What Do You See?

What Do You See?

“Now the angel who talked with me came back and wakened me, as a man who is wakened out of his sleep. And he said to me, ‘What do you see?’ So I said, ‘I am looking, and there is a lampstand of solid gold with a bowl on top of it, and on the stand seven lamps with seven pipes to the seven lamps. Two olive trees are by it, one at the right of the bowl and the other at its left.’” Zech. 4:1-3.

It is time to awake from sleep and begin to see! Jesus says that we must lift up our heads and see that summer is near. The time that is remaining is short! Most people only see emptiness and guile for as long as they live. They see the temporal and its significance, but they do not see that which is everlasting and its significance. Do not live your life in emptiness! When we see, we can also rejoice and work in hope!

The Lord asked Zechariah, “What do you see?” He saw the church perfected: solid gold, and seven lamps with seven pipes to the seven lamps—in other words, a perfect connection to each brother and sister. Who has ever seen the church like this? And who has seen himself in this glorious lampstand? If we do not see that which is perfect, then we cannot pursue it either, as Paul did. Phil. 3:12. He saw a glorious church, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing. Eph. 5:27. He was a co-worker with God to present the church in this way, and he taught every man with all wisdom in order to present every man perfect in Christ. Col. 1:28. He had a living faith and hope for himself and for the others.

By nature all of us are sinners and unrighteous through and through, but once we are saved and born again, we can be transformed to partake of divine nature, which is God’s Word, the gold that lasts forever. Our hearts and minds must be thoroughly permeated by this solid gold, and as such we are called to shine, being perfectly joined together.

Jesus walked in the midst of the seven golden lampstands, which are the seven churches. There was much that had to be cleansed away in most of them, but all of them were given time and hope to repent. May God’s Word, which is this everlasting gold, enter in and always remain in us, and may everything else be cleansed out.

May we, as those who see and are anointed, be along in working on this perfect work, this glorious work of God that will be raptured when the trumpet sounds.

Jesus says, “Blessed are your eyes for they see, and your ears for they hear.” Matt. 13:16.