Although it has been popular to identify these “seven spirits of God” in Revelation as the Holy Spirit, no doubt because of the winsomeness of finding the Trinity visually represented in Revelation 4–5, the prominence of “the angels of the Presence” in Testament of Levi (as well as texts like Tobit) should give us pause. John himself will shortly speak (again) of “the seven angels who stand before God” in 8:2 in a manner that assumes that the hearers have prior acquaintance with this group.
