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The HOLY SPIRIT Fire that God desires to Baptize us with is from the ALTAR in Heaven - Leviticus 16:11-14
“And Aaron shall bring the bull of the sin offering, which is for himself, and make atonement for himself and for his house, and shall kill the bull as the sin offering which
is for himself.
Then
he shall take a censer full of burning coals of fire from the altar before the Lord, with his hands full of sweet incense beaten fine, and bring
it inside the veil.
And he shall put the incense on the fire before the Lord, that the cloud of incense may cover the mercy seat that is on the Testimony, lest he die.
He shall take some of the blood of the bull and sprinkle
it with his finger on the mercy seat on the east
side; and before the mercy seat he shall sprinkle some of the blood with his finger seven times.
Leviticus 16:12-13 Fulfilled on the Day of Pentecost = Acts ch2
When the Day of Pentecost had fully come, they were all
[a]with one accord in one place.
2And suddenly there came a sound from heaven, as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled the whole house where they were sitting.
3Then there appeared to them divided tongues,
as of fire,
and one sat upon each of them.
And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.
David, I see
no connection in Leviticus 16, with what you are saying, concerning with what you called Holy Spirit fire that God desires to baptize from the altar in heaven,
especially so in light of NT scriptures, which
must interpret for us the OT scriptures, if not, then every man can form his own interpretation of God's word, without scriptures~which the RCC are famous for. We certainly want to avoid following her whorish ways.
"full of burning coals of fire from off the altar before the Lord"
David, these were bright lively coals, not smoking and half extinct; these burning coals
denoted the sufferings of Christ, which were properly punishments for the sins he bore, flowed from the wrath of God comparable to fire, were the curses of a fiery law, and equal to the sufferings of the wicked,
often expressed by fire; they were many, and very painful and excruciating, though no ways inconsistent with the love of God to him as his Son, for they were endured by him
as the surety of his people, and by which he expressed his flaming love and affection for them: he himself is altar, sacrifice, and priest, the altar which sanctifies the gift; and the coals as on the altar, denote the sufferings of Christ as upon him, which he was able to bear; and the taking off the coals signifies the cessation of his sufferings; and the altar, coals, and taking of them off, being before the Lord and in his sight, show that Christ, as a divine Person, is, and always was before him; that his sufferings were ever in view, being appointed and foretold by him, and when endured were grateful to him, a sacrifice of a sweet smelling savour; and that the cessation of them was in his presence, and according to his will; and Christ now is the Lamb in the midst of the throne, as though he had been slain, where, as such, he is always beheld with pleasure and acceptance by the Lord
"and his hands full of sweet incense beaten small"~
This may represent the intercession of Christ our high priest for his people; for as the prayers of the saints are set before the Lord
as incense, (
Psalms 141:2 ) ; so the intercession and mediation of Christ in favour of the acceptance of their prayers is signified by
"much incense", (
Revelation 8:3 ) ; and which is always acceptable to God, and may well be expressed by
sweet incense: handfuls of it may
denote the largeness of his intercession, being for all the elect of God, and for all things for them they stand in need of; and the infinite perfection and virtue of his person, blood, righteousness, and sacrifice, to make his intercession effectual: and being "beaten small" may signify his intercession made for particular persons, and those the meanest. (Much of this we are indebted to John Gill and men before him.)
When the Day of Pentecost had fully come, they were all
[a]with one accord in one place.
2And suddenly there came a sound from heaven, as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled the whole house where they were sitting.
3Then there appeared to them divided tongues,
as of fire,
and one sat upon each of them.
And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.
David I would like to come back and look in-depth at these scripture, for there is no connection between Leviticus 16 and Acts 2. Totally two different subjects under consideration. You do know that our Lord was
never baptized with fire
in the sense in which the Pentecostals teaches; he indeed had a baptism to be baptized with, but it
was the one mentioned in Leviticus 16!
Mark 10:38
“But Jesus said unto them, Ye know not what ye ask: can ye drink of
the cup that I drink of? and be baptized with the baptism that
I am baptized with?”
I am coming back, very soon.
