Fire
By G. W. S. Ware
Nov. 20, 1936
Fire means heat and light evolved by ignition and combustion.
Fire, in proper relation, is essential to life on earth. Our sun is a world of fire, so
hot inside that a small piece would consume a man a thousand miles away. Fire cannot be
analyzed as water and other things. Enough of water will put out fire, and enough of fire
will change the form of water. They are two extremes of nature in their line, and what is
beyond them no one knows.
Fire seems not to be an original something, for it requires a combustion of other
things to bring it into existence. Be that as it is, we know that fire goes out when it
has nothing to feed on. There is fire beyond this world, Matt. 25:41; Mk. 9:43-48. Over
there it seems to feed on sin committed by man in this world and by demons in eternity. It
may be that when human and demon sin touch each other, it burst into everlasting flame.
The atmosphere of the earth compels fire to have combustible material matter to feed
on; but in hell its atmosphere, or that which takes the place of atmosphere, may be of
such a nature that the presence of demon spirits combined with human spirits form a cause
for everlasting fire. However, this speculation is needless, for Almighty God says that it
is an everlasting fire. Christ saw Satan fallen as lightning from heaven, Lu. 10:18. As
far as revealed, the fire of hell has never been in heaven; hence, the combination of
human and demon sin started this everlasting fire.
When a human being dies in sin and enters eternity, it set those sins aflame with an
everlasting fire. "Who among us can dwell with everlasting burnings?", Isa.
3_:__. Man, men, woman, women, flee ------- which you --------- ---------------- with your
dead body, ----------- --------------- [two lines overtyped; not legible].
