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Fire! Fire! How quickly those words strike fear into our hearts! Yet, fire is the means of rejuvenating the creation along the shoreline. It starts oftentimes with a very small flame in the tinder dry dunegrass caused by a lightning strike, fireworks, a match, cigarette butt or a fire poorly attende
Fire appears many times in the Bible, not only because it was the primary means of heating and cooking, but as part of miracles, visions, and signs. Fire symbolizes many other things, such as God’s power and His anger towards sin, and man’s emotions of wrath, jealousy, or lust with which he can beco
Fire is the most prevalent, destructive yet, if controlled, beneficial power in the universe. Man, therefore, largely credits his ability to control fire for being able to swing out the trees and build modern civilization, to heat homes, forge steel, make electricity, and even rocket to the moon. Bu
In addition, when wood burns, the actual wood does not burn, per se, but it is the vapors from the wood that burn. When the vapors leave the wood, the left-over non-combustible materials, such as calcium and potassium, remain as ash. The other main left-over material is pure carbon, or "char," which
The fire of Hell has been pictured for us in Scripture as ‘fire and brimstone’ and this figure has stood during the ages as the portion of the wicked who are hated by God. A tangible variety of this fire and brimstone has been experienced by many people who live in the vicinity of an active volcano.
Fire is one of the most amazing powers in God’s creation. Sitting by a bonfire on a cool evening can be relaxing and mesmerizing. Fire, however, can also be deadly. Many people were killed in fires after the San Francisco earthquake of 1906. Many others perished in the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 an
At four o’clock, fire approached from three sides and left the side towards the river open. Suffocating fumes and horrible fires threatened the unhappy people, sparks falling over them in showers. All at once the people heard some unearthly sound approaching them, the heavens darkened, and they were
This fire is not the sort of fire that burns in a grate or a fireplace. It is a powerful conflagration like a raging forest fire or a refiner’s fire in a massive furnace. Whoever dies in their sins will experience God’s powerful word of destruction in the “everlasting burnings” (Isa. 33:14). On the
Fire from the heaven has ripped the trunk apart and has caused the death of this majestic tree that had weathered some sixty years. As we see the shredded fibers we think of the fearful force necessary to produce this havoc. Lightning, thunder and stormy wind?—picture of God’s wrath against all wick
The fire broke out in Mansoul from two quarters, at one end from a belch of flame out of the dragon’s mouth, and at the other end from a huge pile of oily rags in the basement of Lord Lustings’ mansion causing spontaneous combustion. Diabolos held out a banana dangling on the end of a string from h