Prayer ~ Lord Jesus—another difficult thing to understand is the sevenfold Spirit of God. Seven? Seven horns and seven eyes? What is that mystery all that about? Please give me wisdom and understanding.
Then I began to weep bitterly because no one was
found worthy to open the scroll and read it. But one of the twenty-four elders
said to me, "Stop weeping! Look, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the heir
to David's throne, has won the victory. He is worthy to open the scroll and its
seven seals." Then I saw a Lamb that looked as if it had been slaughtered,
but it was now standing between the throne and the four living beings and among
the twenty-four elders. He had seven horns and seven eyes, which represent
the sevenfold Spirit of God that is sent out into every part of the earth. Revelation
5:4-6 (Underlined for emphasis.)
Meditate. Seven. The number of perfection or completion.
7
Seven. Seven is an important number beginning with seven
days of creation. Seven is perfection. Remember when Jesus fed 4,000 men and
their families with seven loaves and there were seven baskets of food left over
(Matthew 15)? In Revelation seven
appears more than any other number.
Loaves and Fishes
Seven: churches,
spirits, lampstands, stars, seals, angels, trumpets, thunders, heads of the
dragon, heads of the beast, golden bowls, and kings.
But what has seven eyes and seven horns?
One place in the Bible where we see a reference to seven
associated with eyes, besides the book of Revelation, is in Zechariah when
Zerubbabel is rebuilding the Temple.
Then the angel who
had been talking with me returned and woke me, as though I had been asleep.
"What do you see now?" he asked. I answered, "I see a solid gold
lampstand with a bowl of oil on top of it. Around the bowl are seven lamps,
each having seven spouts with wicks. ... Do not despise these small beginnings,
for the LORD rejoices to see the work begin, to see the plumb line in
Zerubbabel's hand." (The seven lamps represent the eyes of the LORD that
search all around the world.) Zechariah 4:1-2, 10
The lampstand in the Temple represented the eyes of the
Lord which examine and see everything around the world. Nothing escapes God’s
notice.
From the throne came
flashes of lightning and the rumble of thunder. And in front of the throne were
seven torches with burning flames. This is the sevenfold Spirit of God. Revelation
4:5
Do you remember the story of Joshua and the Israelites
fighting the battle of Jericho? It involved seven horns…blown by seven priests
on the seventh day.
Seven priests will
walk ahead of the Ark, each carrying a ram's horn. On the seventh day you are
to march around the town seven times, with the priests blowing the horns. ...
On the seventh day the Israelites got up at dawn and marched around the town as
they had done before. But this time they went around the town seven times. The
seventh time around, as the priests sounded the long blast on their horns,
Joshua commanded the people, "Shout! For the LORD has given you the town!
... When the people heard the sound of the rams' horns, they shouted as loud as
they could. Suddenly, the walls of Jericho collapsed, and the Israelites
charged straight into the town and captured it. Joshua 6:4, 15-16, 20
The horns in Joshua’s story, and the horns in Daniel 7,
which refer to kingdoms, are not the same as the horns on the Lamb here in Revelation
5.
But what has seven eyes and seven horns? According to the
notes in my study Ryrie Bible, these refer to the Holy Spirit—the completeness
of the Spirit. The Holy Spirit has various powers, graces and functions that
give Him…and thus God as a whole…completeness. God lacks nothing. Isaiah
describes Jesus using this idea of the sevenfold Spirit, since the Holy Spirit
is part of Jesus.
And the Spirit of
the LORD will rest on him—the Spirit of wisdom and understanding, the Spirit of
counsel and might, the Spirit of knowledge and the fear of the LORD. Isaiah
11:2
Seven eyes and seven horns don’t seem so scary now, do they?
Seven is complete and perfect. A lot of people would claim “seven” as their “lucky
number,” but with Jesus, who needs “luck” since He is the Way, the Truth, and
the Light. He is my savior. Is He yours?
Verse of Salvation ~ And just as each person is destined
to die once and after that comes judgment, so also Christ died once for all
time as a sacrifice to take away the sins of many people. He will come again,
not to deal with our sins, but to bring salvation to all who are eagerly
waiting for him. Hebrews 9:27-28
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