THE SEVEN CHURCHES
Revelation 1:20; "The mystery of the seven stars which thou sawest in my right hand, and the seven golden candlesticks. The seven stars are the angels of the seven churches: and the seven candlesticks which thou sawest are the seven churches."
LET'S LOOK AT THE MEANING OF WORDS": (using James Strongs Concordence) Remember...this mystery is revealing itself now.
seven..........without even looking that word up we should know it means complete...
stars..........(#729,4766,4731,2476,5087,2740,2545...you have to do a little research here to get the deeper meanings) is their position...to stand, abide, continue, hold up, lay, still, forth, present, solid, stable, strong, to place upright, make, purpose, to be burned, set on fire, consume, light.
Who is told to stand?................
Who is told to abide?...............
Who is told to continue, be strong,....we see all these words listed in scriptures.
Stars are talking about a group of people to .........stand, to abide,.............to be strong...............
...to be burned, set on fire, consume, light.... these are those who come out of the tribulation..and stand upright on the sea of glass. Glass is made by extreme heat. Who stands on the sea of glass....the great Multitude.
present.........Revelation 6:2; " And I saw, and behold a white horse: and he that sat on him had a bow; and a crown was given unto him: and he went forth conquering, and to conquer. bow..when you look up the meaning of this word it means....a present...to be delivered (to Christ) II Tim. 4:8; "henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing."
which thou sawest in my right hand.............remember in Acts 7:56, Steven saw Jesus standing on the right hand of God....even the tabernacle in the desert was set up as a court room. The judge faced East....on his North side (left hand was the proscuting attorney...Satan..serpents/scorpions) on the South side (right hand was the defense attorney...Jesus) These are the two angels facing each other on the ark of the covenant.
Job 9:9; "Which maketh Arcturus, Orion, and Pleiades, and the chambers of the south." Arcturus....the meat eating bear...Orion....the hunter with his club in one hand and the dead carcus of the lion (christians are to put on the image of Christ...the great Multitude that have been killed) in the other (todays versions show a shield...which is mis repretation) Both Arcturu (was a constellation...now considered a star) and Orion are facing......Pleiades..which are a group of stars..seven stars...in the constallation of the bull. Animal sacrifice .....those in the bull.
...chambers ...Ezra 8:29; "Watch ye, and keep them, until ye weigh them before the chief of the priests and the Levites, and chief of the fathers of Israel, at Jerusalem, in the chambers of the house of the Lord." (ye weigh them....Revelation 6:5)
and the seven golden candlesticks........Zechariah 4:11,12; "Then answered I, and said unto him, What are these two olive trees upon the right side of the candlestick and upon the left side there? (12) And I answered again, and said unto him, What be these two olive branches(means white...the multitude put on white linen) which throught the two golden pipes empty the golden oil out of themselves."
The angel is telling him that the golden candlesticks has been refined gold in the refiners fire in the tribulation.....a candle is to give give light. When Jesus was on the Mt. of Olives.....that is where olives are placed in a vise to make oil.
the seven stars are the angels of the seven churches...........if the stars represent the great Multitude during the tribulation then angels would represent leaders of those seven churches.
angels..........(Strongs Concordence...#2470, 32) means....a pastor.
So, we now have the Multitude and we also see that there are pastors for the group of multitude helping them through the tribulation.
The seven candlesticks............remember in Revelation 1:13 the Lord is standing in the midst of them but in Revelation 11:4; "These are the two olive trees, and the two candlesticks standing before the God of the earth." Now......we see only two. The are oils of illumination oil...a light that will show forth in the tribulation.
Luke 12:32-38; "Fear not, little (#3398..least) flock; for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom. (33)Sell that ye have, and give alms; provide yourselves bags which wax not old, a treasure in the heavens that faileth not, where no thief approacheth, neither moth corrupteth.(35) Let your loins be girded about, and your lights burning;(36) And ye yourselves like unto men that wait for the Lord, when he will return from the wedding; that when he cometh and knocketh, that may open unto him immediately.(37) Blessed are those servants, whom the Lord when he cometh shall find watching: verily I say unto you,, that he shall gird himself, and make them to sit down to meat, and will come forth and serve them.(38) And if he shall come in the second watch, or come in the third watch, and find them so, blessed are those servants."
Luke 9:48; "And said unto them, Whosoever shall receive this child in my name receiveth me: and whosoever shall receive me receiveth him that sent me: for he that is least among you all, the same shall be great."
Revelation 7:9; "After this I beheld, and, lo, a great multitude, which no man could numbeer, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues, stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in their hands."
