Last week I said concerning Revelation 1:4 that I found no quarrel with the idea that the seven spirits could be angelic beings. In spite of this I have found little to back me up on this and much more evidence to suggest as I believed before, that this sevenfold Spirit, is none other than the Holy Spirit. The most concise argument to this effect I found in the Geneva Bible and include it here.

"Rev 1:4
That is, from the Holy Spirit who proceeds from the Father and the Son. This Spirit is one in person according to his subsistence: but in communication of his power, and in demonstration of his divine works in those seven churches, perfectly manifests himself as if there were many spirits, every one perfectly working in his own church. Which is why in Rev 5:6 they are called the seven horns and seven eyes of the Lamb, as if to say, as his most absolute power and wisdom. In Rev 3:1 Christ is said to have those seven spirits of God , and in Rev 4:5 it is said that seven lamps burn before his throne, which also are those seven spirits of God . That this place ought to be so understood, it is thus proved. For first, grace and peace is asked by prayer from this Spirit, which is a divine work, and an action incommunicable in respect to God. Secondly, he is placed between the Father and the Son, as set in the same degree of dignity and operation with them, besides, he is before the throne, as of the same substance with the Father and the Son: as the seven eyes and seven horns of the Lamb. Moreover, these spirits are never said to adore God, as all other things are. Finally, this is the power by which the Lamb opened the book, and loosed the seven seals of it, when no one could be found among all creatures by whom the book might be opened Rev 5:1-10"
(from Geneva Notes, PC Study Bible formatted electronic database Copyright © 2003 Biblesoft, Inc. All rights reserved.)

Blessed be God who reveals His truth to us in His Word. We would be lost to our own fickle imaginations without it.

In Christ,
Mark