Good News #358: Jesus is My Hedge of Protection Surrounding Me Against All My Enemies!

The holy fire of God burns up what isn’t His… We see this happen quite profoundly in the story of Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah.

Daniel 3 gives us the account of how these three young Jewish men were told to fall down and worship the golden image of Nebuchadnezzar… and how they refused to do so. As a consequence of refusing to worship the image of Nebuchadnezzar, these three were bound and thrown into a fiery furnace that was set seven times hotter than usual.

It was so hot that the men who threw Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah into the furnace were themselves killed by the fire.

Yet, even when they were already in the midst of the fiery furnace, Hananiah, Mishael and Azariah were not harmed. In fact, the account tells us that they got out of the furnace without a hair of their heads singed nor were their robes scorched and there was even no smell of fire on them.

The fire did not harm them because Jesus, in His pre-incarnate form, stood in their midst… and the fire that Nebuchadnezzar intended to harm the three young Jewish men was consumed by the holy fire that is Jesus, the wall of fire, who swallowed up the profane fire Nebuchadnezzar set up.

The Lord who said He would be a wall of fire all around protected Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah.

The gospel is this — no matter what the enemy sets against the children of God, Jesus sets Himself as The Wall of fire all around to protect them and frustrate the schemes of the enemy, even the enemy themselves get burned up.
Jesus is our fiery protection against all of hell.
Jesus is The Gospel.
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“For I,” says the Lord, “will be a wall of fire all around her, and I will be the glory in her midst.”

Zechariah 2:5