It was a link in that marvelous threefold typical chain of service celebrated each morning and evening, while “the whole multitude of the people were praying without” the sanctuary. The trimming and lighting of the lamps was a beautiful type with a daily lesson for us at the present time. In the morning we need His Spirit to direct us during the day and at evening we need it to enlighten our minds as we review the work of the day, that we may detect the flaws and dropped threads in the warp of our lives. So none but our High Priest, who was “tempted in all points like as we are,” can give us the help we need. None but the high priest could perform the sacred work of lighting the lamps in the earthly sanctuary he trimmed and lighted them each morning and evening. So the Christian is ever to let the Spirit of God rule in his life, and thus shed its light abroad. The Seven-Branched Candlestick The lamps in the earthly sanctuary were to burn continually. The Spirit is searching throughout the earth for those whose hearts are perfect toward God, and it will “strongly hold”with such ones: their light will not burn dim. The Saviour says, “Ye are the light of the world.” The Spirit of the Lord is said to be the eyes of the Lord which “run to and fro throughout the whole earth, strongly to hold with them whose heart is perfect toward Him.” Then the brightness of our light depends upon the condition of our heart. Before the throne of God in heaven he saw the seven lamps of fire, “which are the seven Spirits of God.” The church of Christ is the candlestick to hold up the light in the midst of moral darkness. The beloved disciple also had a view of the heavenly lamps, of which the earthly ones were models. The candlestick in the type held seven lamps.
Menorah seven spirits of god trial#
The individual that forms a part of the “church of the first-born, which are enrolled in heaven,” will often feel the workman’s hammer “for we are His (God’s) workmanship,created in Christ Jesus unto good works.” Then, “beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you.” It is only the Master-workman fashioning you to become a part of the great church enrolled in heaven. The candlestick of beaten gold with its seven bowls for the lamps was an “example and shadow of heavenly things.” Its seven branches, each holding aloft a lamp, represented the church of God. He also beheld the Saviour in the midst of the glorious candlesticks, of which the earthly one was a shadow.Ĭhrist, in explaining to John the meaning of what he had seen, said, “The seven candlesticks which thou sawest are the seven churches.” The number seven in the Bible denotes a complete number. John, the beloved disciple, was permitted to look into the first apartment of the sanctuary in heaven, and there he beheld seven golden candlesticks. It took many a hard and skilful blow to form those delicate flowers and bowls but the candlestick was to be made after the heavenly model to teach heavenly lessons to mankind. It was made of gold beaten into shape by the workman’s hammer. Exodus 25:31, 37The golden candlestick with its seven golden lamps was on the south side of the first apartment of the sanctuary. And thou shalt make the seven lamps thereof: and they shall light the lamps thereof, that they may give light over against it. And thou shalt make a candlestick of pure gold: of beaten work shall the candlestick be made.
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