Hebrews 12:29 clearly states that "...God is a consuming fire." This statement can only mean that God's fire must be consuming something. The question then becomes: What is God's fire consuming?
In light of Numbers 23:19 and Ecclesiastes 3:14, one can rightly infer that God's fire cannot be consuming anything He has ever created. Since God created humans in His image, then God's fire can never consume humans. In fact, according to Romans 11:36; Colossians 1:15-20; and Revelation 4:11, God created absolutely everything that has positive existence, abstract and material. In addition, these verses, along with Revelation 21:5, teach that God will one day recover and recreate everything that He has ever created that has been sullied by sin, including all humans. Furthermore, Luke 20:38 informs us that all the life that God ever created can never become dead. This truth is further reinforced by the teaching of Revelation 20:11-15 which informs us that God casts only the dead, except for the Devil, into the lake of fire. Revelation 19:20; Revelation 20:10.
The false trinity called the Devil possesses what can only be called a negative consciousness. God and all of His living creations possess a positive consciousness. The essence of life is a positive consciousness. Exactly how a negative consciousness works cannot be understood by positive consciousness, including that of God's. II Thessalonians 2:7. But we can be certain that negative consciousness always equals total evil and deadness. A negative consciousness would not experience the torment of the lake of fire in the same way a positive consciousness would. For this reason, God will force a positive consciousness into the Devil when He casts him into the lake of fire. In this way, God will create a good system with the Devil that will so preoccupy his mind with horrible pain for eternity that he will never be able to think clearly enough to ever infect God's recreations with sin and deadness again forever. Revelation 19:20; Revelation 20:10.
Therefore, one can conclude that God's fire never consumes anything He has ever created, but only the dead, except for the Devil. According to Leviticus chapter one, after the blood and water sacrifices had been made, then the priests were to burn the rest of the animals completely. The blood and water sacrifices symbolized God's cleansing and recreation of all life, and the burning of what was left of the animals symbolized God's fire which consumes all that is dead and useless. God cleanses and recreates the souls of all believers saved by grace by the blood and water that flowed from Jesus on the cross. God casts the sin and deadness of believers saved by grace into the sea of forgetfulness. Micah 7:19. But according to Revelation 21:1, God will also eliminate this sea, probably also by His use of His consuming fire.
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