The gold in the lampstand pictured the true faith that Christians possess. Jesus told the Laodicean church, “I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich”(Rev. 3:18). Christ, who is the pure gold, produces true faith in believers. Christians go through the hammering experience of suffering to try their faith so that it will come forth as gold tried in the fire. This type of faith is “much more precious than of gold that perisheth”(1 Pet. 1:7). The golden lampstand