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. The abominable are those who practice abominationsthat is, the blasphemous and licentious practices associated with idolatry. They stand in contrast with those who overcome, Revelation 21:7. bronze I will bring gold, and instead of iron I will bring silver; instead of wood, bronze, instead of stones, iron. Violence, shall no more be heard in your land, devastation or destruction, within your borders; you shall call your walls Salvation, and your, gates Praise. It is the fault, however, of the bad Greek text of Erasmus, Stephens, etc. (ii) The second background of the conception of the new Jerusalem is entirely Jewish. The sardonyx was an onyx in which the white was broken by layers of red and brown; it was specially used for cameos. (2.) There is one symbolic interpretation which was unlikely to be in his mind, but which is none the less very beautiful and very comforting. The word for "end" is telos ( G5056) , and does not simply mean end in point of time but the goal. "And he had a name written, that no man knew but he himself." And he carried me away in the Spirit to a 10 great and lofty mountain, and showed me the holy city, Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, and it had the glory of God. This brings in idolatry, real shameless idolatry too, not merely that subtle working of the idolatrous spirit that every Christian has to guard against. Capnionis, which was used by Erasmus, and lately discovered after a long obscurity by Dr. Delitzsch, reads (not ) . They are all to reign concurrently with the beast. Revelation 21 So, there will be limited access.Now, perhaps God is going to create another new order upon the earth, the new earth. Who were they? It supposes the effect and the exercise of faith. And the gates of Jerusalem shall be builded with sapphire and. And sorcerers; conjurers, dealers with familiar spirits, necromancers, and such as use the magic art, as many of the popes did to get into the chair, and poisoners of kings and princes; whoredoms and witchcrafts go together sometimes, as they did in Jezebel, an emblem of the Romish antichrist. Observe, 1. WebThis like Revelation 21:1 might still be part of a prefatory announcement of what is narrated in detail Revelation 21:9 sqq. WebFor the Lord our God, the Almighty, reigns. God is to make his dwelling-place with men. 2. There is a sinner who sins against his will; there is a sinner who deliberately sins. And the foundations of the wall of the city were garnished with all manner of precious stones. I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely. He comes to execute vengeance, and with a sign of death for rebels. Hebrew number 3939 365 - 39 = 11/22, JFK murdered 3,939 COMMA = 45 3 + COMMA (45) + 939. The living creatures are, from Revelation 5:1-14 coupled with the elders, as we find them in the beginning of Revelation 19:1-21. *Most copies, it would seem, read , "of the earth;" the Alex. It should be, "and shall be present. Strong's Greek 11694 Occurrences 2 Occ. 1 Occ. 1 Occ. When the hour comes that is spoken of here, it is not for us, but for those who will be found after we are gone. God didn't reveal the truth of the church until the New Testament times. God is the beginning and the end. By the vastly different state of the wicked. One of them showed him the destruction of the religious Babylon system in chapter seventeen. It furnishes material for a contrast between the earthly Jerusalem and the heavenly city, because if there be one thing more remarkable than another in Ezekiel's description, it is the temple. As his power and will were the first cause of all things, his pleasure and glory are the last end, and he will not lose his design; for then he would no longer be the Alpha and Omega. If so, they are there in the quality not of the bride, but of those invited to the marriage of the Lamb; but I do not think them the Apocalyptic saints for the simple reason that, as shown in the next chapter, the Apocalyptic saints are not raised from the dead yet. 21:2 And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, like a bride adorned for her husband. 1 Timothy 4:2 Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron; 1 John 2:22 Who is a liar but he that denies that Jesus is the Christ? And there (or they) are seven kings." But the graphic account does not end until the Spirit of God shows us another view of Babylon altogether. And murderers Those who take away the life of man for any cause but the murder of another, and those who hate a brother in their heart. They were caught in flagrant treason and rebellion: what further need of any process of judgment whatsoever? These remain as yet in the condition of separate spirits. Then comes not the destruction only of these rebels by divine judgment, but the dissolution of heaven and earth. In short, it is as we saw in Revelation 17:1-18, after Babylon had been brought before us in the course of the prophecy. In her own course, and in the matters of her portion, the church does not know time at all. [2.] Here you may see the reason for saying that the four and twenty elders and the four living creatures are not absolutely the church, because when that symbol applies, and the one of the bride comes forward, we have got others too. "After these things I heard as it were a great voice of a great crowd in heaven, saying, Alleluia, the salvation, and the glory, and the power of our God: for true and righteous [are] his judgments: because he judged the great harlot, which did corrupt the earth with her fornication, and avenged the blood of his servants at her hand. This, then, means that God is to make his tabernacle with men for ever, to give his presence to men for ever. Here I am obliged to say that our authorized version, and not merely it, but our common Greek Testaments, are altogether wrong. It is not what Christ puts on them, but a recognition even at this time of whatever has been of God the working I do not deny of the Spirit of Christ. Have we not all heard of the balance of power? It is to be supposed that it will far exceed anything yet seen on the face of the earth. The King James Version gives a wrong impression when it translates deilos ( G1169) by "fearful." Satan will bring forth an empire suited to his purposes, as it springs from Satanic principles which deny God; and this is part of what appears to be meant by the beast ascending out of the bottomless pit. Lit. "And the nations shall walk in the light of it." There is a repelling force of positive charges, tremendously powerful repelling force.The atom bomb illustrates to us the true nature of an atom. It is the word of God: "If ye work that which is good, my children, both men and angels will bless you; and God shall be glorified among the Gentiles through you." Verse 6 commends these sayings afresh. The God who revealed himself to the patriarchs is the God who also, and far more fully, revealed himself in Jesus Christ; the God of the Old Testament is the God of the New Testament. 2 I saw the Holy City, the new "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). Line-By-Line Order: Verse-Reference. But in the time really contemplated here all this political shuffling will be over. That religious system has an incomparably nearer connection with this mysterious harlot than anything we have yet spoken of. (2) THE NEW JERUSALEM ( Revelation 21:2 continued). There stands the solemn brand graven, not on the blasphemous beast, but on the forehead of its rider, "Mystery, Babylon the great." There is no scriptural reason to infer that any saint dies during the thousand years, but rather the contrary. The great city was either guilty Jerusalem or Babylon. Revelation 21 Greek interlinear, parsed and per word (ii) John, like the ancient prophets, repeatedly speaks of the Gentiles and their kings bringing their gifts to God. To the church the end is always near. Here is a picture of all nations coming to God and of all kings bringing him their gifts. We read, for instance, of the cloud which filled the house at the dedication of Solomon's Temple ( 1 Kings 8:10-11). how is itINT: to them Why fearful are you still no, Hebrews 12:28 N-GNSGRK: INT: fear and reverence, Revelation 21:8 Adj-DMPGRK: NAS: But for the cowardly and unbelievingKJV: But the fearful, and unbelieving,INT: but to [the] fearful and unbelieving. (1) THE NEW JERUSALEM ( Revelation 21:2 ). *It is the more strikingly characteristic, because of such language as Psalms 149:6-9, which speaks of all the saints contemplated on earth for the day of Jehovah. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1969), p. 246. Supposing, for instance, a drunken father: if the sons had one spark of right feeling, not only must they feel the utmost shame and pain on account of their parent, but they would endeavour (like the sons of Noah who had a due sense of what was proper to their father) to cast some mantle of love over that which they could not deny, yet would not look at, but surely above all things they would watch against that shameful sin. "Let him that heareth," then, "say, Come." John's vision of the new Jerusalem uses and amplifies many of the dreams of the prophets. This is the second death. But as for the cowards, the unbelieving, the polluted, the murderers, the fornicators, the sorcerers, the idolaters, and all the liars--their part is in the lake burning with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.". Alpha ( G1) is the first letter of the Greek alphabet and omega ( G5598) the last. Faith is the wall behind which the saints of God are secure against the assaults of the world, the flesh and the devil. and others give , "of her." WebGod will wipe away every tear from their eyes: Every tear , for they be many; tears of bereaved affection, such as Mary, and Martha, and the widow of Nain wept; tears of sympathy and mercy, such as Jeremiah and Jesus wept over the sins and the calamities of Jerusalem; tears of persecuted innocence, tears of contrition and penitence for When we come to the full application of the prophecy, we must look onward to the latter day. Jesus, that day on the temple mount, cried, "If any man thirst let him come unto Me and drink." Revelation 8 Greek interlinear, parsed and per word They are glorified saints, and not angels. The greatness of this future felicity is declared and illustrated, 1. It cannot be done till the moment comes. The gospel had been preached there, as she of Chaldea was not without law and prophet. And in creating the atoms, and bringing into the heart of the atom, the protons tightly knit together in the nucleus of the atom, He violated the law of electricity, Collins Law, which speaks of the repelling force of positive charges. So we find the Lord has room for all that is the fruit of His own grace only, for the appeal of grace, even when there is not the answer to it. Revelation 21:8 (KJV): But the fearful ,and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God. Directly he had sinned, the word of God came, and he was called. The one therefore throws much light upon the other. It is plain that they are not in this city. The heavens will be on fire. I believe the New Jerusalem will actually be an orbit around the new earth. "And he saith unto me, Seal not the sayings of the prophecy of this book: for the time is near." Bad as pagan Rome was, it would be false to affirm that it ever had come out of the bottomless pit. Calling is the, fruit of active grace on God's part towards man, and only towards him when fallen. Isaiah speaks of the new heaven and the new earth which God will make, in which life will be one continual act of worship ( Isaiah 66:22). (i) Skene ( G4633) is the word used for the Tabernacle. There are two main ideas here. Sometimes, again, they have sought to turn it aside toward Jerusalem in her corrupt state. And the gates of it shall not be shut at all by day: for there shall be no night there. Revelation 21 lake which burns with fire and brimstone . is a word to him that hears. The unbelieving are those who refused to accept the Gospel or those who with their lips accepted it, but by their lives showed that they did not believe it. [3.] , . And the devil that deceiveth them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where both the beast and the false prophet [are], and they shall be tormented day and night unto the ages of the ages.". Revelation 21:8 Interlinear: and to fearful, and unstedfast, and abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all the liars, their part is in the lake that is burning with fire and brimstone, which is a second death.' . Produced in Partnership with Discovery Bible. And the nations of them which are saved shall walk in the light of it: and the kings of the earth do bring their glory and honour into it. "And the Spirit and the bride say, Come." The polluted are those who allowed themselves to be saturated by the abominations of the world. The, nature of the case exempts of course the saints of the millennium;* and this very simply, because they are never said to die at all. Nobody can dispute that this remarkable cluster of kingdoms in Europe was the fruit providentially of the destroyed unity of the Roman empire when the barbarians invaded it. This falls in with what we have seen of the book in general; but I do not deny that certain elements which figure in the Apocalypse then existed and still exist. Polyglot, and all editions of the least critical value. 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. 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 no more sea. Angels we know from other scriptures will be there, but of this we hear nothing here. The sapphire appears in the Old Testament story as the stone of the paving on which God stood ( Exodus 24:10). The abominable Those who are polluted with unnatural lust. We are not going to sit around after that age and say, "Remember down on earth we used to". What a privilege and what a blessing. Johns first vision of the New Jerusalem 21:2-8. And the coming of the Lord is urged in connection with it. Revelation 21:8 - Verse-by-Verse Bible Commentary But there never was the thought of giving Christ the only place He could take. see that it is in connection with the foregoing not merely His coming for us who will keep the sayings of it, but for those whom He will find here below "to give to each as his work is.". He was the word of God in the revelation of grace; when known, by and by, it will be as the executor of God's judgments. The Gates Of The City ( Revelation 21:13). This is the second death. 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 ). Indeed it must be so, because, as we read in the end of the last chapter, there the lost were cast. Thus the only use that seems made of the book is negative and exclusive. "The Spirit of prophecy" and such it is all through the Revelation after the seven churches are done with "is the testimony of Jesus." WebGreek Reverse Interlinear Layout for Revelation 8:6. And all liars - All who are false in their statements, their promises, their contracts. They were judged every man according to their works. There is no paradox in the message whatever. God will set up an ensign to which all the nations will come ( Isaiah 11:12). This is probably a reference, primarily, to participants in the rites of paganism and the unmentionable perversions and debaucheries that attended them. This promise, or something very near to it, was made in the Old Testament to three different people. Revelation 21:7-8 NIV - Those who are victorious will This is significant. Thus it would include those who live in open sin; who practice detestable vices; whose conduct is suited to excite disgust and abhorrence. "And the city has no need of the sun, nor of the moon, that they should shine for it." But "out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron." Again John may have been thinking of the vast stones in the foundations of the Jerusalem Temple. What is condemned is the cowardice which denies Christ for safety's sake. These gates could stand for the way into the holy city of those who come to Christianity by the intellectual exercise of thought, and have found the faith through their minds rather than through their hearts. As far as the display of government goes, it is according to God morally, and for His glory, though I deny not for a moment that there are elements of evil which are never allowed, but kept under if not expelled. At the beginning there will have been carnage, as we know, among both the western powers and the eastern powers. In Daniel's time, and even to Daniel himself, the book was sealed. of men that are dead (Sibylline Oracles 3: 710-723). There is nothing in Jesus to harm him; there is every thing to bless there is Himself to be enjoyed, even if they have failed in the full knowledge of it here below. "And to the bride was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white: for the fine linen is the righteousnesses of saints." Line-By-Line Order: Verse-Reference. The voice is that of one of the Angels of the Presence. But the fearful,. Not the timorous sheep and lambs of Christ, the dear children of God, who are sometimes of a fearful heart, on account of sin, temptation, and unbelief; but such who are of cowardly spirits, and are not valiant for the truth, but who, through fear of men, either make no profession of Christ and his Gospel, or having made it, drop it, lest they should be exposed to tribulation and persecution; these are they that are afraid of the beast, and live in servile bondage to him. And he said to me: "It is done. "Let him that heareth," then, be encouraged to "say, Come." But along with that God warns of her ruin, and calls on His people (verse 4) to come out of her. Scholz's note ("rec. It is extraordinary that in Revelation 17:1 the invitation of the angel is: "Come, I will show you the judgment of the great harlot," and that in Revelation 21:9 the invitation, perhaps even of the same angel, is: "Come, I will show you the Bride, the wife of the Lamb.". 8 There is another remark to make. WebThis lesson is a study of Revelation 21:1-8. There is no gift which Christ cannot use. He was a divine person, whatever new position He assumes for the world. It is of the seven in that point of view, because it is imperialism; but it is an eighth, because it has a diabolical source when raised up again. Here it would seem we have just what answers to that: this name none knew but He Himself. Therefore says the angel, "I will tell thee the mystery of the woman, and of the beast that carrieth her, that hath* the seven heads and the ten horns. For Christ has not only a supreme but an exclusive place. Unbelief is never a consequence of knowledge, education, intelligence, or "honesty." And the hope of those who are troubled of heart. I am not raising any question about the ten. Thus was concluded all dealing on the Lord's part with both soul and body, and all that pertains to either. will be your everlasting light, and your God will be your glory. The bride represents those that are spoken of in the normal possession and enjoyment of their privileges. In short, one may be described as corruption, and the other as violence. Or does it mean that the radiance which played over all the city was like the glitter of a jasper? The subject-matter of this vision is so great, and of such great importance to the church and people of God, that they have need of the fullest assurances of it; and God therefore from heaven repeats and ratifies the truth thereof. Some evade the difficulty by referring the desolation to the Gothic powers; and these Protestants, as if they were mere Praeterists! There is no uncertainty whatever in the case. Verse Only. New Testament, Vol. There is at least the possibility that John was thinking of the city of God as the consummation of the old idea of the city of the Gods, but far outshining it. God's promise to make Israel his people and to be their God echoes throughout the Old Testament. The judgment of the dead is strictly individual, judgments in this world are not. See the notes on Romans 1:26 ff. "And here is the mind which hath wisdom. I speak not of anything that might be deemed exceptional or peculiar, but of two acts of raising saints. Of course the application to the Roman empire would be immediately in the mind of any Christian at Rome. The church is heavenly; and in heaven there are no times nor seasons. Here observe, (1.) He has to liken what he sees in the vision to things that his readers can see in the present world, for this is the only world they know. It was but an imperfect view they got even of justification; a far scantier perception, if they could be said to have had any, about Christ's Headship of the church, His priesthood, or almost anything else. WebGreek Reverse Interlinear Layout for Revelation 8:1-13. there was no more sea in Revelation 21 1 1:11 means that there will be no oceans no 1:14 seas and no large bodies of even fresh 1:17 water in the new Heavens in the new 1:21 Earth now this point is based simply on 1:24 the apparent Clarity of the statement 1:27 here in this verse there no effort is 1:30 made to obtain a theological 1:32 God is much more eager to bring men in than to shut them out--and his Church must be the same. Usually God is pictured as dwelling in heaven and people as dwelling on earth. The fearful lead the van in this black list. It is a question here of distinctive character, apart from that of time, for which we must search other scriptures. No one can say for certain what much of the symbolism of this chapter stands for. The particulars are reserved for a later point in this prophecy. We have already come upon this claim by the risen Christ in Revelation 1:8. The ancient peoples, like children, were afraid of the dark. (ii) On the gates are the names of the twelve tribes. The jasper was not the modern opaque jasper but a translucent rock crystal, green in colour. Instead of judgment being executed on them, it was given to them. We read that in the Messianic Age the Jerusalem which is invisible will appear ( 2Esther 7:26). "Alive the two were cast into the lake of fire burning with brimstone." Between the twelve gates there were twelve spaces, and the idea is that between these spaces there was one vast foundation stone. A man can come by many roads into the kingdom, for "there are as many ways to the stars as there are men to climb them.". Again, death and hades are said to come to their end, personified as enemies. Separate Line. CHAPTER 21 Revelation 21:1 . Revelation 21:8-21 KJV - But the fearful, and unbelieving, 8 But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death. 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). 8 But the cowardly, the unbelieving, 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. "The nations shall walk in the light of it," Any one of spiritual judgment can see that it should not be "nations of them which are saved." It is always a child of wickedness. It is not meant that he who was more honoured in service than any of the twelve, he whom the Lord used for bringing out the church of the heavenly places, will not have his own most singular dignity in this glorious scene.

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