Spirits

ARE WE GOING TO BE CHANGED TO SPIRITS AFTER WE HAVE DIED?

The popular teaching of going to be with God in heaven after we die have often conjured in the minds of Christians the idea that we will be changed from physical human beings to spirit beings like God, Jesus Christ and the angels. Indeed if we will live with God in heaven, we must be changed to spirit beings. But is there any explicit biblical support for this common belief of Christians? Let us reason from the Bible and see if this belief is correct or not.

Which Heaven Are We Talking About?

Many of us would have known that everything from the sky (firmament) to the highest realm where God dwells is called heaven in the Bible. In this article, “heaven” means the glorious, invisible, highest realm which God uses as His dwelling place. The Bible calls this realm the throne of God. This realm is what comes to our minds whenever we are told of going to heaven to live with God forever “after we have been changed from physical, earthly beings to spirit beings like the angels.”

We Shall Be changed

There are a number of passages in the epistles which tell us that our bodies will undergo supernatural change, in a flash or “twinkling of an eye,” before we enter into God’s kingdom. This change will take place on the day of the first resurrection, when Christ returns to the earth to establish the kingdom of God on the earth.

Apostle Paul wrote, “What I am saying, dear brothers and sisters, is that flesh and blood [or our physical, earthly bodies] cannot inherit the Kingdom of God. These mortal [or dying] bodies cannot inherit immortality [that which will last forever]. But let me reveal to you a wonderful secret. We will not all die, but we will all be transformed [or changed]. It will happen in a moment, in the blink of an eye, when the trumpet is blown. For when the trumpet sounds, those who have died will be raised to live forever. And we who are living will also be transformed. For our dying [or mortal] bodies must be transformed into bodies that will never die; our mortal bodies must be transformed into immortal bodies” (1 Cor. 15:50-53, NLT; words in square brackets and bold emphases are mine throughout).

Here, the apostle made it known that on the day of Christ’s second coming, both the resurrected and living saints will have their bodies changed to be those that will never again age and die. But he did not say that we will be changed to spirits. It will become the same type of physical body Adam and Eve had in the Paradise of Eden before they sinned and death came on them.

About thirty to forty years after Paul’s letter to the Corinthians, Apostle John had this to say, “Dear friends, we are already God’s children, but He has not yet shown us what we will be like when Christ appears [or returns]. But we do know that we will be like Him, for we will see Him as He really is. And all who have this eager expectation keep themselves pure, just as He is pure” (1 John 3:2, NLT).

It was certain as at then that those who will inherit the Kingdom of God will be given bodies that will be like that of Jesus Christ who will be the king of the Kingdom. Once again, it must be said that the Bible does not explicitly say what we will be like in the kingdom. But we can deduce from available scriptures the fact that we will not be changed to spirits. We will be given physical, immortal bodies. Follow me as we reason from some Bible verses.

Christ’s Resurrected Body

Originally before His incarnation, our Lord Jesus Christ was a Spirit Being like the Father. This is so because, as the monogenes, a Greek word meaning the only begotten, He possessed the same “Spirit” or “God” nature as the Father (John 4:24) who begot Him. See Heb. 1:3; 1 Cor. 15:45; Phil. 2:6; Col. 1:15-19.

When the time came for the Messiah to come to the earth the first time to be the perfect sacrifice for our sins, God gave Him a human body to be offered as a sacrifice in fulfilment of God’s righteous standard for the forgiveness of our sins, an act of the loftiest height of love by God and Christ for humanity. See John. 1:1, 14; Heb. 10: 5-7; 2:14-17; John 15:13.

At the appointed time, God allowed evil men to nail the only begotten Son of God to the cross where He suffered terrible pain and died. He was laid in a borrowed tomb where His body stayed for three days and nights. God raised Him up after the three days and nights. With what body was Christ raised from the dead? The passages quoted below are accounts of what took place after Christ’s resurrection.

“One of the twelve disciples, Thomas (nicknamed the Twin), was not with the others when Jesus came. They told him, ‘We have seen the Lord!’ But he replied, ‘I won’t believe it unless I see the nail wounds in His hands, put my fingers into them, and place my hand into the wound in His side.’ Eight days later the disciples were together again, and this time Thomas was with them. The doors were locked; but suddenly, as before, Jesus was standing among them. ‘Peace be with you,’ He said. Then He said to Thomas, ‘Put your fingers here, and look at my hands. Put your hands into the wound in my side. Don’t be faithless any longer. Believe!’” (John 20: 24-27, NLT).

Luke wrote of another time when He appeared to His disciples:

“And they [the two disciples to whom Christ showed Himself on the way to Emmaus] rose that same hour and returned to Jerusalem. And they found the eleven and those who were with them gathered together, saying, ‘The Lord has risen indeed, and has appeared to Simon!’ Then they told what had happened on the road, and how He was known to them in the breaking of the bread [verses 13-31]. As they were talking about these things, Jesus Himself stood among them, and said to them, ‘Peace to you!’. But they were startled and frightened and thought they saw a spirit [or ghost]. And He said to them, ‘Why are you troubled and why do doubts arise in your hearts? See My hands and My feet, that it is I Myself. Touch Me, and see. For a spirit does not have flesh and bones as you see that I have! And when He had said this, He showed them His hands and His feet.” (Luke 24:33-40, ESV).

After His resurrection, He could pass through walls or physical objects, appear and disappear; He nevertheless had a physical body. But it was not the same as the physical body He had before His resurrection. That one could not go through walls or disappear. The resurrected body is a physical, glorified, powerful one. We know it is physical because it has flesh and bones which spirits don’t have (Luke 24:39).

His Body Did Not Decay In The Grave

As part of his Pentecostal message, Apostle Peter quoted from Psalm 16:8-11 (Septuagint version), a prophecy about what would happen to Christ at death. Verse 10 says His body would not rot in the grave. Peter made mention of this twice in his message (Acts 2:27,31). This further affirms what has been written in the Gospels by Luke and John that our Lord was having a physical body after His resurrection. The body which was buried after His death did not decay in the grave. This means that He rose with the same body. But a change took place in that body. It became an immortal one. John said we shall be like Him when He comes again. The type of immortal, physical body He had after His resurrection, and with which He ascended to heaven (Acts 1:9-11) is the type of body we will have after our bodies have been changed by God.

Did Christ Say We Will Be Chnaged To Spirits?

When the Sadducees posed a tricky and fantastic story to prove their erroneous belief that there is no resurrection after death, the Lord disproved them by saying, “You are in error because you do not know the Scriptures or the power of God. At the resurrection people will neither marry nor be given in marriage; they will be like the angels of heaven.” (Matt. 22:29-30, NIV).

What Christ said here is that there is no marriage after the resurrection because there will be no more death occurring. Therefore, procreation of new babies to replace dying ones, which is the primary purpose of marriage, will become a foregone thing. Everyone in the Kingdom, male and female, will not marry or be given in marriage. They will become like angels who do not marry. Luke gave another sense in which we will become like angels in the kingdom of God. It is in the sense that will be like angels who don’t die (Luke 20:36; see Heb. 2:7,9). The Lord did not here mean that the people will become spirit beings like angels.

Apostle Paul devoted 1 Corinthians 15 to the subject of resurrection. Starting with the resurrection of Christ (vv. 1-11), he moved on to talk on the resurrection of the dead (vv. 12-34). He ended the chapter by talking on how the dead will be raised and the kind of body the resurrected person will have (vv. 35-58).

In verse 44 Paul wrote, “It [the body] is sown [buried] a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body.” (ESV).

Here, the apostle said the dead will be raised with spiritual bodies. There is a difference between being “a spirit” and being “spiritual”. While a “spirit” is a non-physical, living being , having no physical substance which can be held or felt. But to be “spiritual” often means to be non-carnal or relating to, consisting of, or affecting the spirit.

The word “spiritual” (Greek: pneumatikos) is used 26 times in the New Testament almost exclusively by Paul. Apostle Peter was the other writer who used it twice in 1 Peter 2:5. The word is defined in Strong’s Greek Lexicon #4152 as non-carnal or supernatural, regenerate, religious.

In the places where the word “spiritual” is used, it does not mean “spirit”. For example, the law is said to be spiritual (Rom. 7:14) but the law is obviously not a spirit being. Paul also talked of “spiritual food” and “spiritual water” (1 Cor. 10:3,4) but these are not spirits. In Galatians 6:1, the apostle said, “if anyone is caught in any wrongdoing, you who are spiritual are to restore such a person in a spirit of gentleness; each one looking to yourself, so that you are not tempted as well.”

In 1 Cor. 9:11, Paul asked the Corinthians, “If we have sown spiritual things among you, is it too much if we reap material things from you?”

The word “spiritual” therefore means non-material things which affect our spirits. It also means to be non-carnal in our thoughts, words, motives and actions.

Now, what do the words “spiritual body” mean? Do they mean that we will be turned to spirit beings as many Christians suppose? The pulpit commentary defines it as “a body which is not under the sway of corporeal desires or of intellectual and passionate impulses, but is wholly dominated by the spirit, and therefore has no desire or capacity to fulfil the lust of the flesh.”

Paul said that “Christ has indeed been raised from the dead, the first fruits of those who have fallen asleep [died]” (1 Cor. 15:20). He also wrote, “But our citizenship is in heaven. And we eagerly await a Saviour from there, the Lord Jesus Christ, who, by the power that enables Him to bring everything under His control, will transform our lowly bodies so that they will be like His glorious body” (Phil. 3:20-21, NIV).

How was the body of Jesus Christ after He was raised from the dead? It was physical – He could be seen, heard and touched (John 20: 24-29). He ate food in their presence (Luke 24:40-43). Yet He could pass through walls or physical barriers and could suddenly appear and disappear at any time (John 20:19, 26; Luke 24: 31). The body He possessed after His resurrection was indeed imperishable, glorious, powerful (1 Cor. 15: 42-43). Although it was a physical body, it had supernatural qualities which are not found in a natural body. The weaknesses and limitations of a natural body were no more in Him. Nevertheless, the possession of a “spiritual body” did not make Jesus Christ a disembodied spirit or ghost after His resurrection. This fact came out of the month of the Lord Himself (Luke 24:39). Spirits do not have physical bodies which can be touched.

It is evident from the Scriptures that we will undergo supernatural bodily change before we enter into the kingdom of God on the day of Christ’s return to the earth. But it is equally clear from the Bible that we will not be changed to spirit beings as is erroneously believed by many people. We will be given physical, powerful, immortal, supernatural and glorious bodies. There will be no sicknesses, diseases, pain, death. But we will not be left to be idle. Our lifestyle in the Kingdom will be similar to that of Adam and Eve in the Paradise of Eden before sin and death came upon them as a result of their disobedience.

Finally, a spiritual body will be that which is totally and perfectly under the control of God’s Spirit. The carnal, human nature will be non-existent in the body. No single person in the Kingdom, having been given the spiritual body, will have any problem doing the will of God.

THE SEVEN SPIRITS OF GOD

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The words “seven spirits” are found in four places in the Book of Revelation (Rev. 1:4; 3:1; 4:5; 5:6). There have been tremendous debates about who or what these seven spirits represent. This has become one of the subjects on which Bible scholars seem to have agreed to disagree. That disposition ought not to be the one found in Christians. All Christians are supposed to be humble enough that we are able to reason with one another until we become convinced about the truth. All of us ought to be like the Bereans who, though not gullible, were willing to accept any teaching supported by the word of God even when the new teaching goes against their previously held opinions or beliefs.

Who are these seven spirits of God? Many interpretations have been given to the phrase by Bible teachers and commentators. The two most held opinions are:

The seven spirits of God represent the sevenfold operations of the Holy Spirit.
The seven spirits of God are seven spirit beings; they are a class of angels.

As Christians, if we humbly, honestly and diligently reason from the scriptures, God will not leave us in darkness. We have been assured by the Lord Jesus Christ that His followers have been granted to know the secret truths about God’s kingdom (Matt. 13:11; Luke 8:10). If we sincerely seek to know the truth, God will surely reveal it to us. In fact, most of these secrets have been clearly revealed in the Bible but men are just failing to see them. One of the reasons men are ever studying but failing to know the truth is due to the evil effects of false teachings they have swallowed at the early stages of their Christian life. Another reason is pride and prejudices already sown into them by their leaders or denominations.

Let us do away with every form of pride and honestly reason with the scriptures so that we may know the truth.

SEVENFOLD OPERATIONS OF THE HOLY SPIRIT

Those who teach that the seven spirits of God represent a sevenfold operation of the Holy Spirit, are often quick to refer to Isaiah 11:2 which says, “The Spirit of the LORD shall rest upon Him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the Spirit of counsel and might, the Spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the LORD” (NKJV)

They itemize the sevenfold operations as (1) the spirit of the LORD, (2) the Spirit of wisdom, (3) the spirit of understanding, (4) the spirit of counsel, (5) the spirit of might, (6) the spirit of knowledge, and (7) the spirit of the fear of the LORD.

If teachers are looking for sevenfold operations of the Holy Spirit, it is not seen in this verse because there are only six gifts or virtues seen here. All the six, namely wisdom, understanding, counsel, might, knowledge and fear of the LORD are all gifts or manifestations of the Spirit of the LORD which is the Holy Spirit. If a tree has six fruits on it, you don’t count the tree with its six fruits and say it has seven fruits. That is what many of our teachers have done here. The Spirit of the LORD mentioned in Isaiah 11:2 is the one Spirit of God which is also called the Holy Spirit of God (Eph. 4:30; 1 Thess. 4:8) or His holy Spirit (Isa. 63:10, 11; Luke 11:13; Eph.1:13).

It should be observed that Isaiah did not stop the count of the gifts in verse 2. He continued up to verse 5 where he mentioned other virtues or gifts which are righteousness, justice and faithfulness. Therefore, the fruits or gifts of the “Spirit of the LORD” in Isaiah 11:2-5 are nine. By stopping in verse 2 is enough evidence that some people just want to get seven things to match the seven spirits of God mentioned in Revelation. This is a sad proof that some people have done so much eisegesis – deliberately interpreting scriptures to make them support their own preconceived ideas. By so doing, they read their own minds into the scriptures rather than allowing the scriptures to teach them the truth. By so doing they rob themselves of the great privilege of knowing God’s truth plainly revealed in the Bible.

God put the fullness of His Spirit in the Lord Jesus Christ (Isa. 42:1; John 3:34). The full measure of God’s Spirit was in Him alone. It should therefore be taken for granted that the nine gifts or operations mentioned in Isaiah 11:2-5, the nine gifts mentioned by Paul in 1 Cor. 12:7-10 and the nine fruits of the Spirit (Gal. 5:22-23) were fully in Christ Jesus. It is therefore theologically wrong to say that the fullness of the Holy Spirit which God promised to put in the Messiah is limited to the six manifestations in Isaiah 11:2. It has been seen that there are more than six or seven “manifestations” or “gifts” or “fruits” of God’s spirit which is also called the Holy Spirit. The interpretation of the seven spirits of God as meaning seven manifestations of God’s Spirit is flawed because the manifestations are more than seven.

Some commentators, including the highly esteemed ones like Albert Barnes (1798 – 1870) have argued that it is unimaginable to place angels between the divine persons – the Father and the Son, as seen in Rev. 1:4. This is said to amount to placing angels on the same rank with God and His Son. It is also argued that if the seven spirits of God in Revelation represent angels, it would mean that “grace and peace” could be invoked from them and this is scripturally unacceptable. Another point raised is that if two persons of the Trinity are mentioned, then it is to be presumed that the third would not be omitted. The argument, therefore, is that the seven spirits of God represent the fullness of the Holy Spirit.

Many strong points can be brought in refutation of these arguments. Let us examine the following:

The Bible says that ‘no one among men knows the thoughts of a man except the man’s spirit within him. In the same way no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God” (1 Cor. 2:11, emphases added throughout). Two principles can be inferred from this verse:
1. A man’s spirit is not a separate person from the man. It is the invisible, non-physical part of the man. Even so is the Spirit of God which is called God’s holy Spirit or the Holy Spirit. It is part of God; it is not a separate person from God. This is one truth that makes the Holy Spirit different from Jesus Christ who is a literal, separate and distinct person from God, the Father.
2. Just as a man’s spirit is within the man, so is God’s Spirit within Him. In many places It is called the power, eyes, finger, hand, breath, or anointing of God. It is therefore illogical to see God’s Spirit, which is within Him, being the sentient part of Him, as a literal person standing before His throne like a sentinel.

As rightly argued, it should be assumed that when two persons of “the Trinity” are mentioned, the third one ought not be omitted. But let us consider the following scriptures:
1. Jesus said, “No one knows about the day or hour [of His second coming], not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father” (Mark 13:32, words in square brackets are added by me). Here, we see angels mentioned alongside the Father and the Son. The so-called “third person of the Trinity” is not mentioned by Jesus Christ.
2. “If anyone is ashamed of Me and My words, the Son of Man will be ashamed of him when He [the Son] comes in His glory, and in the glory of the Father and of the holy angels (Luke 9:26). Here again, Jesus Christ, the one who came from the Father in heaven, did not mention the Holy Spirit. But He mentioned Himself, the Father and holy angels.
3. “But you have come to Mount Zion, to the heavenly Jerusalem, the city of the living God. You have come to thousands upon thousands of angels in joyful assembly, to the church of the firstborn [Christians] whose names are written in heaven. You have come to God, the judge of all men, to the spirits of righteous men made perfect [probably Old Testament saints], to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant and to the sprinkled blood that speaks a better word than the blood of Abel” (Heb. 12:22-24). Here again, angels, God and Jesus are mentioned. Even human beings are mentioned. Only the Holy Spirit is not mentioned.
4. “Him who overcomes I will make a pillar in the temple of my God. Never again will he leave it. I will write on him the name of my God and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem which is coming down out of heaven from my God, and I will also write on him my new name” (Rev.3:12). Here again, the Father (God), Jesus Christ (the Lamb) and the New Jerusalem will be marked on all the citizens of God’s kingdom as their identification marks. But the Holy Spirit is again not mentioned by our Lord, Jesus Christ. I must quickly add that “the Spirit” in Rev. 2:7; 2:11; 2:17; 2:29; 3:6; 3:13; and 3:22 should not be misinterpreted to mean the Holy Spirit. Jesus Christ used it in reference to Himself the same way He addressed Himself as the Son of Man while He was in the flesh on the earth here. See 2 Cor. 3:6, 17 where the apostle Paul said the Lord [Jesus Christ] is the Spirit. See also 1 Cor. 15:45 where Jesus Christ, the last Adam, is called the life-giving Spirit.
5. The kingdom of God is also known as the kingdom of Christ and of God (Eph. 5:5) or the kingdom of our Lord and of His Christ (Rev. 11:15). Evidently, the Holy Spirit is not one of the persons in the kingdom. See also Rev. 21:22-23; 22:1-5.
6. In the epistles, the apostles greeted the Christians to whom they wrote in the name of the Father and the Lord, Jesus Christ. This is copiously seen in the first few verses of the first chapter of each of their letters (epistles). In all the greetings, the “third person of the Trinity” is never for once mentioned.
7. In 1 Timothy 5:21, Paul wrote, “In the presence of God and of Christ Jesus and of the elect angels I charge you to keep these rules without prejudging, doing nothing from partiality” (ESV).

Like the Lord Jesus Christ, Paul here mentioned God, Christ and angels. He did not mention the Holy Spirit. These passages are, however, the ones where the Holy Spirit is not expected to be missed out if indeed it were the “third” literal, divine person as claimed by Trinitarians.

For those who care to accept the truth, the Holy Spirit is not a literal and separate person from God. There are only two divine persons – God and His Son. There are no three divine persons. Therefore, the Trinity doctrine is nothing but a fatuous speculation of men. There is no greater falsehood ever sold to Christendom than the Trinitarian doctrine.

Revelation 1:4 is the opening salutation from John with the usual wish or prayer for grace and peace from God and Jesus Christ. This style of greeting is common to all the apostles. The only difference here is that the seven spirits of God are added. I do not have any answer to this. But I dare to say that it is mere human opinion to suggest that the mention of angels alongside God and His Son put them on equal rank with the two Divines. There is no reason to suggest such equality. That argument is rendered invalid by the fact that Jesus Christ Himself had talked about angels alongside the Father and Himself. From the words of Jesus Christ alone, there is more than convincing evidence that there is no divine “third person”. The Holy Spirit, as seen from the numerous proofs in the Bible, is not a separate and distinct person from God and His Son.
Throughout the Book of Revelation the Father has been shown to us as “Him who sits on the throne.” The Son has also been depicted as a Lamb (Rev. 5:6) after which time He was always called the Lamb. Nowhere is each of them depicted as anything other than one single being. How come we are being told that seven burning lamps standing as sentries in front of God’s throne are representing the one Spirit of God? This is eisegesis! It is untenable. To say, therefore, that the seven spirits of God which stand as sentries before God’s throne represent the manifestations of God’s holy spirit is biblically inconsistent, logically juvenile and seriously flawed.

SEVEN DISTINCT SPIRITUAL BEINGS

The second major view of the seven spirits of God is that they are spirit beings or angels who always stand in the presence of God to carry out His divine orders. Notable scholars who held this view include Theodore Beza (1519- 1605), Adam Clarke (1760/62 – 1832), and Professor John Leighton Stuart (1876 – 1962).

Biblical support for this view are far stronger and weightier than there is for any other view. Let us consider some of them.

In Psalm 104:4, we read that God made His angels spirits; His ministers [servants or messengers] a flame of fire. When Moses saw an angel, it was in the form of a flame of fire (Exod. 3:1-2; Acts 7:30). The angels that carried Elijah into “heaven” came down in the form of chariots and horses of fire (2 Kings 2:11). At another time, God sent His angels down to protect Elisha against a Syrian king who wanted to capture him. The angels surrounded Elisha’s camp in the form of horses and chariots of fire (2 Kings 6:17). The cherubim, a class of angels, which were seen by Ezekiel in a vision in Babylon, appeared to him in the likeness of burning coals of fire or lamps whose fire was bright (Ezekiel 1:13). Compare this with Revelation 4:5 where the seven spirits of God appeared to John in the form of lamps of fire burning before the throne.
In Rev. 4:5, Apostle John wrote that the seven lamps which he saw burning before the throne are the seven spirits of God. Later in Rev. 8:2, he wrote, “And I saw the seven angels which stood before [the throne of] God and seven trumpets were given to them.” The definite article “the” denotes the fact that Apostle John had seen or known the seven angels before this time when they were given seven trumpets. The only conclusion that can be drawn from these passages is that the seven angels are the seven spirits of God who stood before the throne of God in the form of seven burning lamps.
In chapter 20 of the apocryphal Book of Enoch we read of angels who are “watching” creation and their names are given as Uriel, Raphael, Raguel, Michael, Sarakiel, Gabriel and Ramiel. Also, in another apocryphal Book of Tobit, it is written “I am Raphael, one of the seven holy angels which present the prayers of the saints, and which go in and out before the glory of the Holy One” (Tobit 12:15). We read also from Daniel that Michael is one of the chief princes ((Dan. 10:13). The term “chief prince” perhaps means the same thing as “archangel” with a company of angels under his command (Jude 1:9; Rev. 12:7). The fact that Michael is said to be one of the chief princes or chief angels or archangels means that they are more than one.
The seven spirits of God are said to be before the throne of God. This means that they are always in the presence of God. In Luke 1:19, Gabriel told Zacharias the priest, the father of John the Baptist, that he was Gabriel that stand in the presence of God. Jesus Christ also warned His disciples not to despise any of the little ones because their angels in heaven are always in the presence of My Father in heaven (Matt. 18:10, GNB).

The Jewish apocryphal Book of Jubilees says that “on the first day He [God] created the heavens which are above and the earth and the waters and all the spirits which serve before Him – the angels of the presence, and the angels of sanctification, and the angels of the spirit of fire, and the angels of the spirit of winds, and the angels of the clouds, and of darkness, and of snow and of hail and of hoar frost, and the angels of the voices and of the thunder and of the lightning…” (Jub. 2:2). So, we see here that God created different types and classes of angels. They are angels of [His] presence who are always ready to take orders from Him. Some are angels of the spirit of fire.

Evidently, these seven spirits of God are the spirits (or angels) of fire and they are also angels of God’s presence. Each class of angel has a different role or function and each class is created with some distinct attributes of God in them.

In Revelation 5:6, it is written that the seven spirits of God are sent out into all the earth. This means that they are messengers of God always on errand from the throne of God in heaven to the earth. In Heb.1:14 the author wrote that angels “are ministering spirits who are sent to serve those [humans] who will inherit salvation.” The plural verb “are” should be noted. The “gifts” or “manifestations” of the Holy Spirit do not run errands. They are manifested by those who have the spirit of the LORD in them.

The angel who spoke to Daniel said I have now been sent to you” (Dan. 10:11). Angel Gabriel told Zacharias, the father of John the Baptist, “I am Gabriel, I stand in the presence of God, and I have been sent to speak to you and to tell you this good news” (Luke 1:19). This same angel Gabriel was later sent by God to Nazareth, a town in Galilee, to a virgin called Miriam (Luke 1:26). Daniel told king Darius from the lions’ den where he had been thrown that “My God sent His angel and he shut the mouths of the lions” (Dan. 6:22). When God’s angel was in Herod’s maximum-security prison to rescue Peter, it was like a dream or vision to Peter. But after he had been brought out, it dawned on him that the whole episode was real. He then said, “Now I know for certain that the Lord [God] has sent His angel and rescued me from the hand of Herod and from everything the Jewish people were expecting to happen” (Acts 12:11).

God gave the visions in Revelation to Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ sent His angel with the message to His servant John (Rev. 1:1). The closing remarks of the angel to Apostle John include this statement: “These words are trustworthy and true. The Lord God of the spirits of the prophets, sent His angel to show His servants the things that must soon take place.” (Rev. 22:6). We have seen that angels are spirits who have been created to serve God. From the few examples given above, the phrase “seven spirits of God sent out into all the earth” (Rev. 5:6) cannot be rightly applied to anything else than the angels who are always sent out to all the parts of the earth by God and His Christ.

THE SEVEN HORNS AND THE SEVEN EYES

“And I looked, and behold, in the midst of the throne and of the four living creatures, and in the midst of the elders stood a Lamb as though it had been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven spirits of God sent out into all the earth” (Rev. 5:6, NKJV).

The opinion held by most numerologists is that “seven” symbolize completeness, fullness or perfection. Theologians say horn is the emblem of power and dominion, while eyes are said to symbolize intelligence, knowledge, wisdom and vigilance. The seven horns and seven eyes which the Lamb has are interpreted to mean the infinite power and omniscience of Christ. The meaning of the symbols, especially “horn” is convincing but the interpretations of the Lamb “having the seven horns and seven eyes” are still mired in much conjectures and rhetoric. The truth of the matter is that if we cannot correctly identify the “seven spirits of God”, we will never be able to correctly interpret any passage where the phrase is used.

As has been explained earlier, the “seven spirits of God” are seven spirit beings, probably the seven archangels that stand as sentinels before God’s throne. They are very powerful and each of them has a company of angels under his command; compare Dan. 10:13 and Rev. 12:7.

In Rev. 3:1, Jesus Christ said He has the seven spirits of God. In Rev. 4:5, the seven spirits of God were shown to John in the likeness of seven lamps of fire which were burning before the throne. Here in Rev. 5:6 they are said to be the seven horns and seven eyes which the Lamb sends out into all the earth.

The Lamb’s possession of the seven spirits of God can rightly be taken to mean that He has total control over the seven spirits and He sends them to all the earth as He wills. The conspicuous position these seven spirits occupy in heaven may be taken to mean that they are the commanders of the army of heaven and they are under the supreme command and Lordship of the Lamb. They are likely to be the “chief princes” of whom Michael is one (Dan. 10:13). The seven spirits are evidently the ones John identified as seven angels in Rev. 8:2, the same way Ezekiel the priest identified the four living creatures as cherubim in Ezek. 10:20. The seven spirits of God and the four living creatures are likely to be the highest hierarchies of angels but the two classes play different roles.

MISCONCEPTIONS ABOUT THE HOLY SPIRIT

One bitter truth which we will continue to stress is that there have been much misconceptions about God, His Son and His spirit. Many errors and false doctrines have been taught in Christian theology, and many Christians, including notable and highly esteemed leaders of the Christian faith, have been deceived into believing in these faulty or false doctrines. The problem is not less pronounced in eschatology where visions are written in either literal (simple) or figurative (symbolic) language. Once a word or phrase or statement which is literal is taken by anyone to be symbolic, a completely wrong interpretation will be the outcome. The case is the same if a figurative or symbolic writing is erroneously taken as a literal one.

This is exactly the case here where the “seven spirits of God” which means seven literal spirit beings or angels are erroneously interpreted to represent the fullness of God’s spirit. It must be stressed, however, that the clear understanding given in both the Old and the New Testaments about the Holy Spirit is completely different from that sold into Christendom through the Nicaean and Athanasian Creeds. The Bible has not taught the false theology of the Holy Spirit being a separate and distinct person from God and His Christ. The “third person of the Trinity” is a doctrine of men. It is evidently not supported by the Bible.

When men have been deceived, they try to put square pegs into round holes. The one who sits on the throne (God) and the Lamb (Jesus Christ) have been vividly shown in Revelation as separate persons who are worshipped by men and angels. The urge to prove the Holy Spirit as a “third Person” explains why Trinitarians say the seven spirits of God represent the Holy Spirit. In order to explain away the figure “seven” used in the texts, they either mistakenly or deliberately say these seven spirits are seven manifestations or operations of the Holy Spirit. We have seen, however, that the manifestations of God’s holy spirit is not limited to seven gifts or operations. We have also seen that angels are spirits. Evidently, “the seven angels who stand before God” mentioned by John in Revelation 8:2 are the ones which are depicted as the seven spirits of God, and as the seven lamps of fire burning before the throne of God, and as seven horns and seven eyes which the Lamb has under His control.

Let no one be under any illusion that we are arguing against God’s holy spirit. We believe in the reality of the Holy Spirit as stated in the Bible. The truth about the Holy Spirit, which has been insidiously distorted by the Trinitarian theology is what we are trying to make our fellow Christians see. We have now come to know that falsehood, if allowed to hold sway for a long time, becomes accepted by the uninformed as truth. The Trinitarian dogma is one of such. It has completely eclipsed the truth from entering the hearts of many sincere but uninformed Christians about the transcendent glory and power of God the Almighty and about His true relationship with His only begotten Son and His holy spirit. That is why we are now praying that the Omniscient and Omnipotent God will open the eyes and hearts of today’s Christians to see the falseness of the Trinitarian teaching which is grossly at variance with the Bible.

WHAT THE BIBLE HAS TAUGHT ABOUT THE HOLY SPIRIT

God’s holy spirit or, simply, the Holy Spirit is the spirit of God (Gen. 6:3; Isa. 42:1; Prov. 1:23; Isa. 44:3; Ezek. 36:27; 37:14; Joel 2:28,29).

The spirit of God is similar to the spirit of man (1 Cor. 2:11). They work the same way. A man’s spirit is not another person from the man. This is the same with the spirit of God; it is not a separate, literal person from God. The Israelites were said to have annoyed the spirit of Moses and it made him speak rashly with his lips (Ps. 106: 32-33). The same Israelites are said to have “rebelled and vexed his [God’s] holy Spirit; therefore, he was turned to be their enemy and he fought against them” (Isa. 63:10). Just as the spirit of Moses is not a different person from Moses, so too is God’s holy spirit not a different person from God.
God’s holy spirit has been referred to as the “hand,” “finger,” and “breath” of God (1 King 18:46; 2 Kings 3:15; Luke 11:20 (comp. Matt. 12:28); Exod. 8:10; Ps. 139:7,10; Luke 1:66; Acts 11:21; Ezek. 1:3; 3:14,22; 8:1; 33:22; Job 27:3; 33:4; et al). God’s spirit which is holy is figuratively referred to as His hand or finger because God does all His works by using His Spirit to carry them out. It is called “breath” because the Almighty exhales or transmits His divine nature and power into people to empower, sanctify, anoint, tug, instruct, heal, seal, et alia, them. This breath of God was made visible when He anointed Jesus with His Spirit (Matt. 3:16) and the apostles with the same Spirit (Acts 2:3). This breath or vapour or air from God which entered into them was not a literal person like God or Jesus Christ. It is the divine breath of God that carries His divine and living power into us. The Bible has not taught the false concept of the spirit of God being another “third person” or God.
Prophecy did not end in the Old Testament. Many of the disciples of Jesus Christ were given the gift of prophecy (Eph. 4:11; 1 Cor. 14:29; 1 Thes. 5:20; 1 John 4:1; Acts 13:1,2; 11:28; 21: 8-11). Whenever God reveals something through His spirit dwelling in the prophets, the writers of the New Testament, especially Luke (who wrote the Gospel of Luke and the Acts of the Apostles) always attribute the revelation or utterance to the holy spirit of God, e.g. in Acts 13:2; 16:6; 20:23. The writers never meant by these scriptures that the holy spirit of God is a literal, distinct, “third person” beside God and Jesus Christ. But the lack of scriptural insight made the fourth century church fathers not only ascribe personhood to the spirit of God but also called it a coequal God with the Almighty. Many scriptures have proved this doctrine of a “third divine person” or “God” to be unbiblical and false. The fourth century church fathers misinterpreted the scriptures because they were ignorant and were not sure of what they believed (2 Pet. 3:16). There is also abundant historical evidence that they were greatly influenced by the pagan triune religions of ancient Egypt, Babylon and India as well as the pagan philosophies of Plato and the other Greek and Roman philosophers after him.
The name of God is Yahweh. The name of the Son of God is Yehoshua, shortened as Yeshua, the Messiah (or Jesus Christ). The Holy Spirit is not a name. it is the short form of “the holy spirit of God”. The word “holy” is an adjective which describes the type of spirit God has. The term “Holy Spirit” or “Holy Ghost” (KJV) as we have it in the Bible is nothing but a pseudo-name created by translators of the original manuscripts. They did this by using capital “H” for the word “holy”.

It may interest you to know that “holy spirit” is used seven times in the KJV (Ps. 51:11; Isa. 63:10, 11; Luke 11:13; Eph. 1:13; 4:30; 1 Thes. 4:8). Six times, the word “holy” is written with small “h” but capital “H” is used in Luke 11:13. The inconsistency observed here is also noted in Acts 12:4 where the Greek word pascha is translated as Easter whereas it is translated as Passover in the other 28 places where the word is used in the New Testament. These observed inconsistencies are open to anyone’s judgement.

Consider the following scriptures which are the words of Jesus Christ and some of His apostles. It is irrefutably evident from these scriptures that the doctrine of the personhood and Godhood of the spirit of God is unknown to them:
1. “But if I cast out demons with the finger of God, surely the kingdom of God has come upon you” (Luke 11:20, NKJV). Here, Jesus Christ called the Holy Spirit the finger of God (compare Matt. 12:28). No doubt, God’s finger cannot be another person or God. The Holy Spirit is anthropomorphically called the finger of God because God does all His work by means of His invisible breath called the Holy Spirit.
2. “But concerning that day or that hour, no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father” (Mark 13:32, ESV).
3. “For whoever is ashamed of Me and My words, of him the Son of Man will be ashamed when He comes in His own glory, and in His Father’s [glory] and of the holy angels” (Luke 9:26. NKJV).
  - Why, in these two verses of the Bible, will our Lord talk about angels and leave out the Holy Spirit who is said to be the “third Person of the Trinity”? It is unimaginable for Jesus Christ to mention angels and fail to mention the “third” divine person if indeed the Holy Spirit were a literal spirit person like God, Christ and the angels. We must not forget that our Lord, at the time of His ministry had not reached the age when men suffer from memory loss. Repeatedly, He did not mention the Holy Spirit as a person or God. More scriptures for you.
4. “And this is eternal life, that they know you, the only true God and Jesus Christ whom you have sent” (John 17:3, ESV).
5. “For the Father judges no one, but has given all judgement to the Son, that all may honour the Son, just as they honour the Father. Whoever does not honour the Son does not honour the Father who sent him” (John 5:22-23, ESV)
6. “Let not your hearts be troubled. Believe in God; believe also in me” (John 14:1, ESV).
7. “He who overcomes, I will make him a pillar in the temple of My God, and he shall go out – no more. I will write on him the name of My God and the name of the city of My God, the New Jerusalem, which comes down out of heaven from My God. And I will write on him My new name” (Rev. 3:12, NKJV).

Here again, we see Jesus Christ, speaking from heaven, making no mention of the Holy Spirit which Trinitarians say is a coequal God with God and Jesus Christ. The Lord Jesus Christ made it clear here that all those who eventually enter the eternal kingdom of God will have the names of God, the New Jerusalem and Christ’s new name written on them. Entrance into the New Jerusalem remains the final goal and hope of every believer (1 Pet. 1:9). If, therefore, the Holy Spirit were indeed a third literal Person or God, “His” name will surely be one of the names written on the citizens of God’s kingdom.

This verse has put a final and unimpeachable rebuttal to the bogus theology of men which makes God’s spirit a literal being and a third God.

Now, let us look at a few of the writings of the apostles:
1. “I charge you before God and the Lord Jesus Christ and the elect angels that you observe these things without prejudice, doing nothing with partiality” (1 Tim. 5:21, NKJV). Apostle Paul, like Jesus Christ, have mentioned God, Christ and angels as witnesses to his injunction to Timothy to treat people without prejudice or partiality. If the Holy Spirit were indeed another literal being, our Lord Jesus Christ and Paul would not have chosen to mention angels instead of the Holy Spirit which Trinitarians say is a coequal God with God and Christ.
2. “I charge you in the presence of God, who gives life to all things, and of Jesus Christ, who in his testimony before Pontius Pilate made the good confession” (1 Tim. 6:13, ESV).
3. “I charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who is to judge the living and the dead, and by his appearing and his kingdom: preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke and exhort with complete patience and teaching” (2 Tim. 4:1, 2, ESV).

Paul couldn’t be leaving out the Holy Spirit as witness to what he was writing to Timothy if indeed the Holy Spirit were a literal person or the third God.

“You know very well that no person who is involved in sexual sin, perversion or greed (which means worshipping wealth) can have any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God” (Eph. 5:5, GNT).

The Contemporary English Version (CEV) renders the last part of the verse as “the kingdom that belongs to Christ and to God”.

Apostle John wrote the same thing in the revelation given him by God. It reads”

“Then the seventh angel blew his trumpet, and there were loud voices in heaven saying, the kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord [God] and of His Christ, and he shall reign forever and ever” (Rev. 11:15, ESV).
“And I saw no temple in the city [that is, the New Jerusalem], for its temple is the Lord God the Almighty and the Lamb [Jesus Christ]. And the city has no need of sun or moon to shine on it, for the glory of God gives it light, and its lamp is the Lamb” (Rev. 21:22-23, ESV). Read also Rev. 22:1-5.

Brothers and sisters, it is impossible for the Holy Spirit to be a coequal God with God the Father and Jesus Christ and yet not be a co-owner and co-ruler in the kingdom of God. The apostles and the hosts of heaven (Rev. 11:15) have voiced it out that the kingdom belongs to only God the Almighty and Jesus Christ. And it is not as if these humans and angels and Christ Himself were despising the spirit of God. The truth is that God’s spirit is nothing more than the spirit of God, a part of God. It is the divine breath or air which God emanates from Himself through which He puts His will and power at work in His creation. That is why it is also called the power of God (Luke 24:49; Acts 1:8). It is not another literal being or God.

“That which we have seen and heard we proclaim also to you, so that you too may have fellowship with us; and indeed, our fellowship is with the Father and with the Son Jesus Christ” (1 John 1:3, ESV).

We do not have fellowship with the Holy Spirit because it is not a literal person like God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. But we can have fellowship of the Holy Spirit (2 Cor. 13:14). To have fellowship of something means to be a partaker of it or to have a share of it. Examples include “fellowship of the ministering to the saints” (2 Cor. 8:4), “fellowship of Christ’s sufferings” (Phil. 3:10), “fellowship of the mystery which from the beginning of the ages has been hidden in God” (Eph. 3:9). In all the places where the phrase “fellowship of” is used in the Pauline epistles, it means to be a partaker of something. My article entitled “Does 2 Corinthians 13:14 support the Trinity?” provides a clear explanation on 2 Corinthians 13:14. You need to read it.

Grace and peace to you from God our Father and from the Lord Jesus Christ” (Rom. 1:7; 1 Cor. 1:3; 2 Cor. 1:2; Gal. 1:3; Eph. 1:2; Phil. 1:2; Col. 1:2; 1 Thes. 1:1; 2 Thes. 1:2; 1 Tim.1:2; 2 Tim. 1:2; Tit. 1:4; Phil. 1:3).

In all of these epistles of Paul, two of which he wrote jointly with Silvanus (Silas) and Timothy, the apostle consistently sent grace and peace to his addressees in the name of God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. They never for once mentioned the Holy Spirit. So, we make bold to say that the notion of God’s holy spirit being regarded as another literal and distinct person or God is a corruption that crept into Christendom after the first century apostles had all died. That doctrine is strange to Christ, Heaven and the pioneer Christians of the first century. It is not found in the Bible.

OTHER PROOFS OF THE FALSENESS OF TRINITY

It was at the First Council of Constantinople (AD 381) that the deification of the Holy Spirit took place and was canonized in the Nicaean Creed. Part of the Creed reads: “And I believe in the Holy Ghost, the Lord and Giver of life who proceedeth from the Father and the Son; who with the Father and the Son together is worshipped and glorified, who spoke by the prophets”.

This deification of the Holy Spirit is affirmed in the Athanasian Creed which was written by an unknown author at a time which is equally unknown. The attribution of the Creed to Athanasius, the Archbishop of Alexandria (AD 296/298 – 373) has become known to be false, hence the creed is sometimes called Pseudo-Athanasian Creed. This creed, which is not mentioned in any records of the ecumenical councils, has the following as part of its 44 verses (known as lines):

“Such as Father is, such is the Son, and such is the Holy Spirit” (Line 7).

“So likewise, the Father is almighty, the Son is almighty and the Holy Spirit almighty” (Line 13).

“So, the Father is God, the Son is God, and the Holy Spirit is God” (Line 15).

“And in this Trinity, none is afore [before] or after another; none is greater or less than another” (Line 25)

“But the whole three persons are coeternal and coequal” (Line 26)

“So that in all things, as aforesaid, the Unity in Trinity and the Trinity in Unity is to be worshipped” (Line 27).

The following refutation can be brought against the Trinitarian teaching about the Holy Spirit:

Nowhere in the Bible is the Holy Spirit said to be a giver of life. God the Father is the source of all life (Gen. 2:7; Ps. 36:9; Acts 17:28; 1 Cor. 8:6; Job 33:4; Ezek. 37:5). The Father has, however, granted the Son to be a co-giver of life (John 5:26; 1 Cor. 15:45; John 6:63; 2 Cor. 3:6, 17). The breath of God and the Spirit of God are interchangeably used in Job 27:3 and Job 33:4 to mean the same thing. Hebraic parallelisms were frequently used in the Book of Job. What Patriarch Job referred to as the spirit of God (Job 33:4) is the breath of God mentioned by Moses in Genesis 2:7. In the KJV, Job said “the spirit of God is in my nostrils” (Job. 27:3). Compare Isaiah 2:22 which says that the breath of man is in his nostrils. If therefore the Trinitarians take the Spirit of God in Job 33:4 to mean what they call the “third person of the Trinity” they are woefully wrong. The Spirit of God mentioned in Job 33:4 is not a literal person.

Again, if Trinitarians take the Spirit who is said to give life according to 2 Cor. 3:6 to be the one they call the “third person of the Trinity”, they are again wrong. The Lord, Jesus Christ is the one referred to as the spirit in that verse. Verse 17 of the same chapter makes it clear that the Lord Jesus Christ is the one referred to as the Spirit in verse 6. For the avoidance of doubt, see again 1 Cor. 15:45 where Jesus Christ, the last Adam, is called a life-giving Spirit.

There is also no place in the Bible where the Holy Spirit is called God. The teaching that Apostle Peter called the Holy Spirit God in Acts 5:3-4 is a ridiculous perversion. What Peter meant in Acts 5:3-4 was that lying to the Holy Spirit (within Peter) amounts to lying to God because the Holy Spirit is the Spirit of God. Peter did not say the Holy Spirit is God.

Statements similar to that made by Peter in Acts 5:3-4 are found in many places in the Bible. The Israelites grumbled against Moses and Aaron in Exodus 16:2. Moses and Aaron cried to God and God told them what He was going to do. Moses told them what God revealed to him. Then in verse 8, Moses said, “You will know that it was the LORD when he gives you meat to eat in the evening and all the bread you want in the morning, because he has heard your grumbling against him. Who are we? You are not grumbling against us, but against the LORD” (NIV).

The people grumbled against Moses and Aaron (Exod. 16:2). But Moses told them that they grumbled against God (vv. 7 & 8). No one will say that Moses called himself and

Aaron the LORD. What Moses meant was that as long as the Israelites grumbled against them, they were indirectly grumbling against the LORD who appointed them into the job of leading the Israelites.

When the Israelites asked Samuel to anoint a king over them, Samuel was greatly displeased by their request (1 Sam. 8). When Samuel tabled the matter before God, He told Samuel, “they have not rejected you, but they have rejected me from being king over them (1 Sam. 8:7, ESV). By rejecting Samuel because of the corruption of his two sons, the Israelites rejected God who made Samuel their leader. That does not make Samuel God.

Jesus Christ said, “whoever receives you receives me, and whoever receives me receives him who sent me” (Matt. 10:40, ESV). It is clear that Jesus Christ did not mean that He is God the Father who sent Him. Neither did He mean that His disciples were Himself. The idea is the same in Acts 5:3-4.

It is a matter of great disappointment to find Christians deliberately distort the scriptures in order to make them conform to their preconceived notions. I wonder what they seek to gain by deluding themselves.

The Holy Spirit is not another God who is coequal with God and with Jesus Christ. Like His God and Father, our Lord Jesus Christ is also God. This fact is explicitly seen in Psalm 45:6; Isaiah 9:6 and John 1:1 among others. This is why we have seen Jesus Christ worshipped like God the Father. But there is no single record found in the Bible where the Holy Spirit is thanked, praised or worshipped.

All that is called God, whether the true God or false gods (idols) are worshipped. One key thing that makes a being or a thing a God or god is the fact that “he,” “she,” or “it” is an object of worship. The fact that the Holy Spirit, also known as the spirit or breath of God, by which God puts His person (character), power and presence into His creation has never for once been thanked or worshipped by anyone in the Bible is a complete refutation of Godhood which Trinitarians have ascribed to God’s holy spirit.

Whatever good thing a man does with his hand no one thanks the man’s hand. The thanks or praise goes to the man. That is why no thanks, praise or worship goes to the Holy Spirit which the Bible anthropomorphically calls the hand or finger of God because it is what God uses to do all His works in our lives. The thanks, praises or worship has been given to God Himself.

2. God has favoured some men to see visions of His throne room in heaven and of the inhabitants of the future paradise. In the visions, He granted varying degrees of the theophany of Himself and the heavenly host. See Dan. 7:9-13; Acts 7:5556; Heb. 12:22-24; Rev. 4-22. In none of these visions was the “third person of the Trinity” seen. Some religious self-deceivers will want to tell you that the Holy Spirit is not seen because “he” is an invisible spirit. But do not allow them to fool you. God Himself is spirit and He is invisible (John 4:24; Col. 1:15; 1 Tim. 1:17; 6:16). Jesus Christ is also Spirit (John 3:6; 1 Cor. 15:44-45). The angels also are created spirits (Heb. 1:7, 14). We know, therefore, that God, Christ and angels are incorporeal spirit-beings. God has sometimes put Himself and the others in heaven in a form that mortal men have seen. He would have done so with the Holy Spirit if indeed the Holy Spirit were a literal spirit-person as taught by Trinitarians. The reason this has never happened is because the holy spirit of God is not a literal spirit-person.

CONCLUSION

The word of God is not the intellectual property of any man, race, group or denomination. The Bible clearly says that every scripture passage is inspired by God (2 Tim. 3:16). That is why the scriptures must not be subjected to any man’s personal interpretation (2 Pet. 1:20). If we are interested in knowing the truth as contained in the Bible, we must let the Scripture interpret itself through our honest and diligent application of the sound and proven rules of Bible interpretation.

When we negligently allow men to arrogate to themselves infallibility in the teaching of the Scriptures, the result is the emergence of all sorts of false doctrines through those men who arrogate to themselves the exclusive knowledge and power to teach God’s word. But the reality of history is that many of the acclaimed teachers have been the sowers of false doctrines into Christendom without our knowing it. Many of them have falsely interpreted not only the epistles of Paul but many other scriptures (2 Pet. 3:16).

The biggest of the false doctrines that have been sown into Christendom is, perhaps, the doctrine of the Trinity which makes the holy spirit of God a God who is coequal with God. But it is evident from the Bible that the Spirit of God is not a literal person and it is not another God. Equally untrue is the teaching that the seven spirits of God represent seven manifestations of the spirit of God. The manifestations of God’s spirit are more than seven. Analogy of scriptures has shown that the seven spirits of God are seven powerful spirit beings who are known as the seven holy angels in Tobit 12:15, as seven watchers in 1 Enoch 20, and as the seven angels in Revelation 8:2.

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