The Mystery Of The Seven Stars

Verse 20: The mystery of the seven stars…

Revelation 1:20 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.

Here is an intriguing mystery. The seven stars represent the seven churches and their leadership (ie. their pastors). According to the following passage, the church was one of the mysteries hidden in past ages and is now revealed in the New Testament:

Ephesians 3:9-11 And to make all men see what is the fellowship of the mystery, which from the beginning of the world hath been hid in God, who created all things by Jesus Christ: To the intent that now unto the principalities and powers in heavenly places might be known by the church the manifold wisdom of God, According to the eternal purpose which he purposed in Christ Jesus our Lord:

If you have a sense of wonder, I think you will be amazed by this. Yes, the church was not clearly revealed in the Old Testament (there are several types and shadows of it, though); however, God refers to it symbolically by the phrase, “the seven stars.” Pleiades, the constellation with seven stars (see Strong’s #3598) is referred to three times in the Old Testament (twice as Pleiades, once as “seven stars”). See Job 9:9; 38:31; Amos 5:8. There are also four references to the seven stars (ie. the churches of Asia Minor) mentioned in the New Testament. See Revelation 1:16, 20; 2:1; 3:1. That makes seven references in the Bible to the seven stars.

Now here comes the amazing part: get some good maps of the seven churches of Revelation and compare them to the constellation of the seven stars (Pleiades). The position of the seven churches  on a map of Asia Minor (modern day Turkey) are exactly the same as the layout of the seven stars in Pleiades. So even though the church was a mystery not revealed to man in the Old Testament, it was in the heart of God since the foundation of the world, and on His mind as He spread out the stars in His universe on day four. If you are a child of God through faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, don’t ever fall for the lie that God does not care about you!

Psalm 8:3-4 When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained; What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him?

Taken from Revelation Chapter One - The Things Which Thou Hast Seen (my commentary on Revelation)

Jerry Bouey

Running seven count: 79

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