The lampstands (menorahs) are churches.
“Strong’s G3087: lychnia. n.f. lampstand, candlestick.”
Jay Green, New Englishman’s Greek Concordance and Lexicon, p. 533.
According to Hatch and Redpath’s A Concordance to the Septuagint (p. 891), the first occurrence of this word in the Bible is in Exo 25:31, “You shall also make a lampstand of pure gold;” which is in Hebrew, Strong’s H4501: menorah, “… always used of the great candlestick which stood in the tabernacle of witness;”
Gesenius’ Hebrew-Chaldee Lexicon.
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