The Refiner's Fire was the brainchild of Shali, a Jewish-born journalist and Believer in Yeshua HaMashiyach (Jesus Christ) who got the idea in 2001 when a traditional Jewish friend attempted to introduce her to several Jewish "anti-missionary" websites for "conversion" back to Judaism. When Shali became aware of the type of hateful "anti-Jesus" rhetoric espoused on sites such as Outreach Judaism, Jews for Judaism, and the Messiah Truth Project, she decided to build an anti-anti-missionary apologetics website in order to counter those sites and provide people a chance to become fully informed about God's Word before making up their minds as to what they choose to believe.

However, once the emails started pouring in from around the world, The Refiner's Fire (which receives an average of half a million hits per month) quickly expanded into challenging anyone who is against the Bible in any way, or is teaching unbiblical doctrine. This includes those who do have not accepted Yeshua as their Messiah, and the myriad Christian "televangelists" and other pastors who are pushing an erroneous "NT-only" theology suggesting that God's Torah is a curse and, in order to "be saved" one has to do nothing but "believe in" in a Torah-less Jesus who supposedly came to abolish His Father's original divine commandments and institute a new religion called Christianity.

While no one can honestly say they have cornered the market on Truth, The Refiner's Fire website presents Biblical Truth from a "Hebrew", rather than a "Greek" mindset and attempts to show, through Bible-only teachings, the errors of man's religiosity. There are no "donate" buttons on The Refiner's Fire, because our goal is not to profit from YHWH's Word but, rather, to present evidence that there is more to God and the Bible than we have been taught in our churches and synagogues. Our goal is to get people to think for themselves when it comes to Scripture.

Shali, host of The Refiner's Fire, is a former U.S. Army Sergeant Major who served 22 years as a journalist/newspaper editor, administrator and German language translator. Originally from Germany, she came to the U.S. in 1960 when her mother married an American soldier. Shali has a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of the State of New York and is a graduate of Mid-America Business College (Springfield, Missouri), the Defense Information School (journalism) at Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana, and the prestigious United States Army Sergeants Major Academy in El Paso, Texas, where she also worked as a lesson developer and instructor. She is now a Hebraic Faith/Netzari teacher who has published several books and had the distinct privilege of being the editor/proofreader of Andrew Gabriel Roth's Aramaic English New Testament .

Andrew Gabriel Roth, a Hebrew, Greek and Aramaic scholar, has authored several books and translated from Aramaic into English the Khabouris Codex which is the oldest New Testament ever discovered. His work, entitled the Aramaic English New Testament (AENT) is unique because its copious footnotes and appendixes are written from the Netzari/Messianic viewpoint, which serves to clarify the many misconceptions/ mistranslations and confusion caused by some of the Greek NT versions. Roth is author of several books including, Ruach Qadim: Aramaic Origins of the New Testament and Ruach Qadim: Path to Life; and his most recent blockbuster, Wheel of Stars.

Baruch ben Daniel is owner of Netzari Press, co-author of the Aramaic English New Testament and webmaster of Mashiyach, Netzari, Aderetzion, Shalom Chaverim and several other Messianic websites. Baruch serves the Body of Mashiyach in teaching, leading worship and helping coordinate and organize spiritual events, but his primary work is the sales and marketing of the AENT. He is also involved at the School of Prophets in Jerusalem and volunteers for a humanitarian ministry in Israel. He loves to help others who are interested in learning the Truth of Messiah Yeshua and Torah.