Msg#2530 The Mystery of the Seven Stars
What The Bible Says
Good Samaritan’s Penny Pulpit by Pastor Ed Rice
In the Revelation of Jesus Christ the Apostle John is commissioned to write “the things which are” and he wrote Chapter 2 and 3 to “he that hath an ear to hear.” In 1910 F.W.Grant argued these to be “The Prophetic History of the Church”, and in 1920 H.A.Ironside assured it in “Revelation: An Ironside Expository Commentary”. The Apostle John had seen “In the midst of … seven candlesticks, one like unto the Son of man … and he had in his right hand seven stars” (Rev.1:13,16). He was told to write, “The mystery of the seven stars which thou sawest in my right hand, and the seven golden candlesticks. The seven stars are the angels of the seven churches: and the seven candlesticks which thou sawest are the seven churches” (Rev.1:20). An angel is a messenger, envoy, or one who is sent, and each candlestick or local autonomous church called out here had a pastor-teacher in the office of a bishop who was that envoy (Eph.4:11, 1Tim.3:1-7). Each mystery called out in the NT is a truth “which hath been hid from ages and from generations, but now is made manifest to his saints.” Thus seven times in two chapters a message is written and given to the pastor of a church of/in a city. The author dons a different authoritative title for each message and each message differs. One messenger gets no shortfall called out; one gets no good-thing called out. These were addressed to seven actual local autonomous churches in Asia Minor but any student of the Bible could see how Grant so eloquently revealed seven distinct time frames. It would behoove us, living in the Laodicean church age, to reread the two chapters dictated by our Lord Jesus Christ, and be what we once were.
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