Without the cross men could not receive the Spirit, and without the sacrificial lamb there would not be fullness of blessings! Since then the church of Jesus Christ is the temple of the Holy Spirit. The Spirit could not make his dwelling in the followers of Christ with all power, before the Savior had blotted out the sins of the world on the cross. Through these explanations about the seven spirits of God in the book of Revelation it will become clear that they are a source of grace and peace, create spiritual live and are in close contact to the crucified and risen Lord.
Additionally, when the Lamb of God is described, it is testified that he has the seven spirits of God (Revelation 5:6). To the spiritually dead church leader of Sardis the Lord introduces himself as the one who has the seven spirits of God and is hasting so as to quicken him in the last moment (Revelation 3:1). The book of Revelation of John speaks several times of the seven Spirits of God: John assures from the beginning the seven churches in Minor Asia of grace and peace from the eternal God, from his seven spirits and from Jesus Christ, the Son of God (1:4). The power of the Holy Spirit is the eternal live in faithful followers of Christ (John 3:16 17:3 and other verses). By means of the witness of his witnesses – which will be worked out by the Holy Spirit - Jesus creates eternal live in mortal men. Jesus said: You shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you and you shall be my witnesses (Acts 1:8). He was at work during the Old Covenant, and he is particularly at work during the New Covenant so as to create out of the chaos of the fall a new spiritual creation. The Spirit of God is a might of salvation. Who is the Spirit of God? In the beginning the Spirit of God moved upon the utter chaos until God said: "Let there be light!" And there was light (Genesis 1:1-3).
Seven is the sum of the figures three and four and represents the gracious contact between the Holy trinity and the four corners of the earth.Ĭontrary to the other details of his vision of the throne John explains the meaning of these seven flickering fire-flames: they are the seven Spirits of God. Seven as a number is in the Old and New Testament a symbol for heavenly objects and also for such objects concerning the church of Jesus Christ on earth. These seven torches in heaven indicate also to the seven golden lampstands representing the seven churches in Minor Asia (Revelation 1:20). They were burning continually and noiselessly like the lampstand with seven lamps standing on the left of the holy place before the veil of the Holy of Holiest (Exodus 40:24). They did not go out, even when lightnings and thunderclaps proceeded out of the throne. John saw in front of the throne of God seven individual torches burn. If, however, the electricity is off, the flames of this modern lampstand will go out. In a high-laying restaurant opposite to the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem there is an abstract reproduction of the lampstand with seven lamps whose licking electric flames are flickering nearby the former Holy of Holiest day and night. There were seven lamps of fire burning before his throne, which are the seven Spirits of God. the Spirit of glory and of God resteth upon you” (I Peter 4:14).Seven Lighted Torches Burning in Front of the Throneĥ. “If ye be reproached for the name of Christ. hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace?” ( Hebrews 10:29). “For God hath not given us the spirit of fear but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind” (II Timothy 1:7). may give unto you the Spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him” ( Ephesians 1:17). believe, and therefore speak” (II Corinthians 4:13). declared to be the Son of God with power, according to the Spirit of holiness” ( Romans 1:3,4).
“Concerning His Son Jesus Christ our Lord. “When He, the Spirit of truth, is come, He will guide you into all truth” ( John 16:13). There are, in fact, seven such designations recorded in the earlier books of the New Testament. Although angels are called “ministering spirits” ( Hebrews 1:14), they apparently are always called angels in Revelation, so it seems likely that these seven “Spirits of God” actually refer to a seven-fold descriptive manifestation of the character of God’s Holy Spirit, “sent forth into all the earth” ( Revelation 5:6). These seven Spirits of God at His throne are also mentioned in Revelation 1:4 3:1 and 5:6, where they are further called the “seven eyes” of the Lamb. “And out of the throne proceeded lightnings and thunderings and voices: and there were seven lamps of fire burning before the throne, which are the seven Spirits of God” ( Revelation 4:5).
0 kommentar(er)
