will deny us:

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