Seven churches

THE SEVEN CHURCHES
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Rev 1:15 His feet were like bronze glowing in a furnace, and his voice was like the
sound of rushing waters.
Rev 1:16 In his right hand he held seven stars, and out of his mouth came a sharp
double-edged sword. His face was like the sun shining in all its brilliance.
But Jesus is still in the midst of them. He is the Lord of the Church. He did promise his
presence till the end of the age.
It is strange that Jesus retained his human form even after resurrection. It shows that in
the totality of the Kingdom of Heaven, in the vast inter-galactic, inter-dimensional
civilization God man has a special place. The Jesus whom John knew and described in
the gospel is not the same Jesus whom John met now. The Jesus of the gospel is the
forgiving loving merciful person, but now he is seen in glory. John had seed this glory
once in the mount of transfiguration. But this was much more awesome. It was difficult for
John to exactly explain what Jesus looked like. This was therefore given in such terms as
"like" "was like" etc. An abstract impressionistic painting is given to us. If you would try to
paint this picture on a canvass, it will be an impossible task and will result in a figure far
different from the figure of man - yet he was "like a son of man". Here is the picture:
someone "like a son of man," dressed in a robe reaching down to his feet and with
a golden sash around his chest.
His head and hair were white like wool, as white as snow, and his eyes were like
blazing fire. His feet were like bronze glowing in a furnace, and his voice was like
the sound of rushing waters. In his right hand he held seven stars, and out of his
mouth came a sharp double-edged sword. His face was like the sun shining in all
its brilliance.
“One like the Son of Man”.
Certainly who John saw was human but not just any human for this was the
“Man” from Daniel’s vision in Daniel 7, whose exact title John uses.
”I was watching in the night visions, And behold, One like the Son of Man, coming
with the clouds of heaven! He came to the Ancient of Days, and they brought Him