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The Lord has seven horns—v. 6b:
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Horns signify strength in fighting—Deut. 33:17.
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Christ is the redeeming Lamb, yet He has horns for fighting.
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He is the fighting Redeemer; His fighting is complete in God's move, as signified by the number seven.
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Eyes are for observing and searching:
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Christ as the redeeming Lamb has seven observing and searching eyes for executing God's judgment upon the universe to fulfill God's eternal purpose, which will consummate in the building up of the New Jerusalem.
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In Zechariah 3:9 Christ is prophesied as the stone, the topstone (4:7) with seven eyes for God's building.
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These seven eyes are the seven Spirits of God sent forth into all the earth, and they run to and fro through the whole earth—v. 10.
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According to Greek grammar, the antecedent of which is seven eyes—Rev. 5:6.
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The seven Spirits of God refer only to the seven eyes of the Lamb, and not to His seven horns.
Morning Nourishment
Deut. 33:17 …And his horns are the horns of the wild ox; with them he shall drive peoples to the ends of the earth together…Rev. 3:1 …These things says He who has the seven Spirits of God…
In Revelation 5:6 John says that the Lamb has seven horns. Horns signify strength in fighting (Deut. 33:17). Christ is the redeeming Lamb, yet He has horns for fighting. He is the fighting Redeemer. His fighting is complete (perfect and complete) in God's move, as signified by the number seven. Revelation 5:6 also says that the Lamb has “seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God sent forth into all the earth.” Eyes are for observing and searching…Christ as the redeeming Lamb has seven observing and searching eyes for executing God's judgment upon the universe to fulfill God's eternal purpose, which will consummate in the building up of the New Jerusalem. Therefore, in Zechariah 3:9 He is prophesied as the stone, the topstone (4:7) with seven eyes for God's building…The seven eyes of Christ are the seven Spirits of God sent forth into all the earth, and they run to and fro through the whole earth (Zech. 4:10). (The Conclusion of the New Testament, p. 4238)
Today’s Reading
When we attend a church meeting, we are under a special kind of observation…Before we attend the meeting, we may speak freely, but after the meeting Christ regulates our speaking. In the evening some kind of inner voice within us may urge us to go to a meeting. It may not be our natural preference to go, but we cannot avoid going. Then when we arrive at the meeting, we touch the living Christ. The burning, searching, enlightening, and observing reality of Christ as the life-giving Spirit is in the churches.The seven Spirits are the seven eyes by which Christ expresses Himself… Whenever the Lord looks at us with His eyes, we can understand if He is happy or unhappy…By looking at us, He transfuses all that He is into our being. His seven eyes are gazing at us to infuse God into us.
The seven eyes of the Lamb as the Executor of God's New Testament economy are the seven lamps upheld by the seven lampstands, the seven churches, shining and enlightening as the testimony of Jesus (Rev. 1:9b, 11-12). This burning, judging, purifying, refining, and producing Spirit is the lamps upheld by the lampstands, the churches. This means that the churches shine through the lamps and that these lamps are the Spirit, the real testimony. The seven Spirits today are judging, purifying, refining, and bringing forth the churches…If we do not allow the seven Spirits to refine us, the seven Spirits have no way to shine, and there is no testimony. The shining of the seven Spirits is the testimony. The more we let the Spirit purify us and refine us, the more He shines through us, and this shining is the testimony of the churches. This is why we need to open ourselves and welcome Him every day to enter into our being to refine, judge, purge, and purify us. Then He will shine through us, and this shining is the testimony of the church, the testimony of Jesus. The testimony of Jesus is the shining of the seven Spirits from within all the believers in the churches.
We should pray, “Dear divine Flame, come and judge! Come and purify! Come and refine that You may produce the golden lampstand.” By His mercy, we need to be open to Him. Every day we need to tell the Lord, “Come. I am open to You. I open every avenue of my being to You. Enlighten me, search me within, and expose me. I want to be enlightened by You and exposed in Your light.” Instead of shutting ourselves up and hiding from Him, we need to pray, “Lord, we are open. Come and shine upon us, and shine from within us and enlighten every avenue and every corner of our being. We desire to be exposed, purged, and purified.” (The Conclusion of the New Testament, pp. 4243-4245)
Further Reading: The Conclusion of the New Testament, msg. 416