I turned to see whose voice it was that was speaking to me, and when I turned I saw seven gold lampstands,

and among the lampstands a being like a man, wearing a long robe, with a gold belt around his breast.

The secret meaning of the seven stars that you saw in my right hand, and of the seven gold lampstands is this: The seven stars are the guardian angels of the seven churches and the seven lampstands are the seven churches.

"To the angel of the church in Ephesus write: " 'He who holds the seven stars in his right hand and goes about among the seven gold lampstands speaks thus:

So remember how far you have fallen, and repent and do as you did at first, or else I will come to you and take your lampstand from its place, if you do not repent.

They are the two olive trees and the two lampstands that stand before the Lord of the earth.