Title: The Lampstand

Topic: Salvation

Summary: The lampstand in the tabernacle is an image of a permanent capacity in our minds to see God.

Use the reference links below to follow along in the Bible as you watch.

References:
Exodus 25:31-40; 26:35; 27:20-21; 35:10-14; 37:17-22; 39:37; 40:3-4, 24-25
Leviticus 24:1-4
Numbers 8:1-4
1 Kings 7:48-49
2 Kings 4:9-11
2 Chronicles 4:6-8, 19-22
Psalms 119:104-105
2 Chronicles 13:11
Zechariah 4
Matthew 5:8, 14-16; 25:1-12
Mark 4:21-23
Luke 11:33-36
Ephesians 1:17-18
Revelation 1:12-174, 20; 2:1-5; 11:4
Matthew 18:10
Acts of the Apostles 2:25

2325. 'And Lot saw' means [their] conscience - that is to say, the conscience of those with whom the good of charity exists but whose worship is external. This becomes clear from the meaning of 'seeing'. 'Seeing' in the Word means understanding, see 897, 1584, 1806, 1807, 2150. In the internal sense however 'seeing' means having faith, a meaning which will in the Lord's Divine mercy be discussed at Genesis 29:32. The reason why conscience is meant here is that people who have faith have conscience as well. Conscience is inseparable from faith, so inseparable in fact that it makes no difference whether you speak of faith or of conscience. By faith is meant faith through which charity comes, and which derives from charity. This being so, it is charity itself, for faith without charity is not faith at all. And just as faith is not possible without charity, neither is conscience possible without it.