Our Guest Perry Stone

PERRY:  All right. In the time of the Temple, most of you know this, this is a 7 branch candlestick six foot tall made of 24-carat gold called the “Menorah.” And it had to be a refreshing with oil every morning. But in the refreshing of the oil I found out, I think Edersheim the author Edersheim, is the one that wrote about this, he has all the documentation on it, I believe it was him. But he said when the, when the High Priest went to clean the Menorah he would cl— he would snuff out the five lights to, to put a new wick in and new oil in 5 branches but he left 2 burning. Now stay with me “cause I’m going to show you something. He left two burning. And then he would use these 2 to relight these and then he would go and put fresh oil and wicks in the last 2. But why’d he leave 2 burning? Why’d he leave the, the “servant branch” burning? Why’d he clean four but the two far in—? Because in the Book of Revelation there are 7 churches. Those 7 churches are the 7 candlesticks. Now you ready for this? Five of them their light was going out and Jesus rebuked  and two of them He said good things about!

AUDIENCE:  Wow. That’s something.

PERRY:  Now how do you like that for a Temple parallel from the Book of Revelation? You see what I’m saying? Seven branches. Five go out and have to be cleaned, cleaned up! New oil! And five messages to those churches “Your light’s going out.” You’re letting— you know you’re being seduced. He rebuked five of them and let them have it! But Philadelphia, and there was another one He said something good about, so was it Smyrna, I think he said something good about, two of them He said something good about. Meaning two of the lights were burning bright and five were going out. Exactly what was happening in the Temple every day! All right? Now another thing, and I got to, I got to, I got to get into this and this gets for some Christian people that don’t understand the culture of that day, some believers they don’t quite understand it when you talk about this because they say “that sounds a little bit like astrology.” There’s a difference between Christian astronomy and astrology because astrology says that the stars determine your outcome of life which is total hokey, which is forbidden in the Torah and forbidden by God. Christian astronomy is understanding the signs. What did Jesus say? Jesus said “there going to be signs in the sun, moon and stars.” Well if there is than we’d better understand the sun, moon and stars a little bit to understand what the signs are! All right. Now saying, having said that, Christ says, talks about in my right hand there were seven stars. Remember that? And you got seven pastors of 7 churches. Now I always, this always, this always bugged me, you say “Why does he put 7 stars in his hand? There must be something in space that has “7” in it. Oh, did I ever find out what it was! Anybody want to hear?

AUDIENCE: YES!

PERRY:  Now you going to love this. If you haven’t whooped and hollered, shouted, run, keep your shoes off, you’re about to, okay?

AUDIENCE: (LAUGHTER)

PERRY:  Because this, this, this is really amazing! In the universe is a constellation called the Pleiades. The Pleiades has one star and the Arabs and early Jews said it was the center of the universe. One star. A bright star! Remember Jesus [name is also] “The Bright and Morning Star.” Singular, a star. But that bright star is surrounded by 7 stars called “The Seven Sisters.” The word “church” in Greek is “ecclesia” and it’s feminine, and not masculine. Now that’s interesting “cause in His hand is 7 stars representing the pastors and the churches, you know the candlesticks and the churches, pastors. But here’s where it really gets more interesting. The Pleiades in the heavens is in the neck of a constellation called “Taurus the Bull.” An ox was an offering for the High Priest.

AUDIENCE:      Oh, Wow.