Even the proclamation of the grace of God is powerless save it be brought home by the quickening energy of His own Spirit. Victorious power put forth to subdue is the meaning of the white horse. "The Lord," said Isaiah, "will be your everlasting light" ( Isaiah 60:19-20). He was a divine person, whatever new position He assumes for the world. These are not merely the preacher-prejudices of current religion, but the eternal laws of God against such things. The length and the breadth and the height of it are equal. In the city of God there will be no darkness. The people of God then lie at the fountain-head of all blessedness: they inherit all things (Revelation 21:7; Revelation 21:7); enjoying God, they enjoy all things. But here there is neither; and this again is an evidence of gain, not of loss. WebFor the Lord our God, the Almighty, reigns. But she has a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and the impurities of her fornication. The beryl was like an emerald; the best stones were sea-blue or sea-green. These gates could represent the way into the holy city of those who find Christ in the glad morning of their days. He is dwelling with His people. It is easy to see that the new Jerusalem was a constant dream; and that John lovingly collected the differing visions--the precious stones, the streets and buildings of gold, the ever-open gates, the light of God making unnecessary the light of the sun and the moon, the coming of the nations and the bringing of their gifts--into his own. of men that are dead (Sibylline Oracles 3: 710-723). The elements will be dissolved and melted with a fervent heat. We desire that He should come quickly, but we leave this to Him, because we know His love, and can trust Him. There is no greater honour in all the universe than that which God gives to the man who is true to him. "And if any one was not found written in the book of life, he was cast into the lake of fire." With this agrees His coming out of heaven in judgment of the earth, described inRevelation 19:1-21; Revelation 19:1-21. The fearful Who are the fearful, if not all men? "And here is the mind which hath wisdom. We are going to inherit the whole new universe that God creates. Thus, whether the books or the book be examined, all conspire to declare the justice, the solemn but most affecting righteousness, of God's final irrevocable sentence. The sard or carnelian took its name from Sardis. "The ten horns which thou sawest AND the beast" would give unquestionably the right form of the verse. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sitteth. "Having a wall great and high, having twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels, and names inscribed, which are the names of the twelve tribes of the sons of Israel." On the contrary, it proved the immediateness of communion. But far from that he has, on the contrary, persevered in the same evil course, as badly or worse than his father. Garland approaches the text from a literal perspective and also assesses the weaknesses of various non-literal interpretations. There are thrones filled with certain persons, who reign along with Him. Thus everything implies their simultaneous presence for the same time and common action with the beast, in plundering and then destroying Babylon. The cowards are those who loved ease and comfort more than they loved Christ, and who in the day of trial were ashamed to show whose they were and whom they served. It will be approximately the size of the moon. WebRevelation 21:8-21 King James Version 8 But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all But the church consists of souls called out from the earth, and is not of the world: consequently to the church the time is always at hand. What the symbolism of that would be it is impossible to tell, unless it is John's way of saying that the city of the gods is made new in the city of God. Yet grace despised necessarily ends in judgment. No hint whatever is given that they constitute the city, but there is the inscription of their names outside. In the midst of the broadway of it, and of the river, on this side and on that, [the] tree of life," bearing not merely as the original one did, but now according to the fulness of the provision of God's grace for man, for man in glory first, but for man on the earth also, but for man in glory "producing twelve fruits, in each month yielding its fruit: and the leaves of the tree for the healing of the nations." Many people and the inhabitants of many cities will come to Jerusalem. The abominable are those who practice abominationsthat is, the blasphemous and licentious practices associated with idolatry. Revelation 18:1-24 need not delay us long. The fallen angels are not called, and the holy angels never need to be they are kept. Ephesus was full of sorcerers; Acts 19:19 tells how at the preaching of the name of Christ in the early days the magicians burned their books. That religious system has an incomparably nearer connection with this mysterious harlot than anything we have yet spoken of. Separate Line. If alive before the thousand years, he will live after the thousand years; in fact, literally he will never die, though I do not doubt, on general principles, that the saints of the millennial earth will be changed at the very time when the heavens and earth disappear. , Matthew 10:28 And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul, Luke 12:4-9 And I say to you my friends, Be not afraid of them that kill the , John 12:42,43 Nevertheless among the chief rulers also many believed on him; but , 1 Peter 3:14,15 But and if you suffer for righteousness' sake, happy are you: and , 1 John 5:4,5,10 For whatever is born of God overcomes the world: and this is the , Revelation 22:15 For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and fornicators, and murderers, , Malachi 3:5 And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness , 1 Corinthians 6:9,10 Know you not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of , Galatians 5:19-21 Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, , Ephesians 5:5,6 For this you know, that no fornicator, nor unclean person, nor covetous , 1 Timothy 1:9,10 Knowing this, that the law is not made for a righteous man, but for , Hebrews 12:24 And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of , Hebrews 13:4 Marriage is honorable in all, and the bed undefiled: but fornicators , 1 John 3:15 Whoever hates his brother is a murderer: and you know that no murderer , 1 Corinthians 10:20,21 But I say, that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice , Revelation 2:2 I know your works, and your labor, and your patience, and how you , Proverbs 19:5,9 A false witness shall not be unpunished, and he that speaks lies , Isaiah 9:15 The ancient and honorable, he is the head; and the prophet that teaches , John 8:44 You are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father you , 2 Thessalonians 2:9 Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power . In the city of God these foundation stones were all precious stones. There was no doubt at all of the character of the emperor; there never had been a worse than he; yet God took that very opportunity to lay this on the Christians as their duty to the worldly authority outside and over them. Then the word is, "Award her even as she awarded you, and double unto her double according to her works: in the cup which she mixed, mix to her double. When the beast dares to fight with the Lamb He shall overcome the beast; and they that are with Him, "called and chosen and faithful" terms, as a whole, entirely inapplicable to the angels. King James Bible. The word for gate is interesting. And because it is really just so good, that it is hard for us to conceive it so the Lord puts this special little "write these things because these sayings are faithful and true." It is a precisely similar case here. III. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1969), p. 246. It is not the repentant sinner, but the defiant sinner, who is barred from the city of God. I believe the New Jerusalem will actually be an orbit around the new earth. See the 1 Corinthians 6:9-10 notes; Galatians 5:19-21 notes. What is the second death? (Revelation 21:8) - Redeeming It does not hinder, of course, that in the judgment of the dead each man is judged for his own sin. But it was no such evil which astounded the prophet. "For the glory of God enlightened it, and the Lamb is the lamp thereof." Again there is symbolism here. God will set up an ensign to which all the nations will come ( Isaiah 11:12). of the bride, the Lamb's wife. "God so loved that he gave " ( John 3:16). And he carried me away in [the] spirit to a mountain great and high, and showed me the holy city Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God." 2. The political side of this is described here with surprising brightness and brevity. This promise, or something very near to it, was made in the Old Testament to three different people. But it is what each saint has, though the blessed thought here is that the church has it not merely in the way of each person possessing his own; the bride has the whole of it (that is, the church in glory). Men are so apt to limit their Churches, to shut out those who do not believe as they do or who do not administer as they do. They must die another death after their natural death; the agonies and terrors of the first death will consign them over to the far greater terrors and agonies of eternal death, to die and to be always dying. Pat Higgins To learn more, see: But He "treadeth the winepress of the fury of the wrath of the Almighty God" another character of judgment never attributed to the saints, that I know of. But is there any reason why we should content ourselves with the measure enjoyed of old? The fulness of it. John takes his picture of the man with the measuring rod from Ezekiel 40:3. WebVerse Revelation 21:8. Such lists are probably given so that believers can identify such people and that such people should take warning and repent. (ii) On the gates are the names of the twelve tribes. But it really is. [3.] Again John is hearing the voice that the great prophets had heard, "I am the first, and I am the last; besides me there is no God" ( Isaiah 44:6). Hence He must have come back previously to both. We may surely say her cup was not yet full. There are three gates on each of the four sides of the city of God. These remain as yet in the condition of separate spirits. Here I am obliged to say that our authorized version, and not merely it, but our common Greek Testaments, are altogether wrong. Greek That kings had dallied with her, that the beast had once borne her up, will only turn to gall the more bitter to her, who, faithless to God, had staked the usurped and abused name of Christ to win what was now lost for ever. All these shall have their portion, , their share, what belongs to them, their right, in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone. Reference-Verse. Again and again it has happened that an age of brilliance has been followed by an age of darkness. Now manifestly, if the Lord does not come before this, there is no world to come to; for the earth and heavens are fled. And who would defraud either the soul of salvation, or the Lord of showing it? And once again the invitation for those that are thirsty, "He will give the fountains of living water freely. The natural meaning of the word would rather be poisoners; and in fact in St Johns days the two generally went together, and no line could be drawn between them. When the Messiah comes "in his priesthood the Gentiles shall be multiplied in knowledge upon the earth, and enlightened in the grace of the Lord" (Testament of Levi 18:9). And the building of the wall was of jasper: and the city was pure gold, like clear glass. He with the glorified saints will have their home on high, but none the less shall they reign over this very world for the allotted time. Patience or endurance of hope is what becomes us. But that the heart of man even so is not renewed becomes manifest, when Satan at the close deceives all that are not converted; and these, as we are told, are countless "as the sand of the sea.". Accordingly these are the two main objects of judgment brought before us in the chapter. "And he showed me a pure river of water of life, bright as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb." Paul expressed the same thing when he said perhaps a little more philosophically: "For from him, and through him, and to him are all things" ( Romans 11:36), and when he spoke of "one God and Father of us all, who is above all, and through all, and in all" ( Ephesians 4:6). In 2Baruch it is said that God made the heavenly Jerusalem before he made Paradise, that Adam saw it before he sinned, that it was shown in a vision to Abraham, that Moses saw it on Mount Sinai, and that it is now present with God ( Bar_4:2-6 ). All the effects of former trouble shall be done away. * None, however, can be exempt from being manifested before the judgment-seat of Christ, or from giving an account of all done in the body. "The woman" is the more general symbol designating her as the great imperial city; "the harlot" is her corrupt religious character, embracing papal Rome, but not ending with Popery as it is. And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it: for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof ( Revelation 21:23 ). The very name indeed shows something similar; not of course that the church can ever be earthly. And he said unto me, Write: for these words are true and faithful ( Revelation 21:5 ). "Come," he said, "and I will show you the Bride, the wife of the Lamb." If that be so, there is a heavenly Jerusalem of which the earthly Jerusalem is an imperfect copy. That is, the sixth head (reigning then in John's day) was the imperial form of government. Greek If they have only heard His voice, this after all is the incalculable boon; yea, it is the turning-point of all blessing. But the graphic account does not end until the Spirit of God shows us another view of Babylon altogether. Take this quite simply and literally. "And the beast that was, and is not, even he is an eighth, and is of the seven, and goeth unto destruction." This is the second death. "And the armies which were in heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white, pure.". Here is seen the holy city coming down out of heaven from God, which is declared to be the bride, the Lamb's wife, in the plainest contrast with the great harlot. The fact is, in the very best authorities it does not exist at all. The vision in Tobit is: A bright light shall shine unto all the ends of the earth; Many nations shall come from afar, And the inhabitants of the utmost ends of the earth unto thy holy. Then the prophet falls down to pay homage to the angel; and this gives rise to a weighty admonition. The highest promise of all is intimate fellowship with God, in which we can say: "I am my beloved's, and my beloved is mine" (SS 6:3). Again and again this shape occurs in Ezekiel's visions of the new Jerusalem and the new temple ( Ezekiel 41:21; Ezekiel 43:16; Ezekiel 45:2; Ezekiel 48:20). And Paul said, "that He has hid these things from the Old Testament prophets, but now He has revealed them unto us"( Colossians 1:26 ), the mystery of the church. Chagiga, fol. As long as they feel their need of him, he will supply that need (5-6). WebGreek Reverse Interlinear Layout for Revelation 8:1. "Seal not the sayings of the prophecy of this book." Revelation 21:8 AMP - But as for the cowards and Finally, in Rev. "These shall make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome them (for he is Lord of lords and King of kings), and they that are with him, called, and chosen, and faithful.". The Romans were the greatest experts in government the world has ever seen. To the woman at the well He said, "If you drink of this water, you will thirst again, if you drink of the water that I give you will never thirst again"( John 4:13-14 ). Pliny describes it as shining with a golden radiance. 2. 11 Its light was like a most precious stone, like a jasper stone, glittering like crystal. But a voice issues from the throne, saying, "Praise our God, all ye his servants, and ye that fear him, both small and great. Moral elements too were not wanting: the mystery of lawlessness had long been at work, though the enemy had not yet brought in the apostacy, and still less the manifestation of the lawless one. "Yet is" is a most unfortunate expression. There is therefore much to be said for the ]Protestant application of the chapter as compared with the Praetorist theory of pagan Rome. The curious thing is that the signs of the Zodiac have as their corresponding precious stones exactly these twelve. . All the energy to mislead men in the presence of the first beast was long in his hands, and now nothing more is spoken of. WebRevelation 21:8 N-DNS GRK: NAS: with fire and brimstone, which KJV: and brimstone: which is INT: with fire and brimstone which is. God is to make his dwelling-place with men. The promise to Ezekiel is: "My dwelling-place shall be with them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people" ( Ezekiel 37:27). WebGreek Reverse Interlinear Layout for Revelation 5:8. It is not the enjoyment of all, but it is the hinge on which all depends. Day 223 of the year = 8/11 symbolizes Revelation 8:11 WORMWOOD = Greek number 894 894 days - 365 - 365 = 164 George h w bush born in a leap year 6/12/1924 was day 164 of the year. God has not told us how, nor is it our business. It is only God and man now. The church goes on according to the will of the Lord, who might according to His own purpose lengthen or abridge the space. "And the ten horns which thou sawest upon the beast." Their eternal existence will be a life dominated by the sins mentioned in Revelation 21:8. God will give all men a pure language in which they may with one consent call upon him ( Zephaniah 3:9). Then another and immensely important act is described the binding of Satan. Man converted will then not merely reach the natural term if I may so say of a thousand years, but pass that bound. A mystery clearly points to something undiscoverable by the natural mind of man a secret that requires the distinct and fresh light of God to unravel, but which when revealed thus is plain enough. WebThe third angel blew his trumpet, and a great star fell from heaven, blazing like a torch, and it fell on a third of the rivers and on the springs of water. It is partly because of this that many excellent men have endeavoured to apply the vision to Romanism; and I admit that there is found a measure of analogy. It is not into a wilderness the prophet is carried, but he is set on "a mountain great and high," and shown not the great, but. This would have been altogether inappropriate for such a progress: when the King comes forth riding to victory in the judgment of wicked men of the world, it is not in the quality of bride, but of armies or hosts, that the saints follow Him; and these include no doubt the guests as well, i.e., all the glorified take their place in His train. All the dead are there who had not part in the first resurrection. You can trust it. Everything that could attract the natural man was there; and all that which to him looks fair enough on the side of religion. The wall of Babylon was 300 feet high, and the walls of the porch of Solomon's temple were 180 feet high. Then comes not the destruction only of these rebels by divine judgment, but the dissolution of heaven and earth. Man alone is to blame who has misapplied it. But at the back of it is the great truth that the ideal actually exists. But no; it was an absolute decree that went forth, and this indisputably, from a single head of the undivided empire. The most staggering use of precious stones in this picture is that the gates of the city of God each consist of one vast pearl. 6 Then I heard again what sounded like the shouting of a huge crowd, or like the waves of a hundred oceans crashing on the shore, or like the mighty rolling of great thunder, Praise the Lord. All the dispensational names of God disappear. Thus it would include those who live in open sin; who practice detestable vices; whose conduct is suited to excite disgust and abhorrence. So far they were right. No lie, however small, is a light thing in the eyes of God; and those whose lives are founded upon deceit and falsehood are indeed proscribed. Of course the other is true. "I will raise him up at the last day." We are told about the glorious inheritance of the saints in light. On the east were three gates, and on the north were three gates, and on the south were three gates, and on the west were three gates. Each side of the city was twelve thousand stades (compare G4712) . The closing phrase here is the description of the beast in its last state, in which it will come into collision with Babylon. Why then is the book of life mentioned? The individual has his own fruit too. In this vision of the future bliss we come on one of the most famous phrases in the Revelation--"And the sea was no more." Reference-Verse. The heavenly city, which is the full expression of blessedness on high, has no temple because it is all a temple. I will tell thee the mystery of the woman." "Let him that is unrighteous be unrighteous still: and let the filthy be filthy still: and he that is righteous, let him be righteous still: and he that is holy, let him be holy still." But along with that God warns of her ruin, and calls on His people (verse 4) to come out of her. But we had gone astray from the path of the Eternal, and with, foolish heart worshipped the work of men's hands, idols and images. And I saw a new heaven and a new earth; for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away and the sea is no more. Thi Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible (_c)_ THE CHARACTER OF THE CITY. (i) We must note the city's shape. Hence this certainly must be future. 2 I saw the Holy City, the new It clearly contrasts this mystery with another. Sorcerers Persons who, by drugs, philtres, fumigations, c., pretend to produce supernatural effects, chiefly by spiritual agency. In Revelation 21:22 John lays down a unique feature of the city of God; in it there is no temple. It is true that we find sayings like: "God created the Gentiles to be fuel for the fires of hell." Or does it mean that the radiance which played over all the city was like the glitter of a jasper? The Sibylline Oracles has a noble passage which tells of the reaction of the Gentiles when they see the goodness of God to Israel: Then all the isles and the cities shall say, How doth the Eternal, love those men! (ii) It may well be that the only intention of John is to stress the splendour of the city of God in which even the foundations were stones beyond price. Buildings do not make a Church nor liturgy, nor form of government, nor method of ordination to the ministry. The beast is the expression of the will of man setting itself up in direct antagonism to God. It supposes the effect and the exercise of faith. When God is so gracious, His word rich, full, and deep, it does seem sad to see His children content with just enough to save their souls, or keep them from positive starvation. "And death and hades were cast into the lake of fire. Pulon ( G4440) can also mean the gate-tower in a great city, like the gate leading into a battlemented castle. Moral unfitness has its just censure; but sovereign grace must be asserted also. This conception of preexisting forms may seem strange. Those who dwell in this new world live a completely new and blessed life eternal life. I am the root and the offspring of David, the bright the morning star. The visions of this prophetic book open, not with the rapture of saints to heaven, but the sight of saints already raptured, often before the seer in the visions, but seen always in a complete condition without addition to their number. Then the book concludes after a solemn warning against either adding to or taking from its contents. But all this will be a great reversal of man's history and political maxims. (by implication) faithless -- fearful. "They shall obtain joy and gladness," said Isaiah of the pilgrims of the heavenly way, "and sorrow and sighing shall flee away" ( Isaiah 35:10). It is the way to all, if it be not the actual entrance into and enjoyment of it. It should be, "and shall be present. The rabbinic dreams of the re-created Jerusalem were vast enough. Bringing in history here embroiled the subject; and those who appeal most to its evidence are the very men who seem in this to ignore its facts. But, in point of fact, in giving the description of Babylon, the Holy Ghost enters even more into an account of her relations with the beast, the imperial power of which we saw not a little last night. Not having steadfast endurance, - EBCNT, cowardly (etc) . And unbelieving Unbelief is a gross, unpardonable sin, unless repented of. on the other, she had, when she could, gone on increasing in both, until at last the blow of divine judgment came. If only an imperial city, what has this to do with mystery? "And the remnant were slain with the sword of him that sat upon the horse, which [sword] proceedeth out of his mouth: and all the birds were filled with their flesh." To such a man God makes the greatest promise of all--"I will be his God and he shall be my son." This misery will be their proper part and portion, what they have justly deserved, what they have in effect chosen, and what they have prepared themselves for by their sins. Are we then to understand that the elders and the living creatures are together taken absolutely as the bride now? We shall find, on the contrary, its aspect is toward the universe, yet is there the special place of Israel; and quite right it is that it should be so. The Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs is full of this universal hope. That is, Babylon is viewed in this chapter not so much in her mysterious and religious form, giving currency to every kind of confusion of truth and error, of good and evil, intoxicating, corrupting, and seducing, as all can see, through her wickedly religious influence; but she is viewed here as the most conspicuous aider and abettor of the world in its luxuries and delights and the pride of life, of what men call "civilization." For her sin., have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities." God is much more eager to bring men in than to shut them out--and his Church must be the same. Then follows a description of the wall, gates, foundations, and general position. Verse Only. In the passage which we have just quoted Josephus speaks of stones in the Temple foundation walls of almost 70 feet in length, 8 feet in height, and 9 feet in breadth. Again John may have been thinking of the vast stones in the foundations of the Jerusalem Temple. And there shall in nowise enter into it anything that defileth, nor making abomination and a lie: but only those written in the book of life of the Lamb." The dream of a new heaven and a new earth was deep in Jewish thought. All this is possible because the effects of sin in the previous order have now been removed (21:1-4).This promise of a new life encourages persecuted believers. Book of Revelation WebREVELATION 21 Parallel KJVand Greek Bible (New Testament) 1 And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was There is no expression in the word of God which binds all to rise at the same instant. All nations shall be gathered to Jerusalem, and shall recognize it as the throne of the Lord, and will no more stubbornly follow their evil heart ( Jeremiah 3:17). That, too, had been the dream of the prophets of the ancient days. This is significant. Verse Only. Thus the language of symbol is as definite as any other. All who have looked back on the history know, that when the ten kings appeared, there was no beast or imperial power. To the same world in which He suffered, according to the scriptures, He will come back. But now there is but one throne: Christ judges the dead. Since the lake of fire still exists after the passing of the present heaven and earth, hell is probably not in the center of the present earth nor is it connected to this earth spacially. The reason is given at the close; not only "by thy sorcery were all the nations deceived," but above all "in her was found [the] blood of prophets and saints, and of all the slain upon the earth.". He is , Revelation 19:20 And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that worked , Revelation 20:14,15 And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire.
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