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Fifth Vision: Gold Lampstand

¹ The angel who was speaking with me then returned and roused me as one awakened out of sleep. ² He asked me, “What do you see?”

I replied, “I see a solid gold lampstand with a bowl at the top. The lampstand also has seven lamps at the top with seven spouts for each of^(F1) the lamps. ³ There are also two olive trees beside it, one on the right of the bowl and the other on its left.”

⁴ Then I asked the angel who was speaking with me, “What are these, my lord?”

⁵ “Don’t you know what they are?” replied the angel who was speaking with me.

I said, “No, my lord.”

⁶ So he answered me, “This is the word of the Lord to Zerubbabel: ‘Not by strength or by might, but by my Spirit,’^(C1) says the Lord of Armies. ⁷ ‘What are you, great mountain?^(C1) Before Zerubbabel you will become a plain.^(C2) And he will bring out the capstone accompanied by shouts of: Grace, grace to it!’”

⁸ Then the word of the Lord came to me:^{(C1) 9} “Zerubbabel’s hands have laid the foundation of this house,^(C1) and his hands will complete it. Then you will know that the Lord of Armies has sent me to you. ¹⁰ For who despises the day of small things?^(C1) These seven eyes of the Lord, which scan throughout the whole earth, will rejoice when they see the ceremonial stone^(F1) in Zerubbabel’s hand.”^(C2)

¹¹ I asked him, “What are the two olive trees on the right and left of the lampstand?” ¹² And I questioned him further, “What are the two streams^(F1) of the olive trees, from which the golden oil is pouring through the two golden conduits?”

¹³ Then he inquired of me, “Don’t you know what these are?”

“No, my lord,” I replied.

¹⁴ “These are the two anointed ones,”^(F1)(C1) he said, “who stand by the Lord of the whole earth.”^(C2)