VI: The Prophets' Visions

Seven Spirits (Seven Lamps and Seven Eyes)

the one Spirit of Yahuah in fullness

Root
Zech 4:2-10 · ruach (H7307)
Old Testament chain
  1. Exod 25:37
  2. 2 Chr 16:9
  3. Prov 15:3
  4. Isa 11:2
  5. Zech 3:9
  6. Zech 4:2-10
  7. Rev 5:6
New Testament
Rev 1:4; Rev 3:1; Rev 4:5; Rev 5:6

The seven lamps first burn on the menorah in the holy place (Exod 25:37). Isaiah names the Spirit resting on the Branch, "the spirit of Yahuah... of wisdom... of counsel and might... of knowledge" (Isa 11:2), and Zechariah's lampstand carries seven lamps beside a stone with seven eyes, "the eyes of Yahuah, which run to and fro through the whole earth" (Zech 3:9; 4:10). The book reads the seven Spirits not as seven beings nor as a third Person, but as a Hebrew completeness formula: one Spirit from the Father, fully vested in the Son. As lamps, nothing is hidden; as the Lamb's eyes, He sees completely, His discernment tested and proven from the inside.

From The Courtroom of Heaven, pp. 18, 26, 50, 69–70, 75, 77