In Isaiah, chapter sixty-six, verse fifteen, “For, behold, the LORD will come with fire, and with his chariots like a whirlwind, to render his anger with fury, and his rebuke with flames of fire.” When God establishes Jerusalem and the Messianic kingdom, He will also come with judgment upon His enemies. The Lord will come with fire; that is, with terrible judgments, nothing being more terrible and wasting than fire; or with fire in a proper sense, understanding it of the fire with which enemies use to consume places brought under their power. With a whirlwind; with a sudden sweeping judgment that like a whirlwind shall destroy this people. God will also come wth fury properly so taken is not in God, but God sometimes executes justice and judgment more smartly and severely, as in Isaiah twenty-seven, verse four, “Fury is not in me: who would set the briers and thorns against me in battle? I would go through them, I would burn them together.”
God descended on Sinai “in fire” as in Exodus nineteen, verse eighteen. “And mount Sinai was altogether on a smoke, because the LORD descended upon it in fire: and the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mount quaked greatly.” And led the Israelites through the wilderness by the pillar of the cloud and of fire as in Exodus thirteen, verses twenty-one and twenty-two and filled the tabernacle with a glory as of fire as in Exodus forty, verse thirty-four, and “answered David from heaven by fire upon the altar of burnt offering” in First Chronicles twenty-one, verse twenty-six, and in the same way answered Solomon, as in Second Chronicles seven, verse one, and Elijah, as in First Kings eighteen, verse thirty-eight, respectively. After all, Hebrews twelve, verse twenty-nine, declares, “For our God is a consuming fire.”