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- The Book of Revelations Pt 15 ( Seven Spirits ) - Samuel Dale
REVELATION 3:1
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.
REVELATION 3:2
2 Be watchful, and strengthen the things which remain, that are ready to die: for I have not found thy works perfect before God.
REVELATION 3:3
3 Remember therefore how thou hast received and heard, and hold fast, and repent. If therefore thou shalt not watch, I will come on thee as a thief, and thou shalt not know what hour I will come upon thee.
REVELATION 3:4
4 Thou hast a few names even in Sardis which have not defiled their garments; and they shall walk with me in white: for they are worthy.
REVELATION 3:5
5 He that overcometh, the same shall be clothed in white raiment; and I will not blot out his name out of the book of life, but I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels.
REVELATION 3:6
6 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches.
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71 And so, Sardis, now we start out. The very word "Sardis," the 1st verse, the word "Sardis," in the English terms, means, if you want to look it up, means "the escaped one." The true Sardis was "the escaped ones." That's what "Sardis" means (All right), "the escaped one."--now, see and "the escaped one."
Now, we're going to start on the 1st. Very... We're going to call it the age of Reformation, and it's a very fitting thing for this reformation if we should call it that, because it's... The reformation was the escaped ones that come away and escaped out of it.
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Once again as in the previous four ages the Spirit is revealing our gracious Lord to us by setting forth His wonderful attributes. This time as He is standing in the midst of the church, we see Him as the One with the seven Spirits of God and the seven stars. We know who the seven stars are, but we will have to find what the seven Spirits refer to.
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125 Now, "voices," the voices of the seven trumpets, there was voices of the seven stars, seven messengers. But now watch here:
... and seven lamps... before the throne, which are the seven spirits of God.
"Seven lamps..." Let's draw a little bit here: the throne, the holy place, the congregation. Right here was one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, seven stars, seven lamps, seven messengers, seven Spirits; not altogether meaning that God's in seven Spirits, but seven manifestations of the same Holy Spirit.
Where's the Holy Spirit? Here at the throne, shining out in each church age. This church age is reflecting back this a-way the voices of God, Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever. See, seven... There was voices and seven lamps on fire, seven Spirits--which are the seven Spirits of God."
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73 Now, let's take the 1st verse.
... unto the angel of the church of Sardis write; These things saith he that has... seven Spirits of God, and the seven stars; I know Thy work, that thou has a name that thou livest, and art dead.
Now, the salute. Now, the seven Spirits are... The seven Spirits and the seven stars... The Spirits was the angels that went to the stars which were messengers: seven Spirits, seven different times the Holy Spirit would anoint a messenger, which was a star in his day. A--a Spirit is eternal, and the star that was made for a purpose to reflect Light in the dark of these church ages where candles and stars are represented. The angel, the Spirit, was the one that went to the star and reflected the Light of the Holy Spirit through the star to that church age. That you might wonder who the seven Spirits are, it's the seven messengers of the seven church ages. See? Now, and each time that the star came in on the scene, the Holy Spirit came down and anointed that star and kept it just exactly like the first one was.
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76 Paul was the one who constrained them to be rebaptized if they hadn't been baptized in the Name of Jesus Christ, come and be baptized over again in order to receive the Holy Ghost, Acts 19:5. He was also the one that laid hands on the people, and gifts, and set the church in order with working of miracles, Divine healing, gifts of tongues, interpretation of tongues. Is that right? I Corinthians 12, see what Paul said. I Corinthians 12, and you'll find it. He set in the church... God set in the church these great gifts; and Paul set them in order, and put them in order so they could work for the glory of God. Paul said that. Then if any man, no matter what denomination he belongs to, that tries to tell you that the days of speaking in tongues, interpretation of tongues, Divine healing, and miracles, and the witness of the Holy Ghost as the baptism, let him be accursed. For the same Spirit that was upon Paul will be the same Spirit that was sent to the next church age, the same to the next church age, and the same on down unto the end of the church age. The same Spirit, the Holy Spirit. You believe that?
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77 If you notice this, this is wrote here. The writer knowed. Look, the "seven Spirits." Watch: capital "S," Holy Spirit, only one of them. Uh-huh. The same Holy Spirit coming seven times to all seven church ages bearing the same Light. Get it now? Seven church ages, seven times this Holy Spirit would carry this same Message, which was pronounced a curse to anyone who'd change It.
Now, see if that bears with the revelation of the whole thing. He said, "Whosoever shall take away or add to, the same will be taken (his part) out of the Book of Life." That's the whole thing covered over then. So there's no room for you to jump or squeeze any place else (See?), 'cause that's it. That's what God said; that's what the Spirit said; and that's what the churches said. Now, if you try to force in any other kind of a doctrine than what Paul taught, it's wrong. The Bible is correct. His life... Jesus said, "I'll take his part out of the Book of Life."
Now, you say, "What part of the Book of Life?"
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88 And now how many know that God is one Spirit? Sure. God, the Holy Ghost: God, Father, the Holy Ghost, all the same Person, 'cause Mary was conceived by the Holy Ghost. Now, the--but God used this Holy Spirit in seven different evangelical Lights to the church, seven church ages. You get it? Seven church ages.
Now, you say, "God doesn't do that." Oh, yes, brother.
Look. He used the Spirit of Elijah, and when Elisha went awa--Elijah went away, Elisha received a double portion of It. And when Elisha got sick and died, then It come back again on John the Baptist: same thing, made him act just like Elijah did, living in the wilderness and so forth. Is that right? And predicted to come again in the last day. See? God uses the Spirit right on down.
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91 And Jesus was anointed with the Holy Ghost, went about doing good. Is that right? And the same Holy Spirit was upon Jesus, came right back into the church on the day of Pentecost, comes right back into the next age, the next age, the next age. And what is It? The same and one-self Holy Spirit. Oh, don't you see God above us, in the Father; God with us, in the Son; God in us, in the Holy Ghost. It's three offices, and not three gods. See? Those three titles, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, belongs to one Name: Jesus Christ. All right.
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92 Now, watch now as we go on. "The seven Spirits," says He that holds... In other words, "holds His messengers," messengers that will be anointed with Holy Spirit, with this same Holy Spirit that Paul, the first one's anointed with, the second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh, all of them are in His right hand (Oh.), deriving their power and their Light from His right hand.
Now, He ascended on high. And Philip said, when he was dying--or Stephen said, "I see heavens opened, and the--and Jesus setting at the right hand of God." Now, it don't mean that God's got a great big right hand, and He's setting on it; but "right hand" means the right hand of power and authority.
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98 But the messengers are in His right hand, waiting. Wherever He sends them, they'll speak the same thing. For the Holy Spirit that was in Christ... Oh, the Spirit that was in Christ, when He left, He said, "A little while and the world ('kosmos,' the Greek word which means 'world order'; not the earth, the world, the order of the world) will see Me no more. Denominations, or whatevermore, will see Me no more. Yet ye shall see Me (the church, the believer), for I... ('I,' personal pronoun is right) I will be with you, even in you, unto the end of the world," Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever. You see It?
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99 Then if that was Christ's Holy Spirit came on the day of Pentecost that did those things, it's Christ's Holy Spirit been pushed out here, Christ's Holy Spirit still holding in here, Christ's Holy Spirit still holding here, on down here and to the end of the world. The same Holy Spirit that filled Paul with the Holy Ghost and the things that he done, will fill this one, Irenaeus full of the Holy Ghost, fill Martin full of the Holy Ghost, fill the rest of them full of the Holy Ghost, and It fills you and I full of the Holy Ghost, and it's a Pentecostal blessing from one church age to the other: Alpha and Omega, the End and the Beginning, and All, Root and Offspring of David, Morning Star, Rose of Sharon, Lily of the Valley, whatevermore, Father, Son, Holy Ghost, He that Was, Which Is, and Shall Come, the Alpha, Omega, All, All in all. Oh, my. That would make me sing a song.
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This same phrase is found four times in the Book of Revelation. Revelation 1:4, "From the seven Spirits Which are before His throne." Revelation 3:1, "These things saith He That hath the seven Spirits." Revelation 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." Revelation 5:6, "And I beheld, and lo, in the midst of the throne and of the four beasts, and in the midst of the elders, stood a Lamb as It had been slain having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God sent forth into all the earth."
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To begin with, we know for a certainty that these verses are not teaching a new and contrary doctrine to John 4:24a "God is A (one) Spirit." But this is like I Corinthians 12:8-11 wherein we find ONE Spirit manifesting Himself in NINE ways. Thus we know that the seven Spirits of God mean it is the one and same Spirit coming forth in a sevenfold way. Now in Revelation 4:5 these same seven Spirits are called 'lamps of fire burning' before the Lord. Since John always used nothing but Old Testament symbols in the Revelation we go to the Old Testament and find from Proverbs 20:27 that "the spirit of man is the lamp of the Lord." These seven Spirits are found to be associated with man. John the Baptist in John 5:35 was called a 'burning light' which should actually be translated as 'burning lamp.' Again in Revelation 5:6 the seven Spirits are identified as seven eyes. In Zechariah 4:10, "For who hath despised the day of small things? for they shall rejoice, and shall see the plummet in the hand of Zerubbabel with those seven, they are the eyes of the Lord." It is very evident that the word, 'they' refers to men. Thus we see that the eyes of the Lord in this instance are men--of course they will be anointed men, full of the Holy Ghost, for God's ministries are not in the power of men but of the Holy Ghost. Putting our Scriptural discoveries together it is evident that the seven Spirits of God refer to the continuous ministry of the same Holy Spirit in the lives of seven men with whom God identifies Himself very closely. They are His eyes, and they are His lamps. Who these seven men are can easily be seen because the next phrase calls them the seven stars which are already known to us as the seven messengers to the seven ages. How beautiful that is. See, the star was meant to reflect light at night, for the sun has gone. Just so the messenger (typified as a star) to each age was to reflect the light of the Son. They all did this by the Holy Spirit.
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So we see that the Seven Spirits actually refer to the One Spirit of God working out the will and Word of God in different generations. I would like to illustrate that from the Word. The Spirit of God was mightily upon Elijah. Then that same Spirit came upon Elisha in a twofold effect. Then centuries later, the same Spirit Which we call the Spirit of Elijah in order to describe Its ministry, came back upon John the Baptist. One day that same Spirit identified by the same manner of ministry will come upon a man for the end of the Gentile church age. Again: the Scripture says that God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and power and He went about doing good, healing all that were oppressed of the devil. As Jesus went away He told His disciples to tarry until Pentecost at which time the very same Spirit that was upon Him would come back and fall upon them and fill them. Then that 'called out' body (the church) would be in His stead upon the earth, taking His place. And because that same Spirit That was in Him would be in them, they would do the very same works. And any people that is truly the Body of Jesus Christ (the true church) will manifest the same works as did Jesus and the Pentecostal church because the same Spirit will be in them. Any other church that does not have the Spirit and the manifestations is going to have to account to God.