Seven Spirits of God

[Blien]

Revelation 4:5

From the throne came flashes of lightning, rumblings and peals of thunder. Before the throne, seven lamps were blazing. These are the seven spirits of God.

Revelation 1:12-18

I turned around to see the voice that was speaking to me. And when I turned I saw seven golden lampstands, 13and among the lampstands was someone "like a son of man,"dressed in a robe reaching down to his feet and with a golden sash around his chest. His head and hair were white like wool, as white as snow, and his eyes were like blazing fire. His feet were like bronze glowing in a furnace, and his voice was like the sound of rushing waters. In his right hand he held seven stars, and out of his mouth came a sharp double-edged sword. His face was like the sun shining in all its brilliance.

When I saw him, I fell at his feet as though dead. Then he placed his right hand on me and said: "Do not be afraid. I am the First and the Last. I am the Living One; I was dead, and behold I am alive for ever and ever! And I hold the keys of death and Hades.

Revelation 1:4-5

John, To the seven churches in the province of Asia: Grace and peace to you from him who is, and who was, and who is to come, and from the seven spirits before his throne, and from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, the firstborn from the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth.

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What are the seven spirits of God???

I was thinking, could it be..

Knowledge, Truth, Understanding, Wisdom, Discipline, Power, Love.. Is that what they are? I named all these based on several scriptures.. but non of them say explicitly that they are the spirit of God. Just that they are spirits and they dwell with Him from the beginning of foundation (at least the first few).

I really have no idea, I just threw this out there. I am most likely wrong here.. Any ideas?

[OneLight]

Read Revelation 1

[Massorite]

Revelation 4:5

From the throne came flashes of lightning, rumblings and peals of thunder. Before the throne, seven lamps were blazing. These are the seven spirits of God.

Revelation 1:12-18

I turned around to see the voice that was speaking to me. And when I turned I saw seven golden lampstands, 13and among the lampstands was someone "like a son of man,"dressed in a robe reaching down to his feet and with a golden sash around his chest. His head and hair were white like wool, as white as snow, and his eyes were like blazing fire. His feet were like bronze glowing in a furnace, and his voice was like the sound of rushing waters. In his right hand he held seven stars, and out of his mouth came a sharp double-edged sword. His face was like the sun shining in all its brilliance.

When I saw him, I fell at his feet as though dead. Then he placed his right hand on me and said: "Do not be afraid. I am the First and the Last. I am the Living One; I was dead, and behold I am alive for ever and ever! And I hold the keys of death and Hades.

Revelation 1:4-5

John, To the seven churches in the province of Asia: Grace and peace to you from him who is, and who was, and who is to come, and from the seven spirits before his throne, and from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, the firstborn from the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth.

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What are the seven spirits of God???

I was thinking, could it be..

Knowledge, Truth, Understanding, Wisdom, Discipline, Power, Love.. Is that what they are? I named all these based on several scriptures.. but non of them say explicitly that they are the spirit of God. Just that they are spirits and they dwell with Him from the beginning of foundation (at least the first few).

I really have no idea, I just threw this out there. I am most likely wrong here.. Any ideas?

Good question I looked for something in the bible that matches the number seven that are speaking about the spirits of God and couldn't find any. We know that these spirits are not emotions or characteristics because the seven spirits stand before the throne of God.

[OneLight]

Revelation 1:20

The mystery of the seven stars which you saw in My right hand, and the seven golden lampstands: The seven stars are the angels of the seven churches, and the seven lampstands which you saw are the seven churches.

[Matthitjah]

Grace to you,

Zec

[Ovedya]

The seven Spirits of God is a representation of the one Spirit - the Holy Spirit - in the aspect of His complete transformation work (The number 7 signifying consummation or completeness).

[Blien]

The seven Spirits of God is a representation of the one Spirit - the Holy Spirit - in the aspect of His complete transformation work (The number 7 signifying consummation or completeness).

Yes this is what I was thinking to. Since we know the Holy Spirit is one.. but I was wondering what are the 7 ? "The Attributes" if we can say that? I guess they aren't mentioned anywhere in the Bible.

[Ovedya]

The seven Spirits of God is a representation of the one Spirit - the Holy Spirit - in the aspect of His complete transformation work (The number 7 signifying consummation or completeness).

Yes this is what I was thinking to. Since we know the Holy Spirit is one.. but I was wondering what are the 7 ? "The Attributes" if we can say that? I guess they aren't mentioned anywhere in the Bible.

I don't think that each Spirit need have a particular attribute or value. Consider Zech. 4:2. The lampstand which Zechariah saw was a single lampstand, yet with seven lamps. The lampstand contained seven pipes for each lamp of the lampstand respectively. The expression, the shining, of the lampstand was singular, and yet there were seven individual lamps. Each lamp respectively shone, and yet there was one expression. This one expression could be said to be "intensified" by the shining of the lamps together. So one way of interpreting this could be that the seven Spirits are the "intensification" of the one Spirit for the consummation of God's eternal economy. At the time that the book of Revelation was written it was a particularly "dark" age - and even today the ages are growing darker and darker. Therefore, like the lampstand in Zechariah, there is the need of the "sevenfold intensified" shining of the Spirit of God. This Spirit is actually in our Spirit to illuminate the darkness of the age and to shine forth from us as the vessels, the lamps, of God; both in the individual sense (Matt. 5:16; Isa. 60:1) and in the corporate sense as is shown in the New Jerusalem, which is the corporate Body of Christ shining forth the glory of God (Rev. 21:11)

[lekh l'kha]

Revelation 4:5

From the throne came flashes of lightning, rumblings and peals of thunder. Before the throne, seven lamps were blazing. These are the seven spirits of God.

Revelation 1:12-18

I turned around to see the voice that was speaking to me. And when I turned I saw seven golden lampstands, 13and among the lampstands was someone "like a son of man,"dressed in a robe reaching down to his feet and with a golden sash around his chest. His head and hair were white like wool, as white as snow, and his eyes were like blazing fire. His feet were like bronze glowing in a furnace, and his voice was like the sound of rushing waters. In his right hand he held seven stars, and out of his mouth came a sharp double-edged sword. His face was like the sun shining in all its brilliance.

When I saw him, I fell at his feet as though dead. Then he placed his right hand on me and said: "Do not be afraid. I am the First and the Last. I am the Living One; I was dead, and behold I am alive for ever and ever! And I hold the keys of death and Hades.

Revelation 1:4-5

John, To the seven churches in the province of Asia: Grace and peace to you from him who is, and who was, and who is to come, and from the seven spirits before his throne, and from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, the firstborn from the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth.

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What are the seven spirits of God???

I was thinking, could it be..

Knowledge, Truth, Understanding, Wisdom, Discipline, Power, Love.. Is that what they are? I named all these based on several scriptures.. but non of them say explicitly that they are the spirit of God. Just that they are spirits and they dwell with Him from the beginning of foundation (at least the first few).

I really have no idea, I just threw this out there. I am most likely wrong here.. Any ideas?

I don't know. But someone has suggested the answer can be found in this verse:

"And the spirit of the LORD shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the LORD;" (Isa 11:2)

1 The spirit of the LORD (The spirit of Yahweh).

2 The spirit of wisdom.

3 The spirit of understanding.

4 The spirit of counsel.

5 The spirit of might.

6 The spirit of knowledge.

7 The spirit of the fear of the LORD.

I don't know how accurate such an interpretation is - but I do believe that nothing in the Bible is written the way it is "by accident". Why did the Holy Spirit inspire Isaiah to give seven descriptions of the Holy Spirit?

[Massorite]

Revelation 1:20

The mystery of the seven stars which you saw in My right hand, and the seven golden lampstands: The seven stars are the angels of the seven churches, and the seven lampstands which you saw are the seven churches.

So where in this verse does it say that the seven stars are the same as the seven spirits that stand before the throne of God? The seven stars in the verse you quoted are the seven pastors or preachers of the seven churches and the bible speaks of their spiritual condition which are not good and christ expresses his discontent about it.

So wheres the scriptural proof?