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From Rome saints had suffered; and it was easy to see that the revealed persecutress is called Babylon, and identified with the governing city of Rome. He gets his power and they get theirs for one and the same time. But the fearful . The church cannot hear of Him as the bright morning star without at once desiring that He should come. WebThis lesson is a study of Revelation 21:1-8. Verse Only. There will be a new heaven and a new earth and the former will not be remembered or brought into mind. Needless to say, you could all have a square mile and if we need more space what you do is just move your ceiling down to a half-mile and you double again the capacity. He is no longer to be allowed to prowl about the world ensnaring and destroying. There is a certain difficulty of translation here. 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. We have already come upon this claim by the risen Christ in Revelation 1:8. Webwhich is to be understood not of the renovation of persons at conversion, when a new heart and spirit are given, and men are made wholly new creatures; for this is the work of the Spirit, and which is done daily, and is not peculiar to any particular period of time; nor of the renewing of the church state at the beginning of the Gospel, when the IV. John's vision of the new Jerusalem uses and amplifies many of the dreams of the prophets. 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. This is the second death." All is then fixed. The first heaven will pass away, and the new heaven shall appear; the light of heaven will be seven times brighter; and the new creation will last for ever (Enoch 91:16). of men that are dead (Sibylline Oracles 3: 710-723). That an openly heathen metropolis, devoted to the worship of Mars, and Jupiter, and Venus, and other wicked monstrosities of pagan mythology should be irritated with the gospel which exposes it all, and should consequently seek to injure the faithful, was to be expected, and a necessary result, directly that the uncompromising spirit of Christ was known. It was important, just because it is the bride, the Lamb's wife, to show that angels are there, and further, that Israel is not forgotten. He gives us his titles of honour as a pledge or surety of the full performance, even those titles of Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. But the fearful Those who, for fear of losing life or their property, either refused to receive the Christian religion, though convinced of its truth and A sweet strain shall they utter from their mouths in hymns. We can quite understand that God would comfort His people in the dark ages by this book; and a very imperfect glimpse at its real meaning might in His grace serve to cheer them on in their trials as far as it went. 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. This, then, means that God is to make his tabernacle with men for ever, to give his presence to men for ever. Sorrow is to be forgotten; sin is to be vanquished; darkness is to be at an end; the temporariness of time is to turn into the everlastingness of eternity. "Behold," it said, "the dwelling-place of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they will be his peoples, and God himself shall be with them; and he will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death will be no more, nor will there be any grief or crying, nor will there be any more pain, for the first things have gone.". The heavens will be on fire. WebGreek Reverse Interlinear Layout for Revelation 8:6. WebGreek Reverse Interlinear Layout for Revelation 8:13. There are three gates on the east. We know that the change of all those caught up takes place in the twinkling of an eye. From the manner in which resurrection is referred to in scripture, does not God leave room for this? Holman Christian It is Christ Himself about to be displayed in His rights as King of kings, and Lord of lords; and this in the face of the world. Then there is the reigning power, but not the execution of judgment in this awful fashion which is attributed to the Lord Himself. It is described as being like the sheen of green on a dove's neck or in a peacock's tail. There is no doubt that Rome in some form is the woman described in the chapter: the seven heads or hills clearly point to that city, which of all cities might best and indeed alone be known as ruling over the kings of the earth. I have already touched on the double force of the symbol mountains. A third of the waters became wormwood, and many died from the water, because it was made bitter. Nothing of the sort can be plainer. It was the same with the Jews. Pliny describes it as shining with a golden radiance. Man on the earth has his portion in the goodness of a God who is manifesting His kingdom. 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. None but Rome corresponds. It is only God and man now. She is, the mother of the harlots, but also (and with still deeper guilt) of the abominations of the earth. This is of great importance. At the same time the attempt to apply Babylon to ancient Rome is almost as unhappy; and for a plain reason. [19] Leon Morris, Tyndale Bible Commentaries. There will be no time for seeking mercy, as it were: whatever the state in which the Lord at His coming will find us, all is closed up and fixed. Is not this reason enough for saying that not even the shadow of solid ground appears for the system? That is, it is simply an expression of the homage that they pay. On these I may say but a very few words. 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 kings of the earth do bring their glory and honour unto it" not into but unto. 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). 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. There are many who are not so; but the Lord does not forget them. This may suffice for Revelation 18:1-24. The "saved" is a term which, so far from belonging to the nations, is expressly applied to the Jewish remnant when it is a technical term. Her part in the corruption of the high and the intoxication of the low her idolatrous character has come before us. "And death and hades were cast into the lake of fire. And as for the twelve tribes of Israel, they are merely written there, nothing more. , , , 21:8 Greek NT: Nestle 1904, 21:8 Greek NT: Westcott and Hort 1881, 21:8 Greek NT: Westcott and Hort / [NA27 and UBS4 variants], 21:8 Greek NT: RP Byzantine Majority Text 2005, 21:8 Greek NT: Greek Orthodox Church, 21:8 Greek NT: Tischendorf 8th Edition, 21:8 Greek NT: Scrivener's Textus Receptus 1894, 21:8 Greek NT: Stephanus Textus Receptus 1550. This is probably a reference, primarily, to participants in the rites of paganism and the unmentionable perversions and debaucheries that attended them. It is due to the exigency of a notion which fears and is irreconcilable with the truth in this place. Separate Line. And the gates of Jerusalem shall be builded with sapphire and. If a person drew from this, for instance, that the boast was to carry the woman, Babylon, when it had as a fact all that is meant by the seven heads and the ten horns, it would be an error. Unhallowed love will end in hatred. "Five are fallen, one is, the other hath not yet come." Line-By-Line Order: Verse-Reference. "This is the first resurrection. May our hearts answer freely to His word of love and truth with our "Amen." WebRevelation 21:7-8 New International Version 7 Those who are victorious will inherit all this, and I will be their God and they will be my children. Verse Only. WebIn his commentary on Revelation 21:8, James Burton Coffman notes, "But it is not of natural fear and timidity that John speaks; it is that cowardice which in the last resort chooses self and safety before Christ ." Read full chapter 21 The twelve gates were twelve pearls; each one of the gates consisted of a single pearl. The voice is that of one of the Angels of the Presence. That the unsaved are in view seems clear since their part (i.e., their destiny) will be in the lake of fire. The Sinai MS. has both. And what kind God may create after us, who knows? The beast that thou sawest was, and is not; and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit, and go into perdition: and they that dwell on the earth shall wonder, whose names were not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, beholding the beast that he was, and is not, and shall be present." For remark, the beast or Roman empire is described here as that which once existed, which then ceased to exist, and which assumes a final shape when it reappears from the bottomless pit. Do you stillKJV: so fearful? And all liars; in common, and particularly such who speak lies in hypocrisy, as the followers of the man of sin, and who are given up to believe a lie, that they might be damned; all lies being of the devil, and abominable to God. Verse Only. And the hope of those who are troubled of heart. The son is doubly guilty, because he saw his father's nakedness and felt it enough to hide. He put an oar on his shoulder and set out with the intention of journeying inland until he reached people who knew so little of the sea that they asked him what strange thing he carried on his shoulder. The fearful lead the van in this black list. (i) We must note the city's shape. That is to say, the heavenly saints are viewed still as the heads of the glorified priesthood, and also the executive in the administration of God's judgments. Web[ 1] Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me. "They have one mind, and give their own power and authority to the beast." You can believe it. This it is precisely which will bring out the indignant judgment of God upon the last phase of Babylon, so that the guilt of all the blood shed on the earth shall be imputed to her, and she may be judged accordingly. The woman the strange woman sets forth corruption, human nature indulging itself in its own evil desires, irrespective of God's will. The word for "end" is telos ( G5056) , and does not simply mean end in point of time but the goal. There are three gates on each of the four sides of the city of God. But no believer comes into judgment. , . Web21:8 whoremongers. But whatever subsisted then, that which the Spirit here presents as a whole cannot be found realized at any point of time in the past. I do not acknowledge the language to be either difficult or ambiguous. Now manifestly, if the Lord does not come before this, there is no world to come to; for the earth and heavens are fled. Here is the promise of fellowship with God and all its precious consequences. These must all, of course, be excluded from a pure and holy world; and this description, alas! WebRevelation 21:8 New King James Version 8 But the cowardly, [ a]unbelieving, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars shall have their part in the Here accordingly we have them all. there is no sword proceeding out of our mouth; nor are the saints or heavenly hosts said to be arrayed in such a sort as the Lord. But that idea is wholly insufficient to cover or meet the word of God, which gives clear and strong reasons that prove the mistake of applying this to the pope as its complete fulfilment. It sounds too good to be true. When John pictured the nations walking in the light of the city of God and the kings bringing their gifts to it, he was foretelling the consummation of a hope which was always in the hearts of the greatest of his countrymen. But, further, we find that the saints who had suffered for Christ, during the time that the others were in heaven, are now reunited to their bodies and live, the Lord waiting for the last martyr that He might not leave out one of those who had died for His name. After so long a tarrying how blessed! Scripture and facts refute all such theories. The first were such as came out of heaven after Christ, being already raised from the dead and glorified. Hebrew number 3939 365 - 39 = 11/22, JFK murdered 3,939 COMMA = 45 3 + COMMA (45) + 939. That is, the tabernacle of God is regarded as a separate object, no doubt associated with men, but not confounded with them. 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. For all things work in sympathy with them and. 15. Such was her influence stretching out far beyond the beast. "To the thirsty I will give water without price from the fountain of the water of life." We can easily understand that the overthrow of the ecclesiastical power is necessary to leave a full field unimpeded for the imperial power to develop itself in its final form of violence and rebellion and apostacy against the Lord. All this description closes in verse 5. Even in this world of space and time, where God is, the night is as bright as the day ( Psalms 139:12). For I am not aware that any scripture treats of the subject, beyond laying down principles such as we have sought to apply to the case. You need no meeting place where you go to meet God. He intends us to see that the whole of the holy city is the Holy of Holies, the dwelling-place of God. In short, no testimony can avail, no work, power, or glory without the word of God applied by the Spirit of God. In Daniel's time it was not at hand. This disposes of many a web of comments; for we find at once what is perfectly simple, what any child of God who believes this to be the word of God must own. 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. Here occurs a remarkable change in the sequence of the visions, though easily understood; for it must be evident that there is nothing to follow this in point of time. 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. A mysterious lawlessness inherits the well-known name of Babylon when Rome is brought forward; and it does not merely embrace Christian times, but the end of the age after the church has gone, when the course of divine judgment comes. So far they were right. All who have looked back on the history know, that when the ten kings appeared, there was no beast or imperial power. The absence of a temple is therefore no loss but a gain for this city. How can it be said that this vile, corrupt, idolatrous system of the last days was guilty of the blood of all martyrs? Try to put them together and they will fight each other. Who knows? There are two main ideas here. "He brought me in the visions of God into the land of Israel, and set me down upon a very high mountain" ( Ezekiel 40:2). "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). There is no greater honour in all the universe than that which God gives to the man who is true to him. And he said unto me, Write: for these words are true and faithful. To make way for the commencement of this new world, the old world, with all its troubles and commotions, passed away. All He is going to do is relax and let it go, and the whole material universe will go up in one gigantic puff. WebGreek Reverse Interlinear Layout for Revelation 6:15. [practice magic arts; evil magic] . So here a description is given of the bride, the Lamb's wife, and we learn how it is that God will use her for unmeasured goodness and blessing and glory in the millennium, as the devil during this age has used Babylon to accomplish his wicked plans here below. The writers between the Testaments had their dreams. It is an added digression for the purpose of describing an object already named passingly in the foregoing series, which closes at Revelation 21:8. Their doom was awful, but by no means after the same sort as their two leaders. Thus the attempt to apply it during the pagan period is altogether futile on the face of the matter. Then follows another scene still more solemn the most awe-inspiring of all we can contemplate, at the same time full of blessing for the Christian to look onward to as that which will for ever put aside every trace of evil, and vindicate good where man must altogether fail. The Spirit of God contrasts with the fall of Babylon the marriage. Whether it were the Old Testament saints and the church, or the Apocalyptic saints, if I may so distinguish them, it was in an instant that each were raised, but there was some space between them. of mourning shall be ended ( Isaiah 60:10-20). Let others speculate, if they will: I am persuaded that he who essays to conceive the details is merely striving to draw a bow beyond the power of man. In the ancient world pearls were of all stones most valued. She does not, it is true, say, "Come quickly." Patience or endurance of hope is what becomes us. The only thing the wall can do is delimit the area of the city; and the fact that it is so low shows that delimitation is comparatively unimportant. The individual has his own fruit too. In presence of grace I do not think this is for His glory, any more than for their own blessing. This idea is equally strong between the Testaments. The angels are never "called," although they may be "chosen;" and though termed holy, I do not recollect that they are ever spoken of as "faithful." But this is not to emerge from the bottomless pit. (2.) "For God put [it] into their hearts to do his mind, and to do one mind, and to give their kingdom to the beast, until the words of God shall be fulfilled." But he tells us further that the Spirit of prophecy, who prophesies in this book, is the testimony of Jesus. 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." - CBSC. "And if any one was not found written in the book of life, he was cast into the lake of fire." 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." *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. 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 city is seen now as the holy vessel of divine power for governing the earth during the millennium, "having the glory of God: and her brightness was like a stone most precious, even like a jasper stone, clear as crystal.". "I will make him the first-born, the highest of the kings of the earth" ( Psalms 89:27). And there (or they) are seven kings." It is not therefore a question of virtual idols suitable to ensnare the children of God, but of that which is adapted to the earth itself, thorough-going palpable idolatry. It will be understood when one says "spiritual" that none is meant save of a wicked kind. [We've already looked at that] And there came unto me one of the seven angels ( Revelation 21:8-9 ). And the coming of the Lord is urged in connection with it. This is a mistake. 2 I saw the Holy City, the new 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. This fellowship with God in the golden age brings certain things. Scripture is positive in Isaiah 65:1-25 that death during the millennium only comes as a specific judgment because of open rebellion. "Come ye blessed of the Father inherit," Jesus said, "the things that were prepared for you from the foundations of the earth"( Matthew 25:34 ). 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. At the beginning there will have been carnage, as we know, among both the western powers and the eastern powers. The Romans were the greatest experts in government the world has ever seen. This is known so well, and on such decided grounds, that it would be unbecoming to withhold the fact. God didn't reveal the truth of the church until the New Testament times. And I heard as it were a voice of a great multitude, and as a voice of many waters, and as a voice of mighty thunders, saying, Alleluia, for the Lord God the Almighty reigneth. The fallen angels are not called, and the holy angels never need to be they are kept. It is reigning. 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. And then comes the gathering and the battle. But the attempt, again, to apply what is said here to a future city of Babylon in Chaldea seems to me no less vain. It is very possible. "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." 18 The building material of the wall was jasper, and the city was of pure gold like pure glass. WebBehold, he cometh with clouds; and every eye shall see him, and they [also] which pierced him: and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him. The Jews a speak of several distinct places in hell, for several sorts of sinners, as particularly for sabbath breakers, adulterers, and liars; and say of the wicked, that when he is condemned he shall take , "his part" in hell b; Revelation 9:20- : which is the second death; Revelation 9:20- :. Hence He must have come back previously to both. Reference-Verse. The writer of 2 Esdras was, he says, given a vision of it in so far as it was possible for human eyes to bear the sight of the heavenly glory ( 2Esther 10:44-59). He that overcometh shall inherit these things; and I will be to him God, and he shall be son to me. 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.