Tevet 1 – and in the midst of the seven lampstands…

Tevet 1, 5785; from sunset December 31, 2024, to sunset January 1, 2025

(The first day of the tenth month)

This is the name “Yeshua” (יֵשׁוּעַ – Jesus) as seen on the James Ossuary. Yeshua comes from the verb “yasha” meaning “to save or deliver.” Yeshua means “Salvation.”

John’s Revelation of Jesus – Yeshua

I can’t help but think of Jesus during Hanukkah, walking in Solomon’s colonnade during the Feast of Dedication. And then I wonder if that could be a shadow of John’s vision in the first chapter of the Revelation of Jesus Christ. Jesus, Yeshua, was “standing in the midst of the seven lampstands.” My mind seems to connect these two events, whether or not they actually are. Now I’m not suggesting that John received his revelation of Jesus during Hanukkah; but I do want to take this opportunity to remember Jesus, standing among the lampstands.

John, to the seven churches which are in Asia: Grace to you and peace from Him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven Spirits who are before His throne, and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn from the dead, and the ruler over the kings of the earth. To Him who loved us and washed us from our sins in His own blood, and has made us kings and priests to His God and Father, to Him be glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.

The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave Him to show His servants–things which must shortly take place. And He sent and signified it by His angel to His servant John, who bore witness to the word of God, and to the testimony of Jesus Christ, to all things that he saw. Blessed is he who reads and those who hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written in it; for the time is near.

Behold, He is coming with clouds, and every eye will see Him, even they who pierced Him. And all the tribes of the earth will mourn because of Him. Even so, Amen.

“I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End,” says the Lord, “who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.”

I, John, both your brother and companion in the tribulation and kingdom and patience of Jesus Christ, was on the island that is called Patmos for the word of God and for the testimony of Jesus Christ. I was in the Spirit on the Lord’s Day, and I heard behind me a loud voice, as of a trumpet, saying, “I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last,” and, “What you see, write in a book and send it to the seven churches which are in Asia: to Ephesus, to Smyrna, to Pergamos, to Thyatira, to Sardis, to Philadelphia, and to Laodicea.”

Then I turned to see the voice that spoke with me. And having turned I saw seven golden lampstands, and in the midst of the seven lampstands One like the Son of Man, clothed with a garment down to the feet and girded about the chest with a golden band. His head and hair were white like wool, as white as snow, and His eyes like a flame of fire; His feet were like fine brass, as if refined in a furnace, and His voice as the sound of many waters; He had in His right hand seven stars, out of His mouth went a sharp two-edged sword, and His countenance was like the sun shining in its strength.

And when I saw Him, I fell at His feet as dead. But He laid His right hand on me, saying to me, “Do not be afraid; I am the First and the Last. I am He who lives, and was dead, and behold, I am alive forevermore. Amen. And I have the keys of Hades and of Death. Write the things which you have seen, and the things which are, and the things which will take place after this.

“The mystery of the seven stars which you saw in My right hand, and the seven golden lampstands: The seven stars are the angels of the seven churches, and the seven lampstands which you saw are the seven churches. – Revelation 1 (NKJ)

When reading Revelation chapter one, we not only see Yeshua walking among the lampstands, but we are told what the lampstands represent — the seven churches. The clothing that John sees Yeshua wearing evokes images of a priest’s garment. One wonders if Yeshua was performing the priestly duty of trimming the wicks and filling the lamps with oil to keep them shining brightly. In fact, that seems to be exactly what He’s doing with the rebukes and rewards that He commands John to speak to the churches. As we light our seven candles tonight, let’s think about Yeshua walking among the seven churches — tending to business.

Hanukkah – Day 7

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