I am doing a bible study of the Old Testament and I had an exciting revelation yesterday about the gold lampstand, first mentioned in Exodus Chapter 25:31-40. Evidently this is the ‘menorah’ in Hebrew, and a national symbol of Israel.
What I discovered as I was drawing out what this gold lampstand would look like if one followed accurately the depiction given by Moses (which is not depicted accurately in the typical modern-day menorah, as far as I can figure), is that there is 1 lampstand made of 1 piece (the entire light hammered out of one piece of gold–this is very important), 7 lamps, 22 bowls (a bowl in ancient lamps was where olive oil was placed), and 3 knobs (knops in KJV, which means decorative joint).
I know from my delvings in numerology that 22 is a master number. I looked it up again and found that mathematically it is important because 22 divided by 7 is pi. Pi π is a mathematical constant that is the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter, and is approximately equal to 3.14159.
God is showing Moses (or me?), that if we walk with Him, we will make a circle. He will make our paths straight:
Trust in the Lord with all your heart
and lean not on your own understanding;
in all your ways submit to Him,
and He will make your paths straight. ~Proverbs 3:5-6
The straightest path to the central truth of God is the radius of a circle, meaning we each form an outer point on the circle, with God being the center point! At first I thought God’s symbol was the circle, but I was wrong. God has no symbol. He is simply the center of our lives and world, or should be. If we choose to live pagan lives, we will indeed end up with some sort of celtic knot, winding around, never having a focus, nor finding The Way. Or a mandala, as Jung has asserted.
Praise You, Father Abba, for revealing this to me.
~Song of Mary~ 