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What does the vision of Christ in Revelation 1:1-20 establish about His identity, authority, and present ministry? How does the sanctuary imagery (priestly garment, lampstands) connect to the sanctuary foundations? What is the significance of the Christological merger of Son of Man and Ancient of Days attributes?

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CANDLESTICK

OF THE TABERNACLE - Made after divine pattern: EXO 25:31-40; 37:17-24; NUM 8:4 - Place of: EXO 26:35; 40:24,25; HEB 9:2 - Furniture of: EXO 25:38; 37:23; NUM 4:9,10 - Burned every night: EXO 27:20,21 - Trimmed every morning: EXO 30:7 - Carried by Kohathites: NUM 4:4,15 - Called THE LAMP OF GOD: 1SA 3:3

OF THE TEMPLE - Ten branches of: 1KI 7:49,50 - Of gold: 1CH 28:15; 2CH 4:20 - Taken with other spoils to Babylon: JER 52:19

SYMBOLICAL: ZEC 4:2,11; REV 1:12,13,20; 2:5; 11:4

ALPHA

  • A title of Christ: REV 1:8,11; 21:6; 22:13
  • Compare: ISA 41:4; 44:6; 48:12

OMEGA

  • Alpha and Omega, the all-comprehensiveness of Christ: REV 1:8,11; 21:6; 22:13

KEY

  • General scriptures concerning: JDG 3:25
  • A symbol of authority: ISA 22:22; MAT 16:19; REV 1:18; 3:7; 9:1; 20:1
  • FIGURATIVE: LUK 11:52

SWORD

Used by: - Gideon: JDG 7:20 - Goliath: 1SA 21:9 - Peter: MAT 26:51; JHN 18:10

David's army equipped with: 1CH 21:5 To be beaten into plowshares: ISA 2:4; MIC 4:3 Made of plowshares: JOL 3:10 Two-edged: HEB 4:12; REV 1:16; 2:12

FIGURATIVE: - Of war: GEN 27:40 - Of judgments: DEU 32:41; PSA 17:13; HOS 11:6; ZEC 13:7 - Of the malicious tongue: PSA 57:4; PRO 25:18

SYMBOLICAL: GEN 3:24; JOS 5:13; REV 1:16

ANCIENT OF DAYS

  • An appellate of Jehovah: DAN 7:9,13,22

ANGEL OF THE CHURCHES

  • General scriptures concerning: REV 1:20; 2:1,8,12,18; 3:1,7,14

GLORY

God is, to his people: PSA 3:3; ZEC 2:5 Christ is, to his people: ISA 60:1; LUK 2:32

OF GOD: - Exhibited in Christ: JHN 1:14; 2CO 4:6; HEB 1:3 - Exhibited in his name: DEU 28:58; NEH 9:5 - His majesty: JOB 37:22; PSA 93:1; 104:1; 145:5,12; ISA 2:10 - His power: EXO 15:1,6; ROM 6:4 - His works: PSA 19:1; 111:3 - His holiness: EXO 15:11 - Described as great: PSA 138:5 - Eternal: PSA 104:31 - Rich: EPH 3:16 - Highly exalted: PSA 8:1; 113:4 - Exhibited to Moses: EXO 34:5-7; with 33:18-23 - Stephen: ACT 7:55 - Enlightens God's people: ISA 60:1,2; REV 21:11,23 - Saints desire to behold: PSA 63:2; 90:16 - God is jealous of: ISA 42:8 - The earth is full of: ISA 6:3 - The knowledge of, shall fill the earth: HAB 2:14

SPIRITUAL: - Is given by God: PSA 84:11 - Is given by Christ: JHN 17:22 - Is the work of the Holy Spirit: 2CO 3:18

ETERNAL: - Procured by the death of Christ: HEB 2:10 - Accompanies salvation by Christ: 2TI 2:10 - Inherited by saints: 1SA 2:8; PSA 73:24; PRO 3:35; COL 3:4; 1PE 5:10 - The bodies of saints shall be raised in: 1CO 15:43; PHP 3:21

TEMPORAL: - Is given by God: DAN 2:37 - Passes away: 1PE 1:24 - The devil tries to seduce by: MAT 4:8

LAMP

  • Miraculously appeared at Abraham's sacrifice: GEN 15:17
  • For the tabernacle: EXO 25
  • Kept burning at night in the tabernacle and cared for by priest: EXO 27:20,21; LEV 24:2-4
  • FIGURATIVE: JOB 18:6; PSA 119:105; PRO 13:9; 20:20; ISA 62:1; JER 25:10; ZEP 1:12; MAT 6:22; 2PE 1:19; REV 21:23
  • SYMBOLICAL: REV 4:5; 8:10
  • See CANDLESTICK

PRIEST

BEFORE MOSES: - Melchizedek: GEN 14:18; HEB 5:6,10,11; 6:20; 7:1-21

THE TIME OF MOSES: EXO 28:1-4; 29:9,44; NUM 3:10; 18:7; 1CH 23:13 - Hereditary, descent of office: EXO 27:21; 28:43; 29:9 - Consecration of: EXO 29:1-9,19-35; 40:12-16; LEV 6:20-23; 8:6-35; HEB 7:21 - Vestments of: EXO 28:2-43; 39:1-29; LEV 6:10,11; 8:13; EZK 44:17-19

DUTIES OF: - Light the lamps in the tabernacle: EXO 27:20,21; 2CH 13:11; LEV 24:3,4 - Officiate in the Holy Place: HEB 9:6

FIGURATIVE: EXO 19:6; ISA 61:6; 1PE 2:9; REV 1:6; 5:10; 20:6

HIGH PRIEST: - Vestments of: EXO 28:2-43; 39:1-31; LEV 8:7-9 - Had charge of the sanctuary and altar: NUM 18:2,5,7 - To light the lamps of the tabernacle: EXO 27:20,21; 30:8; LEV 24:3,4; NUM 8:3 - To burn incense: EXO 30:7,8; 1SA 2:28; 1CH 23:13 - On the Day of Atonement: EXO 30:10; LEV 16; HEB 5:3; 9:7,22,23

DEATH

  • REV 1:18; 6:8; 20:14; 21:4 — Death and keys of death in Revelation
  • HEB 2:14-15 — Through death destroy him that had the power of death
  • 1CO 15:55 — O death, where is thy sting?
  • HOS 13:14 — I will ransom them from the power of the grave
  • ISA 25:8 — He will swallow up death in victory

REVELATION (as topic)

  • EXO 3:1-6,14 — God revealing Himself
  • 1CH 28:11-19 — Pattern revealed for the temple
  • MAT 3:17 — Voice from heaven