Incendium Amoris

Stephen Leslie Bennett

I want to say to all of creation that from everlasting to everlasting there furiously Flames in the Heart of the Amen Love Omnipotence, burning the blessings of His brilliant Beauty in the being of those for Whom He Is Jealous. This is the largest solar Flare recorded in Holy Scripture or in the annals of human history or in any scientific text, and registered forever more in the rejoicing reality of those who are born of this supernatural Father of Fire from above (Jn. 3:1-36). The Lord our God is a consuming Fire (Deut. 4:24, Ex. 24:17, Heb. 12:29). All people populating this planet are to worship no other god, for the Lord, Whose Name is Jealous is a jealous God (Exodus 34:14). The jasper (Rev. 4:3) Jesus of our journey (Jn. 14:6) to Jerusalem (Rev. 21:2) is the jubilant Jesus of justice (Jer. 9:24, Rev. 21:4) all ablaze, seated sovereign and supreme in scintillating Splendor, reigning and ruling in resolute righteousness (Ezek. 1:27, Dan. 7:9-11).

This Sun of Righteousness with healing in His wondrous wings, the Man of Fire, (Mal. 4:2, Ps. 84:11) Christ Jesus, forever fully God, forever fully Man, said in Luke 12:49: "I have come to cast Fire upon the earth, and how I wish that it were already kindled!" After this He ascended in resurrection life and glory to the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens and obtained the promise of the Father, the blessed Holy Ghost of God poured forth from on high into our hearts, baptizing and Spiritizing us, that is, immersing us in a raging inferno of His Fiery Presence. This is a a furnace of Fire that finely fits us for fellowship with Himself, in both pain and pleasure purifying our hearts from wrong motives, enlightening the eyes of our understanding, warming us in the wonder of so wise a Love. It is a Fire with which we can touch the hearts of others to Flame with Love for the Beautiful God (Rom. 5:5). His are eyes of living Flames of Loving Fire, flashing and blazing in omniscient Beauty and beneficence for His Bride as the apostle John saw (Rev. 1:14, 19:12), eyes so very intensely interested with infinitely inveterate opposition to all that hinders Love, Love stronger than death, Jealous Love more severe than the grave. (1Jn. 4:8,16, Song 8:6) Oh, this seven fold Flame (Rev. 4:5, Isa. 11:2), these Trinitarian Flames of fervent Fire, is the most vehement Flame. Many waters of wickedness and wretchedness cannot quench Love, nor can the floods of folly and futility drown such lavish and lustrous Loving (Song 8:6-7).

The prophet Zephaniah declares that the whole earth shall be devoured by the Fire of His jealousy (1:18). The apostle Peter prophesies that the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night, in which the heavens will pass away with a great noise, and the elements will melt with fervent heat; both the earth and the works that are in it will be burned up (Peter 3:10). John beheld a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away and there was no longer any sea. He saw the Holy City, the New Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned and made beautiful for her Husband, Christ Jesus (Rev. 21:1- 2). The sea this beloved brother did see was a sea of glass mingled with flaming Fire on which stood the saints, holding harps given them by God, singing the song of Moses the servant of God and the song of the Song of songs, the Lamb:

"Great and marvelous are Your deeds, Lord God Almighty!

Just and true are Your ways, King of the ages.

Who will not fear You, O Lord, and bring glory to Your name?

For You alone are holy.

All nations will come and worship before You,

for Your righteous acts have been revealed"

(Rev. 15: 2-4).

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