The prophet's handbook

great detail, and until John’s Apocalypse, they were scarcely uncovered in Scripture—but they are there. Zechariah’s prophecy mentions them almost casually as the “seven-eyed priestly stone of the high priest Joshua.” What subtle metaphors of the Lord Jesus and His church! Revelation 5:17 resurfaces those seven eyes, but this time they are on the seven horns of the Lamb and are defined as the seven spirits of God that are sent forth into all the earth. But how are we to know them as antiquity’s archons? The answer is mostly by what they do. These are the powers that amazingly coincide with the seven churches of the Lord Jesus Christ discussed in Scripture—those seven spirits the Revelation tells us that eventually blanketed the earth, which ended up being divided into seven continents. The Importance of the Number Seven Seven is an important number in Scripture; it is applied nearly five hundred times. In most of those cases, seven is used in religious, prophetic, and apocalyptic contexts. That makes it quite important to the Lord in setting time, in limiting events, and in other significant Creator ordinances. Beyond this is the obvious—there are seven days per week, and the seventh day is doubly important, being the Sabbath. Now this is biblical genre we are talking about, not occultic. God decreed the number as the unit of completion, thoroughness, and spiritual dominance. Among these is the most profound of all, those seven spirits before God’s throne. However, what they do or how they govern may not make sense to you. The following is a list of what those seven powers oversee as first eternity’s seven archons and today the seven angels of the New Creation ekklesia. Their names and areas of effect are followed by a brief description. Bear in mind as you read them that no society or culture on earth exists without every one of them functioning, no matter the names by which they may be called. I call them the seven spheres of creation over which God’s spiritual protocrats rule. Quick Study Chart God’s Seven Protocratic Spheres

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