The term baptism with fire originated from the words of John the Baptist in Matthew 3:11 (and the parallel passage in Luke 3:16).
If two baptisms, then various meanings have been suggested for the second baptism, by fire - to purify each single individual who accept Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior to be the temple of the Holy Spirit, to cast out demons and to destroy the stronghold of the flesh by the Fire of God.
[2] Of this expression, J. H. Thayer commented: "to overwhelm with fire (those who do not repent), i.e., to subject them to the terrible penalties of hell".
[1] John Fletcher, Methodism's systematic theologian, explicated baptism with the Holy Ghost and fire as the experience of Christian perfection (entire sanctification): "Scripture reckons the coming of the spiritual kingdom of Christ with power into the heart of believers, and the baptism of fire, or the perfect love, which burns up the chaff of sin, thoroughly purges God's floor, and make the hearts of perfect believers a habitation of God through the Spirit, and not a nest for indwelling sin.
They feel a natural tendency to evil, a proneness to depart from God, and cleave to the things of earth.
Entire sanctification takes place subsequently to justification, and is the work of God wrought instantaneously upon the consecrated, believing soul.
—"Articles of Religion", Book of Discipline, Free Methodist Church[9]In the view of Fletcher, the "latter day glory" would "exceed the first effusion of the Spirit" at Pentecost; he wrote: "Seeing that they on the day of Pentecost bare witness to the grace of our Lord, so shall we, and like them spread the name of love.
"[10] To this end, "Fletcher taught that the day of Pentecost was the opening of the dispensation of the Spirit, and he insisted that believers now are called upon to receive the same baptismal fire.
"[10] Jabulani Sibanda, a theologian in the Wesleyan-Arminian tradition, says with regard to entire sanctification:[1] This experience is important because it is the second work of grace.
[17] Writers such as John Deedy have stated that the term in a military sense entered the English language in 1822 as a translation of the French phrase baptême du feu.
Released on the war's 60th anniversary, it constitutes the largest set of CIA records on the topic, coinciding with the "New Documents and New Histories: Twenty-First Century Perspectives on the Korean War" conference jointly organized by the Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and the CIA in Independence, Missouri.
An example is the "Brothers in Arms" song by the Dire Straits, which covers the British involvement in the Falklands War: Through these fields of destructionsbaptisms of fireI've witnessed your sufferingas the battle raged higher.