Daily Rhema: The Church in the candlestick

Proverbs 20:27(KJV)
The spirit of man is the candle of the LORD, searching all the inward parts of the belly.

Revelation 1:12-13 (KJV)
And I turned to see the voice that spake with me. And being turned, I saw seven golden candlesticks; and in the midst of the seven candlesticks one like unto the Son of man, clothed with a garment down to the foot, and girt about the paps with a golden girdle.

Revelation 1:20 (KJV)
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.

Here we see the Lord Jesus appearing to the Apostle John in an open vision, and in the middle of seven golden candlesticks, He saw the Lord Jesus who told him what the 7 golden candlesticks symbolized: the 7 churches in Asia.

So the candlestick symbolizes the church.

Now the candlestick is called in Hebrew the Menorah meaning the ‘light bearer’ (Ex.25:31-37).

The candlestick was made out of one piece of beaten gold with a central stem and six branches: three coming out of each side of the central stem.

The candlestick represents the church spiritually and functionally both individually and collectively.

Individually, the candlestick represents the individual Christian who, like the Lord Jesus had, has the 7 spirits of God operating in and through him on a daily basis(Is.11:2).

Every Christian by daily prayer for the life of God (the oil in the candlestick) should pray for these 7 spirits to be operating in and through them.

This is the spiritual substance and reality of what the Old Testament priests did on a daily basis when they went into the Holy Place of the temple to put oil and trim the lamps of the candlestick to make sure the lamps were burning properly producing light for the priests to be able to see and eat of the shew bread, which is symbolic of the Word of God (Jn. 6:35, Mt. 4:4) which we ‘eat’ spiritually by ‘seeing’ it by revelation (2 Cor. 4:6).

Collectively the candlestick represents the corporate church in a geographical region (not local or denominational churches): God sees the church as a spiritual body of the spirits of born-again Christians joined together and not as local man-made denominational assemblies.

In this corporate regional body of Christians, we will have bishops, deacons and saints (Phil. 1:1) who as individual candlesticks (as shown above) are producing light. The bishops or spiritual overseers have developing 5-fold ministry anointings (apostle, prophet, teacher, pastor and evangelist Eph. 4:11; 1 Cor. 12:28-30) operating in and through them bringing the light of God’s Word (Ps. 119:130) and in addition to the deacons and saints *they make up the 7 branches of the candlestick that are bringing light to the geographical region the church is placed in.

The two olive trees described in Zechariah represent developed apostolic and prophetic ministries that are used by God through covering by intercessory prayer (emptying the golden oil out of themselves) to supply oil or anointing from God to the developing 5 fold ministries, deacons and saints (Zec 4:2-3 ,11-14).

God’s plan is for there to be functioning candlesticks that are giving very bright light in and to every ‘ethnos’: tribe and tongue.

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