Kingdom Bible Study's From the Candlestick to the Throne Book Two Covering the Revelation of Jesus Christ in The Seven Churches of Asia from the book of Revelation verses 1:11 - 3:21In this second volume on the book of Revelation we discover the true building or house of the Lord is a living organism of the body of people in whom the Christ dwells! What is the church? You are the church. I am the church. We are all the church. So we are the seven churches! You are the seven churches! I am the seven churches! We are all the seven churches! Just as the seven spirits are but one spirit in fullness, so the seven churches are but one church in its completeness. All the characteristics of the seven churches may be found in each of us individually as well as in every local body and also in the whole universal church collectively.If the seven churches represent seven church ages as many teach, then we have a problem! You would be able to appropriate on the promises to the overcomer that belong to the church age you live in. Futhermore, if we are now in the Laodiciean church age, as many assert, the only promise we can claim is that of throneship. To the church of Laodiciea the Lord says, "To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame and set down with my Father in his throne" (Rev. 3:21). That is a beautiful promise and a wonderful calling! But if this is the Laodicean church, we would be denied the promise of eating of the tree of life given to the church in Ephesus, we would be refused the promise of not being hurt of the second death, given to the church in Smyrna; we would be prevented from eating of the hidden manna and receiving a white stone and a new name, as promised the overcomers in the church at Pergamos; we could by no means be given power over the nations to rule them with a rod of iron, for that promise was made only to the overcomers in the church in Thyratira; we would be prohibited from partaking of the promises to the overcomers in Sardis of being clothed in white raiment, and that our name will not be blotted out of the book of life; nor could we in any way become a pillar in the temple of God or have written upon us the name (nature) of our God or the name of the city of our God or the new name of God's Christ - for those promises could only be experienced by those overcomers out of the Philadelphia church age.So we see by the spirit of wisdom and revelation that all the saints of the entire church age along with you and I today are the seven churches, that the seven churches are within each of us and that God has given this revelation in a mystery that the carnal mind cannot comprehend, then we are filled with the secret wisdom that only comes to the mature in Christ. My hope in Christ is that I may lay hold upon all the overcoming promises of my Lord and find that abundant entrance into the everlasting kingdom of Jesus Christ the Son of God. I open wide my heart to receive of all the rebukes, admonitions, encouragements, and promises to all the seven churches. They are one and all ours together. I am as you are and we all are the seven golden candlesticks. As soon as I turn and behold that great truth, as soon as I know who I am, know my identity, know my birth, know who my Father is, know the kingdom to which I pertain, and know my calling; for it is as I behold the seven golden candlesticks and see them lighted within my own soul and in my spirit; then do I begin to understand what is the height and the depth and the length and the breadth of the reality of Christ in me the hope of glory!