According to Zechariah, Christ is the seven eyes of the stone, the seven eyes of Jehovah, for God’s building; we need to open to the Lord’s seven eyes shining on us to search us, judge us, purify us, and infuse and transfuse us with Himself to transform us for God’s building.
Christ is both the Lamb of God for our redemption and the stone with the seven eyes for God’s building.
He was engraved on the cross by God, for He was cut and crushed under the judgment of God for our sins.
In one day, He took away the iniquity of the land, and by believing into Him, all our iniquities are taken away. Praise the Lord!
On one hand, Christ is the redeeming Lamb taking away the sin of the world; on the other hand, He is the stone for God’s building, the Stone-Savior to infuse us with His stone element for the building of God.
As the Lamb and as the Stone, Christ has seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God.
He has seven eyes to search us, infuse us, and transfuse Himself into us for the building of God.
What is the connection between God, Christ, the Spirit, and the seven Spirits? Are these different things, or different aspects of the same thing, or what is going on?
When we read the Bible, we need to have the glasses of God’s economy on so that we may understand everything in the light of what is in God’s heart, His desire and His economy.
In His economy, God went through a process; the second of the Divine Trinity became a man and passed through incarnation, human living, crucifixion, and resurrection.
In His resurrection He became a life-giving Spirit (1 Cor. 15:45); today the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom (2 Cor. 3:17).
When we call on the name of the Lord Jesus, we receive Him as the Spirit in our spirit, and we are joined to the Lord as one spirit (1 Cor. 6:17).
How about the seven Spirits?
Because of the degradation of the church, as typified by the degradation and apostasy of the children of Israel, the Lord as the Spirit has been intensified sevenfold to carry out God’s administration and to gain His building.
Today the Lord is the Spirit, and this Spirit is the seven Spirits – not seven distinct and individual Spirits but the same Spirit intensified sevenfold to carry out God’s administration and produce the overcomers for the building up of the church and the consummation of the New Jerusalem.
As we live the Christian life at the end of the church age, we need to open to the shining, searching, judging, purifying, and infusing and transfusing of the seven Spirits of God so that we may be produced to be the Lord’s overcomers and build up the church as the Body of Christ consummating in the New Jerusalem.
Christ Carries out God’s Administration by the Seven Spirits to Bring forth the Chuches as God’s Building
![...The Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has overcome so that He may open the scroll and its seven seals. And I saw in the midst of the throne and of the four living creatures and in the midst of the elders a Lamb standing as having [just] been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God sent forth into all the earth. Rev. 5:5-6](https://i0.wp.com/www.agodman.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/The-Lion-of-the-tribe-of-Judah-the-Root-of-David-has-overcome-so-that-He-may-open-the-scroll-1024x1024.webp?resize=750%2C750&ssl=1 "...The Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has overcome so that He may open the scroll and its seven seals. And I saw in the midst of the throne and of the four living creatures and in the midst of the elders a Lamb standing as having [just] been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God sent forth into all the earth. Rev. 5:5-6")
Rev. 5:4-6 reveals that Christ is qualified and worthy to open the seals of God’s economy and carry out God’s administration.
He is the Lamb of God slain from the foundation of the world, and He is worthy to carry out the economy of God and build up the house of God.
Christ is the all-inclusive, excellent, marvellous, mysterious, and wonderful One as the Executor of God’s administration, and He is now the seven Spirits of God.
He is qualified to open the seven seals and carry out the economy of God.
How does Christ carry out God’s economy? How does He accomplish God’s administration in the universe?
According to Zechariah and Revelation, Christ is the very focal Executor of God’s economy, and He carries out God’s economy by the seven Spirits as His eyes.
Christ is the redeeming Lamb with seven eyes, and He is the building stone with seven eyes; these seven eyes are the seven Spirits of God before the throne of God and running to and fro all over the earth to carry out God’s economy. Wow!
The one life-giving Spirit has been intensified sevenfold to carry out God’s administration and build up the church, and we can open to this One today.
The seven Spirits are burning on this earth today for the carrying out of God’s administration.
The purpose of this burning flame in carrying out God’s economy is to produce, bring forth, and build up the golden lampstands, the churches, consummating in the New Jerusalem.
The age around us is more evil than ever, and the degradation in the church is worse than it has ever been; however, to counteract the degradation in the church, the one Spirit has been intensified sevenfold.
And this sevenfold intensified Spirit is the seven eyes of the Lamb and the seven eyes of the Stone-Savior to carry out God’s administration and build up the church!
On one hand, the entire world situation is under the flame of the seven Spirits, for God in Christ carries out His administration by these seven lamps of fire running to and fro all over the earth.
On the other hand, in an intrinsic and inward way, we believers in Christ are under the searching, observing, judging, purifying, infusing, and transfusing of the seven Spirits of God for the building up of the church consummating in the New Jerusalem.
We are under the judging, purifying, and refining of the seven Spirits of God as the seven lamps of fire so that anything natural would be eliminated and the pure golden element of Christ as the Spirit would be added to become the unique constituent of the church as the golden lampstand.
We are here learning to afford the Lord a way and an opportunity to judge us, purify us, and refine us to produce the pure golden lampstand.
We just need to open; He does everything, we simply cooperate.
For the completion of God’s building, the sevenfold intensified Spirit is the eyes of Christ as the redeeming Lamb and the building stone to observe and search us and to infuse and transfuse us with Christ’s essence, riches, and burden for God’s building (Zech. 3:9; 4:7; Rev. 1:14; 5:6).
![I was in spirit on the Lord's Day and heard behind me a loud voice like a trumpet, Saying, What you see write in a scroll and send [it] to the seven churches: to Ephesus and to Smyrna and to Pergamos and to Thyatira and to Sardis and to Philadelphia and to Laodicea. And I turned to see the voice that spoke with me; and when I turned, I saw seven golden lampstands...The mystery of the seven stars which you saw upon My right hand and the seven golden lampstands: The seven stars are the messengers of the seven churches, and the seven lampstands are the seven churches. Rev. 1:10-12, 20](https://i0.wp.com/www.agodman.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/I-was-in-spirit-on-the-Lords-Day-and-heard-behind-me-a-loud-voice-like-a-trumpet-Saying-What-you-see-write-in-a-scroll-683x1024.webp?resize=400%2C600&ssl=1 "I was in spirit on the Lord's Day and heard behind me a loud voice like a trumpet, Saying, What you see write in a scroll and send [it] to the seven churches: to Ephesus and to Smyrna and to Pergamos and to Thyatira and to Sardis and to Philadelphia and to Laodicea. And I turned to see the voice that spoke with me; and when I turned, I saw seven golden lampstands...The mystery of the seven stars which you saw upon My right hand and the seven golden lampstands: The seven stars are the messengers of the seven churches, and the seven lampstands are the seven churches. Rev. 1:10-12, 20")
The seven eyes of the Lamb infuse us with Christ as the judicial Redeemer, and the seven eyes of the stone infuse us with Christ as the organic Savior for God’s economical move on earth (John 1:29; Acts 4:11-12; Rom. 5:10)! Amen!
As we remain open to the Lord’s shining as the seven Spirits in our being, we enjoy and apply His judicial redemption and remain in the process of His organic salvation for the goal of His building.
This is what is happening right now in the heavenly realm.
We should not look at the seemingly disappointing situation in the churches and the evil condition of society today; we should believe in the flaming of the seven Spirits that carry out God’s administration and search us, burn us, purify us, and infuse us with Christ’s element for God’s building.
Our situation and condition are merely something temporary; what is real and eternal is the burning of the seven Spirits both outside of us and within us to carry out God’s administration and produce the churches as the golden lampstands consummating in the ultimate lampstand, the New Jerusalem.
May we believe in the flame of the burning seven Spirits that control and direct the world and that also judge, purify, and refine the church to produce a pure golden lampstand!
And may we open to the Lord and tell Him,
Lord Jesus, You are the all-inclusive, excellent marvellous, mysterious, and wonderful One as the Executor of God’s administration in this universe! Amen, Lord, You are worthy to carry out God’s economy, and You do it by the seven Spirits as Your seven eyes! Hallelujah, Christ carries out God’s administration in the universe by the seven Spirits as the seven lamps of fire burning before the throne of God. Lord, we believe not in what we see outwardly as the situation in the world and the condition of the church but in the burning of the seven Spirits to carry out God’s administration! Hallelujah, the seven Spirits of God are running to and fro on the earth to carry out God’s administration and to produce a pure golden lampstand consummating in the New Jerusalem! Amen, Lord, we open to Your searching, burning, shining, judging, and infusing. Search us, burn us, purify us, and refine us to produce a golden lampstand, Your pure testimony on the earth!
Open to the Seven Spirits to Burn us and Infuse us to Transform us for God’s Building
Prov. 20:27 says that our spirit is the lamp of Jehovah, searching all the innermost parts of our inner being.
Before we were saved, our spirit as the lamp was broken, non-functioning; through regeneration, the divine Spirit as the lamp of God came into our lamp to revive and enlighten it.
Now there are two lamps burning within us, the divine Spirit and our human spirit, and they burn as one.
Within us, we have two lamps – the sevenfold intensified Spirit of God with our spirit (Prov. 20:27; Rev. 4:5; 1 Cor. 6:17).
By our opening to the burning, searching, and infusing of the seven Spirits, we are transformed to be suitable for God’s building.
In order for us to be transformed, we must fully open to the Lord in prayer and allow the lamp of the Lord with the seven lamps of fire to search all the chambers of our soul, shining on and enlightening our inward parts to supply them with life.
We need to spend time with the seven eyes of the Lamb and allow the seven Spirits to shine on us, search us, burn us, purify us, and infuse us with the element of Christ so that we may be transformed for God’s building.
We can simply tell the Lord,
Lord Jesus, I am fully open to You: shine on me and shine in me! I want to keep my whole being open to You. I open my heart with my mind, my will, and my emotions. Search me thoroughly. Enlighten me. Enliven me. Infuse me with Yourself. Transform me for Your building.
![For 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...Who are you, O great mountain? Before Zerubbabel [you will become] a plain, and he will bring forth the topstone with shouts of Grace, grace to it! Zech. 3:9; 4:7 And His head and hair were as white as white wool, as snow; and His eyes were like a flame of fire. Rev. 1:14 And I saw in the midst of the throne and of the four living creatures and in the midst of the elders a Lamb standing as having [just] been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God sent forth into all the earth. Rev. 5:6](https://i0.wp.com/www.agodman.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/For-here-is-the-stone-that-I-have-set-before-Joshua-upon-one-stone-are-seven-eyes-1-683x1024.webp?resize=400%2C600&ssl=1 "For 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...Who are you, O great mountain? Before Zerubbabel [you will become] a plain, and he will bring forth the topstone with shouts of Grace, grace to it! Zech. 3:9; 4:7 And His head and hair were as white as white wool, as snow; and His eyes were like a flame of fire. Rev. 1:14 And I saw in the midst of the throne and of the four living creatures and in the midst of the elders a Lamb standing as having [just] been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God sent forth into all the earth. Rev. 5:6")
As we open to the Lord in this way, the seven Spirits will shine, search, enlighten, and burn in us, and every area of our being will be shined on and taken over by Him.
Furthermore, the divine life and life supply will be ours, and we as men of clay will be transformed into the image of Christ.
He adds Himself to us, He removes our natural element, and He transforms us into His image for His building.
May we learn to spend time with the Lord, spending time with the seven eyes.
We don’t have to just rush through our Bible reading schedule or read some portions of the ministry; we simply need to open to the Lord and spend time before the seven eyes of the Lamb.
We need to devote some time to be with the Lord and let His eyes do the work.
Just let the Lord look at you. Let Him expose, shine, and judge.
Just open every chamber of your being, even every nook and cranny of your inner being. We can tell Him,
Lord, look at me. Shine into me. Lord, check me out. I open every part of my being. I don’t hold anything back. I don’t close up any part. Shine in me, judge anything that is not You, and infuse me with Yourself.
As we open to the Lord in this way in our personal time with Him, there will be much shining from Him, and on our side, we will confess what the light exposes.
And the transfusion is there; He infuses us with Himself.
After we empty ourselves under His light, after we have been dealt with by Him, He infuses us with Himself.
He can’t infuse our inner parts and fill them until they have been cleansed and sanctified.
As we open to His shining, invite Him in and ask Him to enlighten us and search us, He exposes anything that doesn’t match His nature and His being. And we simply confess.
He even shines in an intensified way, and as we cooperate with His light, He infuses life into us.
The one who experiences the greatest amount of transformation is the one who is fully open to the Lord.
The more we just open to Him, the more He infuses us with Himself while removing anything that is not of Him.
By the operation of the sevenfold intensified Spirit within us as Christ’s seeking believers, we are intensified to become the overcomers to build up the Body of Christ, which consummates the New Jerusalem. Amen!
If we mean business with the Lord today, we will have a living and do a work that builds the New Jerusalem.
We will simply open to the Lord’s infusing and transfusing, searching and enlightening, and shining and judging, so that we may be transformed for God’s building.
The sevenfold intensified Spirit is the seven lamps of fire to burn, enlighten, expose, search, judge, purify, and refine us to produce the golden lampstands for the fulfilment of God’s New Testament economy (Rev. 4:5; 1:2, 4, 9-12, 20).
Day by day, even many times during the day, we need to open to the Lord and allow Him to shine in us; we just need to open to the seven eyes of the Lamb.
He will expose our stubbornness and our hurt emotions, and He will expose our natural kindness and gentleness.
If we just open to Him, He will expose and purify us, and He will infuse us with Himself to transform us for God’s building.
Only when we open to the Lord in this way day by day can we experience real transformation and we can become suitable materials for God’s building.
Lord Jesus, by Your mercy, we open our whole being to You. Come, Lord, and shine on us. Come, divine flame of God, and search us, judge us, and purify us. Infuse us with Yourself. We want to be enlightened, searched, exposed, and infused with You. Oh Lord, we just open. We are open to You. Shine upon us and shine from within us. Enlighten every avenue and every corner of our being. Remove anything that You don’t agree with. Expose anything that doesn’t match You. We say Amen to Your shining. We open to receive Your infusing. Amen, Lord, add more of Your element to our being. Transform us into Your image. We want to just behold You. We open to the seven eyes to be searched, purified, and infused. Amen, Lord, more transformation in Your image today. Transform us for Your building. Gain Your building. Gain the golden lampstand. Gain the New Jerusalem!
References and Hymns on this Topic
- Inspiration for this article/sharing comes from the Word of God, the enjoyment in the ministry, a sharing by brother Minoru Chen in the message for this week, and portions from, Collected Works of Witness Lee, 1984, vol. 3, “God’s New Testament Economy,” pp. 325-327, as quoted in the Holy Word for Morning Revival on, Crystallization-study of 1 and 2 Chronicles, Ezra, Nehemiah, and Esther (2022 winter training), week 4, entitled, The Recovery of the Building of the House of God through the Divine Encouragement of the Prophets of God.
- Further reading on this topic:
– The lampstand, the stone, the lamb, and God, a portion from, The Spirit and the Body, Chapter 8, by Witness Lee.
– The seven Spirits of God, an article by Ron Kangas in, Affirmation and Critique.
– The speaking Spirit, and the seven Spirits becoming the one river, a portion from The Spirit and the Body, Chapter 8, by Witness Lee.
– The seven eyes for God’s building, and the Spirit being the eyes of Christ; a portion from, Life-Study of Revelation, Chapter 22.
– What are the Seven Spirits of God in Revelation? Read more via, Holding to Truth.
– English – Prophesying Outline DST22 Week 4 – on, The Recovery of the Building of the House of God through the Divine Encouragement of the Prophets of God, via, The church in Chennai. - Hymns on this topic:
– “Seven Spirits” of our God— / Lo, the age has now been turned / To the Spirit with the Son. / For the churches He’s concerned. / Come, O seven Spirits, come, / Thy recovery work be done! / Burn and search us thoroughly, / All the churches are for Thee. / Burn us, search us, / All the churches are for Thee! (Hymns #1122 stanza 1 and chorus)
– Called as sons, called as sons, destined to be kings; / Called as sons we’ve no time for the worldly things: / Yet we know, it is so—we don’t qualify! / Thus the Lord must search and burn and purify. / Search and burn, search and burn all our inward parts; / Search and burn, thoroughly, to refine our hearts; / We’ll not fear, but be clear—burning, searching thus / Is the gracious visit of the Lord to us. (Hymns #1189 stanzas 3-4)
– The Lord’s eyes o’er the whole earth / Are running to and fro; / Those seven, burning, searching, / Our heart’s desire to know. / His purpose—many churches, / Built up in one accord; / This golden testimony / Will thus express the Lord. (Hymns #1265 stanza 3)
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The seven Spirits are burning on this earth today for the carrying out of God’s administration. The purpose of the burning flame in carrying out God’s economy is to bring forth the golden lampstands, the churches. Burning implies judging, purifying, refining, and producing…
I do not believe in the seemingly disappointing condition in the world or in the churches. I believe in the flame of the burning seven Spirits that control and direct the world and that also judge, purify, and refine the church to produce a pure golden lampstand.
We are here endeavoring to afford the Lord an opportunity and an entrance to judge us, purify us, and refine us to produce a pure golden lampstand. We are open wide to the flaming of the seven Spirits of God.
We all need to pray, “Dear divine Flame, come! Come and judge! Come and purify! Come and refine that You may produce the golden lampstand.”…By His mercy,…we are open to Him. Every day, every morning, and every evening, we need to pray, “Lord, come; we are open to You! We open every avenue of our being to You.”…
I can testify that nearly every day I pray, “Lord, enlighten me; search me within and expose me, Lord. I like to be enlightened by You and exposed in Your light.”…We all 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 like to be exposed, purged, and purified.”
Then the Lord has a way to produce a pure golden lampstand.
Collected Works of Witness Lee, 1984, vol. 3, “God’s New Testament Economy,” pp. 325-327
Wow, brother, we have two lamps in us, our spirit and the seven Spirits.
The more we open to the seven Spirits for the Lord’s shining, judging, exposing, purifying, and infusing, the more we are tranformed for the building of God.
Dear brother, Who experiences the greatest amount of transformation?
It is the one who is absolutely open to the Lord.
The seven Spirits of God, which are the seven spirits of fire burning before the throne, with the seven eyes of the Lamb, are sent forth into all the earth to carry out God’s administration and to infuse all the churches with God – by judging, purifying, refining – exposing our sinfulness and supplying us with the riches of Christ.
Hallelujah, within us we have 2 lamps—the sevenfold intensified Spirit of God within our spirit in order to transform us!!
Oh we must fully open to the Lord in prayer to allow the lamp of the Lord with the seven lamps of fire to search all the chambers of our soul, shining on and enlightening our inward parts to supply them with life.
Hallelujah for the seven Spirits and the seven eyes of the Triune God.
We men of clay need to be transformed into the image of Jesus.
We need judging, purifying, refining for the producing of golden churches all over the Earth.
We should welcome the burning of the seven Spirits.
Only by the burning of the Triune God can we be enlightened in every avenue & corner of our being.
Enjoy the audio version of the agodman.com article entitled, Open to the Seven Spirits to Burn us and Infuse us to Transform us for God’s Building (based on the HWMR on, the Crystallization-study of 1 and 2 Chronicles, Ezra, Nehemiah, and Esther – week 4 day 5).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIgkH813RiA
The article is online at https://bit.ly/Open2the7Spirits
Amen for the seven Spirits!
Brother I was impressed that as the Lord is shining within us enlightening us, simultaneously He is enlivening us with His life so men of clay can be transformed into the image of Christ for His pure testimony!
Amen dear brother!
O Lord we open all our chambers of mind,will and emotions! May your burning refiners 🔥 fire purify us into pure gold ready to do your will!
Hallelujah!😃
Amen praise the Lord for our spirit..
Prov. 20:27, footnote 2 on “lamp”, Recovery Version Bible
Amen brother if we want to be the lampstand we need to allow the Lord as the seven eyes to search refine and enlighen us we can only do this by opening to the Lord
may we be those who open to the Lord, to allow the Lord to work in us