In Revelation 2 and 3 Christ is the Spirit who speaks to all the churches, for we see the speaking Christ becoming the speaking Spirit to speak to all the churches; we need to have the Lord’s speaking become the Spirit’s speaking in a subjective and inward way to touch us and have an effect on us.
Lord Jesus, we praise You as the speaking Spirit. Speak to us today. Grant us an ear to hear what the Spirit is speaking to the churches. Remove anything that is natural. Speak to us personally, intimately, and spiritually. May we have our ears open to hear. Anoint our hearing. We want to be the best receivers for You to infuse us with Your word! Amen, Lord, we open to the Lord’s speaking so that the Spirit may speak to us today! Amen!
This week in our prayerful consideration of the book of Revelation to see the main aspects of Christ we can experience, enjoy, and express, we come to Revelation chapters 2 and 3.
In particular we want to see, The Spirit Speaking to the Churches, the One who has the Key of David, and the One who will Dine with the Overcomers.
May we be those who hear the Lord’s speaking today. As we live at the end of this age, we need to see, enjoy, experience, and even express the Christ seen in this book.
On one hand, we need to know the prophecies so that we may be encouraged to pursue the Lord and be produced as His overcomers. On the other hand, we need to give heed to the Lord’s speaking with much prayer.
We need to be in the truth, enjoy the truth, be constituted with the truth, and speak the truth.
This means that we need to labour on the Word of God; we need to redeem the time and take advantage of the opportunities the Lord gives us day by day so that we may be constituted with the truth.
As we come to God’s word, we realise that it is like a gold mine; we need to do some digging so that we may gain the gold nuggets, the precious truths in God’s word. This digging takes time.
The days are evil, filled with so many evil and pernicious things that waste our time; however, we want to buy the time back, that is, redeem it, by spending it on things that really matter.
May we all have an aspiration to be in the word of God in a prayerful way, even to pay the price to be constituted with the truth in God’s word.
As the truth constitutes us, as we hear the Lord’s speaking in His word and give heed to His word, we become useful to the Lord in the building up of the church.
Our God-constituted being will build up the church through what we do and speak.
In Revelation 2 and 3 Christ is the Spirit who Speaks to all the Churches: Christ Speaks and the Spirit Speaks
If we carefully and prayerfully read chapters 2 and 3 in Revelation we will see many wonderful matters, and the Lord has a way to speak to us what is in His heart for His churches today.
In particular, in these chapters Christ is the Spirit who speaks to all the churches. He is the One who holds the seven stars in His right hand, He who walks in the midst of the seven golden lampstands (Rev. 2:1).
He is the Son of Man, the High Priest who walks in the midst of the local churches, seeing, understanding, and knowing the situation of every church, and He is speaking to the churches.
At the beginning of each of the seven epistles, it is the Lord who speaks to a certain church (see Rev. 2:1, 8, 12, 18; 3:1, 7, 14). At the end of each epistle, it is the Spirit who speaks to all the churches (2:7, 11, 17, 29; 3:6, 13, 22).
It is Christ as the Spirit who speaks to the churches.
What we see in this chapters is the speaking of the unlimited, life-releasing, sevenfold intensified, pneumatic Christ to the seven churches at the beginning of each epistle becomes the speaking of the sevenfold intensified, all-inclusive life-giving Spirit to all the seven churches at the end of each epistle universally. Wow!
At the beginning of each letter it is Christ who speaks to the churches, and He first introduces Himself in a particular way, then He diagnoses the situation in that church.
He presents Himself as the very solution to the problems in that church, and then He shines on the situation of that church.
Then, He gives them the solution, a warning, and also the reward, and the epistle concludes with, He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit is speaking to the churches.
It is Christ who speaks to the churches, but it is the Spirit who speaks, and we need to have an ear to hear the Spirit’s speaking.
Christ’s speaking is not different from the Spirit’s speaking; rather, Christ’s speaking and the Spirit’s speaking are one.
The speaking Christ is the Spirit and He speaks in the Spirit, with the Spirit, and through the Spirit. When Christ speaks, the Spirit speaks, and the speaking of the Spirit is Christ’s speaking.
The Lord is the Spirit (2 Cor. 3:17), and when we hear the Spirit’s speaking, we hear the Lord’s speaking.
The Christ who is speaking in Revelation is the pneumatic Christ, Christ in His resurrection and ascension, Christ as the Spirit; He is the unlimited, life-releasing, sevenfold intensified, pneumatic Christ.
His speaking is to a particular church, but as the Spirit speaks, this speaking is to the entire Body of Christ. Each word of the Lord’s speaking is to us, for the Spirit speaks it to us.
The speaking Christ becomes the speaking Spirit; the speaking Spirit speaks to all the churches. May we realise and enjoy that Christ is the Spirit, and may we open to His speaking today.
May we come to the Lord in His word day by day, exercising our spirit and turning our heart to Him, so that Christ as the Spirit may speak to us and apply His speaking to our being.
Especially in these days at the end of the age, when there’s so much darkness in the world and so much degradation in the church in general, we need to have the speaking of the Spirit, for the Spirit has been intensified sevenfold to carry out God’s economy and fulfill His administration.
May we open to the Lord’s speaking today. May we exercise our spirit to say Amen to His speaking so that the Spirit may apply the Lord’s speaking to us in spirit.
Lord Jesus, thank You for being the Spirit speaking to us today. We open to Your speaking. Speak to us today. Hallelujah, Christ today is the Son of Man as the High Priest in His ascension, and He is walking in the midst of the golden lampstands. Amen, Lord, we open to Your speaking. You know our situation. You see what the problem is. Speak to us today. May we have Christ’s speaking today. We come to You in Your word for You to infuse us with Yourself. Hallelujah, today Christ is the Spirit speaking to the churches! Amen, Lord, we open to the speaking of the unlimited, life-releasing, sevenfold-intensified, pneumatic Christ! May we have an ear to hear what the Spirit is speaking to the churches. May we have the personal and intimate speaking of the sevenfold intensified, all-inclusive, life-giving Spirit today! Hallelujah Christ as the Spirit is speaking to us today! How we need the sevenfold intensified Spirit speaking to us today! Amen!
Christ’s Speaking becomes the Spirit’s Speaking within us Subjectively in Spirit
It is very mysterious and at the same time so wonderful to see that Christ’s speaking at the beginning of the seven epistles to the seven churches in Revelation 2-3 becomes the Spirit’s speaking at the end.
This shows us that, on the one hand, Christ speaks to each church in particular, having a specific message to each of the local churches, and on the other hand, the Spirit applies this and speaks this to the entire Body of Christ.
On the one hand, it is to that particular church that Christ speaks today, diagnosing the situation, giving Himself to them in a particular way as the solution, and calling the overcomers.
On the other hand, the Spirit speaks this word to all the saints, to all the believers in Christ, throughout the ages.
Christ speaks to each of the seven churches respectively, and at the conclusion, the all-inclusive, life-giving Spirit speaks to the Body of Christ universally.
This means that the words spoken to the churches by Christ become a word spoken to us, even within us, subjectively by the Spirit.
When we exercise our spirit to come to the Lord in His word, we touch the speaking Spirit, who speaks to us intimately and subjectively what Christ is speaking to the churches in His word.
We need to receive the Lord’s speaking as the Spirit today.
The word spoken by Christ to the local churches in Revelation 2 and 3 needs to become a word spoken by the life-giving Spirit to us, no matter who we are and where we are.
This is why we personally need to come to the Lord in His word, dig deeper in the word of God, develop our knowledge of the Word, and enter into a vision that is connected with and governed by the Word of God.
The speaking Christ needs to become the speaking Spirit.
Thank the Lord that the Lord is the Spirit and the Spirit is the Lord, and thank the Lord that today, in the degradation of the church, the Spirit is intensified sevenfold to speak to us and apply Christ’s speaking to us subjectively and intimately.
Whatever the Lord speaks to us is recorded in the Bible; the Lord is embodied in His word, and we need to come to the Lord’s word with the exercise of our spirit and a heart turned to Him to have the Spirit’s speaking.
The Lord’s words in the Bible must become Spirit and life to us (John 6:63).
The Lord did not speak His word only to particular people or churches in a particular city and country, and that was only for them to hear; rather, this speaking of the Lord is spoken to us by the Spirit to be toward us, applied to us, and intimate and subjective to us.
If the Speaker would be only Christ and not the speaking Spirit, He would not be able to speak words into our spirit, and His speaking would not eb subjective or touching to us.
But praise the Lord, as our Christian experience and the Lord’s word testifies, we can come to the Lord’s word in spirit, and the Spirit immediately speaks something of Christ to us, even into us, for He is the speaking Spirit within us, subjectively and personally.
The black and white letters of the Bible become the Lord’s living speaking to us as we exercise our spirit and have the speaking of the Spirit within us.
How tremendous it is to know and enjoy the speaking Christ as the speaking Spirit!
What we need is not the so-called “gifts of the Holy Spirit” or “speaking in tongues;” what we need is the speaking Christ to become the speaking Spirit in our spirit applying the word of God to us and changing our very constitution inwardly.
The Lord is the Spirit, so available and near to us. As we live in this age of grace, the Lord is here with us as the Spirit, even joined to us as one spirit (1 Cor. 6:17).
But how real is the Lord to us? How much experience do we have of the Lord?
When we exercise our spirit, we realise that the Lord is the Spirit with our spirit and we are one spirit with Him. How wonderful!
Now Christ is not just objective to us, ascended in the heavens; He is the Spirit joined and mingled with our spirit.
He speaks to us not only in the black and white letters of the Bible; He speaks to us as the speaking Spirit in our spirit.
Once we hear the Lord’s speaking as the Spirit, something indelible is wrought into us, and nothing can take it away. We need the Lord’s speaking as the Spirit subjectively and intimately today!
Lord Jesus, praise You for becoming the Spirit to come into our spirit and be joined to us as one spirit! Amen, Lord, we give ourselves to You today. Speak to us. We come to You in Your word with the exercise of our spirit. May the speaking Christ speak to us as the speaking Spirit. Hallelujah the Lord’s speaking in His word is spoken to us by the speaking Spirit in a subjective way! Amen, Lord, we open to Your speaking as the Spirit. Apply Your word to us and make it subjective to us in our Christian experience. We open our spirit to You; come in as the Spirit to speak something of Christ into us. Hallelujah, the One who speaks to us is not Someone outward but the inward, subjective Spirit! Hallelujah, the Lord speaks to us not only in the black and white letters of the Bible but also in our spirit! Amen, Lord, speak to us in our spirit and work Yourself into us! We exercise our spirit and we say Amen to Your speaking as the Spirit today!
References and Hymns on this Topic
- Inspiration for this article/sharing comes from the Word of God, the enjoyment in the ministry, a sharing by brother Ray Mulligan on this topic, and portions from, The Conclusion of the New Testament, msg. 414 (by Witness Lee), as quoted in the Holy Word for Morning Revival on, Experiencing, Enjoying, and Expressing Christ (4) (2025 December Training), week 43 (msg. 7), The Spirit Speaking to the Churches, the One Who Has the Key of David, and the One Who Will Dine with the Overcomers – day 1.
- Hymns on this topic:
– In Revelation two and three, / The seven local churches see: / The lessons there for you and me / Are for the Lord’s recovery. / The words to them are words to us, / So that the church be glorious, / And all their warnings we must heed / So that the Lord can meet His need. (Hymns #1274 stanzas 1-2)
– Oh, Christ became the Spirit to speak inside of me, / And as the speaking Spirit He speaks unceasingly. / His speaking is the water that washes me within, / Discharging all my oldness, imparting Him. (Hymns #1177 stanza 2)
– God’s own Word must not be taken / Just as knowledge but as life, / Not alone God’s thought conveying, / But Himself to us as life; / Not alone God’s mind revealing, / But His Christ as life within, / Not alone the teaching giving, / But experience of Him. / It is only knowledge to us / If we in the letter read, / But when reading in the spirit / It is truly life indeed. / All the knowledge in the letter / Only brings us into death, / But the Word in spirit taken / Gives to us the quickening breath. (Hymns #816 stanzas 1-2)
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