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This is of great importance. Man converted will then not merely reach the natural term if I may so say of a thousand years, but pass that bound. The murderers may well be those who in persecutions slaughtered the Christians. "And they went up on the breadth of the earth, and encompassed the camp of the saints, and the beloved city." 21:8 Greek NT: Westcott and Hort / [NA27 and UBS4 variants] / / , . This very naturally filled him with intense wonder. This promise, or something very near to it, was made in the Old Testament to three different people. Read full chapter What I judge, then, is that the guests, or those that were called to the marriage-supper of the Lamb, refer clearly to the Old Testament saints. If ancient times failed fully to meet the requirements of the chapter, it is evident that the middle ages are passed without its fulfilment as a whole. He has reserved the matter, though not without enough to guide our thoughts, as we have seen. It is not the gospel, nor the Holy Spirit, but the lawless revived Latin empire with its vassal kingdoms of the west, that combine and destroy Babylon. And so he carried me away in the spirit to a great and high mountain, and showed me that great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God, having the glory of God: and her light was like unto a stone most precious, even like a jasper stone, clear as crystal ( Revelation 21:9-11 ); So you see how light refracts in a crystal and the brilliance or in a diamond the refraction of light, the glorious colors that are coming forth from the new Jerusalem as it descends out of heaven to take its place of orbit around the new earth. And the hope of those who are troubled of heart. It is written to be believed, not to be ignored or explained away. He was filled with astonishment that this mysterious form of evil, this counter-testimony of the enemy (not antichrist, but antichurch), should seem and be largely accepted as the holy catholic church of God, that Christendom, if not Christianity, should at the same time become the bitterest of persecutors, more murderously incensed against the witnesses of Jesus and the saints of God than ever paganism had been in any country or all ages. And so it is with this very Babylon that comes before us here. Polyglot, and all editions of the least critical value. 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.". We will reign with Him as kings, bringing the glory of the nations unto him. Christians often discuss topics from the book of Revelation, including the Millennium, [5] a 1000-year period when Christ will rule the earth. He is one of the angels who had the seven bowls filled with the last seven plagues; and the last time we met such an angel he was the bringer of the vision of the destruction of Babylon, the great harlot. The Spirit of God contrasts with the fall of Babylon the marriage. "Five are fallen, one is, the other hath not yet come." But no; it was an absolute decree that went forth, and this indisputably, from a single head of the undivided empire. 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. There are three gates on the west. 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. God has not told us how, nor is it our business. We have seen that these follow the Lord out of heaven, and are next seen enthroned. God will gather others to him ( Isaiah 56:6-8). Let it be carefully observed here that the first resurrection does not mean all rising exactly at the same moment. As man does not believe in the resurrection of man, it is no wonder that he does not believe in the resurrection of an empire. Hitherto the reverse of this has been true in history. The first were such as came out of heaven after Christ, being already raised from the dead and glorified. Babylon was the spurious church as long as it was a question of the church, and the final corrupter when it could be no question of this longer, and there went forth the closing testimony of God. Separate Line. fol. (ii) We must note the city's dimensions. 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. Then another and immensely important act is described the binding of Satan. At the same time the attempt to apply Babylon to ancient Rome is almost as unhappy; and for a plain reason. "O afflicted one, storm-tossed, and not comforted, behold, I will, set your stones in antimony, and lay your foundations with, sapphires. Here is a picture of all nations coming to God and of all kings bringing him their gifts. Thus the second beast is no longer seen as an earthly power, but as a prophet-of course a false prophet. (Revelation 21:5). "And he hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, King of kings, and Lord of lords.". These are the martyrs of Revelation 6:1-17, those long since seen under the altar, poured out like burnt-offerings to God. Chapter 21 THE NEW CREATION (Revelation 21:1) 21:1 And I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had gone; and the sea was no more. John has seen the doom of the wicked, and now he sees the bliss of the blessed. The dream of a new heaven and a new earth was deep in Jewish thought. Then comes not the destruction only of these rebels by divine judgment, but the dissolution of heaven and earth. The name of the star is Wormwood. This is of immense moment doctrinally, because it decisively proves that it is altogether unfounded to assume, as is popularly done, that the Lord only returns at this juncture. A mighty angel takes a stone and says, when he cast it into the sea, "Thus with violence shall be thrown down Babylon the great city, and shall be found no more at all." 1 A New World The vision pictures a new heavens and a new earth with a new Jerusalem. Line-By-Line Order: Verse-Reference. The word for "end" is telos ( G5056) , and does not simply mean end in point of time but the goal. Revelation 2:11; Revelation 20:6; Revelation 20:14; Revelation 21:8). And I saw no temple therein: for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple of it ( Revelation 21:22 ). "Let him that heareth," then, be encouraged to "say, Come." But at the back of it is the great truth that the ideal actually exists. The sins mentioned here are some that typically characterize unbelievers, the other group in contrast to overcomers. Scripture is positive in Isaiah 65:1-25 that death during the millennium only comes as a specific judgment because of open rebellion. And whoremongers - See the notes on Galatians 5:19. Its gates will never be shut by day, 26 for, as for night, there will be no night there. He has, I think, exactly that class in view when He sanctions the calling him who hears to say "Come." Here it is the city described in itself, on which we need not now enlarge. Then the book concludes after a solemn warning against either adding to or taking from its contents. 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. All this gives us a true and just view of the various parties that have a share in the resurrection. prosperity, says the Lord of hosts ( Haggai 2:9). This refers to the place of consignment for all those things for which God cannot allow any place in heaven. 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). The chalcedony was a green silicate of copper, found in mines near Chalcedon. 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 The twelve gates were twelve pearls; each one of the gates consisted of a single pearl. There are three gates on the south. see notes at Revelation 9:17; and Revelation 14:10; and Revelation 19:20; and Revelation 20:10. which is the second death . Now again one of the seven angels. The presence of God with his church is the glory of the church. 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. "And he said unto me, It is done. They were both Jesus' first followers and his ambassadors, and they were literally the foundations of the Church. And Jesus sits on the great white throne. 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.". (i) It may be noted that eight of them are the same as the stones in the breast-plate of the High Priest ( Exodus 28:17). 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. It will be approximately the size of the moon. Instead of judgment being executed on them, it was given to them. There is another remark to make. 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. It would have been incongruous to bring in that long description before, because this must have interrupted the flow of the prophetic stream. These sins have often been commented upon in this series; the principal significance of their appearance here lies in the fact that "God is the speaker!" There stands the solemn brand graven, not on the blasphemous beast, but on the forehead of its rider, "Mystery, Babylon the great." Line-By-Line Order: Verse-Reference. It will be understood when one says "spiritual" that none is meant save of a wicked kind. In describing the state of things as it will be in eternity, John has to use the language of this world, for he has no other. 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 ). It does not hinder, of course, that in the judgment of the dead each man is judged for his own sin. The very name indeed shows something similar; not of course that the church can ever be earthly. (ii) John, like the ancient prophets, repeatedly speaks of the Gentiles and their kings bringing their gifts to God. You can believe it. (i) It has a background which is essentially Greek. Without price I will give to the thirsty of the fountain of the water of life.". Yet it will be found imperfect, for reasons which, I think, will be clear to any unbiassed mind. The Gates Of The City ( Revelation 21:13). pl.") But the holy city was not only square; it was in the form of a perfect cube. The son is doubly guilty, because he saw his father's nakedness and felt it enough to hide. Whereas for the Jew, there are necessary dates and momentous changes that must take place; and hence, as Daniel represents the Jew, we have the difference kept up. When the thousand years expire, Satan reappears on the scene to the sorrow and ruin of the Gentiles who were not born of God. Only when we see things in the light of God, do we see things as they are. What is condemned is the cowardice which denies Christ for safety's sake. Holman Christian The glory of the kingdom does not preserve when men in their natural state are exposed to the adversary. In the coming of the Lord all include His coming to the habitable earth. It is Israel's task to declare God's glory among the Gentiles ( Isaiah 66:19). 2 And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. It sounds like a fairy tale. The blessed presence of God with his people is here proclaimed and admired: I heard a great voice out of heaven, saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, c., Revelation 21:3; Revelation 21:3. 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). 3. 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. "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. That is, Satan will be the spring of its final rise and power; he, and not God in any way whatever, will give it its character. To the church the end is always near. By the new earth we may understand a new state for the bodies of men, as well as a heaven for their souls. The bliss is not to everyone but only to him who remains faithful when everything seeks to seduce him from his loyalty. The gospel had been preached there, as she of Chaldea was not without law and prophet. This is most important, because it might be (as it has been) forgotten by some who make the gospel and the corresponding presence of the Spirit to be the same at all times; as others have thought, because Revelation 4:1-11 and sequel treat of Jew and Gentile, and the state of the world under God's judgments, that this cannot be a testimony of Jesus at all. It was the barbarians who brought in the prevalent ideas of liberty as well as feudalism, and accordingly it is they that have firmly stood for freedom; so that all the efforts to reconstitute the empire which have been tried over and over again have hitherto issued in total failure. 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 application to old pagan Rome is harsh and purposeless enough; but the attempt to refer it to Jerusalem is of all schemes the most absurd; for, far from being borne up by the imperial power, Jerusalem was trodden down by it. That inheritance that has- "If we are sons of God then we are heirs of God and joint heirs with Jesus Christ"( Romans 8:17 ). Past history therefore in no way suits the prophecy. I think that God is doing that to show us that the value system is totally different in heaven as it is here. Peculiar energy indeed attaches to symbolic language. "Surely I come quickly." 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. Again John is thinking in terms of the prophetic pictures of the re-created Jerusalem. But the fearful - Having stated, in general terms, who they were who would be admitted into that blessed world, he now states explicitly who would not. They have been often before in tears, by reason of sin, of affliction, of the calamities of the church; but now all tears shall be wiped away; no signs, no remembrance of former sorrows shall remain, any further than to make their present felicity the greater. It is simply said that the glorified are to follow the Lord in victorious power, and nothing more, "clothed in fine linen, white, pure." It is often said that the Jews looked for nothing but the destruction of the Gentiles. A solemn, serious warning about people with these kinds lifestyle traits who will be eternally lost. This brings in idolatry, real shameless idolatry too, not merely that subtle working of the idolatrous spirit that every Christian has to guard against. "[19] "It is not fear which is condemned. By the tenure and title by which they enjoy this blessedness--by right of inheritance, as the sons of God, a title of all others the most honourable, as resulting from so near and endeared a relation to God himself, and the most sure and indefeasible, that can no more cease than the relation from which it results. "Let him that heareth," then, "say, Come." I'm not going to add to it. But a grave consideration soon disposes of both views by the relation to the beast, and more particularly by what will be shown a little farther on. Each side of the city was twelve thousand stades (compare G4712) . Here observe, (1.) God is much more eager to bring men in than to shut them out--and his Church must be the same. And now the eternal state comes into view. Not only are they supposed to be coexistent, but united in their change of feeling against Babylon. It is very evident, therefore, that the saints in a glorified state are here represented as following the Lord out of heaven. 207-209. The passage is summed up in the words of the reigning Christ: "Behold, I am making all things new." Creature lights are gone. The street of the city was of pure gold, like transparent glass. 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. [ 2] In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. And whoremongers; all unclean persons, that indulge themselves in impure lusts, in fornication, adultery, and all lewdness; as the clergy of the church of Rome, who being forbidden to marry, and being under a vow of celibacy, and making great pretensions to chastity and singular holiness, give up themselves to all lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness. ( cf. But it is for the last time, not of the age only but of the various dispensations of God. The length and the breadth and the height of it are equal. And the foundations of the wall of the city were garnished with all manner of precious stones. Those who deny Christ through fear of persecution prove that their faith is false, and will join their tempter in the lake of fire (7-8). Even so, Amen. The jasper was not the modern opaque jasper but a translucent rock crystal, green in colour. Then we have another glorious description. The elders do show us the heavenly heads of priesthood (embracing, as I believe, the Old Testament saints and those of the New); i.e., they are not limited to the church, Christ's body. 21:8 Greek NT: Scrivener's Textus Receptus 1894 , . These gates could represent the way into the holy city of those who find Christ in the glad morning of their days. A new world now opens to our view (Revelation 21:1; Revelation 21:1): I saw a new heaven and a new earth; that is, a new universe; for we suppose the world to be made up of heaven and earth. The unrenewed of the nations are now compassing them with their countless hosts, as if to eat them up like grasshoppers. To whom else could they say it? , . "And if any one was not found written in the book of life, he was cast into the lake of fire." But along with that God warns of her ruin, and calls on His people (verse 4) to come out of her. John may simply have used the breast-plate as his model. Revelation 20:14 And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. The sapphire appears in the Old Testament story as the stone of the paving on which God stood ( Exodus 24:10). She will despise everything really divine; she will only use whatever of God's word she can pervert for increasing her own importance, and gaining a greater ascendancy over the consciences of men, and enjoying herself more luxuriously in this world; for she will go far to obliterate all remembrance of heaven, and to make this world a kind of paradise which she embellishes, not with pure and undefiled religion, but with the arts of men and the idolatries of the world. - CBSC. So, there will be limited access.Now, perhaps God is going to create another new order upon the earth, the new earth. Here were joined good and evil in godless union, for the worse, not for the better, this alliance, unholy in principle, irremediable therefore in practice, between God and the natural man, who substitutes rites for the grace and word of God, for the blood of Christ, and the power of the Spirit, and employs the name of the Lord as a cover for grosser covetousness and ambition, yet more aspiring than the vulgar world. John 8:31) (MSB), abominable . 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." Observe another very important fact. John's vision of the new Jerusalem uses and amplifies many of the dreams of the prophets. "And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heavens fled away." "And no curse shall be any more: and the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it; and his servants shall serve him." The beryl was like an emerald; the best stones were sea-blue or sea-green. The absence of a temple is therefore no loss but a gain for this city. ", To report dead links, typos, or html errors or suggestions about making these resources more useful use the convenient, Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology, Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament, The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary, International Standard Bible Encyclopedia. To them, as Plato said, "the unexamined life was the life not worth living," and so the unexamined faith was the faith not worth having. Everything that could attract the natural man was there; and all that which to him looks fair enough on the side of religion. "And he that sat upon him called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war." (i) More than once John insists that there will be no night in the city of God. They broke up the beast yet more than Babylon. As a result, to say that the skene ( G4633) of God is to be with men immediately brought the thought that the shechinah (compare H7931) of God is to be with men. Verse Only. Thus (without speaking of the resurrection of the wicked at the close) there were certainly more acts than one, not to speak of the two witnesses put to death and caused to rise after three days and a half, when the spirit of life entered them, and they not only arose, but went up to heaven, as we know. Between the twelve gates there were twelve spaces, and the idea is that between these spaces there was one vast foundation stone. "And I saw an angel coming down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand. The seventh bowl contained under it the fall of Babylon, which "was remembered before God, to give to her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of his wrath.". Then follows the proclamation of the angel, and the invitation to the supper of the great God, to eat the flesh of all the great ones of the earth. I do not doubt that there was a corrupt form in connection with Israel in times past. The great city was either guilty Jerusalem or Babylon. This is the second death. *It now appears that the Cod. For her sin., have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities." They were judged every man according to their works. Strangely enough it is different when we come to the wall. but it does not follow that various bodies are not raised at different times. This too must not be viewed as if it were a loss. But what I particularly call your attention to is the exceeding importance of heeding the retrospect at the bride, or new Jerusalem here, and the consequent removal of the difficulty caused by taking the last vision of this book as part of the prophetic series which begins in Revelation 19:1-21. He is urged to take up the same cry. there is a son in the family, who, instead of being admonished by his father's wickedness, takes license from it to indulge the same. We have already seen that the Babylonian story of the creation of the world is of a long struggle between Marduk, the god of creation, and Tiamat, the dragon of chaos. "And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood." The Wall And The Gates Of The City ( Revelation 21:12). All the sufferers, either in the early persecutions of Revelation 6:1-17, or in the later persecutions (see Revelation 15:1-8) up to Babylon's extinction, were now raised from the dead. Why then is the book of life mentioned? Finally, in Rev. What would be the meaning, if so read? Capnionis, which was used by Erasmus, and lately discovered after a long obscurity by Dr. Delitzsch, reads (not ) . Line-By-Line Order: Verse-Reference. 6 And he said unto me, It is done. Accordingly the rapture of the church with the Old Testament saints must have already taken place, all (as I have no doubt) being caught up at the self-same time to be with the Lord above. 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. Besides, many ages must pass between the time when this vision was given forth and the accomplishment of it, and many great trials must intervene; and therefore God would have it committed to writing, for perpetual memory, and continual use to his people. If that be so, John gives the signs of the Zodiac in precisely the reverse order! "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." There Paul says of the Christians at Philippi: "You shine as lights in the world." . We have just seen that it is the eternal state. In fact, we may say, all nations will be desolated by judgments of one kind or another; but for all this the world proceeding for a thousand years with every outward blessing, and the most admirable government administered by the blessed Lord Himself, will issue in the teeming and prosperous races of mankind. Once again it has a double background. The whole material universe following the natural laws with the protons repelling each other, and this whole material universe will go out of existence in a moment's time.And then God said, "Behold, I create all things new," Isaiah sixty-six. In the first eight verses of Revelation 21:1-27 we have the new heaven and the new earth, but besides, awful to say, the lake of fire. But he ought to have withstood it I do not mean in vengeance (for that belongs to the Lord), but as holily hating the sin itself, yet withal in the deepest compassion for his parent. Scholz's note ("rec. And the city is foursquare [it is squared], and the length is as large as the breadth: and he measured the city with the reed, twelve thousand furlongs [fourteen hundred miles approximately]. The horns and the beast join in hating the whore. First, "I saw thrones, and they sat upon them." Revelation 21:1 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. 2. A stade is very nearly a furlong; therefore, each side was 1,500 miles long, and the total area of the city was 2,250,000 square miles. 8 She is permitted to wear the cleanest and whitest and finest of linens. (Fine linen represents the good deeds done by the people of God.) Who knows? , 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 .

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