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Originally Posted by Awareness
Where's Menorah mentioned?
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Originally Posted by aron
Exodus 25. Please see posts #55 and #43. My theme here has been that even tho it's not explicitly stated in Rev. 1, there were seven flames burning there since the OT. The NT writers, esp. John, were acutely aware of the authority of scripture and thus continually turned to it for validation.
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Are you making links to the OT that aren't there?
Or are they? Perhaps Mephi is right, John was writing in his study at Patmos, with his copy of the Septuagint handy, for reference, creating this book not by experiences, by out of whole cloth, from OT imagery, speaking code, to avoid provoking the Romans, explaining what he saw going on in his day. And Christians in that day understood John, and did (like every generation since) relate his crazy tome to their day.
But the word Menorah is not mentioned anywhere in the Bible ... not that I can find.