'Fire' in the Bible
And even now the axe is lying at the root of the trees, so that every tree which fails to yield good fruit will quickly be hewn down and thrown into the fire."
he answered the question by saying to them all, "As for me, I am baptizing you with water, but One mightier than I is coming, whose very sandal-strap I am not worthy to unfasten: He will baptize you in the Holy Spirit and with fire.
His winnowing-shovel is in His hand to clear out His threshing-floor, and to gather the wheat into His storehouse; but the chaff He will burn up in fire unquenchable."
When the disciples James and John saw this, they said, "Master, do you wish us to order fire to come down from Heaven and consume them?"
"I came to throw fire upon the earth, and what is my desire? Oh that it were even now kindled!
but on the day that Lot left Sodom, God rained fire and brimstone from the sky and destroyed them all.
And when they had lighted a fire in the middle of the court and had seated themselves in a group round it, Peter was sitting among them,
when a maidservant saw him sitting by the fire, and, looking fixedly at him, she said, "This man also was with him."