ronald

A lampstand is just a stand for the lamp. Jesus walking in the midst of the lampstands suggests of Him as being the lamp. Jesus is the lamp (Ps 132:17) as He is the Light of this world (Luk 1:79; 2:32; Jn 1:4,7-9; 9:5) and His words is the lamp unto our feet (Ps 119:105), therefor He is the lamp on the seven lampstands which guide the seven churches.

Jesus was pictured as the Son of God in full submission to His Father who obeyed even to the point of death. In Revelation, as He was seen by John in his vision, Jesus was pictured as the Auhority, the Almighty to whom we are to submit and obey even to the point of death. His life that he lived before is the life that we are to live, His character and virtues that He possesed are the same that we are to posses. He is our model, He is our wat, we walk where He walked, we walk how walked, we talk what He talked, we talk how He talked. That's what we call walking His walk and talking His talk.

The theme of testimony and witness is so important as it adds gives credence to and authenticity of what is said or written. It seals it. Jesus gives us encouragement that whatever persecution that we are facing or about to face is temporary and that we can overcome it because He will give us the strength through the Holy Spirit in the same was that He overcame. The end of this evil world anmd the promises to those who believe in Him, as it is written in the Bokk of Revelation give us more encouragement that whatever sufferings we are to have are incomparable to the glory that we shall have in Chirst Jesus. So many Christians are afraid to witness today despite the absence of persecutions (I mean the same proportion as what the early Christians had suffered) because they do not want to be considered as weirdos or out of this world (when we are called out), plus the fact thay they are afraid that their friends will tease them about witnessing when they themselves don't live according to the biblical standard of Christianity. And one thing, they are do not want to give up the worldly things that they are still enjoying. Satan has a lot to offer today than before in order to keep Christians away from their devotion to serve and glorify the Lord fully in their lives.

It just crossed into my mind, God is a spirit () not two, not three but one spirit. When Jesus was not yet born He was not Jesus, for that name belongs to the incarnated Word, yet He has the fullness of God, hence He has the Spirit of God. He is God in the flesh but who was He when He was not still in the flesh? Surely, He was a spirit before He was born, but are there three spirits of God, the spirit of the Father, the spirit of the Son and the Holy Spirit? When we finally meet God who are we going to see? Jesus? the Holy Spirit or the Spirit of God, the Father? Did God have a Son before Jesus was born? That would that the Spirit of the father reproduced. But the Spirit of Jesus had no beginning, hence He did not come from no one. If He was the son of God before He was born, then the Father is His beginning. I believe that God did not and does not multiply His spirit, so then there is but one Spirit of God, He is the Father, He is the Son, and He is the Holy Spirit. God is One.