The Refiner’s Fire, Removing the Trash

We have many times discussed the fires that burn in the world to end the age, and these fires what melt way the “elements.” We’ve seen “elements” are the principles (stoicheion) the world relies upon in all it ways. We know the fires are kindled by these principles themselves being employed and inevitably failing. In this we see the self-inflicted torment the world brings upon itself in ever increasing degrees as those in control refuse to alter course. We have seen the failed principles as self-centric and self-consuming, perpetrated and perpetuated on the world by elites, by academia, by experts, and projected to the body politic by mass media.

Today let’s take a deeper look at the fires and their cause. To being I will tell you the conclusion: the fires are kindled by the opinions of these same people mentioned above and projected in the same ways to the masses. Their opinions are presented as fact, while the actual fact is they mold their opinions for the moment as needed to move the masses. Their purpose began with demoralization, and having removed all standards of right and wrong, true and false, replacing them with opinions to be argued also destroyed rational thought. They replace thinking with feeling, which are nothing more than opinions, and reduced all human discourse to endless argument.

The human mind is meant to be a combination of thinking and feeling/opinion. Opinion is the lower form of mental activity where theories are formed. The higher activity is thinking which formulates and orders the theory into forms where it can be proven or disproven. This is called rational thought. The data we see either abstractly by mental modeling, or by external experiment/experience, is then rationally and systematically examined. The opinion is proven true if the evidence of the experience matches it, if not the theory acknowledged as untrue. This is how arguments start as opinions and end by means of rational thought and facts.

The world we live in is ruled by feelings/opinions and in doing has become void, confused, without form and without value. The experts become trapped in the echo chamber of their theoretical world, never experiencing, therefore void of any evidence and self-shielded from truth. The result is blindness and endless argument as eternal self-inflicted torment burning unquenchable. Holy fire is one that purifies and comes to a conclusion by removing the dross (impurities as untruth). The world’s fires burn only to destroy.

This God given intellect created in all men is what the world seeks to deaden and keep dead in the endless argument of feeling against feeling. What they deaden is man’s ability know (discern) between opinion and fact/truth. They ridicule, defame and slander truth, truth tellers, and findings of fact. While doing this they hide and alter their reporting of the consequences of policy and actions based on the world’s failed principles, these failed opinion based elements and the fires they kindle. They do it to mask the fruit proving the tree undeniably corrupt – and the world burns.

Proverbs 30 tells of the horse-leech having two daughters crying, “Give, give.” It goes on with examples of things never satisfied, nor ended by saying “enough.” The passage is speaking of two wanting and never being satisfied as a never ending fire. The horse-leech is named so because it would attach itself to the mouth and tongue of horses as they drank from the waters. The meaning is both of sucking the life (blood) from the one to whom it has attached, and by associating it with the tongue and mouth telling of corrupted words produced through these and their effect.

Proverbs 30
12 There is a generation that are pure in their own eyes, and yet is not washed from their filthiness.
13 There is a generation, O how lofty are their eyes! and their eyelids are lifted up.
14 There is a generation, whose teeth are as swords, and their jaw teeth as knives, to devour the poor from off the earth, and the needy from among men.
15 The horse-leech Has two daughters, crying, Give, give. There are three things that are never satisfied, yea, four things say not, It is enough:
16 The grave; and the barren womb; the earth that is not filled with water; and the fire that says not, It is enough.

Proverbs 26 tells of these fires as intentional strife and contention. Verse 19 speaks of deception that is said to be just a game that is played. The following two verses tell of these fires of “strife” being kindled by slanderers and the contentious. The Hebrew word translated as “strife” is madown, meaning a quarrel. This is the pattern we see in our time, taught by the experts and the elites, projected by the mass media, and deadening the minds of the culture. These are the rivers of water flowing from corrupt sources sucking the life from humanity. I say, ENOUGH!

Proverbs 26
7 He that passes by, and meddles with strife belonging not to him, is like one that takes a dog by the ears.
18 As a mad man who casts firebrands, arrows, and death,
19 So is the man that deceives his neighbor, and says, Am not I in sport? [says it was just a game he was playing]
20 Where no wood is, there the fire goes out: so where there is no talebearer [slanderer], the strife ceases.
21 As coals are to burning coals, and wood to fire; so is a contentious man to kindle strife.
22 The words of a talebearer are as wounds, and they go down into the innermost parts of the belly.
23 Burning lips and a wicked heart [principles] are like a potsherd covered with silver dross [as a piece of broken pot covered in the what has been refined out of the valuable – both worthless and unable to hold anything].
24 He that hates dissembles [creates deception] with his lips, and lays up deceit within him;
25 When he speaks fair, believe him not: for there are seven abominations in his heart [as his reason].
26 Whose hatred is covered by deceit, his wickedness shall be showed before the whole congregation.
27 Whoso digs a pit shall fall therein: and he that rolls a stone, it will return upon him.
28 A lying tongue hates those that are afflicted by it; and a flattering mouth works ruin.

Here again we must look at James 3 and it telling of the tongue being what causes the fire of gehenna. Ge-henna is Hinnom the valley outside the city of Jerusalem where trash was dumped and burned. There the fires burned continually.

James 3
1 My brethren, be not many masters [teacher/expert to the masses], knowing that we shall receive the greater condemnation.
2 For in many things we offend all. If any man offend not in word, the same is a perfect man, and able also to bridle the whole body.
3 Behold, we put bits in the horses’ mouths, that they may obey us; and we turn about their whole body.
4 Behold also the ships, which though they be so great, and are driven of fierce winds, yet are they turned about with a very small helm, whithersoever the governor wills.
5 Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasts great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindles!
6 And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of gehenna.
7 For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of things in the sea, is tamed, and Has been tamed of mankind:
8 But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.
9 Therewith bless we God, even the Father; and therewith curse we men, which are made after the similitude of God.
10 Out of the same mouth proceeds blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be.
11 Doth a fountain send forth at the same place sweet water and bitter?
12 Can the fig tree, my brethren, bear olive berries? either a vine, figs? so can no fountain both yield salt water and fresh.
13 Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? let him show out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom.
14 But if you have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.
15 This wisdom descends not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish.
16 For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.
17 But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.
18 And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace.