Bible Discussion Thread

Rev.2.1 "In the midst of"

"who walketh in the midst of the seven golden candlesticks;"

We come across this expression again,"He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the midst of the paradise of God." (2.7). In the midst of is used in the sense we are covered,"Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us." We are not as busybodies crisscrossing the whole length of the ungodly world but in the direction the cherub is keeping the way to the tree of life. Which is in the midst of paradise.

Heaven as well as earth framed by the word has only one centre, which is your altar,- your heart to be precise. You move as directed within the lintel and doorposts covered by the blood of the Lamb. The sad fate of Dinah teaches us the folly of soaking up the local colour, customs and traditions of an untoward generation. "That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world;" (Phili.2.15). It tells us of the ark of Noah tossed about by waters while Noah and his world was secure, And this is Millennial reign and we are in the midst of it. We shall hear the command, " And they heard a great voice from heaven saying unto them, Come up hither. And they ascended up to heaven in a cloud; and their enemies beheld them."(Rev.11.12)

" He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches."

The Spirit is recording what the Law has determined according to the seven days in the everlasting Covenant. The seven names in Asia Minor are merely labels as the the great city where our Lord was crucified as a stand in for Egypt, Sodom or Babylon. (Rev.11.8)