One of the purposes of Revelation is to strengthen the churches.
#Seven spirits of god series
In the first vision, through a series of short messages in chapters 2 and 3, Jesus rebukes most of the seven churches for being unfaithful to the gospel instead of adhering to the message and delivering it as they had received it.
#Seven spirits of god free
It is not something of man's own making which he is free to treat and change as he pleases (see Revelation 22:16-17). 3 The Faithfulness of the ChurchesĮach church needed to remain faithful to the gospel. The churches become the last link in that chain through which the gospel is passed on to the world.Įach congregation must ensure that it is not a weak link in the chain, and that it honors the commission it has received from the throne of Heaven to spread abroad the revelation of Christ. It was passed on through Christ, through the ministry of angels, through the prophet John, to the churches. You will recall the chain we discussed in Revelation 1:1.
The message comes from God, from the very throne of Heaven. The gospel is a message to mankind on all the earth.
The seven spirits are before the throne, and are "sent out into all the earth" (Revelation 5:6). This is the great commission Jesus gave to his disciples (Mark 16:15-16). 2 The Commission to the ChurchesĮach church was commissioned to spread the gospel message further afield. So each congregation has the responsibility to go back to the true origin. A church built on anything else is allowing a false spirit into its midst. This means that the congregation builds itself upon the testimony of Jesus, his gospel or new testament. Any congregation, in order to be true, must be true to the Spirit of that congregation. The origin of any congregation of Christ should be the work of the Holy Spirit not the work of men. This was true from the establishment of the first church of Christ in Jerusalem on the day of Pentecost, when the Holy Spirit gave utterance to men, signifying it by tongues of fire which rested upon each of them, and they preached the gospel to bring the first church into being (Acts 2:1-5). Churches came into being in each place through the message of the gospel being preached in that place. 1 The Origin of the ChurchesĮach church had its origin in the gospel. There are three aspects to the relationship between the seven Spirits and the seven churches. The expression "the seven Spirits of God" (Revelation 5:6) is parallel to the expression "the God of the spirits of the prophets" (Revelation 22:6).īy representing the Holy Spirit and his work as seven spirits, the visions reassure us that God has a personal relationship with each congregation of Christ, and each congregation has its own independent responsibility in that relationship.
Each Spirit is a representation of the Holy Spirit's personal work through prophets ministering to each of the seven churches, delivering to them the God-breathed testimony or gospel of Jesus. There are seven Spirits to match the seven churches addressed by the Revelation.
7Behold he is coming with clouds, and every eye shall see him. To him who loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood, 6And has made us kings and priests to his God and Father, to him be glory and dominion, for ever and ever, Amen. ¶“ 4.from Him who is, and who was, and who is to come, and from the seven spirits who are before his throne, 5And from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the firstborn from the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth.
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