Subject: thou hast left thy first love |
Bible Note: Thank you Robert for your helpful reply. In your reply you said "I believe the lampstand is the Lord's presence in their midst" That leads me to ask; If the lampstand is removed from their presence, does that mean that the Lord's presence departs from their midst? And without the Lord's presense are they not merely "organized religion" What you stated reminds me of the following quote I post for you. “When the Holy Spirit withdraws, ... he sometimes allows the forms which he has created to remain. The oil is exhausted, but the lamp is still there; prayer is offered and the Bible read; church going is not given up, and to a certain degree the service is enjoyed; in a word religious habits are preserved, and like the corpses found at Pompeii, which were in a perfect state of preservation and in the very position in which death had surprised them, but which were reduced to ashes by contact with the air, so the blast of trial, of temptation, or of final judgement will destroy these spiritual corpses.” (Pastor G.F. Tophel) Love and Peace |