No, that is incorrect. It is the fire OF God. Big difference.
Deuteronomy 4:33
[33] Did ever people hear the voice of God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as thou hast heard, and live?
Psalm 68:2
[2] As smoke is driven away, so drive them away: as wax melteth before the fire, so let the wicked perish at the presence of God.
2 Thessalonians 1:7-8
[7] And to you who are troubled rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels, [8] In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ:
Ezekiel 1:4
[4] And I looked, and, behold, a whirlwind came out of the north, a great cloud, and a fire infolding itself, and a brightness was about it, and out of the
midst thereof as the
colour of amber, out of the midst of the fire.
2 Thessalonians 2:8
[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:
Fire, brightness, heat, melting, dissolved...For our God is a consuming fire. You said “No, that is incorrect. It is the fire
OF God. Big difference.”
okay “of” ‘out of’ ‘from’ ‘in the midst’ or ‘before’: the only difference is in forcing it to mean literal fire. You cannot make the presence of God, Spirit...literal. Except when He was made flesh and manifest to take away the sins of men. God is Spirit. Ezekiel 1:26-28 And above the firmament that was over their heads was the likeness of a throne, as the appearance of a sapphire stone: and upon the likeness of the throne was the likeness as the appearance of a man above upon it. [27] And I saw as the
colour of amber, as the appearance of fire round about within it, from the appearance of his loins even upward, and from the appearance of his loins even downward, I saw as it were the appearance of fire, and it had brightness round about. [28] As the appearance of the bow that is in the cloud in the day of rain, so was the appearance of the
brightness round about. This was the appearance of the likeness of the
glory of the Lord . And when I saw it , I fell upon my face, and I heard a voice of one that spake.
Mark 8:38
[38] Whosoever therefore shall be ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation; of him also shall the Son of man be ashamed, when he
cometh in the glory of
his Father with the holy angels.
You are right: the Fire ‘of’ God does make a difference as you must separate the fire/brightness/glory from God ...to force the fire that melts all as being literal fire. (1 Timothy 6:16)