revelation 21:8 greek

Here is the promise of fellowship with God and all its precious consequences. Men have been beguiled here and there, and from an early date, to set aside the true bearing of this chapter. But we had gone astray from the path of the Eternal, and with, foolish heart worshipped the work of men's hands, idols and images. For that which comes distinctly before us in this one verse is the twofold fact, that the ten horns here contemplated receive their kingly power for the same hour or time as the beast, and not subsequently, when his rule was extinguished. 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. 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. They could not burn at a stake for Christ, but they must burn in hell for sin. Revelation 21:19 f. By extension, it also includes all sensualists of all ages. 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 ). The sins mentioned here are some that typically characterize unbelievers, the other group in contrast to overcomers. Positive poles repel. 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- :. No lie, however small, is a light thing in the eyes of God; and those whose lives are founded upon deceit and falsehood are indeed proscribed. This is the witness of Paul: "If any one is in Christ, he is a new creation" ( 2 Corinthians 5:17). But for the eternal judgment heaven and earth are fled away; and then we see the new and eternal universe. "And he that sat upon him called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war." We may have a special task in it, but this is not the work for us, as it seems to me. There are nations and the access though to this heavenly city will be the kings. 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. But now there is but one throne: Christ judges the dead. God's promise to make Israel his people and to be their God echoes throughout the Old Testament. The Spirit of God regards it in its final shape and completeness, as far as it was permitted to attain it, "The woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stone and pearls." There is no expression in the word of God which binds all to rise at the same instant. And let us all ponder the law of the. But in this is shown what it is of importance to see the true nature of the kingdom or millennial reign. "I Jesus sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches. It is likely that it was the equivalent of the modern sapphire. I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of water of life freely ( Revelation 21:6 ). While these sins do mark some believers who follow the dictates of their flesh (1 Corinthians 6:9-10; Galatians 5:19-21), they more generally identify the lost. 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. Sometimes they have contended for its application to pagan Rome. How can it be said that this vile, corrupt, idolatrous system of the last days was guilty of the blood of all martyrs? Now again one of the seven angels. In short, one may be described as corruption, and the other as violence. "Behold I come quickly: blessed is he that keepeth the words of the prophecy of this book." But what comes next? God is to make his dwelling-place with men. In the midst of the broadway of it, and of the river, on this side and on that, [the] tree of life," bearing not merely as the original one did, but now according to the fulness of the provision of God's grace for man, for man in glory first, but for man on the earth also, but for man in glory "producing twelve fruits, in each month yielding its fruit: and the leaves of the tree for the healing of the nations." But here is a mystery altogether different: "Mystery, Babylon the great, the mother of the harlots and of the abominations of the earth.". We may illustrate it by the members of a family. Yet one allows freely a partial application already. And because it is really just so good, that it is hard for us to conceive it so the Lord puts this special little "write these things because these sayings are faithful and true." and others give , "of her." Come, let us all fall upon the earth and supplicate the Eternal King, the. 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. Thus everything implies their simultaneous presence for the same time and common action with the beast, in plundering and then destroying Babylon. the first earth and the first heaven passed away; no more sea ( Revelation 21:1 ). And he said to me: "It is done. "And when the thousand years are completed, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison, and shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to war." 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. The thrones were already filled. 25-26.] "The ten horns which thou sawest AND the beast" would give unquestionably the right form of the verse. We shall find that the scripture affords much light to decide the true bearing of the prophecy, and that no application to the past can possibly satisfy the conditions satisfactorily. "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). "I will make him the first-born, the highest of the kings of the earth" ( Psalms 89:27). And once again the invitation for those that are thirsty, "He will give the fountains of living water freely. But now heaven is opened for yet graver facts, and of incalculable moment for man and the universe and the enemy. We may surely say her cup was not yet full. And murderers; of the saints, and prophets, and martyrs of Jesus, with whose blood Babylon, or the whore of Rome, has made herself drunk, and in whom it will be found. Even when God was judging providentially in the beginning of the Apocalyptic visions (Revelation 4:1-11), associated thrones were seen. It is not only that the angel corrects the act by asserting that he is a fellow-servant of him and of his brethren who have the testimony of Jesus. 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.". No one can soberly deny that Babylon in some sort had a place then; but that the special, and above all, the full character of Babylon was manifested as here portrayed is another matter. And whoremongers - See the notes on Galatians 5:19. Some evade the difficulty by referring the desolation to the Gothic powers; and these Protestants, as if they were mere Praeterists! 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. Once again it has a double background. The first foundation was a jasper; the second, a sapphire; the third, a chalcedony; the fourth, 20 an emerald; the fifth, a sardonyx; the sixth, a carnelian; the seventh, a chrysolith; the eighth, a beryl; the ninth, a topaz; the tenth, a chrysoprase; the eleventh, a jacinth; the twelfth, an amethyst. They shall bring 27 to it the glory and the honour of the nations; but nothing unclean shall enter into it, nor shall he who practises abominable things or uses falsehood, but only those who are written in the Lamb's Book of Life. Still God acts in a wisdom far above man, and holds to His principles even there. There are thrones filled with certain persons, who reign along with Him. On the east were three gates, and on the north were three gates, and on the south were three gates, and on the west were three gates. Even though this passage does not say that sin will be absent in the eternal state, is seems quite clear that there will be none since the consequences of sin will be absent. I. 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. That age of visible glory is inefficacious to change the heart of man, though in the absence of the enemy and the controlling presence of the great King, they render feigned obedience for a long while. Hence. In other words, here is a picture of universal salvation. The street of the city was of pure gold, like transparent glass. Accordingly it is another figure. To the Greeks we owe theology. WebGreek Reverse Interlinear Layout for Revelation 8:3. The son is doubly guilty, because he saw his father's nakedness and felt it enough to hide. As Revelation 17:1-18 was a descriptive digression, so is the portion from Revelation 21:9. We do not mend matters by hasty conclusions, we only complicate the truth. The chalcedony was a green silicate of copper, found in mines near Chalcedon. There were names written on the 13 gates which are the names of the twelve tribes of the sons of Israel. . Line-By-Line Order: Verse-Reference. This is the second death." "The Lord God is the temple of it, and the Lamb as far as we can speak of any. The decem-regal division of the broken empire in the West, as all know, was long after Rome had ceased to be heathen. It is all ours to enjoy to the fullest with Him. Who were they? It is reigning. 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.". Moral unfitness has its just censure; but sovereign grace must be asserted also. Their punishment: They have their part in the lake that burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death. We think the word must describe the radiance over the city; it is later quite distinctly said that the city needs no heavenly body like the sun or the moon to give it light, because God is its light. 21:8 Greek NT: Tischendorf 8th Edition . "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." A single verse dispels clouds of arguments. 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 promise to Ezekiel is: "My dwelling-place shall be with them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people" ( Ezekiel 37:27). It is a description, not of Babylon's relation to the beast, but of the city's fall, with certain dirges put into the mouth of the different classes that groan because of her extinction here below. It cannot be done till the moment comes. That is, the sixth head (reigning then in John's day) was the imperial form of government. That, too, had been the dream of the prophets of the ancient days. But far from that he has, on the contrary, persevered in the same evil course, as badly or worse than his father. The abominable Those who are polluted with unnatural lust. Then and thus is aggravated guilt in the case of this wicked son. The sons of the stranger will learn to love God and to serve him. For her sin., have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities." Zechariah hears God say: "I will be to her a wall of fire round about" ( Zechariah 2:5). But the graphic account does not end until the Spirit of God shows us another view of Babylon altogether. There is a repelling force of positive charges, tremendously powerful repelling force.The atom bomb illustrates to us the true nature of an atom. 21:5-6 And he who is seated upon the throne said: "Behold, I make all things new." It is true that there is a strain of Jewish thought which expected the annihilation, or at least the enslavement, of the Gentiles; but there is much on the other side, and voice after voice speaks of the time when all men shall know and love God. 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. And the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and those are the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb. Sorcerers Persons who, by drugs, philtres, fumigations, c., pretend to produce supernatural effects, chiefly by spiritual agency. 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. * Idolatry is the awful stamp that she bears, and this too both in what she gives to man, and in what is written on her forehead before God. This is not unrighteous, but, on the contrary, the highest justice from a divine point of view. The greatness of this future felicity is declared and illustrated, 1. 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 name of the star is Wormwood. Here it is the city described in itself, on which we need not now enlarge. There are three gates on the west. [20] William Barclay, The Revelation of John (Philadelphia: The Westminster Press, 1976), p. 206. It may be that John wishes us to see that the servant of God does not choose his task but must do whatever God sends him to do, and must speak whatever word God gives him to speak. A third of the waters became wormwood, and many died from the water, because it was made bitter. 3 And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God. That the unsaved are in view seems clear since their part (i.e., their destiny) will be in the lake of fire. "Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues. There is no doubt of the symbolism which John intends. 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). On the contrary, it proved the immediateness of communion. the holy city Jerusalem. Skene ( G4633) is one; and the Hebrew shechinah, the glory of God, is the other. It is true that the nations did bring their gifts to the Church. WebAnd the twelve gates were twelve pearls; each one of the gates was a single pearl. The word used for "light" is phoster ( G5458) . It will be cubed however rather than round and it will be fourteen hundred miles cubed.Now, if we lived dimensionally at that time, you know we live on the surface of the earth, but if you had a cube and we lived dimensionally, it is interesting to get out your pencil and notepad and figure how many square miles you could get in a cube that was fourteen hundred miles in each direction. The east is the place of the rising sun and the beginning of the day. But there is one curious point. But "nations of them which are saved," is a most anomalous expression, and betrays man as the author of it. There is a distinct contrast between the city John describes and the ancient Babylon, in that the latter was built on the plain of Shinar, while the former is expressly said to have seven heads, and these explained to mean seven mountains. The temple would suppose a medium. The word "" translated as "fearful" in the KJV is Strong's Gr. 1169. The definition is cowardly or fearful. Many of the English translation Here accordingly is seen but one throne. (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 absence of a temple is therefore no loss but a gain for this city. The first were such as came out of heaven after Christ, being already raised from the dead and glorified. Besides the bride thus arrayed, "He saith unto me, Write, Blessed are they which are called unto the marriage-supper of the Lamb." But now, when those symbols disappear, because of a new action of God (namely, the consummation of the church's joy), the elders and the living creatures disappear, and we have not the bride alone, but another class of saints, who at once come forward. IV. "And the armies which were in heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white, pure.". Isaiah heard God say: "Remember not the former things, nor consider the things of old.

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