Here again, the seven Spirits are of God. ( Rev 4:5) And out of the throne proceeded lightnings and thunderings and voices: and there were seven lamps of fire burning before the throne, which are the seven Spirits of God. The words John is to write come from “He that hath the seven Spirits of God,” that is Christ. Jesus has told John to write these things to the messenger (angel, anggelos, messenger–Strong’s 32) of the church at Sardis. ( Rev 3:1) And unto the angel of the church in Sardis write These things saith he that hath the seven Spirits of God, and the seven stars I know thy works, that thou hast a name that thou livest, and art dead. So these seven Spirits cannot be the seven messengers of the seven churches.įurther evidence is gained from a reading of the other verses in Revelation where the seven Spirits are mentioned. The Revelation is from the seven Spirits to the seven churches. It was to the angels or messengers of the seven churches that Jesus sent seven messages. In this commentary, I choose to spell it Yehovah instead of the traditional Jehovah, because there is no single letter that corresponds to J in Hebrew, and the first letter of the Tetragrammaton is י, yod, whose consonant sound is just like the English consonant ‘Y’. Of late, the pronunciation Yahweh has become popular in evangelical circles. It has been pronounced Ya’-ha-vey, Je-ho’-vah, Yah’-weh, Yah’-veh, and others. Thus the pronunciation has been difficult to discern. However, each consonant is also a consonantal vowel, that is, they can each have a vowel sound. Technically it is made up of the consonants YHVH. The pronunciation of that Name has been debated. God the Father’s name in the Hebrew as we see it first in Genesis 2:4, is יהוה. From the beginning He has been known as Elohim (plural) and not Eloah (singular).
He is the triune or triumvirate God, Elohim in the Hebrew, which is the plural of Eloah, or God. He is One God who reveals Himself to us in three Persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. The Revelation of Jesus Christ was sent via John to the seven churches in Asia from God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit, or the Three Persons of the Godhead. 5, it was sent from Jesus Christ, or God the Son. It was sent from the seven Spirits before the throne or, better yet, from the sevenfold Spirit of God. It was sent from the Eternal of Days or God the Father. The Revelation is sent to the seven churches in Asia. One is to whom is this revelation addressed? The other is from whom is it sent? There are two subjects to this verse and the next. In this verse, they are around the throne of God. Who or what are these seven Spirits also known as the Sevenfold Spirit of God? Some say that the seven Spirits are the angels who are the messengers of each of the seven churches in Asia.
He which is, and which was, and which is to come is the eternal God, Yehovah ( Exo 3:14 Psa 90:2, Psa 102:25-27 Isa 41:4, Isa 57:15 Mic 5:2). It was approximately the western third of modern Turkey. Roman Asia was not the same as present day Asia. The letter is from John to the churches in Asia. This is the typical first century Greek salutation of a letter.
That is Rev 1:4, “ John to the seven churches which are in Asia: Grace be unto you, and peace, from him which is, and which was, and which is to come and from the seven Spirits which are before his throne ” Let us begin with the first place in the Scriptures that the phrase “The Seven Spirits of God” (or The Sevenfold Spirit of God) occurs.
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