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In this message, we will continue to consider the experience and enjoyment of Christ as the Lion-Lamb.
Revelation 5:5 says that Christ “has overcome so that He may open the scroll and its seven seals.” As the Lion of the tribe of Judah, Christ overcame and defeated the rebellious Satan, the enemy of God, and as the redeeming Lamb, He took away the sin of fallen man. By doing so, He removed the hindrances to the fulfillment of God’s purpose. Therefore, He is worthy to open the scroll concerning God’s economy.
Christ has overcome all that is needed to open the scroll and its seven seals. Here the scroll is the new covenant, the new testament, with God’s economy hidden in such a sealed book. This scroll is sealed with seven seals. The scroll is the new covenant enacted by the Lord Jesus with His own blood for the whole universe. Without this scroll, this covenant, the universe could not exist. All the mysteries and all the things that happen in the created universe are recorded in this scroll. When Christ ascended to the heavens, He took the scroll from God and opened the secret of the universe for the carrying out of God’s administration. Christ as the Redeemer accomplished all that is needed to open up God’s economy. Thus, only Christ as the redeeming Lamb and overcoming Lion is qualified to open the scroll with its seven seals.
Revelation 5:6 speaks of “a Lamb standing as having just been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God.” Christ is not only a Lion but also a Lamb (v. 5). To Satan and all the enemies Christ is a Lion, but to us, the redeemed ones, He is a redeeming Lamb. We may be afraid of a lion, but we would feel loving toward a lamb.
The expression having just been slain in verse 6 indicates that the Lamb had just been slain and also that the scene in the heavens that is depicted in this chapter took place immediately after Christ’s ascension into the heavens. After Christ passed through death, resurrection, and ascension, He stood in the midst of the throne and the four living creatures. There was a resurrected Lamb standing before the throne in heaven. This standing Lamb is resurrection (John 11:25). Resurrection hinges on Him, depends on Him, and is in Him.
In Revelation 5, when John looked, what he saw was a Lamb with seven eyes. This Lion-Lamb was standing, not sitting, and His seven eyes were flashing. This indicates that His work was not finished. What was finished in John 19 was the work of redemption (v. 30). But His standing position and His seven flashing eyes both indicate that He is taking action. In other words, as far as redemption is concerned, Christ sat down at the right hand of God in the heavens after His ascension (Heb. 1:3; 10:12); however, regarding the carrying out of God’s administration, He is still standing in His ascension.
The redeeming Lamb is now standing at the center of the universe, before God’s throne. This reveals that the Redeemer is now in God’s administration. He is the Administrator of the universe, executing God’s economy. He is not sitting or sleeping there; instead, He is standing, and His seven eyes are flashing, watching, searching, and even burning. The whole universe is watching this scene. The four living creatures, the twenty-four elders, myriads of angels, and all other creatures are wide-awake, alert, and observing. These are the circumstances in which they proclaim, “To Him who sits upon the throne and to the Lamb be the blessing and the honor and the glory and the might forever and ever” (Rev. 5:13). There is a Lion-Lamb standing in the center of the universe with seven flashing, burning eyes. He saves us from our silence, coldness, and laziness. Our vision must be uplifted to see this Lamb accomplishing a work of eternally vast dimensions.
In His earthly ministry Christ accomplished redemption; now in His heavenly ministry He is accomplishing God’s building work. Actually, redemption is for God’s building. The center of God’s building is the church, and the ultimate consummation of this building is the New Jerusalem. Today the church is a house, the house of God (1 Tim. 3:15), but this house will consummate in a city, the New Jerusalem. When this takes place, God’s building will be completed. The work of redemption was finished in John 19. A few chapters later, in Acts 2, the work of God’s building began. This building work continues today.
Christ’s earthly ministry began from His being baptized in water and anointed with the Holy Spirit and ended in His resurrection (Matt. 3:16; Luke 4:18-19; Mark 16:9a, 19). The major items in the section of His earthly ministry are His human living, His crucifixion, and His resurrection. In His earthly ministry He ministered as the Lamb (John 1:29). As the Lamb in His earthly ministry, Christ accomplished God’s full redemption for us by being slain on the cross to die the all-inclusive death according to God’s requirements of righteousness, holiness, and glory.
Christ’s heavenly ministry began from His outpouring of the Holy Spirit and will end in His second appearing on the earth (Acts 2:1-4, 17, 33; Heb. 9:28b; 2 Tim. 4:1b). The major items in the section of His heavenly ministry are to take care of the church to make it a glorious church, to enforce the new covenant and execute the new testament, to minister to the believers as the High Priest, the Advocate, and the Minister in the heavens, to come back, and to transfigure His believers. In His heavenly ministry He ministers as the Lion-Lamb (Rev. 5:5-7). The Lion-Lamb indicates that the Christ who was the Redeemer has become a Victor as the Lion. In His heavenly ministry, as such a Victor, He will conquer all His enemies and bring in His kingdom to this earth.
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. When we look at others, we search them out. We can tell what their attitude is, what kind of persons they are, and how they feel. 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. According to Greek grammar, the antecedent of which in Revelation 5:6 is seven eyes. Hence, the seven Spirits of God refer only to the seven eyes of the Lamb, not to His seven horns. 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).
That the seven eyes of the Lamb are the seven Spirits of God means that one of the three of the Godhead is the eyes of another of the Trinity. This contradicts an erroneous teaching concerning the Divine Trinity, which holds that since the three persons of the Godhead — the Father, the Son, and the Spirit — must not be confused, they are not only distinct but also separate. Such a teaching is inaccurate and is merely according to the natural human mind. Instead of trying to understand the Triune God according to our human mind, we must understand Him according to the teaching of the Bible. The fact that the seven eyes of the Lamb are the seven Spirits of God indicates that the Spirit is the eyes of the Son. Our eyes are not separate from us; rather, they are a part of our being. Likewise, since the seven Spirits of God (the Holy Spirit) are the seven eyes of Christ (the Son of God), the Spirit and the Son are distinct yet not separate from each other.
That Christ, the Son of God, cannot be separated from the seven Spirits of God, the Spirit, is indicated not only by the inseparability of the eyes of the Lamb from the Lamb in Revelation 5 but also by the inseparability of the living water (signifying the Spirit) from the smitten rock (signifying the crucified Christ) in Exodus 17, out of which the water flowed. In Exodus 17 Moses was instructed to strike the rock with his staff, and the water flowed out of the smitten rock. The striking of the rock is a clear, complete, and full picture of Christ’s crucifixion. The rock was struck by the staff of Moses (v. 5). In this type, Moses signifies the law, and the staff represents the power and authority of the law. Hence, the striking of the rock by Moses’ staff signifies that Christ was put to death on the cross by the authority of God’s law (cf. Gal. 2:19-20a; 3:13). Moreover, the water flowing out of the smitten rock typifies the Spirit (John 7:37-39). This indicates that the Holy Spirit is the flowing out of Christ. When Christ is infused into us, He is the Spirit. It is through the eyes that one person is infused into another person. When a person infuses himself through his eyes, he infuses the reality of what he is. In the same way, the Spirit as the reality of Christ is infused into the saints. Hence, there is no way to separate the Spirit from Christ. Separating Christ from the Spirit is like separating the living water from the smitten rock. Once we separate the living water from the rock, the living water is without a source, and the rock is without a flow, for the living water is the flow of the rock, and the rock is the source of the living water. The living water and the rock are two yet one; they are indivisible, just as the eyes and the body are inseparable. Hence, the Spirit and the Son are distinct yet inseparable.
The Lord as the Lamb having seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits, indicates that Christ comes to us as the seven eyes, that is, as the Spirit, for us to experience. Moreover, the Lamb is on the throne, from the throne flows the river of water of life, and in the water of life grows the tree of life (Rev. 22:1-2). This is a picture of the redeeming Christ who has become the life-giving Spirit constantly flowing with the life supply. By this, we can see that Christ is the life-giving Spirit not only for us to know and understand but also for us to take, experience, and enjoy. We need to enjoy Christ by realizing Him as the Spirit. The seven Spirits of God are for the imparting of life because the Spirit is the Spirit of life (Rom. 8:2). Therefore, we must exercise not only our mind to understand Him but also our spirit to contact Him in our spirit, as revealed in the Epistles (v. 4).
Revelation is a book of the seven Spirits, the seven eyes of Christ, whereby the redeeming, overcoming, and building Christ transfuses Himself into all His members. While He is transfusing Himself into us, He is searching, enlightening, judging, purifying, and refining us. In this way He transforms us. This is God’s recovery today.
A person’s eyes cannot be separated from him, for a person’s eyes are his expression. Our inner being is mainly expressed through our eyes. In like manner, the seven Spirits are the seven eyes of Christ by which Christ expresses Himself. The Son is the embodiment of the Father, and the Spirit is the expression of the Son. The seven eyes of Christ, the seven Spirits of God, are Christ’s expression in a judging way in God’s move for God’s building. Even now, Christ’s burning eyes are flaming over us to enlighten, search, refine, and judge us, not that we might be condemned but that we might be purged, transformed, and conformed to His image for God’s building (v. 29; 12:4-5). The Lord’s judgment is motivated by love. Because He loves the church, He comes to search, enlighten, judge, refine, and purify us in order to transform us into precious stones. Eventually, this book consummates in the New Jerusalem, which is built with precious materials that come from the seven eyes of Christ, that is, from the life-giving, transforming Spirit.
The seven Spirits, as the intensification of the Triune God, are the seven eyes of the Lion-Lamb to carry out God’s New Testament economy. The Triune God is embodied in the Son and is realized and consummated in the all-inclusive Spirit, and as the seven Spirits, the intensification of the Triune God in the book of Revelation, He finalizes His New Testament economy. Our Savior, the Lion-Lamb, stands before the throne and takes the scroll to execute God’s economy. His seven eyes are the seven Spirits as the executors carrying out His administration. Today the whole world is under the authority of our Redeemer.
The seven seals, the seven trumpets, and the seven bowls are parts of God’s administration in His judgment (Rev. 5:1; 8:2; 15:7). Therefore, in the book of Revelation the number seven signifies administration in judgment. This gives us the meaning of the seven Spirits. The Spirit of God in Revelation is mentioned as the seven Spirits because here He is not the Spirit of grace but the Spirit for the divine administration through the divine judgment. The Spirit is the seven eyes of the Lamb that can see into things clearly and the seven lamps that are burning and full of light. None of us can hide anything from the seven eyes of the Lamb. When the Lamb with the seven eyes looks at us, everything is exposed and searched out. By the seven Spirits of God as the seven lamps of fire, we experience something shining in us to search out every secret of our entire life. Anything that is brought into the light is exposed. These searching and enlightening eyes of the Lord are for judgment. The seven Spirits of God are the burning fire and the searching eyes to search, enlighten, and judge.
The seven eyes of the Lamb in Revelation 5:6 are the seven lamps of fire burning before the throne in Revelation 4:5. The center of the universe is the throne. On this throne there is the one God, and before this throne there are seven lamps, which are the seven eyes of God, the seven Spirits of God. These seven Spirits come out of God by shining and observing through Christ, who was slain and resurrected. The shining and observing seven Spirits are sent forth into all the earth to observe everyone in every corner. Wherever the seven Spirits look, there is blessing and there is the shining of God’s lamps of fire, and wherever God’s lamps of fire shine, there is the burning of the fire of God. The fire of God is the Spirit of God, and the Spirit of God is God Himself. Wherever there are God’s lamps of fire, there is the presence of God, and wherever there are God’s lamps of fire, there is God Himself. Eventually, the result of the burning of the fire of God will be a group of people who are completely the same as God.
Wherever there is the shining of God’s lamps of fire, there is the burning of fire, and wherever there is the burning of fire, there is the filling of the Spirit. In Acts, when the Holy Spirit descended on the day of Pentecost, He was like tongues of fire (2:3). The Lord Jesus also said that He came to cast fire on the earth (Luke 12:49). That fire is the Spirit of God, God Himself. When the Lord Jesus came, He brought God to the earth so that man may receive God. God in the Lamb is the lamps of fire and the flames, and both the lamps and the flames are the eyes.
When the Spirit observes us, we sense that He is like light that shines upon us. This shining gives us the feeling that we are being burned — everything that should not be in us is burned away and consumed. On the other hand, this fire within us also acts as a motivating power that drives us from within. This experience fills us with the presence of the Spirit. The Spirit is Christ (2 Cor. 3:17), and Christ is God (Rom. 9:5). Thus, when we are filled with the Spirit, we are filled with the element of God, and this element, which is God Himself, is a consuming fire. The result of such burning is that we have the splendor of God, the appearance of God, and the radiance of God so that we become exactly the same as God (Rev. 4:3; 21:11, 18-19).
The seven Spirits of God as the seven eyes of the Lamb are also for observing. If we were to keep our eyes upon a certain person, it would indicate that we mean business with him. This is an intimate, dear visitation. The Lord Jesus today has seven eyes. While He was on earth, He had only two eyes when He looked at Peter. But today when Christ comes to see us, He has seven eyes. This means that today the Lord’s visitation is more serious and intensified. Yes, our Lord is the redeeming Lamb. But this Lamb has seven eyes, and His seven eyes are seven burning lamps. In one sense He is visiting us, and in another sense He is observing us and burning us. This is the reality of the sevenfold intensified Spirit today.
When we attend a church meeting, we are under a special kind of observation. Just by going to one meeting, we may begin to sense the living observation of the sevenfold intensified Spirit. 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.
Moreover, the seven eyes of the Lamb are for transfusing and infusing. After the seven Spirits of God as the seven lamps of fire burn within us, in our experience they become seven eyes. Eyes are the loveliest part of a person. If a person closes his eyes, we cannot see what is lovely in him. A person’s loveliness is in his eyes. After we experience the burning, judging, and purifying, the burning lamps of fire become the lovely eyes. We may wonder whether these seven eyes are fearful or lovely. One may say that they are sometimes fearful and sometimes lovely. Yet whether the Lord’s eyes are fearful or lovely depends not on Him but on us. If we live properly as children of God, His eyes will be lovely, but if we are disobedient, His eyes will be fearful. Regardless of whether His transfusion is that of love or of fear, as He looks at us with His eyes, God is transfused into us.
Whenever the Lord looks at us, we receive a precious infusion. When one person looks at another person, he transfuses his feeling into that person. A person’s eyes are the expression of his inner being. To transfuse is to transmit a person’s inner being into the one whom he is looking at (cf. 2 Cor. 2:10). The seven Spirits are the seven eyes by which Christ expresses Himself. As the Lord looks at us, His seven eyes transfuse Himself into us. Whenever the Lord looks at us with His eyes, we can understand if He is happy or unhappy. There is no need for Him to say anything. 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.
Transformation is the transfusing of the Lord’s lovable person into us (3:16-18). The church is the place where the Lord transfuses His inner being into us for our transformation (Rom. 12:2). Experiencing the transfusion of God is the reality of the church (cf. vv. 4-5). The church is a group of people who have experienced God’s transfusion. This is the nature of the church; without the transfusion of God, we do not have the church. The seven eyes of the Lamb are in the church; hence, in order to receive the transfusion of the seven eyes, we must be in the church. The more a meeting is full of the nature of the church, the more it is full of the operation of the Spirit, which is the seven Spirits transfusing and infusing. The Spirit is life, and the seven Spirits are for us to receive the supply of life and to be equipped in life. The lamps have become the fire, the fire has become the eyes, and the eyes are the Spirit. God first shines within us, then He burns in us, and then He transfuses and infuses Himself into us. The issue is that we have the supply of life and are equipped with life. Eventually, our function is manifested in the church, and we grow in life and are built up together with others. As a result, we are not merely the church but the functioning church in which all the saints minister. We not only are enlightened, burned, and infused; we also receive the supply of life and are equipped in life. Thus, we become the functioning members in the Body.
The Lord also guides us with His eyes. Second Chronicles 16:9 says, “The eyes of Jehovah run to and fro throughout all the earth.” Today God’s eyes are running to and fro, seeking those whose heart is perfect toward Him. Psalm 32:8 says, “I will instruct you and teach you concerning the way you should go; / I will counsel you; my eye is upon you.” The guiding of the eyes is the most intimate kind, and it is used by those who are intimate. When two very intimate people speak with one another, they may not necessarily use their mouth; instead, they may use their eyes. The Lord guides us not mainly with words or other indications but with His eyes.
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. The extent to which the seven Spirits refine is the extent to which the churches shine. 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 seven eyes are mentioned not only in Revelation 5:6 but also in Zechariah 3:9 and 4:10. Zechariah 3:9 says, “Here is the stone that I have set before Joshua — upon one stone are seven eyes. I will engrave its engraving, declares Jehovah of hosts, and I will remove the iniquity of that land in one day.” The reference to engraving the stone indicates that this stone is Christ. The Lord Jesus, as the building stone, was engraved, dealt with, by God on the cross for the iniquity of God’s people. In one day, by that engraving on the cross, the Lord Jesus took away all the sins of God’s people. This corresponds to John 1:29, which says, “Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!” From Zechariah 3:9 we know that the stone with the seven eyes is Christ. In short, the stone with seven eyes in Zechariah 3:9 is the Lamb with seven eyes in Revelation 5:6.
Zechariah 4:2 says, “There is a lampstand all of gold, with its bowl on top of it and its seven lamps upon it, with seven pipes for each of the lamps on top of it.” In Zechariah 3:9 the building stone has seven eyes, and in this verse the lampstand has seven lamps. This reveals that the lampstand equals the stone. Both the stone and the lampstand are Christ. The stone is for the building, and the lampstand is for light, for enlightening. On the stone there are seven eyes, and on the lampstand there are seven lamps. Hence, the seven lamps of the lampstand must be the seven eyes on the stone.
Zechariah 4:10 tells us that the seven eyes on the stone are the “eyes of Jehovah running to and fro on the whole earth.” This verse corresponds to Revelation 5:6, which speaks of the seven eyes of the Lamb, which are the seven Spirits of God sent forth into all the earth. This indicates that the seven eyes of God are the seven Spirits of God. Zechariah 4:4-6 also implies that the seven eyes, which are the seven lamps, are related to the Spirit. After speaking of seven lamps upon a golden lampstand in verse 2, Zechariah asked an angel in verse 4, “What are these?” Here, in effect, Zechariah was asking what the significance of the one lampstand with seven lamps is. In verse 6 the angel answered, “This is the word of Jehovah to Zerubbabel, saying, Not by might nor by power, but by My Spirit, says Jehovah of hosts.” This clearly indicates the one lampstand with seven lamps is “My Spirit,” the Spirit of God. Here the seven lamps signify the seven Spirits of God. This is because the book of Revelation indicates that the seven eyes of God, which are the seven lamps, are the seven Spirits of God. As we have seen, Zechariah reveals that the seven eyes of God, which are the seven lamps on the lampstand, are also the seven eyes of the stone. By means of the seven eyes, Christ as the Lion and the Lamb unveiled in Revelation 5 is connected to the stone spoken of in Zechariah 3. Therefore, the One with the seven eyes is not only the Lion-Lamb but also the stone. He is the Lion-Lamb-stone; the Lion to destroy the enemy, the Lamb to redeem us, and the stone to build God’s house.
In the beginning was the Word, the expression, of God (John 1:1). One day God, expressed as the Word, became flesh (v. 14). This was His first step to enlarge Himself. This flesh was the Lamb of the righteous God, the God who judges and condemns sin. The Lamb took away sin to fulfill God’s righteous requirements. This was the second step of God’s enlargement. When He was crucified, He was engraved, and this engraving removed the iniquity of God’s people in one day. In addition to this, He is also the Lion, indicating that He has defeated all the enemies. As the Lion He has accomplished an absolute defeat of the enemy. He is both the redeeming Lamb and the overcoming Lion for the enlargement of God. This Lion-Lamb is now the stone. Today the Lord Jesus is the stone. He is the Lamb and the Lion in order to be the stone. Having removed the iniquity and having defeated all the enemies, He is now building. This age is not the age merely of the Lamb and of the Lion; it is mainly the age of the stone. Now we can understand why, in His last visit to Jerusalem, the Lord Jesus indicated to the Jewish builders that they were rejecting not only the redeeming Lamb and the overcoming Lion but also the stone, the head cornerstone. After His death and resurrection, the age became the age of the church, which is God’s building. For the building of the church, Christ is the rock. As He Himself told Peter, “You are a stone, and upon this rock I will build My church” (Matt. 16:18, lit.). This is the age of the stone, the age of building.
The Lamb’s seven flaming, searching, and enlightening eyes are not only for God’s judgment but also for His building. The Bible tells us clearly that these seven eyes are the seven lamps (Zech. 3:9; 4:2, 10). The seven lamps in Exodus 25 are for the building up of the tabernacle, especially for the move in the tabernacle. Without light, it is impossible to move. The light is for the move, and the move is for God’s building. The seven lamps, therefore, are for the building up of the tabernacle, God’s dwelling place among men on earth. The seven lamps in Zechariah 3 and 4 are for the recovery of God’s building.
The same is true of the book of Revelation. The seven Spirits, which are the seven eyes of the Lamb and the seven lamps before God’s throne, are for God’s building. Revelation begins with the seven local churches and ends with the New Jerusalem. Although this book contains the judgment of God, this judgment is not the goal. Judgment is a procedure that will consummate in the New Jerusalem. Apparently, the seven flaming eyes of the Lamb are for searching and judging. However, this searching and judging is a procedure to attain the consummate goal of building. The New Jerusalem, God’s eternal dwelling place, issues out of this judgment carried out by the seven flaming eyes of the Lamb. Thus, the seven lamps, the seven eyes, and the seven Spirits are all for God’s building. The transfusing by the seven eyes, the imparting of life by the seven Spirits of God, and the enlightening, searching, exposing, and judging by the seven lamps are all for the New Jerusalem. We are here for the realization of God’s eternal goal in His divine building.
The accomplishment of God’s building requires His judgment. God’s judgment is carried out by Christ’s being the One with seven flaming eyes to burn, enlighten, search, purify, and refine us. Eventually, these flaming eyes infuse us with all that He is, metabolically transforming us into His being. The whole city of New Jerusalem will have the same essence and appearance as God. The appearance of God sitting on the throne in chapter 4 is of jasper (v. 3), and the appearance of the New Jerusalem, especially its wall, in chapter 21 is also of jasper (vv. 11, 18-19). Thus, the essence and appearance of God and of the city are the same. This can be accomplished by having God wrought into us by means of transfusion.
God became the redeeming Lamb who died and resurrected to become the building stone; this building stone is the lampstand with seven eyes, seven Spirits, and seven lamps to produce the church. This golden lampstand is the church. The seven lamps are the seven eyes of God, and these seven eyes are also on the stone. According to Zechariah, this stone is for God’s building. Eventually we see that the stone with the seven eyes is the lampstand. In the book of Revelation we see that the seven eyes of God are the seven eyes of the Lamb. The seven lamps of the lampstand are the seven eyes of God, the seven eyes on the stone, and the seven eyes of the Lamb. This means that the lampstand equals the stone, the stone equals the Lamb, and the Lamb equals God. In Exodus we have a lampstand with seven lamps. In Zechariah we see that these seven lamps are the seven eyes of God and the seven eyes of the stone. The book of Revelation indicates that these seven eyes are also the seven eyes of the Lamb. The seven lamps are the seven eyes of God, the seven eyes of the stone, and the seven eyes of the Lamb. This proves that the lampstand is God, that God is the stone, and that the stone is the Lamb. The lampstand is the stone, the stone is the Lamb, and the Lamb is God. These four things — the lampstand, the stone, the Lamb, and God — are four in one. The lampstand is for shining, the stone is for building, the Lamb is for redeeming, and God is for administrating. Therefore, we have the shining lampstand, the building stone, the redeeming Lamb, and the administrating God.
The seven lamps of the shining lampstand are the seven eyes of the building stone, the seven eyes of the building stone are the seven eyes of the redeeming Lamb, and the seven eyes of the redeeming Lamb are the seven eyes of the administrating God. These seven lamps and these seven eyes are the seven Spirits of God. In the present age the Spirit is the seven Spirits of God who are the seven lamps of fire burning for God’s administration and also the seven eyes of the redeeming and building One for transfusion and infusion. The lamps of burning fire are for God’s administration, and the eyes are for the redeeming and building One’s transfusion. On the one hand, these seven Spirits are seven lamps shining, burning, searching, judging, and carrying out God’s administration. On the other hand, these seven Spirits are the seven eyes of the redeeming and building Christ to infuse whatever Christ is into us.
