A Major point of the book of Revelation is that AFTER His resurrection and ascension is MINISTRY continued.

This is precisely why John saw Him dressed as a High Priest. He was in heaven yet God gives John a vision of Him walking among the churches as a clothed High Priest walks among golden lampstands.

"I was in spirit on the Lord's Day and I heard behind me a loud voice like a trumpet, Saying, What you see write in a scroll and send it to the seven churches: " (Rev. 1:11a)

And I turned to see the voice that spoke with me, and when I turned, I saw seven golden lampstands,

And in the midst of the lampstands One like the Son of Man, clothed with a garment reaching to the feet, and girded about at the breasts with a golden girdle. (Rev. 1:12,13)

@sonship said
(The footnotes of the Recovery Version New Testament is a good place to read more about these things discussed briefly here. The footnotes were written by Witness Lee).

@sonship said
Yet the sign in the vision means He is active in His ministering priestly service taking care of the genuine local churches on earth.

Christ's every continued MINISTRY is depicted in the sign of Him walking among the seven genuine local churches as a High Priest.

And in the midst of the lampstands One like the Son of Man, clothed with a garment reaching to the feet, and girded about the breasts with a golden girdle. (Rev. 1:13)

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@divegeester said
So the content of this post is Witness Lee's ministerial work?

The seven golden lampstands are a sign of the seven cities in which the church has been established. That is the normative situation of one city for one church, and one church for one city.

So the name of each church is simply the locality of where the assembly is.

" ... What you see write in a scroll and send it to the seven churches,

to Ephesus,
and to Smyrna
and to Pergamos
and to Thyatira
and to Sardis
and to Philadelphia
and to Laodicea.

And when I turned to see the voice that spoke with me; and being turned, I saw seven golden lampstands. And in the midst of the lampstands One like the Son of Man,

clothed with a garment reaching to the feet, and girded about at the breasts with a golden girdle." (Rev. 1:11-13)

You will notice that detractors of this thread will have little to say about the actual content of what is being explained. On that they have little to say. But great effort will be made to discredit some Christians speaking of the things.

"Discredit the messenger and we can sabatoge the message."

I would advize interested parties (both of you) to pay more attention to the Scripture and the things said as helps to get into them.

Let the "Gang up on the messenger" crowd have their poor substitute for not caring about the Word of God itself. Such is life.

When we see gold in the Bible in a sign it is often denoting the nature of God.

The golden girden around the breast of Jesus Christ surely says something about His heart being of the divine nature of God.

Some commentaries that agree or come close are seen below.
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers

, for He is arrayed in the apparel of kingly and priestly dignity. He is robed to the foot with the long garment of the high priest. St. John uses the same word which is used in the LXX. version of Exodus 28:31, to describe the robe of the Ephod. (Comp. Zechariah 3:4.) It has been understood by some, however, to indicate the "ample robe of judicial and kingly power." There is in the vision a combination of both thoughts. He is the King-Priest who is seen by the Evangelist, the Melchisedec whom the Epistle to the Hebrews ... He is girt about the breasts with a golden girdle. The girdle is not around the loins, as though ready for action and toil (Luke 12:35), but it is worn as by one who rests from toil in the "repose of sovereignty."

The glorified Messiah still wears that human form by which the beloved disciple had known him before the Ascension (John 21:7). With the exception of Acts 7:56, the full form, "the Son of man," is used only by the Christ of himself. A garment down to the feet. The word ποδηρής, sc. χιτών (vestis talaris), though frequent in the LXX. (Ezekiel 9:2, 3, 11; Zechariah 3:4, etc.), occurs nowhere else in the New Testament. The robe is an official one. The Rhemish renders it "a priestly garment down to the foote." Compare Joseph's "coat of many colours," which literally means a "coat reaching to the extremities." In Exodus 28:31 "the robe of the ephod" of the high priest is ὑποδύτης ποδήρης. The angel in Daniel 10:5, 6 is described in similar language: "whose loins were girded with fine gold of Uphaz" (comp. Isaiah 22:21, "I will clothe him with thy robe, and strengthen him with thy girdle, and I will commit thy government into his hand" ).

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If anyone wants to learn to use the Search Engine at www.ministrybooks.org they can probably find out for themselves if I used a phrase that can be located somewhere in a message by Witness Lee or Watchman Nee.

Please be my guest. But you'll have to learn how to use their Search Engine.

(I'm pretty good at locating words. Phrases of more than one word, I do not often use. You guys are so smart, you'll have little trouble with it.)

@ghost-of-a-duke said
Appears to be the case.

(How is this any different from 'wsay123000' spamming the forum with those pre-written Buddhism sermons? )

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