The Menorah: Represents the Seven Spirits of God

By D.Jean McBride BBA MTh DD

Jean’s growing love for the word of God led her to seminary and that work led to religious studies which then led to this work. Everybody see the Menorah and they think of Moses but they miss what God was trying to tell us and reveal to us even now. Every Christian need what God’s Menorah represents in their lives today.

• Language: English
• Publisher: WestBow Press
• Release date: Mar 3, 2021
• ISBN: 9781664214842

D.Jean McBride BBA MTh DD

Jean obtain her BBA from Langston University at the University Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma and her MTh. and D.D. through Northwestern Seminary. She volunteers in many different venues. Through Church sponsored mission trips and other travels she has been able to visit about 15 countries in 4 continents of the world however her love for Israel has never waned, so she returns again and again to pray at the place God has placed His name.

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This book will take you on Jean’s journey through Scripture and through the annals of history. As the pages unfold, you will uncover her heart and passion for God and His infallible Word. She invites you to peer into her discovery of the hidden mysteries of the Menorah and its connection to the seven Spirits of God. Linda Seymour

The book, The Menorah, written by Jean McBride shows the depth that took place to provide these discoveries in the bible, she puts them in word form so you can understand. The Menorah really opened my eyes to things that I truly did not know, that were in the bible. The Menorah is truly a must read! Robbi Denson

CONTENTS

Preface

Chapter 1: The Menorah

God Orders a Menorah

Israel Split

Ezra Brings the Menorah Back

Grecian Rule

Several Menorahs

War with the Seleucids

Hanukkah

The Hammer

Menelaus

Arch of Titus in Rome

Colors on the Menorah

Chapter 2: Holy Spirit

Holy Spirit, in us

Holy Spirit, through us

Gifts of the Holy Spirit in us

Fruit of the Spirit in us

Chapter 3: Seven Spirits of God

Spirits

The Seven Spirits

Chapter 4: Menorah in Us

Unity

Fully commit

Missing Out

The Menorah in Prophecy

Conclusion

We need the Seven Spirts

Dictionary

Bibliography:

PREFACE

Have you ever considered the word wonderful? Yes, it is vastly overused today but the word wonder is at its core. Adjectives of the word are marvelous, amazing, astonishing, brilliant, and all these words I also use to describe the Holy Spirit of God.

His laid-back entrance into Genesis tends to make us look away from the powerhouse He really is, a necessary force for being an overcoming Christian. Every human has a spirit because they were made in the image of God. But once you have accepted Christ and obey and follow His way of living, the Holy Spirit unveils layers or dimensions of strengths and abilities, we would have never dreamt possible within us.

This power of God was used in Genesis 1 to get the universe started and He will be there at what Christians and the Bible call the end-of-the-age. Fact is, Jesus said He would always be with us and He will, always.

Just as there are many names to describe God, there are many facets, much like a diamond, to the Holy Spirit of God. Those facets are for us and to be used in us. The faithful can always rely on the Holy Spirit to do these things:

1. Tell the truth, because there are evil counterfeiting spirits to contend with in the earth.

2. Give to us what the Father says, just as Jesus only said what His Father told Him to say, we are to only say and do what the Father tells us to do. The Holy Spirit will only reflect Christ Jesus and guide us as the Father wills.

3. He bears witness of the light. Christ left, the Holy Spirit took His place and is a witness for the world to know the Messiah through us, but before even that, thousands of years ago, God tried to show us that light through the Menorah. The minister Ray C. Stedman described the Holy Spirit this way.

Remember that grace and truth cannot finally be crucified. Remember that all the high things that make humanity beautiful cannot be forever laid in the dust, spattered with blood. And most of all, remember that He who rose from the dead, rose to pour out His Holy Spirit into human lives, and, by that Spirit, to make available to any individual all the fullness of Himself, twenty-four hours a day.¹

The Holy Spirit revealed to me, as I began to understand the seven branched Menorah God gave to Israel, that I must always abide in the Spirit of Yahweh, then His Wisdom will be a part of me and through His Knowledge and Understanding I will put everything God gives me to good use.

The Fear of God would cause me to avoid extremes. I should never be to haughty or so humble that I cannot move forward. Then the Power given to me will be used with wise Counsel always considering first and foremost the ways and the purposes of the Lord my God. See 1 Cor. 15; Ecc. 7:18; 12:13-14 for more information.

Herein lies the seven Spirits of God, the Menorah God’s tangible symbol for man on this earth.

I searched for books, even in the city of Jerusalem, that would reveal the seven Spirits of God and the Menorah’s connectivity to each other without success. So, I felt free to pursue the task of revealing the connection. Once I started God started downloading information into me, even now it continues.

I used a lot of quotes because I always want to know where things come from or why things are the way they are, so I share that with you, always quoting my sources, showing you where information can be found. Not all authors and speakers do that for their audience so I am particularly proud to have done that, and even more proud that God entrusted to me the creating of this work.

Reading the Bible, church sermons, Bible studies, the elements of the Menorah are everywhere. God would use every opportunity to give me more than enough material to fulfill this work. I pray you are blessed and empowered as I have been as you read this material.

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CHAPTER ONE

THE MENORAH

G od first gave to man-kind tangible elements to teach them about Himself as Elohim. One of the elements was the Menorah, God named each branch of the menorah to teach the man He created about His characteristics, allowing His Holy Spirit to flow through each branch as He willed. Then from tangible to Spiritual, through Christ’s death, burial, and resurrection God gives mankind every opportunity to live and use these Menorah gifts. Every branch of the Menorah light is needed by every person if he intends to be a child of almighty God and remain faithful and true overcomers while we live out our lives on planet earth. This goal is what God wants for all who call upon His name.

God Orders a Menorah

God gave to man-kind a replica of heaven when He gave to Israel the tabernacle. A tabernacle is a holy place where people go to worship God, it can be stationary or movable. God ordered Moses to build this movable building and gave him the people needed to create it and the articles needed to fill the tabernacle. All these articles were to be used by the Levites to worship God within this dwelling place for God. Yes, God order a dwelling place for Himself so He could be as close as He could to the man He created.

Most places people used to worship gods during Moses lifetime were statues or stationary places. Ashtoreth poles, which was a pole that represented male and female genitals, was a high place used as altars for prostitution by men and women. Baal (the fertility god) was a well know god and the giving of living sacrifices, sometime human, to Molech were commonly practiced.

After the time of Adam, people began worshiping what they could see and feel and strayed from their creator God, whom they could not see. God, having already sent the flood to cleanse the earth, would not allow corruption to happen twice without first giving to man-kind a written word to live by, and objects and directions by which to operate so that they might praise and honor Him in the correct way.

God loved us so much and of course, He wanted that love replicated by us toward Him and one another. Because of that He sent His word to heal us both mentally and physically first through the Jews, then through a person named Jesus the Christ and His apostles. Since the sin of Adam separated us from God, man-kind needed a pathway back to God, so He chose a man, then a nation, then a tribe and then out of that tribe He chose a man to provide a way back to Him.

Like any parent, God wanted to commune with us, so He chose Israel to get His message out. Why Israel? Well, the book of Genesis covers the covenant God made with Abraham, a righteous man. God made him the father of many nations and many peoples because he obeyed and had faith in what God told him.

God used the Jewish people and the tabernacle He ordered them to make, as His way for communing with and being close to man-kind. That model was to be a light to the whole earth. They were a people used by God so that He could teach the world how to successfully live on the earth He created. In doing this, Father God gave everyone a chance of obtaining all the promises attached to the covenant He created with Abraham.

The tribe that was chosen out of the twelve was Levi. Only this tribe was to care for the tabernacle of God, only this tribe was chosen to be priest before God and within that tribe only Aaron’s line was to enter the Holy of Holies once a year to make sacrifices for the sins of the people before God, first for himself, then the other priest and then the people as a whole. The book of Exodus expounds greatly on how God wanted this mirror image of heaven to be constructed and carried out here on earth.

One of the items to be built was the Menorah. Menorah is a Hebrew word that means a candelabrum with seven branches on it. The menorah was the vessel used to hold the light so the priest could