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Paul Cox · 09-11-2011, 06:05 AM

Some of us might remember being taught about the "Seven-fold Intensified Spirit," from Revelation. The impression we were given was that in these last days of degradation, the Lord has intensified his "move on the earth" through the Local Churches. It always bothered me: as if the Lord didn't get his planning right, and had to rev it up toward the end.

The other night I was reading T. Austin-Sparks' Golden Candlestick, Volume 158, The Throne of God and of the Lamb. In there he beautifully explains the significance of the sevens in Revelation. It's the number of covenant. Everything the Lord does with and through His people is based upon a precious covenant He has made with us.

How precious is that? you don't normally make covenants with those who are not your equal. You just over power them. But the God of the universe has made a covenant with us. From beginning to end, all his doings with man is based upon that covenant.

You see the difference? Lee's teaching on the subject is church-centric; movement centered. Sparks' is Christ centered. The point of Lee's teaching was to keep us in his movement, in fear and trembling lest we miss God's "intensified" move in these last days. God has put the metal to the pedal in the Living Stream Churches, and you dare not miss it. It could mean 1000 years in a dark closet.

P.C.

09-11-2011, 06:05 AM	#210
Paul Cox Member Join Date: Jul 2008 Posts: 181	Re: Against LSM's Allegorizing Some of us might remember being taught about the "Seven-fold Intensified Spirit," from Revelation. The impression we were given was that in these last days of degradation, the Lord has intensified his "move on the earth" through the Local Churches. It always bothered me: as if the Lord didn't get his planning right, and had to rev it up toward the end. The other night I was reading T. Austin-Sparks' Golden Candlestick, Volume 158, The Throne of God and of the Lamb. In there he beautifully explains the significance of the sevens in Revelation. It's the number of covenant. Everything the Lord does with and through His people is based upon a precious covenant He has made with us. How precious is that? you don't normally make covenants with those who are not your equal. You just over power them. But the God of the universe has made a covenant with us. From beginning to end, all his doings with man is based upon that covenant. You see the difference? Lee's teaching on the subject is church-centric; movement centered. Sparks' is Christ centered. The point of Lee's teaching was to keep us in his movement, in fear and trembling lest we miss God's "intensified" move in these last days. God has put the metal to the pedal in the Living Stream Churches, and you dare not miss it. It could mean 1000 years in a dark closet. P.C.