The Revelation Series - Eyes as a Flame of Fire II
Revelation 1:14 “And his head and his hair were white as white wool, white as snow; and his eyes were as a flame of fire;”
In Revelation Chapter 5 John sees the Lamb of God having seven horns and seven eyes. These seven horns and seven eyes are the seven Spirits of God. In Chapter 1 and Chapter 4 the seven Spirits of God are called seven lamps of fire. The scripture says the seven Spirits are sent forth into all the earth. Now we that search the Word know there is only one Spirit (Ephesians 4:4). So, the number seven is speaking of completion. God completed creation and rested on the seventh day. In Jesus Christ our Lord, God has finished a work that we dwell in.
We could say the Spirit of God is sent forth in the earth in the finished work of God in Christ. In Acts 2, the scripture says Jesus has shed forth the Holy Spirit in the earth. Malachi said the Lord shall come to His Temple and sit as a refiner’s fire. Paul says we are God’s Temple, we are the Temple of the Holy Spirit. So, God sits in His Temple to refine us. However, His refining is not making the best us we can be in and of ourselves. He is refining us in he Image of the ONE that is in us. We must come to see this.
God is not looking for the best Wayne or Bob or Andrew he can see. He is looking for Christ. The refiner is looking for His own image in the gold He is refining. Our salvation is much greater than us coming to the place to not sin anymore. Our salvation is Christ in us. We are to be conformed to His Image. II Corinthians Chapter 3 says we behold in a glass the Glory of the Lord to be changed into the same Image. The Image is the Glory of the Lord. The Image is Christ. We are to look in the mirror of God who is Christ to be changed.
Notice in Acts 2 when the Holy Ghost was given, the Spirit was described as sitting upon the disciples as cloven tongues of fire. The refiners fire came right upon their mouth, and they spoke with tongues as the Spirt gave them utterance. This heavenly language they received began to refine them. Even what they spoke was refined. That is what happens when the refiner begins to reveal the image. Our utterance begins to declare by this refining process. We do not speak by enticing words of men’s wisdom or knowledge. We begin to speak by the Revealing of Jesus Christ in us. We begin to utter His words.
This is so necessary in the Body of Christ today, that ministry would speak out of the Revelation of Jesus Christ, and not out of themselves. May He refine us to the very thought, person, and substance of Christ. May His glorious understanding come forth in our voice. May His nature come forth in our actions. May Christ be revealed in our hearts that He be manifested through His body in the earth!
