THE MENORAH - One Last Thought

  More about the Menorah: The seven lamps on one lampstand represent seven characteristics, or Personalities, of God in One unified Person. Now consider the key verses:

² …A throne was set in heaven, and one sat on the throne… ³ and there was a rainbow round about the throne, in sight like unto an emerald… ⁵ and there were seven lamps of fire burning before the throne, which are the seven Spirits of God. (Rev 4:2,3,5)

  Already discussed is that a rainbow, representing the Promise of God, is a Menorah made up of seven colors. Here is where the representations of the seven “colors” are identified as “seven spirits of God.” There are several things identified as the “seven spirits” and perhaps they represent many things. Of the Branch of Jesse, it is written: 

² And the spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the Lord; ³ And shall make him of quick understanding in the fear of the Lord: and he shall not judge after the sight of his eyes, neither reprove after the hearing of his ears… (Isa 11:2-3) 

  The seven spirits are the Spirit of the Lord, wisdom, understanding, counsel, might, knowledge, and the fear of the Lord. The Holy Ghost is the Spirit of the Lord. His Purpose is Comfort and is the Compassionate Spirit of the Lord. The very purpose of the Branch (Jesus) is compassion! That is the Son of God aspect of Jesus. The Spirit of Jesus when He was glorified (lighted) is the Holy Ghost (John 7:39).

  Wisdom is the “Father” aspect, to wit: “You created all things, and by Your Will they exist and were created… (Rev 4:21). God willed the genesis of all things (Gen 1:1), and Jesus created them (John 1-3,14).

  Jesus understood! About those who crucified, He said, “Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do” (Luke 23:34). Paul said, “Enter not into temptation: the Spirit is willing but the flesh is weak” (Mat 26:41). Jesus knew that; He willingly entered into temptation and demonstrated to Satan that His Spirit is Almighty! Speaking of Almighty, that was the might of Jesus. He created all things as Almighty God and had the might to resist the Devil. He also overcame the world, “Be of good cheer; I have overcome the world” (John 16:33). Because He overcame sin for us, we too can overcome the world, not by our own might but His (1 John 5:4).

  Jesus counsels. His Word is the truth, and He counsels that truth shall make you free. “I am the way, the truth, and the life…” (John 14:6). “I AM” is that He IS the Almighty God, JHWH! That truth is what can make you free (John 8:32) — free from sin and out of the bondage of Satan. Jesus is Teacher, and is called “Rabbi,” as the Master Teacher!

  Jesus is knowledge. “For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ” (2 Cor 4:6). He is the Light of the World (Jon 8:12). Jesus is the Lampstand. The Menorah represents Jesus! In the Tabernacle and the Temple, the Lampstand shined from the East. In the hearts of Christians, glory from the Man from the East shines into our hearts. Jesus must be the “Lampstand” and the seven lamps His characteristics.

  Knowledge is the Light from Jesus, and that Light is Truth. Just what knowledge? That Jesus emits the Light (Glory) of God as the Face of God. When you look at Jesus, you behold God! To Philip, Jesus said, “He that hath seen me hath seen the Father (John 14:9). What the Father knew Jesus spoke. Jesus is the Word of God (John 1)!

  Jesus is God and is to be feared as God, to wit: “For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad” (2 Cor 5:10). Everyone, even Christians, shall stand before Jesus at the Great White Throne Judgment that the One with the rainbow over His head, judges. Jesus is not only the Savior but also the Perisher. He wants that none should perish, but the wicked shall perish, not by His hand but by their own deeds.

  There it is — The Menorah is symbolic of Jesus. The Lampstand is the Triune God, and the lamps are His attributes. When anyone sees a Menorah, it is God manifested, and anytime God shows Himself to the world, that is Jesus. Just who was the Hebrews looking toward when they worshiped? They were looking at preincarnate Jesus.

  Moses knew that when He fashioned the Menorah. He was sculpting an image of God whose image was not to be worshiped. Why is the Menorah lost, or should it be better said, hidden away? Just like Aaron’s rod and the Serpent pole, so as not to be worshiped as the Face of God.

  Christians no longer need the Menorah because we have the Holy Cross. The Menorah represented the future and now it is finished… Jesus gave up the Ghost (John 19:30). With that, the Holy Spirit of God was put out and the old replaced with the new. Now when the Cross is seen, just think of it as the Menorah where the central Light finally dimmed but was relighted at the resurrection of Jesus.

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