Keith Miller scripture suggested reading list from Seven Spirits of God School, Dallas (May 9-10, 2025)…

What the Lord is showing us in Zechariah 4 is a heavenly blueprint or pattern for the Church. He tells us to die to ourselves, to come out of our own perceived strength and perceived power, and live in His ability (Eph 6:10).

Zechariah 4:1-4 (NKJV) Seven Spirits
¹ Now the angel who talked with me came back and wakened me, as a man who is wakened out of his sleep. ² And he said to me, “What do you see?”
So I said, “I am looking, and there is a lampstand of solid gold with a bowl on top of it, and on the stand seven lamps with seven pipes to the seven lamps. ³ Two olive trees are by it, one at the right of the bowl and the other at its left.”
⁴ Then I said, “My lord, what are these?” So the angel who talked with me said to me, “I will show you what they are.”

Wisdom is asking the Lord, “What does this mean?” (Zec 4:4).

Fruits and Gifts of the Spirit Manifest

The lampstand had seven pipes similar to the ones Zerubbabel saw that symbolized the seven Spirits of God. In addition, this lampstand also had nine different ornaments on the pipes: the three flowers, the three knobs, and the three almond blossom-shaped bowls. Each one of those nine items represent the nine fruits described in Galatians 5:22-23, and the nine gifts of the Holy Spirit examined in 1 Corinthians 12:8-10.

The center shaft of the lampstand is Jesus. He is the Mediator, the One from whom flows oil to give light (1Tim 2:5). The branches are connected (John 15). This signifies the divine union with Christ that brings the flow of oil to the six branches. (Keith Miller)

Exodus 25:31-39 (NKJV) Manifest
³¹ “You shall also make a lampstand of pure gold; the lampstand shall be of hammered work. Its shaft, its branches, its bowls, its ornamental knobs, and flowers shall be of one piece.

Revelation 4:5 (NKJV) Throne
And from the throne proceeded lightnings, thunderings, and voices. Seven lamps of fire were burning before the throne, which are the seven Spirits of God.

Revelation 3:1 (NKJV) Jesus
“And to the angel of the church in Sardis write, ‘These things says He who has the seven Spirits of God and the seven stars: “I know your works, that you have a name that you are alive, but you are dead.

Revelation 1:4-6 (NKJV) Faith
⁴ John, to the seven churches which are in Asia:
Grace to you and peace from Him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven Spirits who are before His throne, ⁵ and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn from the dead, and the ruler over the kings of the earth.
To Him who loved us and washed us from our sins in His own blood, ⁶ and has made us kings and priests to His God and Father, to Him be glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.

Isaiah 11:2 (NKJV) Seven Spirits
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.

The prophecy is that the Messiah would be empowered not by seven individual spirits but by the One Spirit (the same Spirit), described seven ways:

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 power
6) The Spirit of knowledge
7) The Spirit of the fear of the Lord

Colossians 1:9 (NKJV) Wisdom
For this reason we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to ask that you may be filled with the knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding;

Ephesians 3:16 (NKJV) Activation
that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with might through His Spirit in the inner man,

1 Peter 4:10-11 (NKJV) Disciple and Minister
¹⁰ As each one has received a gift, minister it to one another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God. ¹¹ If anyone speaks, let him speak as the oracles of God. If anyone ministers, let him do it as with the ability which God supplies, that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom belong the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen.

As we seek to take God’s varied grace with gifting that God has given and steward it so that when we speak, it is God’s words that we speak, and when we serve, it is God strength that we serve. In so that everything God will be glorified. To minister grace through gifts to one another because all Glory and all Dominion belong to God; that’s why we make it our aim to glorify God in the way we love each other.

We should always be thinking how can I serve others with the grace of God that has been given to me?

What is a spiritual gift and what does it mean to serve with them?

Think about it, God has shown grace to me. I want to bless other people. I want to steward this grace. You want God to take aspects of his absolutely varied grace and make you the means of other people’s blessing. (John Piper)

Hebrews 1:3-4 (NKJV) Glory and Grace
³ who being the brightness of His glory and the express image of His person, and upholding all things by the word of His power, when He had by Himself purged our sins, sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high, ⁴ having become so much better than the angels, as He has by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they.

Revelation

I took a deep dive into reading Revelation after the Seven Spirits of God School to look for the symbolism of Seven and the Spirits of God. There are sevens throughout Revelation. It’s odd that what stuck out to me was six. So, I have this revelation from Revelation, so that I should not be ignorant of this mystery (Rom 11:25).

Keith Miller said that six represents Man, seven represents completion, and one represents our unity with Jesus, “Christ in me, source” as the branches and vines (John 15:1-8).

Later, when I was reading Isaiah, I came upon this partial verse that made me think Jesus is not only the One, but also a six. He’s the One who stands, according to John the Baptizer (John 1:26), and the One to come forth according to Micah 5:2. Yes, he was a man that walked the earth, but like, only truly a six through intercession.

Isaiah‬ ‭53‬:‭12‬ ‭NKJV
…And He was numbered with the transgressors, And He bore the sin of many, And made intercession for the transgressors.

I knew all these numbers. “Six hundred threescore and six” is the number of the beast (Rev 13:18). (Reference of numbers.) What I learned is, a man that worships Man, himself and Man’s ways (666) is wicked and is a servant of the dragon (Rev 12). “Depart from me” will be the judgement and the second death (Rev 21:8) will follow. A man that worships God, the Son and the Holy Spirit (111) shall have the keys to heaven (1Cor2:10-12).

Miller went on to describe the center pipe of the lampstand (Exo 25, Zec 4) represents Christ, and the six other pipes represent Man. I see my contemplation of six this as: either Christ is my center, and the Spirits of God are poured out upon me with life is my reward; or the dragon is my center, and I’m surrounded by six empty pipes of ornaments of Man with death is my reward. Without the one, I am the center and have six pipes (of my own strength, 1Cor 1:25, and false idols, Isa 31:7). With the one, Jesus is the center and God gives me all seven pipes (as His will is done by His strength, Isa 40:29).

Either I “have been set free from sin and have become a slave to righteousness,” or I am a slave to sin and “ever-increasing wickedness.” “You are slaves of the one you obey.” (Rom 6:15-23)

One last note about my Revelation dive: the two Witnesses, these are the two olive trees and the two lampstands standing… (Rev 11:4). Miller says the two olive trees (Zec 4:3) symbolize Oil and Word.