Psalm 119:105

Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.

 

Who is the Word?

 

John 1

In the beginning was the Word, and was with God, and the Word was God.

 

See these references and  how the Lord can be pictured in the menorah.

 

2 Samuel 22:29

You, Lord, are my lamp; the Lord turns my darkness into light,… O Lord, you are my lamp…”

 

John 1:4

In Him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind.

 

John 9:5

While I am in the world, I am the light of the world.

 

John 12

Then Jesus again spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world; he who follows Me will not walk in the darkness, but have the Light of life.

 

In a related post I showed how the seven spirits (like the seven menorah lights) were before the throne in heaven (see Rev 1:4, Rev 3:1, Rev 4:5) in the same way that the temple menorah was before the ark.

 

In another post I showed the relationship of the 2 witnesses to the menorah as well.  Zechariah 4 says, “I see, and behold, a lampstand all of gold, with a bowl on the top of it, and seven lamps on it, with seven lips on each of the lamps that are on the top of it. And there are two olive trees by it, one on the right of the bowl and the other on its left.”  Revelation 11 says, “These are the two olive trees and the two lampstands that stand before the Lord of the earth.”  In fact I likened the addition of the two witnesses to the Chanukah menorah where the seven stems become nine.

 

I don’t doubt that the construction of the menorah might will reveal more aspects to the symbolism.

 

YBIC

Bruce Baber