His unconditional love is unfailing; his jealousy remains a consuming fire. His love is Holy (Agape); it is a consuming fire. It is fearful to be in the hands of the unfailing love of the Divine Spirit: the awe reverence of fear due to His consuming fire. We are acquainted with His consuming fire in His Presence. Thus, those who call upon His "name" shall be saved. His unfailing love is totally different from what we, humans, normally experience the subjective love such as patriotism, philiac love and erotic love. His love is Most Holy. Our spirits sense it, and experience it... "in His Presence--by the emmanuel Holy Spirit."
Believers experience it, and they even receive His "words." Non believers are still receiving His emanated boundless unfailing love, the Source of life, and yet they are not granted the entrance into the Presence of the Holy Spirit except the Spirit with mercy purposely allows them to see His presence. We may reason out that we see His unfailing love through faith. Yes, Amen. But, his strength, peace, joy and love are manifested and experienced in His Presence: the shadow of His wings.
We could choose either to think about the heat and the light of the sun rays or to experience the shining light of the sun. When we think about it, we call it meditation. When we are exactly under the Rays, it is likened as if we are entering His Presence. The ancient Israelites were directly dealt by YHVH's fire along the routes of their wilderness in the Exodus, andtheir times in the Holy Land (... in His Presence or in the presence of His angels). Later, they were somehow indirectly experiencing His consuming fire in the Diaspora. Thus, this explained their perplexities in the foreign lands. Unless, the Spirit authors our faith, then our perplexities would continue hovering over us.
May his inexhaustible divine mercy, and his compassionate Sacred Cross, and the 'richness' of His death endow me deeper "ginosko" concerning the Way, the Door, and the Key in entering the 'ark' of reconciliation, so that I may able to stand on the holy ground of His "Face." Or else, I shall be reduced to my five senses and intellect, alone without the presence of the great Counselor, in comprehending His love--His fire. Eventually, in agony, my flesh shall be consumed, returning to the dust. And my true essence, the spirit, would face the Judgment Seat of Christ. If the flesh is possible to be holy, then there would have no death for the flesh! Henokh, Elijah and St. Mary had experienced no death of the flesh, and this manifested the transcending ability of God. Alas! It is not His priority. Not only, It would have been against His perfection, but also against His missions, if he would have granted immortality of the flesh for all believers.
The Way grants us the purification for the "spirits" ("hearts of the spirits" or "wicks of the lamps"...see Matt. 5: 8 and Proverbs 20: 27). We are the descendants of the 'wounded man.' God's priority in Christ's redemption for mankind is the sanctification/purification of the redeemed spirits of the 'wounded' men. When we fail to acknowledge and to receive his holy unfailing love, then we may eventually be separated from the fullness of life; the extremity of the opposite of the fullness of life is what we call "hell." So, Christ came to grant us the Way in receiving Divine unfailing most holy love, so that we may learn to love the Creator. Thus, heaven is the place of the fullness of divine Holy love. All of us, either believers or non-believers, are sustained by this holy love. Failure in glorifying, receiving, and loving Him back means separation of His realities; and yet our success is the gift of the Spirit. Hell is the "least-lowest-place" in the universe concerning the realities of Divine Love.
Deuteronomy 4:24New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)
24 For the Lord your God is a devouring FIRE, a jealous God.
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Hebrews 12:29
...for indeed our God is a consuming FIRE.
Job 31:12
for that would be a FIRE consuming down to Abaddon, and it would burn to the root all my harvest.
Isaiah 9:18
For wickedness burned like a FIRE, consuming briers and thorns; it kindled the thickets of the forest, and they swirled upward in a column of smoke.
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5 The Lord descended in the cloud and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name, “The Lord.”[a] 6 The Lord passed before him, and proclaimed,
“The Lord, the Lord, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness, 7 keeping steadfast love for the thousandth generation,[b] forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, yet by no means clearing the guilty,
but visiting the iniquity of the parents
parents parents upon the children
children and the children’s children, to the third and the fourth generation.”
8 And Moses quickly bowed his head toward the earth, and worshiped. (Exodus 34: 5-8).
Numbers 14:18
‘The Lord is slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love, forgiving iniquity and transgression, but by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the parents upon the children to the third and the fourth generation.’
Psalm 86:15
But you, O Lord, are a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness.
Psalm 78:38
Yet he, being compassionate, forgave their iniquity, and did not destroy them; often he restrained his anger, and did not stir up all his wrath.
Sirach 2:11
For the Lord is compassionate and merciful; he forgives sins and saves in time of distress.
James 5:11
Indeed we call blessed those who showed endurance. You have heard of the endurance of Job, and you have seen the purpose of the Lord, how the Lord is compassionate and merciful.
Numbers 14:18
The Lord is slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love, forgiving iniquity and transgression, but by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the parents upon the children to the third and the fourth generation.’
Psalm 86:5
For you, O Lord, are good and forgiving, abounding in steadfast love to all who call on you.
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Psalm 99:8
O Lord our God, you answered them; you were a forgiving God to them, but an avenger of their wrongdoings.
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