<TITLE>18. Par 182-189</TITLE>L-182 Now, in the holy place, where the shewbread... And many of you clergymen understand, and that. And you people here at the tabernacle, being taught with a good teacher here, you--you know these things.
The Seven Golden Candlesticks, they were--had little lamps on top of them that burnt oil. Over in Zechariah, where he saw the vision, I believe it was, and he saw the wild olive tree and the tame olive tree; the Jew and the Gentile, way before the dispensation of Gentile. They had a golden censers, and both of these golden censers run into this one candlestick here that furnished oil for all the lamps. And he couldn't understand how these things was: the wild olive tree and the tame olive tree. And the tame olive tree, of course, was broke off, the wild olive tree grafted into it.
And that oil to the lamp... Oil represents the Holy Spirit, always. We'll get in that on the marking the people, Friday night. Notice, but this oil represents Holy Spirit. That's why we anoint the sick with oil, is because it represents the Holy Spirit.
The Bible said, in Revelations the 6th chapter, when the plague went through, he said, "A measure of wheat for a penny and two measures of barley for a penny; but don't hurt My wine and My oil." Wish we was going to take Revelations on through, for a few weeks, and get into that, who that wine and oil is. "See that you hurt not My wine and My oil. Don't you come near it." Amen.

L-186 Now, notice these golden candlesticks. This oil poured into these candlesticks. Now, the oil was what was put in the lamp to burn. Now, Aaron was... It was his duty to light these lamps. And these lamps had to be lit. Hold it on now. Look. Keep reverent, and listen. These lamps had to be lit by the fire that God had lit. Aaron's sons went in with some strange fire, and God slew them in the door; that's right, strange fire. The fire that God started...

L-187 And look. Now, the candlesticks run in an arch. Here was one candlestick, two, three, four (way up), five, six, seven, like this. Now, those golden candlesticks here, as he says in a few minutes...
Let's read a little farther, maybe we'll get it. And listen what he said now. All right. "And His head..." I believe I've got ahead of the 12th verse there, "Seven Golden Candlesticks." 13th verse:
 And in the midst of the seven golden candlesticks one like the Son of man, clothed with a garment down to the foot, and a girt about the paps with a golden girdle.
 His head was as--as... his hair was as white as wool,... white as snow; and his eyes were flames of fire;

L-189 Now, let's stop there just a minute, 'cause we can't leave that picture there just like that. See? Look at these candlesticks standing here now. Now, those candlesticks, as we'll find a little later, represents the Seven Church Ages. They represent Ephesus, Pergamos, and on down to Philadelphia, and, oh, to Laodicean: Seven Church Ages.
And each one of these little candlesticks had a little cruse of oil setting there, and this oil burnt on this candle. Now, when one candle was lit by the fire of God, they taken that candle and lit the other one, then set it down; and lit the other one; and one lit off the other one, off the other one, off the other one, till the last candle. Notice, same oil.


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