‘the First and the Last. I am the Living One; I was dead, and behold I am alive for ever and ever! And I hold the keys of death and Hades.’ John is told, among other things, that ‘The seven lampstands are the seven churches.’ The whole picture has to do with displaying pure, wholesome light. We think nothing of pressing a light switch so that we can see; we turn on the light. But until recent centuries lighting up a dark place required much more effort. Think of what it must have cost, in time and