revelation 21:8 greek

But far from that he has, on the contrary, persevered in the same evil course, as badly or worse than his father. The abominable are those who practice abominationsthat is, the blasphemous and licentious practices associated with idolatry. But she has a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and the impurities of her fornication. "I will establish my covenant between me and you and your descendants after you," God said to Abraham, " to be God to you and your descendants" ( Genesis 17:7). But we can understand that the Lord could and did make that little go far, and do no little good. H. B. Swete would find a hint in Php_2:15 . 5 And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone. Separate Line. This is the second death. Line-By-Line Order: Verse-Reference. Unbelief is never a consequence of knowledge, education, intelligence, or "honesty." At the beginning there will have been carnage, as we know, among both the western powers and the eastern powers. They are all to reign concurrently with the beast. When God is so gracious, His word rich, full, and deep, it does seem sad to see His children content with just enough to save their souls, or keep them from positive starvation. "And he saith to me, The waters which thou sawest, where the harlot sitteth, are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues." But still it is a very solemn fact to read, and that which we are bound to preach that even in the perfect state of eternity, while there is the brightness of the heaven and of the earth into which no evil can enter, you have all the evil that ever has been all the wicked of every clime and of every age cast into the fixed condition of eternal judgment in the lake of fire. Death and hades, which had so long been executioners in a world where sin reigned, and were still doing their occasional office where righteousness is to reign, themselves disappear where all traces of sin are consigned for ever. Then come others in the condition of separate spirits or souls, whom the prophet saw two different classes of them those beheaded for the witness of Jesus and the word of God, and those who refused the beast in every form, The proof of the third class should have been given a little more distinctly than in our version. Hence. The word used for "light" is phoster ( G5458) . The covenant, interest, and relation, that there are now between God and his people, will be filled up and perfected in heaven. John may simply have used the breast-plate as his model. "On the east three gates; on the north three gates; on the south three gates; and on the west three gates. It is the word of God: "If ye work that which is good, my children, both men and angels will bless you; and God shall be glorified among the Gentiles through you." abominated; probably alluding to crimes yet fouler than those named. By the vastly different state of the wicked. And he said to me: "It is done. Eternal separation from God. Scripture and facts refute all such theories. God has got a lot of secrets that He hasn't told us yet. They shall be his people; their souls shall be assimilated to him, filled with all the love, honour, and delight in God which their relation to him requires, and this will constitute their perfect holiness; and he will be their God: God himself will be their God; his immediate presence with them, his love fully manifested to them, and his glory put upon them, will be their perfect happiness; then he will fully answer the character of the relation on his part, as they shall do on their part. He that overcometh shall inherit these things; and I will be to him God, and he shall be son to me. And the fourth angel sounded, and the third part of the sun was smitten, and the third part of the moon, and the third part of the stars; so as the third part of them was These compose the third class here spoken of. 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. It is plain that they are not in this city. The writers between the Testaments had their dreams. And idolaters - 1 Corinthians 6:9; Galatians 5:19. And the building of the wall was of jasper: and the city was pure gold, like clear glass. Then the book concludes after a solemn warning against either adding to or taking from its contents. 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. It should not be "and which had not," but rather, "and those who had not worshipped the beast, nor his image, neither had received his mark upon their forehead, and on their hand; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years." Again, that it supposes Rome after it had professed the name of Christ I think is not to be doubted, if only from the expression "mystery" attached to Babylon. In the new age the glory of God is not to be a transitory thing, but something which abides permanently with the people of God. The altar of the burnt offering, the altar of the incense, and the High Priest's breast-plate were all in the form of a cube ( Exodus 27:1; Exodus 30:2; Exodus 28:16). Thus the difference is complete between past history (if we look at the extinction of the empire and the rise of the ten kingdoms) and the certain fulfilment of the prophecy in the future, when we look at what God has really told us. ( Rev 8:1011) Consequently there will be an increase in population such as never has been approached since the world was made, yet it afterwards appears, that Satan will not fail to turn the masses of the nations into one vast rebellion against the objects of God's special favour on the earth the saints wherever they may be, and the beloved city of Israel, as we have seen. Line-By-Line Order: Verse-Reference. III. It is written to be believed, not to be ignored or explained away. lake which burns with fire and brimstone . The east is the place of the rising sun and the beginning of the day. "Let him that heareth," then, be encouraged to "say, Come." John goes on to speak of the twelve foundations of the city. 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. The Wall And The Gates Of The City ( Revelation 21:12). When the hour comes that is spoken of here, it is not for us, but for those who will be found after we are gone. All this gives us a true and just view of the various parties that have a share in the resurrection. All who have looked back on the history know, that when the ten kings appeared, there was no beast or imperial power. . 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. 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." It will be better to read the description of the city of God as a whole before we deal with it in detail. (ii) John, like the ancient prophets, repeatedly speaks of the Gentiles and their kings bringing their gifts to God. All is then fixed. They were judged every man according to their works. If only an imperial city, what has this to do with mystery? 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. I am the, Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. Without that there can be no such thing as a Church; with that any gathering of people is a real Church. It is not a syllogism that is wanted or that can satisfy here: only require, only believe, the word of God. "Come," he said, "and I will show you the Bride, the wife of the Lamb." Thus the divine testimony is not confined to the gospel or the church, but the prophetic Spirit which characterizes the Revelation as a whole, after the church is translated, is equally a testimony of Jesus. 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. Here I am obliged to say that our authorized version, and not merely it, but our common Greek Testaments, are altogether wrong. Strong's Greek You must with the best authorities leave out this addition, if you would have the true force of the verse. Thus such as were in the separate state were reunited to their bodies, and lived and reigned like those who were already on the thrones. And he said unto me, Write: for these words are true and faithful. Some evade the difficulty by referring the desolation to the Gothic powers; and these Protestants, as if they were mere Praeterists! *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. SKENE ( G4633) --SHECHINAH (compare the Hebrew verb, shakan, to dwell, H7931) --the connection in sound brought it about that men could not hear the one without thinking of the other. Of course the application to the Roman empire would be immediately in the mind of any Christian at Rome. 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. Of course they will be preserved through that crisis in some sort of way suitable to divine wisdom. 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. 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. "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. God attests now to the truth of what He is declaring. John 16:7-11 (KJV) 7 Nevertheless I tell you the truth; It is expedient for you that I go away: for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come u The Ascension of Moses (10: 6) says that the sea will return into the abyss. Here observe, (1.) There is no gift which Christ cannot use. But a city with that area would stretch nearly from London to New York. bronze I will bring gold, and instead of iron I will bring silver; instead of wood, bronze, instead of stones, iron. Violence, shall no more be heard in your land, devastation or destruction, within your borders; you shall call your walls Salvation, and your, gates Praise. Accordingly these are the two main objects of judgment brought before us in the chapter. 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. There. And the gates of it shall not be shut at all by day: for night shall not be there. In this new world the apostle saw the holy city, the new Jerusalem, coming down from heaven, not locally, but as to its original: this new Jerusalem is the church of God in its new and perfect state, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband, beautified with all perfection of wisdom and holiness, meet for the full fruition of the Lord Jesus Christ in glory. pl.") For there follows another company of martyrs who suffered when the beast set up his worst and final pretensions. I saw a new heaven and a new earth; for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away ( Revelation 21:1 ); Now, we are beyond the thousand years. "Flesh and blood," we know, "cannot inherit the kingdom of God." The bride breathes out this word to the bridegroom; and the Holy Ghost it is that gives strength to her desire that He should come. He has, I think, exactly that class in view when He sanctions the calling him who hears to say "Come." Separate Line. There is no real proof that man is the first order that God created upon the earth here. And who would defraud either the soul of salvation, or the Lord of showing it? Still God does not forget His ways with His people; and the angels here are only in the quality of porters, if we may so speak; they are at the gates. Nor is there any real reason to wonder at their deriving help from partial light. WebGreek Reverse Interlinear Layout for Revelation 8:6. If you are a believer, do not be afraid, even if you know but little; for the Lord neither forgets nor slights those who may be comparatively unintelligent. Accordingly the resuscitated Roman empire will carry men away by a storm of wonder at its revival. "I will rejoice in Jerusalem, and be glad in my people; no more shall be heard in it the sound of weeping and the cry of distress" ( Isaiah 65:19). For it is clear that, though principles might reign, to be priests is quite inconsistent with a mere figure. I do not doubt that there was a corrupt form in connection with Israel in times past. And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it: for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof ( Revelation 21:23 ). And the foundations of the wall of the city were garnished with all manner of precious stones. 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. * It is to Him that God has given all judgment not necessarily to us. 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. Most High God, who is the most righteous of all upon the earth. These must all, of course, be excluded from a pure and holy world; and this description, alas! 176-177, also in my Commentary on Matthew, pp. We are told about the glorious inheritance of the saints in light. 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