A Poem Based on Zephaniah

Gather yourselves, yes gather
As kindling to the fire
And as your flesh is burned away
Light and heat will take its place

Agape flows through molten hearts
Bright light of His eternal life
Corporeal engulfed in flame
True man revealed in its place

His countenance, the burning bush
Of Sinai as the thunders roared
Of Jesus in transfiguration
Pentecostal fires of heaven

Yes gather to the burning flame
Consent there to be set ablaze
Allow yourself to burn away
Be gathered up in Jesus’ name

For fire will soon purify
And chaff erupt in puff of smoke
With tares removed out from the wheat
With sin and fear and death and sea

For who can stand before God’s face?
His burning love! His reckless grace!
Consent to the refiner’s fire
That you may live, and never die.

Bibliography (Chicago Style)

The Holy Bible, English Standard Version. Wheaton, IL: Crossway Bibles, 2016.
(Primary source for all scripture references below.)

Zephaniah 2:1–3

“Gather together, yes, gather, O shameless nation…”

Zephaniah 3:8–9

“For my decision is to gather nations… for fire of my jealousy; then I will give the peoples purified lips…”

Malachi 3:2–3

“But who can endure the day of his coming… For he is like a refiner’s fire and like fullers’ soap.”

Matthew 3:11–12

“He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire… He will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.”

Luke 3:16–17

“He will gather the wheat into his barn, but the chaff he will burn with unquenchable fire.”

Exodus 3:1–6

“The angel of the Lord appeared to him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush… the bush was burning, yet it was not consumed.”

Exodus 19:16–19

“There were thunders and lightnings and a thick cloud on the mountain… the mountain trembled greatly.”

Matthew 17:1–2

“And he was transfigured before them, and his face shone like the sun…”

Acts 2:1–4

“Divided tongues as of fire appeared to them and rested on each one of them…”

Hebrews 12:29

“For our God is a consuming fire.”