Chapter Fourteen/The Magnificence of Jehovah's Celestial Throne - Lamps of Fire and a Glassy Sea

 What does John further see? This: "And there are seven lamps of fire burning before the throne, and these mean the seven spirits of God. And before the throne there is, as it were, a glassy sea like crystal." (Revelation 4:5b, 6a) John himself tells us the magnificence of the seven lamps: "These mean the seven spirits of God." The number seven symbolizes divine completeness; so the seven lamps must represent the fullness of the enlightening force of the holy spirit. How grateful the John class is today that it has been entrusted with this enlightenment, together with the hungry peoples of earth! How glad we are that each year over 2oo million copies of the Watchtower magazine continue to beam forth this light in more than a hundred languages! - PSALM 43:3.

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