John said he will baptize with the HS and with fire.
Everyone will be baptized by Jesus
those baptised wiht the HS will be put int he barn or heaven
those who are not will be burned with a fire that shall never be quenched. There is only one fire that is spoken of in that term, that is hellfire
Dear Eternally Grateful,
A person cannot be converted unless they are judged by Christ. Fire is the symbol for Christ's judgment:
Mark 9:49 For every one shall be salted with fire, and every sacrifice shall be salted with salt.
Christ also said this:
Luke 12:49 “I came to send fire on the earth, and how I wish it were already kindled!
Christ is not a monster who relishes burning mankind in fire. The reason He wished that His judgment (fire) had already started on the earth was because He longed to convert His Elect into the children of God. Conversion does not take place without judgment:
Mat 26:52 Then said Jesus unto him, put up again thy sword into his place: for all they that take the sword shall perish with the sword.
The Sword is a symbol for the Word of God. The Word of God is Christ. To be saved by Christ, we must perish by His Sword.
In Revelation 13, the Seven Headed Beast is a symbol for a "fallen away" believer who is controlled by the second beast (the spirit of anti-Christ). On the Seven Headed Beast, one of his heads had a deadly wound by the Sword. This wound occurred to the person when they received the Early Rain and were called into the church. But when the spirit of anti-Christ came and deceived the person, they "fall away" and the deadly wound by the Sword of Christ was healed. In other words, the believer's carnality was not slain but was in fact, made "worse than the first" (Mat 12:43:45) by the spirit of anti-Christ.
When Christ comes a second time to an Elect believer, Christ will strike another blow to their head. This is the Latter Rain. With the Latter Rain, the believer's spiritual blindness will be healed. With their blindness healed, the truth of Christ will destroy the Man of Sin who they became under Satan's influence:
2Thes 2:8 And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming:
The "spirit of His mouth" is the Christ's Sword:
Rev 1:16 And he had in his right hand seven stars: and out of his mouth went a sharp two-edged sword...
Without Christ's judgment, no one can be saved. Mankind's carnal nature must be destroyed in order to be saved. After it is, a person will then be governed by a new spiritual nature, one which the Holy Spirit gives them. This is conversion.
Joe