The “receiving of the Spirits by Prayer,” and the “operations of the Spirits” have been discussed in another file. Now we will look at various lists of the “holy seven,” from the Bible, in side-by-side columns. This will demonstrate the fact that each one of the seven Spirits of God has a multifaceted personality. For instance, “Faith” is represented as the “Teaching of Jesus” (One Faith), and as “the answer to Prayer” (Counsel), and as “Trust” and “Prayer” (Faith). The other seven Spirits will be seen in different lights also.

ISAIAH EZEKIEL GALATIANS EPHESIANS

1) Righteousness Face of Man Love One Body
2) Counsel Face of Lion Faith One Faith
3) Knowledge Face of Ox Joy One Hope
4) Fear of He Is (Yahweh) Face of Eagle Meekness One Dipping
5) Wisdom and Holy Spirit before
Understanding the throne Lonsuffering One Spirit
6) Judgment Jesus on the Peace and
throne Self-control One Lord
7) Might God on the Goodness and
throne Kindness One God

1) The Spirit of Love is represented as “the Face of a Man,” and as “One Body,” and “we (the Body) are the Righteousness of God in Him (Jesus).” If we do not Love man whom we have seen, how can we Love God whom we have not seen?

2) The Spirit of Faith is represented as “the answer to Prayer” (Counsel), and as being “Lion-hearted,” in our Belief in God, and as “One Teaching.”

3) The Spirit of Knowledge is pictured as “the Ox plowing to sow the Seed,” and represented by the Joy of “sowing the Seed,” and as “the Hope of the message of the Seed sown, which was the resurrection in AD 77.” Our Hope today is in the promised resurrection at the End of the World.

4) The Spirit of Forgiveness is the result of Meekness, and the Fear of the Lord; for many are too proud to submit to the One Dipping. The Eagle is the symbol of “Urgency” in the Old Testament, for God and the pagan nations, are predicted to swoop down like an Eagle destroying the enemies of God. Jesus taught that “unless you forgive your brother, you will not be forgiven.”

5) The One Spirit of the Body represents Obedience to One Lord and One God; this is the Spirit of Obedience “on earth.” The seven Spirits before the throne are from God in “Third Heaven;” and also, the Spirit is Longsuffering.

6) Jesus on the throne is the One Lord, and “He is our Peace,” and He demonstrated Self-control in going to the cross, for “He opened not His mouth.” Then, “all Judgment is committed to the Son,”
and in a general list (which follows), Jesus is our Atonement.

7) Our Heavenly Father is the One God on the throne with One Lord, and He has the Spirit of Might, or Strength, to destroy nations and individual men; or to deliver nations and men, and Body and Soul. The “new Body of man is immortal; or, incorruptible.” God is also the Spirit of Adoption; this is into the Body on earth first, and then, into Third Heaven finally.

Now we will observe another chart of parallel lists of the seven Spirits of God.

2 PETER REV 5 REV 7 GENERAL TERMS

1) Love Blessing Blessing Love
2) Faith Honor Honor Faith
3) Knowledge Glory Glory Knowledge
4) Brotherly
Kindness Power Power Forgiveness
5) Perseverance Wisdom Wisdom Wisdom
6) Virtue and
Self-control Riches Thanksgiving Atonement
7) Godliness Strength Might Adoption

By means of these two charts we have brought together some of the various lists of the seven Spirits of God. These seven Spirits of God are represented by the symbol, “Lampstand.” See: Zechariah 4.2 and Revelation 1.12, 20; 2.5; 11.4.

[In Revelation 11.4, “two Lampstands” is an error in translation, and should read: “the two Olive Trees and (7) Lampstands BOTH standing before the God of the earth.”]

For additional lists, see: Ephesians 6.14-18, Jude 25.

Saved by Dipping; Lost by Failing to Receive the Spirit:

“When an unclean spirit [sin] goes out of a man, he goes through dry places, seeking rest, and finds none.
Then he says, ‘I will return to my house from which I came.’ And when he comes, he finds it empty, swept, and put in order.
Then he goes and takes with him seven other spirits [sins] more wicked than himself, and they enter and dwell there; and the last state of the man is worse than the first. So shall it also be with this wicked generation” – Mt 12.43-45; NKJV.

This story is repeated:

“Therefore many of His students, when they heard, said, ‘This is a hard saying; who can understand it?’ … From that time many of His students went back and walked with Him no more” – Jn 6.60, 66.

Missing Factor:

“Jesus answered, ‘Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born from Water and of Spirit, he is not able to enter into the kingdom of the God” – Jn 3.5.

CONCLUSION:

Most people “saved by dipping go to Hell!”
This is because, as stated above, “their saved bodies remain empty” (meaning without the Spirit).
The Scriptures quoted above, and dozens of others, make perfectly clear that, “No one can be saved without the presence of the Spirit.” Congregations are “dead” without the Spirit!

“For as the Body [local congregation] without the Spirit [of God] is dead, so faith without works is dead also” – Jas 2.26.

And – where do “works” come from, but from the Spirit?

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