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 is one of those cases which every now and then appear where God checks and reproves our foolish curiosity, as He alone knows how to do perfectly. 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. You need no meeting place where you go to meet God. The simple fact of conquering far and wide, and of exercising vast political power in the earth, does not constitute any title to such a name. Separate Line. But most important of all, in Solomon's temple the Holy of Holies was a perfect cube ( 1 Kings 6:20). * Let us be glad and exult, and give the glory to him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife hath made herself ready." 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. It was the same with the Jews. It is simply said that the glorified are to follow the Lord in victorious power, and nothing more, "clothed in fine linen, white, pure." For certain there are two great acts of resurrection, one when the Old Testament saints and the church are caught up to heaven, the other when Satan was bound after the beast and false prophet were thrown into the lake of fire, as well as Babylon judged. Justly does she gather her title from the old fountain of idols and of combined power without God: confusion being here the characteristic element, the designation is taken from the renowned city of the Chaldeans, the first spot notorious in both respects. Then we have another glorious description. The woman was there seen sitting on a scarlet-coloured beast, i.e., the well-known imperial power of the Roman Empire, "full of [the] names of blasphemy" in its wicked opposition to God, and clothed with the forms we have already seen "seven heads and ten horns." There are nations and the access though to this heavenly city will be the kings. And whoremongers - See the notes on Galatians 5:19. Between the twelve gates there were twelve spaces, and the idea is that between these spaces there was one vast foundation stone. 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. 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 judgment of the dead is strictly individual, judgments in this world are not. The rabbinic dreams of the re-created Jerusalem were vast enough. "And the woman whom thou sawest is the great city, that hath kingship over the kings of the earth." A single verse dispels clouds of arguments. On that account it was altogether out of place to pay homage to him instead of to the God who had sent him to serve. That city will be a constant remembrancer of those who went before restored Israel here below, as undoubtedly it will be used for their blessing during the millennium, but not for theirs only. These are the martyrs of Revelation 6:1-17, those long since seen under the altar, poured out like burnt-offerings to God. The true reading here is neither hard nor doubtful save to unbelief. Revelation 20:14 And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. The city which God loved he made more radiant than the stars, and the sun and the moon; and he set it as the jewel of the, world and made a Temple exceeding fair in its sanctuary, and. 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. A cubit is about eighteen inches, so the height of the wall is about two hundred feet or so. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sitteth. So, there will be limited access.Now, perhaps God is going to create another new order upon the earth, the new earth. The name of the star is Wormwood. Matthew Arnold spoke of "the salt, estranging sea." All is opened, and this because we have the Holy Ghost dwelling in us; "for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God." "To the thirsty I will give water without price from the fountain of the water of life." Babylon is the parent of the "abominations of the earth." As Revelation 17:1-18 was a descriptive digression, so is the portion from Revelation 21:9. The picture is always there and its elements are always the same. A sweet strain shall they utter from their mouths in hymns. Now manifestly, if the Lord does not come before this, there is no world to come to; for the earth and heavens are fled. Who are the persons thus invested with judicial authority of so glorious a nature and to reign, as we see later, with Christ? , . * 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. Centuries after came in, not only the division into east and west, but the broken up state of the west, when there ceased to be an imperial chief. For a short time (what a mercy that it must be only for a short time!) When we remember how precious the Temple was to the Jews, this is amazing. Then another and immensely important act is described the binding of Satan. The wall is 144 cubits high, that is, 266 feet, not very high. To the church the end is always near. When any wrong is done, it will be dealt with. This remains true. In the city of God these foundation stones were all precious stones. What empire has existed, then sunk, and finally reappeared, with higher pretensions and power, only to perish horribly? His blows on this world come more nationally as on Israel; incomparably more severe, as in possession of greater privileges, is the judgment of corrupt Christendom, or Babylon as it is called here. 11 ; Rhetoric 3.11). 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 thousand years of peace and plenty will have given occasion for an ever-growing population, spite of a world thinned by divine judgments which open that era. It sounds like a fairy tale. 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. This does not intimate we have seen that there is only one act of raising, but that all who share that resurrection, whenever raised, are raised before the millennium begins; so that when the reign of Christ takes place, all such have part in the first resurrection, including Christ Himself, raised at least 1800 years before the church; then the church, with the Old Testament saints; then these Apocalyptic saints at any rate some years after. In short, Babylon, the disgusting counterpart of the holy city, in earthly ambition seeks the kings and the masses for her own present objects, while the other suffers now and will reign then. Here the vision was of thrones with sitters, and others caused to join them; and the inspired explanation is that it is the first resurrection the rising of the just from the dead. a Raya Mehimna in Zohar in Lev. 1169 deils (an adjective derived from deid, "fear-driven") properly, dreadful, describing a person who loses their "moral gumption (fortitude)" that is needed to follow the Lord. Strangely enough it is different when we come to the wall. Then, when the Lamb and His purchase by blood are celebrated in heaven, the four living creatures join the elders, though each is distinct. All flesh will be silent before God ( Zechariah 2:13). 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. 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). "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). Not only are they supposed to be coexistent, but united in their change of feeling against Babylon. The Precious Stones Of The City ( Revelation 21:18-21). And the building of the wall was of jasper: and the city was pure gold, like clear glass. "And there came unto me one of the seven angels which had the seven vials full of the seven last plagues, and talked with me, saying, Come hither, I will show thee the bride, the Lamb's wife." But all this will be a great reversal of man's history and political maxims. Yet grace despised necessarily ends in judgment. "And I saw an angel coming down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand. (i) It has a background in the great mythological beliefs of John's time. This is clearly of moral importance. 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 but it does not follow that various bodies are not raised at different times. The word for "beginning" is arche ( G746) , and does not simply mean first in point of time but first in the sense of the source of all things. And it is going to be a glorious time in history discovering the mysteries of God, that is, the truths that have not yet been revealed. We read that in the Messianic Age the Jerusalem which is invisible will appear ( 2Esther 7:26). 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. 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 Does this, then, mean that the body which illumined the city was like a precious stone? The decem-regal division of the broken empire in the West, as all know, was long after Rome had ceased to be heathen. This is accordingly traced in our chapter with considerable detail, and with the sorrow and vexation of all the different classes who on the fall of Babylon groaned over her destruction, and the loss of their wealth and enjoyment. It takes an equivalent power to hold the nucleus of an atom together that is released when the nucleus is unbalanced.Now, God who holds together the universe by the word of His power, and we are told this in the scripture; He created it by the word of His power and by Him all things are held together. The heavenly city is not an improved version of the present earthly city. Again we are back among the dreams of the ancient prophets. A large house was built round an open courtyard. Their eternal existence will be a life dominated by the sins mentioned in Revelation 21:8. All image worshippers are idolaters in every sense of the word. "And he that sat upon him called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war." It was most likely the stone now known as lapis lazuli. Here in this world and amidst the things of time our realisation of the presence of God is spasmodic; but in heaven we will be permanently aware of that presence. We may and ought to take God's promise as present payment; if he has said that he makes all things new, it is done. The jasper was not the modern opaque jasper but a translucent rock crystal, green in colour. 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. 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. And unbelieving - Those who have not true faith; avowed infidels; infidels at heart; and all who have not the sincere faith of the gospel. It is possible that John is here accentuating a feature of the earthly Jerusalem. And he said to me: "It is done. Jesus, that day on the temple mount, cried, "If any man thirst let him come unto Me and drink." It will be remembered that it was said to them that they must wait. 2. "His eyes were as a flame of fire, and on his head were many diadems." 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. After so long a tarrying how blessed! All the nations which are in the whole earth, all shall turn and fear God truly, all shall leave their idols ( Tob_14:6 ). Here accordingly is seen but one throne. Observe, 1. And he measured its wall, 17 and the measurement was one hundred and forty-four cubits, by the measurement of a man, that is, of an angel. I do not acknowledge the language to be either difficult or ambiguous. All his life the merchantman would seek the pearl of great price and then count it worth selling all his possessions to buy it ( Matthew 13:46). 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. This fellowship with God in the golden age brings certain things. But there is one curious point. the holy city Jerusalem. Before God we have that which is found only by and in Christ, which is another and a higher character altogether as compared with the righteousnesses of the saints. (by implication) faithless -- fearful. There are three gates on the north. T , , , . . Again, to my mind it seems demonstrably true that the relation to the beast here brought before us must in all fairness be allowed to look onward to a later stage of Babylon. If the books proclaim the evil works of the dead that stand before the throne, the book of life offers no defence on the score of God's grace. 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. 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). 12 It had a wall great and high with twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. The Mighty One will shake creation only to renew it (Baruch 32:6). He nails the core problem of fearat the end, it can cause us to reject God in favor of self. Murderers are those Not the same word as that applied to Simon and Bar-jesus in the Acts, but cognate with that used above, Revelation 9:21, and rendered witchcrafts in Galatians 5:20. It is the way to all, if it be not the actual entrance into and enjoyment of it. I speak not of anything that might be deemed exceptional or peculiar, but of two acts of raising saints. "So he carried me away in the Spirit into a wilderness" a thorough waste as to the knowledge or enjoyment of God. Therefore we find in connection with the book a most solemn warning. John goes on to amplify this statement. The Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs is full of this universal hope. God is the beginning and the end. 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 Shall have their part in the lake which burneth, - notes on Revelation 20:14. When the thousand years expire, Satan reappears on the scene to the sorrow and ruin of the Gentiles who were not born of God. WebGreek Reverse Interlinear Layout for Revelation 8:13. Line-By-Line Order: Verse-Reference. Who were they? It could be a yellow beryl or a gold-coloured jasper. First, it was made to Abraham. 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 2. "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 ). He gets his power and they get theirs for one and the same time. Then the book concludes after a solemn warning against either adding to or taking from its contents. 2. b T. Bab. The sapphire appears in the Old Testament story as the stone of the paving on which God stood ( Exodus 24:10). *It now appears that the Cod. Isaiah has a picture of the day when all nations will go up to Mount Sion to be taught the law and to learn to walk in the ways of God ( Isaiah 2:2-4). They broke up the beast yet more than Babylon. "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." "And let him that is athirst come; and whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely.". This is of great importance, because if the new Jerusalem be, as I have no doubt it is, the bride the Lamb's wife, then we have her separate condition asserted in eternity. But here there is neither; and this again is an evidence of gain, not of loss. Afterwards we come to the description of itself, of its wall, its building, its foundations, and its gates. We are told about the glorious inheritance of the saints in light. Web21 Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth,[ a] for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and there was no longer any sea. The Whole Earth For God ( Revelation 21:24-27). Now we find the symbol of the bride brought before us, and the elders and the living creatures disappear. He saw their condition: it was part of the vision. 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.". 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. Hence this certainly must be future. He will wipe away all their tears; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away ( Revelation 21:3-4 ). Exodus 20:13-17; cf. In the first eight verses of Revelation 21:1-27we have the new heaven and the new earth, but besides, awful to say, the lake of fire. Indeed it must be so, because, as we read in the end of the last chapter, there the lost were cast. When the apostle Paul wrote to the, saints at Rome, he particularly specified at that very time the duty of absolute subjection on the part of Christians to the powers which then were. There are probably but few, if any, here who do not understand it as the fore-shadow of a real resurrection. 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. The cube was the symbol of perfection. This is a mistake. 7 Let us be glad and rejoice and honor him; for the time has come for the wedding banquet of the Lamb, and his bride has prepared herself. Holman Christian To such a man God makes the greatest promise of all--"I will be his God and he shall be my son." We had Babylon with a spuriously ecclesiastical but a really murderous character, and at the same time guilty of corruption with the kings of the earth. "And he hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, King of kings, and Lord of lords.". But for the fearful, and unbelieving, and abominable, and murderers, and fornicators, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, their part shall be in the lake that burneth with fire and brimstone; which is the second death. Yet one allows freely a partial application already. In this way there never has been anything of the kind before. And I heard the great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, [God is now going to dwell in the midst among His people.] The Gentiles will come to God from the ends of the earth, confessing and repenting of the previous errors of their ways ( Jeremiah 16:19-21). 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. (2) THE NEW JERUSALEM ( Revelation 21:2 continued). But what comes next? That, too, had been the dream of the prophets of the ancient days. 21:8 Greek NT: Westcott and Hort / [NA27 and UBS4 variants] / / , . "And the Spirit and the bride say, Come." It might be better translated cowardly . The word appears only three times in the New Testament - here and in two of the Gospels: And he saith unt But this temple appeared to strangers, when they were at a distance, like a mountain covered with snow, for as to those parts that were not golden, they were exceeding white" (Josephus: Wars of the Jews 5.5.6). And as for the twelve tribes of Israel, they are merely written there, nothing more. 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). Here we learn at once of what His train consists. With that love of freedom which they carried from their German forests, they would not allow the one iron rule of the ancient empire to subsist longer, but set up each their own kingdom in the different fragments of the dismembered empire. It was four-square. But what is also of consequence to observe is, that John saw souls the souls of those beheaded on account of the witness of Jesus, and on account of the word of God. All the causes of future sorrow shall be for ever removed: There shall be neither death nor pain; and therefore no sorrow nor crying; these are things incident to that state in which they were before, but now all former things have passed away. And who would defraud either the soul of salvation, or the Lord of showing it? , . Thus the attempt to apply it during the pagan period is altogether futile on the face of the matter. 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. Separate Line. We know that sometimes there were nine, sometimes eleven or more; but supposing this all perfectly certain, I affirm that, according to history, they did not receive their power as kings for one and the same time with the beast. , , , 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. 8 But the cowardly, the unbelieving, What is true of the Old Testament is true of the literature between the Testaments. But a very different point of interest is to be observed. cum cdd. 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- :. Verse Only. "The Spirit of prophecy" and such it is all through the Revelation after the seven churches are done with "is the testimony of Jesus." Thus there is no question that some of the actors in the final scenes of the great drama were already there, as the reigning city, and the Roman empire. Holding on to what others knew before them, or little more, they reduce themselves to a minimum of the truth. All God's greatness is at the disposal of man. In Jewish dreams the end of the sea is the end of a force hostile to God and to man. But we can understand that the Lord could and did make that little go far, and do no little good. Then we have a description of Babylon given. Skene ( G4633) is one; and the Hebrew shechinah, the glory of God, is the other. John takes his picture of the man with the measuring rod from Ezekiel 40:3. 24 The nations will walk in its light, and the kings of the earth 25 will bring their glory to it. It is a wholly unwarranted interpolation. name; With their gifts in their hands unto the king of heaven ( Tob_13:11 ). There is no greater honour in all the universe than that which God gives to the man who is true to him. He is urged to take up the same cry. Peace. Indeed, being fearful in this context is tied to faith..not showing faith outwardly that is. God gives us each a measure of faith and it "That day" does not mean a time when everybody will be converted, but when the Lord Jesus will govern righteously when overt evil will be judged, and good be sustained perfectly for a thousand years. of mourning shall be ended ( Isaiah 60:10-20). "And if any one was not found written in the book of life, he was cast into the lake of fire." "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. The passage is summed up in the words of the reigning Christ: "Behold, I am making all things new." Here it would seem we have just what answers to that: this name none knew but He Himself. Mark 4:40 Adj-NMPGRK: NAS: to them, Why are you afraid? 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. This continuing belief is a witness to three things--to the unquenchable immortal longings in man's soul, to man's inherent sense of sin and to man's faith in God.
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