The Lampstand was prophetic of Yahweh’s purpose in Christ and his bride. That is revealed in Rev 1:10-13, 20. It is a prophecy of the Lord Jesus Christ manifested in the midst of the Ecclesia. It is represented as a seven-fold revelation, the perfect body of Christ for the purpose of complete manifestation of Divine Truth, to the Glory of Yahweh (Numbers 14:21; Isaiah 43:7). The great light that will shine in righteousness and judgment within and without of the perfected Ecclesial-light body of the Kingdom Age, is the central stem of the future Lampstand: the Lord Jesus Christ.
The branches of the Light-body, the members of his Ecclesia through the ages, await the time of their glorification when they, too, will be made suitable vessels for the eternal display of Yahweh’s Truth and judgments in the earth.
The seven branches of the lampstand represent completeness. Christ’s “body” is now being completed by the “grafting in” of its selected members. This is the background of Rev. 4:5 where a complete Ecclesia is represented as “seven lamps of fire” witnessing for Divine Truth.
Isaiah 11:1-2 presents an interesting description of the seven branched lampstand. First (v.1), the central Rod, the Lord Jesus Christ, is represented, termed “the Spirit of Yahweh”. Then there is described the branches issuing forth from him thus:
- The Spirit of Wisdom
- The Spirit of Counsel
- The Spirit of Knowledge
- The Spirit of Understanding
- The Spirit of Might
- The Spirit of the Fear of Yahweh’s
These are the “golden” qualities which saints, as branches, must manifest in the “pattern” of their characters. The full development requires considerable discipline, affliction, or “beating” to produce it. The trial of faith is essential to that end, but it will be found, at the coming of Christ, worthy of praise, honor and glory (1Pet 1:7).
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