Joel 1:19 English Standard Version (ESV) To you, O Lord, I call. For fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness, and flame has burned all the trees of the field.

This is destructive fire, not light.

John 10:10 English Standard Version (ESV) The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly.

Consider that the enemy of Christ seeks to destroy what Christ is building. What better way than to devour the pastures where the sheep are found. When a pasture is destroyed sheep wonder away to seek food.

One of the properties of wildfire is to illuminate things in the darkness. Its power to show anything is held in the destructive nature of burning the trees of the field. Wildfire needs fuel.

Psalm 1:3 English Standard Version (ESV) He is like a tree planted by streams of water that yields its fruit in its season, and its leaf does not wither. In all that he does, he prospers.

Mankind are those trees. When planted away from the source of life giving water^{[the Holy Spirit]} then it becomes dry and kindle to be added to the wildfire to be burnt.

This phenomenon has been seen as church growth and misleads those who are not led by God. They will try and duplicate the events but God is not their author and there is vanity in that faith, false faith.

Ecclesiastes 1:13-15 English Standard Version

¹³ And I applied my heart^[soul] to seek and to search out by wisdom all that is done under heaven. It is an unhappy business that God has given to the children of man to be busy with. ¹⁴ I have seen everything that is done under the sun, and behold, all is vanity^{[mere breath]} and a striving after wind.^{[to be fed]}

¹⁵ What is crooked cannot be made straight, and what is lacking cannot be counted.

Staring lovingly into the flames and warming our flesh is not spiritual.

The lost that die in wildfire will not be counted among the bride.

Genesis 42:18 English Standard Version (ESV) On the third day Joseph said to them, “Do this and you will live, for I fear God:”

At this point in Joseph’s life he was second only to Pharaoh in Egypt. The fear spoken of here to his brothers was one of reverence. He revered God in all that God had done in his life from the moment his brothers sold him into bondage to this moment when he met them again.

Having respect is one thing, having reverence goes one step further. Respect is a matter of speech, reverence is a matter of living by faith. There is a difference between how we speak and how we live.

When we look at the life of Joseph we will discover that the Lord blessed him over and over again because Joseph held his tongue. He showed respect in his speech to men that only understood respect. They had no reverence for God, but Joseph revered God and he was wise in his speech.

Romans 13:7 English Standard Version (ESV) Pay to all what is owed to them: taxes to whom taxes are owed, revenue to whom revenue is owed, respect to whom respect is owed, honor to whom honor is owed.

Reverence is not included in this list of what is due men because it is owed to God and God alone.

So how do we show reverence to our God?

Romans 13:14 English Standard Version (ESV) But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to gratify its desires.

Actions speak louder than words.

Isaiah 61:8 English Standard Version (ESV) For I the Lord love justice; I hate robbery and wrong;^{[robbering with a burnt offerings]} I will faithfully give them their recompense, and I will make an everlasting covenant with them.

This is just one line of scripture from Isaiah 61. In it are the actions of the One who would come and make that everlasting covenant.