Summary

New Heavens / New Earth (Rev 21:1-8)

Heavenly Jerusalem (Rev 21:9-27)

21:9-11  Bride’s Wife, Great Holy City, Glory of God

21:12a   Wall Great and High

21:12b-13   12 Gates of the City – Names of 12 Tribes

21:14  12 Foundations of the Wall – Names of the 12 Apostles

21:15-17   Measuring the City

21:18  Wall of Jasper, City of Gold

21:19-20    Precious Stones of the Foundation

21:21  12 Gates and the Street

21:22-24  No Temple, No Sun, No Moon – Nations Walk in the Light

21:25-27  Gates Never Shut / No Night

River of Life / Tree of Life (Rev 22:1-5)

Epilogue – Jesus Christ is Coming (Rev 22:6-21)

Summary

21:1-8	The New Heavens and New Earth
21:9-27	Heavenly Jerusalem
22:1-5	The River of Life
22:6-21	Epilogue – Jesus Christ is Coming

Rev 21-22 – The Eternal State

Old Testament references : Isa 4:2-6, Isa 26:1-6, Isa 25:8-10, Isa 60, Isa 65:17-25, Isa 66:10-14, Eze 40-48, Zech 14:6-11,16-21

New Testament references: Rev 14:1-5, Rev 21-22

New Heavens / New Earth (Rev 21:1-8)

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.  (Rev 21:1)

And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.  (Rev 21:2)

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.  (Rev 21:3)

And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; 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.  (Rev 21:4)

And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And he said unto me, Write: for these words are true and faithful.  (Rev 21:5)

And he said unto me, It is done. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely.  (Rev 21:6)

He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son.  (Rev 21:7)

But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.  (Rev 21:8)

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.

• Whole creation groans and travails – Ro 8:18-23
• Heaven – Gr: ouranos (289 occurrences) – 3 heavens (2 Cor 12:1-5) – see Rev 21:10 (new Jerusalem comes out of heaven)
• New Heaven and New earth – Is 65:17-19, Isa 51:16, Isa 66:22, 2 Pet 3:13, Heb 12:27-28
• First passed away – Rev 20:11

• • Judgment Day – Face of earth and heaven fled away – see Rev 21:1, Isa 65:17, Isa 66:22, 2 Pet 3:10-13, 2 Pet 3:7, Mat 24:35, Dan 2:35, Jer 4:23-26, Rev 16:20, Rev 6:14
  • Heavenly signs – Rev 6

• No More Sea – no more place of wrath – see notes on Rev 4:5-9

• Heavenly signs – Rev 6:12-17
• Heavens rolled together as a scroll – Is 34:4
• 3 Heavens:
  • Third heaven
    • I knew a man in Christ … such an one caught up to the third heaven … he was caught up into paradise … (2Co 12:2-4)
  • 1^st 2 Heavens to Pass away:
    • … saying to all the fowls that fly in the midst of heaven … (Rev 19:17)
    • … and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood; And the stars of heaven fell unto the earth … (Rev 6:13)
  • Falling of stars on judgment day – Mat 24:29, Mk 13:25, Rev 6:13, Joel 2:10, Joel 3:15, Eze 32:7-8, Is 34:4
  • The heavens shall perish – Ps 102:25-26, Heb 1:10-13, 2 Pet 3:10-13, Is 51:6, Rev 20:11, Rev 21:1, Rev 21:5, Is 66:22, Is 65:17-19, Mat 24:35
    • No more witness of the creation (General revelation – Ps 19:1, Ro 10:18, Ps 8:3, Ro 1:19-20, Ps 105:7, Ps 148:3-4, Is 40:22, Jer 10:12, Acts 14:17, Acts 17:24-28)
  • Sun, moon and starts together in Scripture – That which brings light into darkness (for signs and seasons) ‑ Gen 1:14‑18, Ps 74:16, Ps 136:7‑9, Zech 14:6, Ps 19:1‑2, Ps 50:6, Ps 8:1, Acts 2:20, Joel 2:10, Joel 3:15, Mat 24:29-30, Mk 13:24-26, Lk 21:25-26, Ps 148:3 (all praise to God), Is 13:10, Gen 37:9‑10, Rev 12:1-3, Amos 5:20, Amos 8:9, Ecc 12:2, Zeph 1:15, Acts 2:20 – part of Judgment Day
    • Immediately after tribulation – Mat 24:29, Mk 13:24, Lk 21:25
    • Second coming – Joel 2:10, Joel 2:31, Joel 3:15, Acts 2:20, Rev 16:8, Rev 8:12, Jer 4:23-28, Eze 32:7-8, Is 13:10, Is 24:23, Is 60:19-20, Zech 14:6 (Judgment Day)
  • The New Earth – Promised Land
    • The sun shall be no more thy light by day; neither for brightness shall the moon give light unto thee: but the LORD shall be unto thee an everlasting light, and thy God thy glory. Thy sun shall no more go down; neither shall thy moon withdraw itself: for the LORD shall be thine everlasting light, and the days of thy mourning shall be ended. Thy people also shall be all righteous: they shall inherit the land for ever, the branch of my planting, the work of my hands, that I may be glorified. (Isa 60:19-21)
  • Judgment on the mountains – Is 54:10, Rev 16:20, Is 2:12-17, Jer 3:23, Jer 4:23-26, Hab 3:6-10
    • Mountains melt at second coming ‑ Micah 1:4, Ps 97:5, Nah 1:5
    • Babylon ‑ a destroying kingdom ‑ Jer 51:25, burning ‑ Rev 8:8, Rev 51:25
    • Moved mountain ‑ judgment day ‑ Rev 16:20, Is 2:12‑17,  Is 54:10, Is 64:3, Jer 3:23, Jer 4:23‑26, Hab 3:6-10, Nah 1:5, Eze 38:10
    • Move mountain by faith ‑ Mat 17:20, Mat 21:21, Mk 11:23, Lk 3:5, 23:30, 1Cor 13:2
  • Sea – portrait of hell / hades
    • Sea often points to damnation – Ps 78:53, Ps 106:10-11, Rev 15:2, Ex 38:8, 1 Ki 7:23, Ps 124:3-5
    • Hell involves the sea (Jonah 2:1-5 w/ Mat 12:39-41, Lk 11:29-32, Gen 6-9 w/ Mat 24:37-39, Lk 17:27, Ps 18:16-17, Ps 136:15, Ps 32:6, Ps 93:3-4, Ps 46:1-3, Ps 69:1-3, Ps 69:13-15, Ps 124:1-5, Ps 144:7-8, Job 22:11, Hos 5:10, Rev 13:1)
    • Pharaoh’s Army destroyed in the Sea – Ex 14:23-31, Exo 15:10; Deu 11:4; Neh 9:11; Psa 78:53; Hab 3:8-10, Hab 3:13; Heb 11:29
    • Raging waves – Jude 13, wicked no peace – Is 57:20-21, James 1:6, Ps 107:25, Job 9:8

21:2 

And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.

• New – see notes below on Rev 21:5
• Jerusalem as the chosen city
  • Howbeit I will not rend away all the kingdom; but will give one tribe to thy son for David my servant’s sake, and for Jerusalem’s sake which I have chosen. (1Ki 11:13)
  • (But he shall have one tribe for my servant David’s sake, and for Jerusalem’s sake, the city which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel:) (1Ki 11:32)
  • And unto his son will I give one tribe, that David my servant may have a light alway before me in Jerusalem, the city which I have chosen me to put my name there. (1Ki 11:36)
  • And when Rehoboam was come to Jerusalem, he assembled all the house of Judah, with the tribe of Benjamin, an hundred and fourscore thousand chosen men, which were warriors, to fight against the house of Israel, to bring the kingdom again to Rehoboam the son of Solomon. (1Ki 12:21)
  • And he set a graven image of the grove that he had made in the house, of which the LORD said to David, and to Solomon his son, In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all tribes of Israel, will I put my name for ever: (2Ki 21:7)
  • And the LORD said, I will remove Judah also out of my sight, as I have removed Israel, and will cast off this city Jerusalem which I have chosen, and the house of which I said, My name shall be there. (2Ki 23:27)
  • But I have chosen Jerusalem, that my name might be there; and have chosen David to be over my people Israel. (2Ch 6:6)
  • So king Rehoboam strengthened himself in Jerusalem, and reigned: for Rehoboam was one and forty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which the LORD had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there. And his mother’s name was Naamah an Ammonitess. (2Ch 12:13)
  • And he set a carved image, the idol which he had made, in the house of God, of which God had said to David and to Solomon his son, In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen before all the tribes of Israel, will I put my name for ever: (2Ch 33:7)
  • And the LORD shall inherit Judah his portion in the holy land, and shall choose Jerusalem again. (Zec 2:12)
  • And the LORD said unto Satan, The LORD rebuke thee, O Satan; even the LORD that hath chosen Jerusalem rebuke thee: is not this a brand plucked out of the fire? (Zec 3:2)
• Holy City
  • Jerusalem – type of church – Rev 3:12, Rev 21:2 Rev 21:10, Rev 22:19, Is 52:1, Mat 4:5, 27:53, Dan 9:25, Gal 4:26, Ps 122, Heb 12:22, Is 45:13-17, Is 65:18, Is 60:14, Is 44:28, Is 33:12
  • Holy city Bible passages – Neh 11:1, Neh 11:18, Isa 48:2, Isa 52:1, Dan 9:24, Mat 4:5, Mat 27:53, Rev 11:2, Rev 21:2, Rev 22:19.
  • Jerusalem holy passages – Neh 11:1, Isa 4:3, Isa 27:13, Isa 52:1, Isa 64:10, Isa 66:20, Dan 9:16, Joe 3:17, Zec 2:12, Zec 8:3, Rev 21:2, Rev 21:10.
  • True spiritual Israel and spiritual Jew is anyone who is a true child of God (whether male or female, whether Jew or Greek). We are all Abraham’s seed and heir to the promises of God (Gal 3:26-29).
  • Christians are also typified as the ‘house of God’ (John 14:2, 2 John 10, 1 Cor 16:15‑19, 2 Tim 2:20, Eph 2:19, Heb 3:6, 1 Pet 2:5, 1 Pet 4:17, Ro 16:5) and the ‘temple of God’ (Lk 11:51, 2 Thess 2:4, 1 Cor 3:16‑17, 2 Cor 6:16, Eph 2:21). Both the house of God and the temple of God were located in Jerusalem.
  • Jerusalem is where the 1^st Church and the Gospel of Jesus Christ Originates From:
• It is where Simeon (just and devout) awaited the consolation of Israel – Lk 2:25
• It is where Anna awaited the redemption – Lk 2:38
• Where Daughters of Jerusalem were – Lk 23:38
• Jesus commanded disciples to wait there for the Holy Spirit – Lk 24:44, Acts 1:4
• Repentance preached beginning at Jerusalem – Lk 24:47
• Christians are to be witnesses in Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria and to the ends of the earth – Acts 1:8
• Gospel preached in Judea and Jerusalem – Acts 2:14
• The church began in Jerusalem on the day of Pentecost (3000 baptized – Acts 2:41) – Acts 2
• 5000 believed – Acts 4:4
• 120 waiting for day of Pentecost – Acts 1:15
• Early church active in Jerusalem – Acts 4:6, 5:16
• Filled with apostles doctrine – Acts 5:29
• Disciples multiplied greatly – Acts 6:7
• Peter came from there – Acts 11:2, 11:22
• Prophets originated from Jerusalem to Antioch – Acts 11:27
• Saul joins disciples at Jerusalem – Acts 9:26-28, Gal 1:17-18, 2:1
• Paul and Barnabas returned to Jerusalem after 1^st missionary journey – Acts 12:25
• First church council – Acts 15
• Ordination of elders and apostles – Acts 16:4
• Paul fully preached Gospel from Jerusalem to Illyricum – Ro 15:19
• Jerusalem is where religious activity occurs
• It was referred to as a Holy City – Mat 4:5, Mat 27:53
• Jesus presented to the Lord by parents – Lk 2:22
• Swear not by since it is the city of the great king – Mat 5:34-35
• Where the unsaved Pharisees, priests and scribes were – Lk 22:2, 23:10, Acts 4:5, 6:2, 23:9
• Jerusalem is a type of being under the bondage of the law (Hagar, Mt. Sinai) – Gal 4:25-26
• Where the Old Testament feasts and Sabbaths were held – John 7:1-14, John 2:23, 6:4, 12:1, 13:1, 18:28, 1 Cor 5:7, etc.
• Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: they shall prosper that love thee.  (Psa 122:6)
• Where persecution of Jesus Christ and Christians Occur:
• Where the early church was persecuted – Acts 3-4
• No prophet to perish outside of Jerusalem – Lk 13:33-34, Mat 23:37-38
• Jesus to die at Jerusalem – Lk 9:31
• Jesus condemned / suffered at Jerusalem (priests and scribes) – Mat 20:17-18, Mat 16:21
• Where all things that were written would be accomplished – Lk 18:31
• Paul persecuted followers of the Way and brought them to Jerusalem – Acts 9:2
• Saul did evil to saints – Acts 9:13, 21
• Great persecution at Jerusalem – spread disciples abroad, except apostles – Acts 8:1, 14
• Paul returns bound in spirit – Acts 20:21-22, 21:4, 22:5
• Paul should leave since he will not be received – Acts 22:17-18
• Paul sent there to be killed – Acts 25:3
• Paul received judgment in Jerusalem – Acts 25:1, 7, 9, 15, 20, 24 (priests and scribes)
• Contribution for poor saints at Jerusalem – Ro 15:25-26, 31, 1 Cor 16:3
• Represents the church trodden down by the Gentiles during Great Tribulation – Lk 21:24, Rev 11:2
• Spiritual Jerusalem – John 4:20-23
  • Earthly Jerusalem vs. Heavenly Jerusalem – Gal 4:22-26
  • New Jerusalem:
• But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all.  (Gal 4:26)
• And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.  (Rev 21:2)
• Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go no more out: and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, which is new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God: and I will write upon him my new name.  (Rev 3:12)
• And he carried me away in the spirit to a great and high mountain, and shewed me that great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God,  (Rev 21:10)
• But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels,  (Heb 12:22)
• And I will clothe him with thy robe, and strengthen him with thy girdle, and I will commit thy government into his hand: and he shall be a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to the house of Judah.  (Isa 22:21)
• Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed, when the LORD of hosts shall reign in mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, and before his ancients gloriously.  (Isa 24:23)
• And it shall come to pass in that day, that the great trumpet shall be blown, and they shall come which were ready to perish in the land of Assyria, and the outcasts in the land of Egypt, and shall worship the LORD in the holy mount at Jerusalem.  (Isa 27:13)
• Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her, that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned: for she hath received of the LORD’S hand double for all her sins.  (Isa 40:2)
• O Zion, that bringest good tidings, get thee up into the high mountain; O Jerusalem, that bringest good tidings, lift up thy voice with strength; lift it up, be not afraid; say unto the cities of Judah, Behold your God!  (Isa 40:9)
• That confirmeth the word of his servant, and performeth the counsel of his messengers; that saith to Jerusalem, Thou shalt be inhabited; and to the cities of Judah, Ye shall be built, and I will raise up the decayed places thereof:  (Isa 44:26)
• Awake, awake; put on thy strength, O Zion; put on thy beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city: for henceforth there shall no more come into thee the uncircumcised and the unclean.  (Isa 52:1)
• Shake thyself from the dust; arise, and sit down, O Jerusalem: loose thyself from the bands of thy neck, O captive daughter of Zion.  (Isa 52:2)
• Break forth into joy, sing together, ye waste places of Jerusalem: for the LORD hath comforted his people, he hath redeemed Jerusalem.  (Isa 52:9)
• The sons also of them that afflicted thee shall come bending unto thee; and all they that despised thee shall bow themselves down at the soles of thy feet; and they shall call thee, The city of the LORD, The Zion of the Holy One of Israel. (Isa 60:14)
• For Zion’s sake will I not hold my peace, and for Jerusalem’s sake I will not rest, until the righteousness thereof go forth as brightness, and the salvation thereof as a lamp that burneth.  (Isa 62:1)
• I have set watchmen upon thy walls, O Jerusalem, which shall never hold their peace day nor night: ye that make mention of the LORD, keep not silence,  (Isa 62:6)
• And give him no rest, till he establish, and till he make Jerusalem a praise in the earth.  (Isa 62:7)
• But be ye glad and rejoice for ever in that which I create: for, behold, I create Jerusalem a rejoicing, and her people a joy.  (Isa 65:18)
• And I will rejoice in Jerusalem, and joy in my people: and the voice of weeping shall be no more heard in her, nor the voice of crying.  (Isa 65:19)
• Rejoice ye with Jerusalem, and be glad with her, all ye that love her: rejoice for joy with her, all ye that mourn for her:  (Isa 66:10)
• As one whom his mother comforteth, so will I comfort you; and ye shall be comforted in Jerusalem.  (Isa 66:13)
• And they shall bring all your brethren for an offering unto the LORD out of all nations upon horses, and in chariots, and in litters, and upon mules, and upon swift beasts, to my holy mountain Jerusalem, saith the LORD, as the children of Israel bring an offering in a clean vessel into the house of the LORD.  (Isa 66:20)
• Jerusalem in Psalms:
  • Do good in thy good pleasure unto Zion: build thou the walls of Jerusalem. (Psa 51:18)
  • Because of thy temple at Jerusalem shall kings bring presents unto thee. (Psa 68:29)
  • A Psalm of Asaph. O God, the heathen are come into thine inheritance; thy holy temple have they defiled; they have laid Jerusalem on heaps. (Psa 79:1)
  • Their blood have they shed like water round about Jerusalem; and there was none to bury them. (Psa 79:3)
  • To declare the name of the LORD in Zion, and his praise in Jerusalem; (Psa 102:21)
  • In the courts of the LORD’S house, in the midst of thee, O Jerusalem. Praise ye the LORD. (Psa 116:19)
  • Our feet shall stand within thy gates, O Jerusalem. (Psa 122:2)
  • Jerusalem is builded as a city that is compact together: (Psa 122:3)
  • Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: they shall prosper that love thee. (Psa 122:6)
  • As the mountains are round about Jerusalem, so the LORD is round about his people from henceforth even for ever. (Psa 125:2)
  • The LORD shall bless thee out of Zion: and thou shalt see the good of Jerusalem all the days of thy life. (Psa 128:5)
  • Blessed be the LORD out of Zion, which dwelleth at Jerusalem. Praise ye the LORD. (Psa 135:21)
  • If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning. (Psa 137:5)
  • If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth; if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy. (Psa 137:6)
  • Remember, O LORD, the children of Edom in the day of Jerusalem; who said, Rase it, rase it, even to the foundation thereof. (Psa 137:7)
  • The LORD doth build up Jerusalem: he gathereth together the outcasts of Israel. (Psa 147:2)
  • Praise the LORD, O Jerusalem; praise thy God, O Zion. (Psa 147:12)
• Coming Down – Source of salvation is heaven – see Gal 4:25-26

• Marriage of the Lamb – Rev 19:9,17-18, Mat 22:2-9, 25:10
  • Betrothal – Pure virgin is betrothed – 2 Cor 11:2, Hos 2:19-20, legally husband and wife, dowry paid at the cross – Gen 34:12, Gen 29:20
  • God divorced Israel – Is 50:1, Deut 24:1-4, Jer 3:1-14
  • Jesus is bridegroom, church is bride – see 18:23 notes
  • Wedding procession – Mat 9:15, Mat 25:1-13
  • Wedding feast (begins at 2^nd coming, lasts for eternity) – see Rev 3:21-22 notes, Mat 22:1-14, Lk 14:6-11, Mat 25:1-13, Lk 12:36, 14:8, Rev 19:7-9, Rev 19:17-18, Lk 14:12-24, Zeph 1:7, Jer 46:10, Is 34:6, Job 39:30, Ez 39:17, Hab 1:8, Lk 17:37, Mat 24:28

• The voice of the bride and the bridegroom refers to the truth of Jesus Christ (the bridegroom) and the true church (the bride) (Ps 19:5, Mat 9:15, Mat 25:1-10, Eph 5:25-27, Rev 21:2,9,17, John 3:29, Jer 2:32, Jer 7:34, Jer 16:9, Mk 2:19-20, Lk 5:34-35, Is 61:10, Is 49:18, Joel 2:16, ). Notably, in Rev 21:2, Rev 21:9 and Rev 22:17, we find the true church referred to as New Jerusalem and the Bride.  So the voice of Christ and the true church, New Jerusalem were heard in Babylon, but evil Babylon held majority control of the world’s leaders (politics) and inhabitants.  Many will say in Judgment Day that they did great things for the Lord, but will find that they were serving Babylon and not God (Mat 7:21-23).
• Bride is adorned for her husband – Rev 19:7-8; Psa 45:9-14; Isa 54:5, Isa 61:10, Isa 62:4; Joh 3:29; 2Co 11:2; Eph 5:25-27, Eph 5:30-32

21:3 

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.

• Great / loud voice – Rev 1:10, Rev 11:12, Rev 16:1, Rev 16:17, Rev 19:1, Rev 21:3
  • Great = loud (Gr: megas, G3173)
  • Loud voice – Rev 5:2, Rev 5:12, Rev 6:10, Rev 7:2, Rev 7:10, Rev 8:13, Rev 10:3, Rev 12:10, Rev 14:7, Rev 14:9, Rev 14:15, Rev 19:17
• His people – Hos 1:10,2:23, 1 Pet 2:10, Ro 9:25, Mat 1:21, Hos 11:2, Ro 8:29, 1 Pet 1:20, John 15:16, Jer 31:33, Zech 13:9, 2 Cor 6:18, Heb 8:10, 11:16
• God Himself – Zech 8:8
• Tabernacle – Tent where ark dwelled in OT – see Rev 13:6, Rev 14:14, Rev 15:5, Rev 7:15
  • Tabernacle of God With men and He will dwell with them – Lev 26:11-12, 1 Ki 8:27, 2 Chr 6:18, Is 12:6, Ez 37:27, 43:7, John 1:14, 14:23, 2 Cor 6:16
  • Spread His tabernacle over them – Lev 26:11, Eze 37:27, John 14:1-3, 1:14, Rev 2:3
  • God will dwell with His people – Rev 21:3-4, Rev 22:3, Exo 29:45, 1Ki 6:1, 1Ch 23:25, Psa 68:16-18, Isa 4:5-6, Joh 1:14, 1Co 3:16, 2Co 6:16
  • Spread skirt over = salvation – Eze 16:8, Ruth 3:9
  • Spread wings over = salvation – Ruth 1:16,2:12, Ps 17:8, Ps 36:7, Ps 57:1, Ps 61:4, Ps 63:7, Ps 91:4, Mat 23:37, Deut 32:11
  • Tents of the righteous – Ps 118:15

• Feast of Tabernacles (second resurrection, salvation, eternity, joyful)
  • Tabernacle – literally, a booth (H5520 through H5523) – different than ‘taberncale (H4908)
  • Lev 23:33-44, Zech 14:16, Deut 16:13-15, Ex 23:16, Ex 34:22, Ex 39:43, Num 29:12-40, Num 39:43, Deut 8:7-18, Deut 31:10-13, Neh 8:14, Ezra 3:4, Heb 11:9, Rev 14:14-16, Rev 21:3, Mat 17:4
  • Picture of the eternal state after the harvest – Zech 14:16-21, Deut 16:13-15, Ezra 3:4, Rev 21:3, Mat 17:4, Heb 11:13
  • God tabernacles – Rev 7:15, Rev 21:3
  • Feast of Tabernacles – John 7
    • Jews’ Feast of Tabernacles – John 7:2
    • Jesus initially did not go – John 7:6-8 (His time had not yet come)
    • Jesus later went in secret – John 7:10 (Type of 1^st advent)
    • Middle of feast, Jesus went up to temple and taught – John 7:14, Jesus confesses that He is sent from the Father – John 7:28-29

• Last day of the Feast –
  • In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink. He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water. (Joh 7:37-38)
  • Isa 12:3 – Therefore with joy shall ye draw water out of the wells of salvation. (Isa 12:3) – Isa 12 – type of eternal salvation
• The true tabernacle – Heb 8:2-5, Heb 9:11, Heb 9:1-21, Heb 9:24, Acts 7:46 (dwelling place with God – John 14:1-3)

• • Tabernacle – Gr: skene (G4633 in Rev 21:3 – see also G4632, G4634-G4638 for cognates)
    • Acts 15:16 – tabernacle of David (see also Amos 9:11, Is 16:5)
    • Christians’ physical body – 2 Cor 5:1, 2 Cor 5:4, 2 Pet 1:13-14
    • Tabernacle of witness in the wilderness – Acts 7:43-44, Heb 9:2-11, Heb 9:21, Heb 13:10
    • Peter desired to build tabernacles at Transfiguration – Mat 17:1-13, Mk 9:5, Lk 9:33
    • Feast of tabernacles – John 7:2
    • Temple of the tabernacle of the witness  – see Rev 15:5
    • Tabernacle of God is with men – Rev 21:3
    • Abraham sojourned in tabernacles – Ro 11:9
    • Beast blasphemes God’s tabernacle – Rev 13:6
    • Rejoicing of those who dwell (tabernacle) in heaven – Rev 12:12
    • Priscilla and Aquilla – tentmakers – Acts 18:2-3
    • God dwells among His people – Rev 7:15 (the Great Multitude in heaven)
    • Jesus made flesh and dwelled among us – John 1:14
    • Heaven – Heb 9:11-12,  Heb 8:2-5
    • Lk 16:9 – everlasting tabernacles – wicked to be received
  • Tabernacle of witness – Num 17:7-8, Num 18:2, 2 Chr 24:6, Acts 7:44
  • Tabernacle (ark) of the testimony – Exo 27:21, Exo 30:26, Exo 30:36, Exo 31:7, Exo 38:21, Exo 40:5, Exo 40:21, Lev 24:3, Num 1:50, Num 1:53, Num 7:89, Num 9:15, Num 10:11, Num 17:4, Rev 15:5.

21:4

And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; 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.

• Wipe away every tear – see Rev 7:17, Is 25:8, Mat 5:4, Rev 21:4, Mk 9:24, Lk 7:38-44, Is 35:10, Is 49:10, Is 60:20, Acts 20:19, Acts 20:31, 2 Cor 2:4, 2 Tim 1:4, Heb 5:7, Heb 12:17, Is 30:19, Is 65:19-20
  • No more sorrow, death or tears – Rev 21:4
  • Jeremiah, the weeping prophet – Jer 9:1, Jer 9:18, Jer 13:17, Jer 14:17, Jer 31:16
  • Sow in tears, reap in joy – Ps 126:5-6
  • And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes … neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain … (Rev 21:4)
  • And the ransomed of the LORD shall return, and come to Zion with songs and everlasting joy upon their heads: they shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away. (Isa 35:10)
  • … the Lord GOD will wipe away tears from off all faces; and the rebuke of his people shall he take away from off all the earth: for the LORD hath spoken it. (Isa 25:8)
  • And I will rejoice in Jerusalem, and joy in my people: and the voice of weeping shall be no more heard in her, nor the voice of crying. (Isa 65:19)
• No More death – see 20:13-14 (because there is no more sin) – death came in through sin – Ro 5:12-21
  • … there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away. (Rev 21:4-5)
  • But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, you shall not eat of it: for in the day that you eat thereof you shall surely die. (Gen 2:17)
  • Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned (Rom 5:12)
  • He will swallow up death in victory … (Isa 25:8)
  • And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works. And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death. (Rev 20:13-14)
  • The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. (1Co 15:26)

• No more sorrow, crying, pain – Is 30:19, Is 35:10, Is 60:20, Is 61:3, Is 65:18-19, Jer 31:13
• Former things have passed away – see Rev 21:1 notes, Ps 144:4, Mat 24:35, 1 Cor 7:31, 2 Cor 6:17, 2 Pet 3:10, 1 John 2:17

21:5 

And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And he said unto me, Write: for these words are true and faithful.

• A throne standing in Heaven
  • Kingship (see Rev 1:5-6 notes) and Judgment of God (2 Cor 5:10, Ro 14:10, Rev 20:11-15)
• One Sitting on the Throne – Is 6:1, Dan 7:9, Heb 8:1, Rev 22:1
  • White throne judgment – Rev 20:11
  • Oneness of God – Deut 6:4-6, Deut 4:35-39, John 10:30, 1 Cor 8:4, Eph 4:6
  • Majesty God is King ‑ Lord of Lords, King of Kings ‑ see 1 Tim 6:15, Rev 19:16, Ps 136:3, Deut 10:17, Pr 8:15‑16, Dan 2:47
  • God is sovereign ‑ Eph 1:11, Is 14:24, Mat 28:18, Ps 29:10, , Ps 24:1-2, Mat 19:26, Ps 97:9, Ps 8:1, Heb 1:3, Ps 90:2, Col 1:16-17, Ro 8:29-30, Ps 135:6, Ps 115:3, 2 Pet 2:5, Dan 4:35, Job 42:2, Jonah 1:14, Is 45:9, Gen 2:16, Is 53:10‑12, Heb 10:14, Ro 9:18, Col 2:10, etc.
• Make all things new – Is 42:9, Is 43:19, 2 Cor 5:17
  • New in Revelation
• He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the hidden manna, and will give him a white stone, and in the stone a new name written, which no man knoweth saving he that receiveth it. (Rev 2:17)
• Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go no more out: and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, which is new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God: and I will write upon him my new name. (Rev 3:12)
• And they sung a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open the seals thereof: for thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation; (Rev 5:9)
• And they sung as it were a new song before the throne, and before the four beasts, and the elders: and no man could learn that song but the hundred and forty and four thousand, which were redeemed from the earth. (Rev 14:3)
• 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. (Rev 21:1)
• And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. (Rev 21:2)
• And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And he said unto me, Write: for these words are true and faithful. (Rev 21:5)
• Write – This statement points to the fact that the Bible has been written through the Revelation of God. It should be noted that John is about to see a vision throughout the book of Revelation of which he is to record. God speaks through people to write Bible (2 Tim 3:16, Jer 1:9. Mat 22:43, 2 Sam 23:2, Acts 4:24-25, Lk 1:68-69, etc.). God uses the method of written words to communicate His truth to mankind. The fact that John was commanded to write what he sees in a book should make us immediately skeptical of current day visions since we are commanded not to add to the Book (Rev 22:18-19).
• Words are faithful and true – see Rev 3:7,14, 15:3, 16:7, 19:2, 19:9 notes

• • True
    • Gr: alethinos (G228) – Rev 3:7, Rev 3:14, Rev 6:10, Rev 15:3, Rev 16:7, Rev 19:2, Rev 19:9, Rev 19:11, Rev 21:5, Rev 22:6.
    • Judge by Word of God – see notes on Rev 15:3, Rev 16:7, Rev 3:7, Rev 3:14
    • Thy word is truth – John 17:17
    • Word of the truth of the Gospel – Col 1:5
    • Faithful and True witness – Rev 3:7, Rev 3:14, Rev 19:11, Rev 22:6, Is 55:4, Jer 4:25

• Amen – Rev 3:14 – These things say the Amen, the Faithful and True Witness – Christ is described as the Amen or the truth. The word ‘Amen’ means firm and is used extensively through the Bible.  In the New Testament, this Hebrew word often is translated as ‘verily’ or ‘truly’ (e.g., Mat 5:18, Mat 6:2, Mat 6:5, etc., etc.).  He is the Word of God (John 1:1). He is also the perfect fulfillment of faith. In fact, it is His faithfulness; it is the faithful of Christ that saves (Gal 2:16, Phil 3:9). It is the faith of Christ that is given to believers as a gift (Eph 2:8-9). It then becomes their faith by which they are saved. Christ was faithful in that He patiently endured the cross as a perfect example of obedience (Heb 5:9).  Although scourged and blasphemed, He did not sin. He came as a Lamb to be sacrificed. Jesus testified before Pontius Pilate and made the good confession (1 Tim 6:13).  In Rev 3:14, Jesus is called the faithful and true witness.  Isaiah says that Jesus Christ would be given as a witness to the people, a leader and commander.  Christians have also been given the faith of Christ (Eph 2:8-9) as a gift, by which they are saved (Gal 2:16, see also Gal 3:2, Gal 3:5, Gal 3:7, Gal 2:20, Phil 3:9, Ro 3:22, Ro 1:17, Rev 2:13, 14:12).
• Christ is the faithful one ‑ Rev 1:5, Rev 3:14, Rev 1:9, Rev 19:11 (name is Faithful), Heb 10:23, 1 Cor 1:9, 1 Cor 10:13, 1 Thess 5:24, 1 John 1:9, Is 49:7
• God’s words are faithful and true – Rev 21:5, Rev 22:6
• Faithful – 2 Tim 2:13, Deut 7:9, Is 11:5, Ps 36:5, Lam 3:22-23, Heb 10:23
• The Faith of Christ saves – Gal 2:16,20, Phil 3:9, Ro 3:22
• True – see notes on Rev 3:7

21:6 

And he said unto me, It is done. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely.

• It is done – See Rev 16:17, Judgment is completed, eternal state is here – see Rev 10:6-7 (indicates that Revelation is not chronological) – Repeating patterns of Judgment Day:
• 7 Views of the Last Day in Revelation:
  • 6^th Seal – Great Earthquake, heavenly signs – Rev 6:12-17
  • Mighty angel / 7 thunders – Rev 10:1-11
  • Raising of 2 witnesses / kingdoms belong to Christ – Rev 11:11-19
  • Judgment / Harvest – Rev 14:6-20
  • 7 Bowls of Judgment – Rev 15-16
  • Judgment on Babylon / Marriage Supper of Christ – Rev 17-19
  • Great White Throne Judgment – Rev 20:9-15
• Alpha and Omega, Beginning and the End – see Rev 1:8,11,17, 22:13 notes
• Alpha and Omega:
• 1^st and last Greek alphabet letters
• 4 occurrences – Rev 1:8, Rev 1:11, Rev 21:6, Rev 22:13
• Defined as the ‘beginning’ and ‘ending’ in Rev 1:8 and the First and Last in Rev 1:11
• Beginning – Gr: arche (G746, literally beginning, source, chief, authority)
• Ending – Gr: telos (G5056, literally, end, completion, end, finish)
• New Testament ‘beginning and ending’ – Rev 21:6, Rev 22:13
• Jesus as related to the Beginning (G746, arche):
• In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. (Joh 1:1-3)
• For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be. (Mat 24:21)
• But there are some of you that believe not. For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were that believed not, and who should betray him. (Joh 6:64)
• Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it. (Joh 8:44)
• And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence. (Col 1:18)
• But we are bound to give thanks alway to God for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, because God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth (2Th 2:13)
• And, Thou, Lord, in the beginning hast laid the foundation of the earth; and the heavens are the works of thine hands (Heb 1:10)
• Without father, without mother, without descent, having neither beginning of days, nor end of life; but made like unto the Son of God; abideth a priest continually. (Heb 7:3)
• That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have handled, of the Word of life (1Jn 1:1)
• He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil. (1Jn 3:8)
• And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write; These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God (Rev 3:14)
• And he said unto me, It is done. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely. (Rev 21:6)
• I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last. (Rev 22:13)
• Jesus as the End (G5056, telos) for salvation:
• Behold, we count them happy which endure. Ye have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord; that the Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy. (Jas 5:11)
• Receiving the end of your faith, even the salvation of your souls. (1Pe 1:9)
• And he that overcometh, and keepeth my works unto the end, to him will I give power over the nations: (Rev 2:26)
• Without father, without mother, without descent, having neither beginning of days, nor end of life; but made like unto the Son of God; abideth a priest continually. (Heb 7:3)
• And we desire that every one of you do shew the same diligence to the full assurance of hope unto the end (Heb 6:11)
• For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence stedfast unto the end (Heb 3:14)
• Then cometh the end, when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father; when he shall have put down all rule and all authority and power. (1Co 15:24)
• Who shall also confirm you unto the end, that ye may be blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ. (1Co 1:8)
• For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth. (Rom 10:4)
• What fruit had ye then in those things whereof ye are now ashamed? for the end of those things is death. But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life. (Rom 6:21-22)
• And ye shall be hated of all men for my name’s sake: but he that endureth to the end shall be saved. (Mat 10:22)
• But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come. (Mat 24:13-14)
• Jesus as the End (G5056, telos) for judgment:
• But that which beareth thorns and briers is rejected, and is nigh unto cursing; whose end is to be burned. (Heb 6:8)
• Whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.) (Php 3:19)
• Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works. (2Co 11:15)
• What fruit had ye then in those things whereof ye are now ashamed? for the end of those things is death. But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life. (Rom 6:21-22)
• Jesus is He is the almighty which points to His omnipotence (Ps 62:11, Ps 18:13-15, Ps 89:6, Dan 4:35, Mk 14:62, Eph 3:20-21, Hab 3:4). We know that He is the Lord and in control of all things (Rev 4:8, Rev 11:17, Rev 16:14, Rev 19:15, Rev 21:22; Gen 17:1, Gen 28:3, Gen 35:11, Gen 43:14, Gen 48:3; Gen 49:25; Exo 6:3; Num 24:4; Isa 9:6; 2Co 6:18).
• Athirst – John 4:10-14, 7:37-38, Is 12:3, 55:1-3, see 7:17 notes
  • Initial salvation on earth – Is 55:1, Is 49:10, John 4:14, Jer 2:11-3, Jer 17:13, Ps 46:4, Job 20:17
  • Full effect of salvation – Rev 21:6, Rev 22:1-2, Psa 36:7-9, Isa 12:3, Isa 30:25, Isa 35:6-7, Jer 31:9, Joh 4:11, Joh 4:14, Joh 7:37-38, Is 66:12-13
• Fountain of water of life – Ps 36:9, Jer 2:13, Joel 3:18
• Freely – Hos 14:4, Ro 3:24, 8:32, 1 Cor 2:12, 3:5,15,21, 1 John 5:4-5
  • Freely – Greek: dorean – a gracious gift (see G1431 through G1435)
  • … I will give unto him that thirsts of the fountain of the water of life freely. (Rev 21:6)
  • … And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely. (Rev 22:17)
  • But unto every one of us is given grace according to the measure of the gift of Christ.  (Eph 4:7)
  • But not as the offence, so also is the free gift. For if through the offence of one many be dead, much more the grace of God, and the gift by grace, which is by one man, Jesus Christ, hath abounded unto many.  (Rom 5:15)
  • For if by one man’s offence death reigned by one; much more they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ.)  (Rom 5:17)
  • Forasmuch then as God gave them the like gift as he did unto us, who believed on the Lord Jesus Christ; what was I, that I could withstand God?  (Act 11:17)
  • And they of the circumcision which believed were astonished, as many as came with Peter, because that on the Gentiles also was poured out the gift of the Holy Ghost.  (Act 10:45)
  • But Peter said unto him, Thy money perish with thee, because thou hast thought that the gift of God may be purchased with money.  (Act 8:20)
  • Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.  (Act 2:38)
  • Jesus answered and said unto her, If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink; thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water.  (Joh 4:10)
  • Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out devils: freely ye have received, freely give.  (Mat 10:8)
  • Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:  (Rom 3:24)
  • Have I committed an offence in abasing myself that ye might be exalted, because I have preached to you the gospel of God freely?  (2Co 11:7)
  • According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue: Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust. (2Pe 1:3-4)
  • And not as it was by one that sinned, so is the gift: for the judgment was by one to condemnation, but the free gift is of many offences unto justification.  (Rom 5:16)
  • For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast. (Eph 2:8-9)

21:7 

He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son.

• Overcome – see Rev 2:11, 2:17, 2:25 notes
• Literally, to prevail / victory (33 occurrences – Greek: nikao – G3528, G3529, G3534)
  • 1 Cor 15:54-57, Mat 12:20, Luk 11:22; Joh 16:33; Rom 3:4; Rom 12:21; 1Jn 2:13; 1Jn 2:14; 1Jn 4:4; 1Jn 5:4; 1Jn 5:5; Rev 2:7; Rev 2:11; Rev 2:17; Rev 2:26; Rev 3:5; Rev 3:12; Rev 3:21; Rev 5:5; Rev 6:2; Rev 11:7; Rev 12:11; Rev 13:7; Rev 15:2; Rev 17:14; Rev 21:7
  • Rom 8:37 – more than conquerors
• Christ defeated Satan on cross – Heb 2:14
• A bruised reed shall he not break, and smoking flax shall he not quench, till he send forth judgment unto victory. (Mat 12:20)
• But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. (1Co 15:57)
• For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith. Who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God? (1Jn 5:4-5)
• And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death. (Rev 12:11)
• These shall make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome them: for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings: and they that are with him are called, and chosen, and faithful. (Rev 17:14)
• Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world. (1Jn 4:4)
• I write unto you, fathers, because ye have known him that is from the beginning. I write unto you, young men, because ye have overcome the wicked one. I write unto you, little children, because ye have known the Father. I have written unto you, fathers, because ye have known him that is from the beginning. I have written unto you, young men, because ye are strong, and the word of God abideth in you, and ye have overcome the wicked one. (1 Jn 2:13-14)
• If Satan also be divided against himself, how shall his kingdom stand? because ye say that I cast out devils through Beelzebub. And if I by Beelzebub cast out devils, by whom do your sons cast them out? therefore shall they be your judges. But if I with the finger of God cast out devils, no doubt the kingdom of God is come upon you. When a strong man armed keepeth his palace, his goods are in peace: But when a stronger than he shall come upon him, and overcome him, he taketh from him all his armour wherein he trusted, and divideth his spoils. (Luk 11:18-22, see also Mat 12:22-29)
• Bruised on head/subjection under feet – Heb 1:13, Heb 2:8-15, Heb 10:13, Acts 2:34=35, Mk 16:19, Mat 11:27, Mat 22:44, Mat 26:64, Mat 28:18, Ps 8:6, 110:1, Eph 1:22, 1 Cor 15:24-27, Rev 13:3, Rev 13:12-14
• Satan bound – Rev 20:1-3, Mat 12:22-29
• Satan no longer has access to Heaven/cast out – John 12:31, Lk 10:18, Rev 12:7-12
• Satan Judged – John 16:11w/ John 12:31
• Satan rendered powerless at the cross – Heb 2:14, 1 John 3:8
• More than conquerors – Ro 8:37

• Joint Heirs of eternal life ‑ Ro 8:16‑17, Col 3:24, Titus 3:7, Rev 21:7, Acts 20:32
• Points to salvation, eternal life in the new heavens and new earth
• Col 1: 1 2, 3:24, Eph 1:11,14,18,5:5, Gal 3:17‑,29, 4:7, Ro 4:13, 8:16‑17, Acts 20:32, James 2:5, Mat 21:38, Gen 15:3, Jer 49: 1, Mat 5:5, 19:29, 25:34, Heb 6:17, 9:15, 11:8, Acts 26:18, 1 Pet 1:4, Rev 21:7, Mk 12:7, Lk 10:25, 1 Cor 6:9,15:50, Titus 3:7
• Inherit all things – A full reward – see App G
• Be My Son – Ro 8:15-17, Heb 8:10, 1 John 3:1-3
• Inherit the Promised Land
  • And the LORD said unto Abram … Lift up now thine eyes … For all the land which you see, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed for ever. (Gen 13:14-15)
  • By faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which he should after receive for an inheritance, obeyed; and he went out, not knowing whither he went. By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as in a strange country, dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise: For he looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God. (Heb 11:8-10)
  • These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth. (Heb 11:13)
  • In the same day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates: The Kenites, and the Kenizzites, and the Kadmonites, And the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Rephaims, And the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Girgashites, and the Jebusites. (Gen 15:18-21)
  • For the promise, that he should be the heir of the world, was not to Abraham, or to his seed, through the law, but through the righteousness of faith. (Rom 4:13)
  • And the LORD appeared unto Abram, and said, Unto thy seed will I give this land: and there builded he an altar unto the LORD, who appeared unto him. (Gen 12:7)
  • And he said unto him, I am the LORD that brought thee out of Ur of the Chaldees, to give thee this land to inherit it. (Gen 15:7)
  • And I will give unto thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land wherein thou art a stranger, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be their God. (Gen 17:8)
  • Moses my servant is dead; now therefore arise, go over this Jordan, thou, and all this people, unto the land which I do give to them, even to the children of Israel. (Jos 1:2)

21:8 

• Fearful – Deut 20:8, Jud 7:3, Is 51:12, Is 57:11, Mat 8:26, 10:28, Lk 12:4-9
  • Fear not – See 1 Pet 5:7, Mat 6:25, 10:26‑31, Ps 23:4 (Christians do not need to fear ‑ Phil 4:6)
  • Fear of God’s face ‑ no man can see God and live ‑ Rev6:15‑16, Hab 1:13, John 1:18, Ex 33:20, John 6:46, Col 1:15, 1 Tim 6:16, 1 John 4:12
  • Heb: yare
  • Fear not – 2 Ki 25:24 (to be servants of the Chaldeans)
  • Fear not – Deut 1:21, 3:2,22, Is 41:5-13, 43:1-5, 51:7, 54:4-11, Ps 46:2, 56:4
  • Fear God – Ps 33:8, 34:9, 112:1
  • Gr: deilos (timid – 5 occ)
  • Mat 8:26, Mk 4:40 – in storm in sea
  • Rev 21:8 – fearful and unbelieving
  • John 14:27 – let your heart not be afraid
  • 2 Tim 1:7 – not characteristic of a believer
• Unbelieving – no faith – see Heb 11:6
  • Faith is a work – John 6:28‑29, Eph 2:8‑9, 1 John 3:23, 1 Thess 1:2‑3, 2 Thess 1:11, 2 Thess 1:8, Col 1:21‑23, 1 Pet 2:7‑8, 1:22 w/ Acts 15:9, Deut 30:8‑14, Ro 16:26
  • Faith involves confession ‑ Ro 10:9‑10, 1 John 4:2‑3,15, 2 John 7, Heb 11;13, John 9:22, 12:42, Lk 12:8, Mat 10:32, Heb 3:1, 4:14, 10:213, 2 Cor 9:13, 1 Tim 2:10, 6:12‑13
  • Faith involves a relationship that produces work ‑ James 2:17‑22, 1 John 3:4‑6, Heb 5:9, 11:8‑9, Titus 1:15‑16, Lk 16:16
  • Faith of Christ Gal 2:16, see also Gal 3:2,5,7, Gal 2:20, Phil 3:9, Ro 3:22, Ro 1:17, Rev 2:13, 14:12
  • Christ is the faithful one ‑ Rev 1:5, 3:14, 1:9, 19:11 (name is Faithful), Heb 10:23, 1 Cor 1:9, 10:13, 1 Thess 5:24, 1 John 1:9, Is 49:7
  • God’s words are faithful and true – Rev 21:5, 22:6
  • Faith – Lit: belief ‑ that by which we are saved ‑ Eph 2:9‑10, Titus 3:5‑7, Gal 2:16‑20, Phil 3:9
  • Shield of faith ‑ Eph 6:16, Lord is shield ‑ Ps 59:11
  • Faith can grow:
    • As a mustard seed – Mat 17:20, Lk 17:6
    • Great faith – Mat 8:10, 15:28, Lk 7:9
    • Increase faith – Lk 17:5
    • Strong in faith – Ro 4:20
    • Add to faith – 2 Pet 1:5
    • Faith, love and hope – 1 Cor 13:13
    • All faith – 1 Cor 13:2
    • Gift of faith – 1 Cor 12:9
    • Measure of faith – Ro 12:3
    • Faith w/out works is dead – James 2:17,26
  • Faith given by God
    • 2 Pet 1:1, Eph 2:8‑9, Phil 1:29, 1 Cor 7:25, James 2:1, John 6:65, John 3:27, 1 Cor 4:7, Heb 12:2, 1 Tim 1:14, Acts 3:16
    • Abominable – see Rev 17:4-5 notes
    • In the Old Testament, the word for abomination is used about 160 times (Hebrew words – H8441, H8581, H8251), with about 50 of these occurrences being in the book of Ezekiel (which involved Judah’s captivity in Babylon). The following are Old Testament abominations:
  • Sexual sins – Lev 18:22-30, Deut 22:5
  • Mysticism / occult (e.g., new age philosophies) – Deut 18:9-12, 2 Chr 33:6-7
  • Child sacrifice to other gods – Deut 18:10, 2 Ki 16:3, 2 Chr 28:3, 2 Chr 33:6
  • Greediness – Col 3:5
  • Worshiping and sacrificing to other gods and idols – Deut 20:18, Deut 32:16-17, 2 Ki 23:13 (Ashtoreth, Chemosh, Milcom), Deut 17:4 (sun, moon and stars), 2 Ki 21;11-12, 2 Chr 33:1-7, Deut 27:15, 2 Chr 28:3, 2 Chr 33:8 (Baal), 2 Chr 33:3 (stars), Eze 6:9 (Cannanite gods), 1 Ki 14:23-24, 2 Chr 28:3 (Sodomites), Jer 7:9-11 (Baal, etc.), Ps 26:25, Eze 5:11, Ezekiel chapters 7 and 8, Eze 11: 18, 21, Eze 37:23, Ezekiel 16 (Israel’s harlotry), Zech 9:7, Nah 3:6, Hos 9:10, Jer 4:1, Jer 7:30, Jer 13:27, Jer 32:34, Jer 16:18, 1 Ki 11:5, 1 Ki 11:7, Dan 9:27, Dan 11:31, Dan 12:11), Eze 20:7-8, Eze 20:30 (Egypt), Is 66:3, Deut 29:17, 2 Ki 23:24, etc.
    • Murderers – see Rev 6:3-4, Rev 22:15 notes
    • Whoremongers – see Rev 13:4, Rev 22:15 notes
    • Sorcerers – see notes on Rev 22:15 below – also Rev 9:21, Rev 18:23
    • Idolaty – See Rev 22;15 notes below, 1 Cor 10:20-21
    • Liars – see Rev 22:15 notes, Rev 2:2 notes, Pr 19:5-9, Is 9:15, John 8:44, 2 Thess 2:9, 1 Tim 4:2, 1 John 2:22
    • Lake which burns with fire and brimstone – see Rev 20:14
      • Fire and brimstone – see Rev 20:10, 19:20, 14:10, 9:17-18 notes

Heavenly Jerusalem (Rev 21:9-27)

 

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 shew thee the bride, the Lamb’s wife.  (Rev 21:9)

And he carried me away in the spirit to a great and high mountain, and shewed me that great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God,  (Rev 21:10)

Having the glory of God: and her light was like unto a stone most precious, even like a jasper stone, clear as crystal;  (Rev 21:11)

And had a wall great and high, and had twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels, and names written thereon, which are the names of the twelve tribes of the children of Israel:  (Rev 21:12)

On the east three gates; on the north three gates; on the south three gates; and on the west three gates.  (Rev 21:13)

And the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and in them the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.  (Rev 21:14)

And he that talked with me had a golden reed to measure the city, and the gates thereof, and the wall thereof.  (Rev 21:15)

And the city lieth foursquare, and the length is as large as the breadth: and he measured the city with the reed, twelve thousand furlongs. The length and the breadth and the height of it are equal.  (Rev 21:16)

And he measured the wall thereof, an hundred and forty and four cubits, according to the measure of a man, that is, of the angel.  (Rev 21:17)

And the building of the wall of it was of jasper: and the city was pure gold, like unto clear glass.  (Rev 21:18)

And the foundations of the wall of the city were garnished with all manner of precious stones. The first foundation was jasper; the second, sapphire; the third, a chalcedony; the fourth, an emerald;  (Rev 21:19)

The fifth, sardonyx; the sixth, sardius; the seventh, chrysolite; the eighth, beryl; the ninth, a topaz; the tenth, a chrysoprasus; the eleventh, a jacinth; the twelfth, an amethyst.  (Rev 21:20)

And the twelve gates were twelve pearls; every several gate was of one pearl: and the street of the city was pure gold, as it were transparent glass.  (Rev 21:21)

And I saw no temple therein: for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple of it.  (Rev 21:22)

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.  (Rev 21:23)

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.  (Rev 21:24)

And the gates of it shall not be shut at all by day: for there shall be no night there.  (Rev 21:25)

And they shall bring the glory and honour of the nations into it.  (Rev 21:26)

And there shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defileth, neither whatsoever worketh abomination, or maketh a lie: but they which are written in the Lamb’s book of life.  (Rev 21:27)

 

21:9-11  Bride’s Wife, Great Holy City, Glory of God

 

21:9

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 shew thee the bride, the Lamb’s wife.

• Seven angels, vials, plagues – see Rev 15-16 – Those that brought message of judgment
• 7 perfection of God’s purpose
• Bride – see Rev 18:23, Rev 21:2 notes
• Lamb – New Testament
  • Sheep – G4263, Gr: probaton – 41 occurrences
    • Acts 8:32 – Christ as a sheep led to the slaughter (see also G286)
    • John 2:14-15 – sheep sold in the temple
    • Rev 18:13 – part of merchandise of Babylon
    • 37 occurrences – refer to Christians – Mat 9:36, Mat 10:6, Mat 10:16, Mat 12:11-12 (2), Mat 15:24, Mat 18:12, Mat 25:32-33 (2), Mat 26:31, Mar 6:34, Mar 14:27, Luk 15:4, Luk 15:6,  Joh 10:1-4 (6), Joh 10:7-8 (2), Joh 10:11-13 (5), Joh 10:15-16 (2), Joh 10:26-27 (2), Joh 21:16-17 (2), Rom 8:36, Heb 13:20, 1Pe 2:25, Rev 18:13, Mat 7:15
  • Lamb – G286, Gr: amnos – 4 occurrences (all refer to Christ)
    • John 1:29, John 1:36 – Behold, the Lamb of God
    • Acts 8:32 – As a lamb, dumb before his shearer (see also G4263)
    • 1 Pet 1:19 – Christ, a Lamb without spot or blemish
  • Small Lamb – G721, Gr: arnion – 30 occurrences
    • 28 occurrences in Revelation as Jesus Christ – Rev 5:6, Rev 5:8, Rev 5:12-13 (2), Rev 6:1, Rev 6:16, Rev 7:9-10 (2), Rev 7:14, Rev 7:17, Rev 12:11, Rev 13:8, Rev 14:1, Rev 14:4 (2), Rev 14:10, Rev 15:3, Rev 17:14 (2), Rev 19:7, Rev 19:9, Rev 21:9, Rev 21:14, Rev 21:22-23 (2), Rev 21:27, Rev 22:1, Rev 22:3
    • 1 occurrence in Revelation as the False Prophet – Rev 13:11
    • 1 occurrence in John 21:15 – refers to Christians
  • Goat –G5131, Gr: tragos – 4 occurrences
    • Sacrifices – Heb 9:12-13, Heb 9:19, Heb 10:4
  • Goat (hairy) – G0255 / G0256, Gr: eriphion / eriphos
    • Mat 25:32-33 – Goats as compared to sheep
    • Lk 15:29 – given at the return of the prodigal son
  • Lamb – Old Testament
    • Lamb H3532, Heb: kebes, literally lamb or sheep – 107 occurrences
      • Sacrifice of the 1^st year – Num
    • Young goat or sheep (Kid / lamb) – H7716, Heb: seh, literally, a member of a flock – 47 occurrences
      • Isa 57:3 – quoted in Acts 8:32, lamb for the slaughter
    • Flock of sheep or goats – H6629, Heb: tson, literally a flock of cattle, sheep or goats – 274 occurrences
      • Passover
    • Lamb (small sheep) – H3775 / H3776, Heb: keseb – 3 occurrences
    • Lamb – H2924 / H2922, Heb: tela, taleh – 3 occurrences
    • Ram – H3733, Heb: kar – a ram – 16 occurrences
    • Ewes – H7353, Heb: Rachel – 4 occurrences – Is 53:7
    • Goats:
      • Goat – H5795 (kid) / H5796, He-goat – H6842, Goat – H6260, Goat – H8163, He-goat H8495
    • Lamb – points to sacrifice – Rev 5:9, Rev 5:12, Rev 6:16, Rev 7:9-17, Rev 12:11, Rev 13:8, rev 17:14, Rev 21:23, Rev 22:1-3, Is 53:7-8, John 1:29, John 1:36, Acts 8:32, 1 Pet 1:19-20

Wife – see 19:7 notes

21:10

And he carried me away in the spirit to a great and high mountain, and shewed me that great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God,

• In the Spirit – see Rev 1:10 notes – how we receive the Word of God
  • In the Spirit is how we receive Word of God – 1 Pet 1:10-12, 2 Pet 1:19-21, 2 Tim 3:16, John 14:26, Eph 5:18 w/ Col 3:16. We cannot receive the truth of God’s Word unless it is taught to us by the Holy Spirit (John 14:26, 15:26, 1 John 2:20-27). Flesh and Blood does not reveal truth to us (Mat 16:17, Gal 1:16). In fact, the flesh is opposed to the Spirit (Ro 8:1-9, Gal 6:8). If we are to hear God’s Word, we must be in the Spirit.
• Great and high mountain

• • Heavenly Salvation
    • But ye are come unto mount Zion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels,  (Heb 12:22)
    • Wherefore also it is contained in the scripture, Behold, I lay in Zion a chief corner stone, elect, precious: and he that believeth on him shall not be confounded.  (1Pe 2:6)
    • Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ (Eph 1:3)
    • And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus (Eph 2:6)
  • God’s holy mountain
    • New Jerusalem – city of God (Heb 12:22) – organization
    • Mountains point to kingdoms – Rev 17:9-10, Dan 2:35-2:44
    • Mount Zion – kingdom of God
    • Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion.  (Psa 2:6)
    • The LORD shall reign for ever, even thy God, O Zion, unto all generations. Praise ye the LORD.  (Psa 146:10)
    • The LORD shall send the rod of thy strength out of Zion: rule thou in the midst of thine enemies.  (Psa 110:2)
    • Let Israel rejoice in him that made him: let the children of Zion be joyful in their King.  (Psa 149:2)

• Represents kingdoms / cities – Dan 2:35 with Dan 2:44, Rev 17:9‑10, Is 2:2, 13:4, Rev 6:14‑16, Micah 4:1‑8, esp v. 8, Zech 4:7, Is 2:14, Is 2:2, etc.
• God’s kingdom ‑ Ex 19:23, Is 11:19, Ps 43:3, Is 24:23,27:13, 56:7, 66:20, Is 2:1‑4, Micah 4:1‑3, Is 30:29, 65:11,25, Heb 12:22, Dan 2:35,
• God’s mountain chief of mountains ‑ Ps 68:16, IS 2:1‑5, Micah 4:1
• Babylon ‑ a destroying kingdom ‑ Jer 51:25, burning ‑ Rev 8:8, 51:25
• Moved mountain ‑ judgement day ‑ Rev 16:20, Is 2:12‑17,  54:10, 64:3, Jer 3:23, 4:23‑26, Hab 3:6,10, Nah 1:5, Eze 38:10
• Mountains melt at second coming ‑ Micah 1:4, Ps 97:5, Nah 1:5
• Move mountain by faith ‑ Mat 17:20, 21:21, Mk 11:23, Lk 3:5, 23:30, 1Cor 13:2
• Mountains ‑ where our help comes from ‑ Ps 121;1
• A place of righteousness and spiritual refuge ‑ Ps 87:1, 133:1, 2 Pet 1:18, Ez 6:2‑3, Is 2:2‑3, Heb 8:5, 12:18‑22, Gal 4:24‑25, Is 49;11, Acts 1:12, 7:30, 38, John 4:20‑21, 6:3,15, Joel 3;18, Ps 36;6, 76:4

• Great and high mountain – see Rev 14:1 notes (Mt. Zion – kingdom of heaven)
• Great city, holy Jerusalem – see Rev 21:2 notes above, Rev 3:14, Rev 11:2-4 notes
  • Descending from God – Everything is due to God

21:11

Having the glory of God: and her light was like unto a stone most precious, even like a jasper stone, clear as crystal;

• Glory of God – see Rev 1:6, 4:9 notes
• Glory (due to who He is) – Ro 11:36, Lk 2:14, Ro 1:23, 2 Cor 1:20, Is 6:3, Ex 33:18-22, etc.
• Her light – see Rev 1:16 notes
  • G5458 – Gr: phoster (‘lighter’) – given off light
  • Only other occurrence:
    • That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world;  (Php 2:15)
  • Stone most precious – see Rev 17:4, Rev 18:16 notes
    • The blood of Christ is precious (1 Pet 1:19)
    • Christian faith (1 Pet 1:7, 2 Pet 1:1)
    • Fruit (James 5:7) is considered precious.
    • God’s promises (2 Pet 1:4)
    • God’s wisdom are precious (Job 28:16, Pr 3:15).
    • Christ is precious (1 Pet 2:4-6).
    • Those who are the chosen of God are precious (Ex 19:5, Deut 14:2, Deut 26:18, Ps 135:4, Ecc 2:8, 1 Pet 2:9).
    • Christians are precious and they are referred to building stones in the house of God (1 Cor 3:12, 1 Pet 2:4-8, Lk 3:8, 19:40, 21:5-6, Mk 13:1-2, Lam 4:2, James 5:7).
  • Word of God is precious:
    • The law of the LORD is perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of the LORD is sure, making wise the simple. The statutes of the LORD are right, rejoicing the heart: the commandment of the LORD is pure, enlightening the eyes. The fear of the LORD is clean, enduring for ever: the judgments of the LORD are true and righteous altogether. More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold: sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb. (Psa 19:7-10)
    • The law of thy mouth is better unto me than thousands of gold and silver. (Psa 119:72)
    • Receive my instruction, and not silver; and knowledge rather than choice gold. For wisdom is better than rubies; and all the things that may be desired are not to be compared to it. (Pro 8:10-11)
    • How much better is it to get wisdom than gold! and to get understanding rather to be chosen than silver! (Pro 16:16)
    • Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding. For the merchandise of it is better than the merchandise of silver, and the gain thereof than fine gold. She is more precious than rubies: and all the things thou canst desire are not to be compared unto her. (Pro 3:13-15)
    • There is gold, and a multitude of rubies: but the lips of knowledge are a precious jewel. (Pro 20:15)
    • It cannot be gotten for gold, neither shall silver be weighed for the price thereof. It cannot be valued with the gold of Ophir, with the precious onyx, or the sapphire. The gold and the crystal cannot equal it: and the exchange of it shall not be for jewels of fine gold. No mention shall be made of coral, or of pearls: for the price of wisdom is above rubies. (Job 28:15-18)
  • Jasper stone – the knowledge of the glory of God (2 Cor 4:6)
    • Throne of God – Rev 4:3
    • Jasper – opaque quartz – polished
      • New Testament (G2393) – Rev 21:11 (glory), Rev 21:18-19 (walls of salvation)
      • New Jerusalem – Having the glory of God: and her light was like unto a stone most precious, even like a jasper stone, clear as crystal – (Rev 21:11) – clear as crystal – see Rev 22:1 (only other occurrence of crystal) – points to the river of the water of life. Job 28:17 (crystal) refers to great value compared to the greater value of wisdom
      • Walls of New Jerusalem – jasper – Rev 21:18
      • 1^st stone in foundation – Rev 21:19
      • Old Testament (H3471) – Eze 28:13 (precious stone covering Satan in Garden of Eden), Ex 28:20 (4^th stone in Aaron’s breastplate – Ex 39:13)
    • Clear – not in Greek text
      • Crystal – see 4:6 (perfectly still, calm – peace)
    • Crystal (Gr: krustallo, literally – ice, G2929/G2930 – 3 occurrences – Rev 4:6, Rev 21:11, Rev 22:1)
      • Rev 21:11 – New Jerusalem – Having the glory of God: and her light was like unto a stone most precious, even like a jasper stone, clear as crystal
      • Rev 22:1 – And he shewed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb.
      • Ice – Old Testament Hebrew: qerach (H7140 – 7 occurrences, literally – ice)
        • Eze 1:22 – firmament over the heads of 4 cherubim
        • Ps 147:17-18 – ice melted by God’s word
        • Job 37:10 – ice created by the breath of God, straightening the waters
        • Job 38:29 – ice is the hoary frost of heaven that covers
        • See also Job 6:16, Gen 31:40, Jer 36:30
      • Pure Stone – Job 28:17 (H2137, see cognates H2134, H2135, H2136 below)
        • Job 28:17 – crystal (clear stone) compared to wisdom (H2137, only occurrence)
        • H2134 (Heb: zak, Literally, pure) – 27:20, Exo 30:34, Lev. 24:2, Lev 24:7, Job 8:6, Job 11:4, Job 16:17, Job 33:9, Pr 16:2, Pr 20:11, Pr 21:8.
        • H2135 – Job 15:14, Job 25:4, Ps 51:4, Ps 73:13, Ps 119:9, Pr 20:9, Is 1:16, Mic 6:11.
        • H 2136 – Dan 6:22

21:12a   Wall Great and High

21a

And had a wall great and high, and had twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels, and names written thereon, which are the names of the twelve tribes of the children of Israel:

• Wall – protection (salvation of God or false gospel of man’s self-protection)
• Wall – New Testament
  • Gr: teichos (G5038) – 9 occurrences and Gr: toichos (G5109) – 1 occurrence (Acts 23:3)
  • 6 Places in Rev 21 – Rev 21:12, Rev 21:14, Rev 21:15, Rev 21:17, Rev 21:18, Rev 21:19
  • Paul let down ‘through’ the wall of Damascus – Acts 9:25, 2 Cor 11:33
  • Walls of Jericho fell down – Heb 11:30
• Wall – Old Testament
  • H2346 – Heb: chomah – wall for protection
    • Exo 14:22, Exo 14:29, Lev 25:29, Lev 25:30, Lev 25:31, Deu 3:5, Deu 28:52, Jos 2:15, Jos 6:5, Jos 6:20, 1Sa 25:16, 1Sa 31:10, 1Sa 31:12, 2Sa 11:20, 2Sa 11:21, 2Sa 11:24, 2Sa 18:24, 2Sa 20:15, 2Sa 20:21, 1Ki 3:1, 1Ki 4:13, 1Ki 9:15, 1Ki 20:30, 2Ki 3:27, 2Ki 6:26, 2Ki 6:30, 2Ki 14:13, 2Ki 18:26, 2Ki 18:27, 2Ki 25:4, 2Ki 25:10, 2Ch 8:5, 2Ch 14:7, 2Ch 25:23, 2Ch 26:6, 2Ch 27:3, 2Ch 32:5, 2Ch 32:18, 2Ch 33:14, 2Ch 36:19, Neh 1:3, Neh 2:8, Neh 2:13, Neh 2:15, Neh 2:17, Neh 3:8, Neh 3:13, Neh 3:15, Neh 3:27, Neh 4:1, Neh 4:3, Neh 4:6, Neh 4:7, Neh 4:10, Neh 4:13, Neh 4:15, Neh 4:17, Neh 4:19, Neh 5:16, Neh 6:1, Neh 6:6, Neh 6:15, Neh 7:1, Neh 12:27, Neh 12:30, Neh 12:31, Neh 12:37, Neh 12:38, Neh 13:21, Psa 51:18, Psa 55:10, Pro 18:11, Pro 25:28, Son 5:7, Son 8:9, Son 8:10, Isa 2:15, Isa 22:10, Isa 22:11, Isa 25:12, Isa 26:1, Isa 30:13, Isa 36:11, Isa 36:12, Isa 49:16, Isa 56:5, Isa 60:10, Isa 60:18, Isa 62:6, Jer 1:15, Jer 1:18, Jer 15:20, Jer 21:4, Jer 39:4, Jer 39:8, Jer 49:27, Jer 50:15, Jer 51:12, Jer 51:44, Jer 51:58, Jer 52:7, Jer 52:14, Lam 2:7, Lam 2:8, Lam 2:18, Eze 26:4, Eze 26:9, Eze 26:10, Eze 26:12, Eze 27:11, Eze 38:11, Eze 38:20, Eze 40:5, Eze 42:20, Joe 2:7, Joe 2:9, Amo 1:7, Amo 1:10, Amo 1:14, Amo 7:7, Nah 2:5, Nah 3:8, Zec 2:5.
  • H7023 – Heb: qiyrah – a wall built in a trench (small – e.g., side of altar, wall in house, etc.)
    • Exo 30:3, Exo 37:26, Lev 1:15, Lev 5:9, Lev 14:37, Lev 14:39, Num 22:25, Num 35:4, Jos 2:15, 1Sa 18:11, 1Sa 19:10, 1Sa 20:25, 1Sa 25:22, 1Sa 25:34, 2Sa 5:11, 1Ki 4:33, 1Ki 6:5, 1Ki 6:6, 1Ki 6:15, 1Ki 6:16, 1Ki 6:27, 1Ki 6:29, 1Ki 14:10, 1Ki 16:11, 1Ki 21:21, 2Ki 4:10, 2Ki 9:8, 2Ki 9:33, 2Ki 20:2, 1Ch 14:1, 1Ch 29:4, 2Ch 3:7, 2Ch 3:11, 2Ch 3:12, Psa 62:3, Isa 22:5, Isa 25:4, Isa 38:2, Isa 59:10, Jer 4:19, Eze 4:3, Eze 8:7, Eze 8:8, Eze 8:10, Eze 12:5, Eze 12:7, Eze 12:12, Eze 13:12, Eze 13:14, Eze 13:15, Eze 23:14, Eze 33:30, Eze 41:5, Eze 41:6, Eze 41:9, Eze 41:12, Eze 41:13, Eze 41:17, Eze 41:20, Eze 41:22, Eze 41:25, Eze 43:8, Amo 5:19, Hab 2:11.
  • Walls called salvation – Is 26:1, Isa 60:10, Isa 60:18
    • Walls of salvation – Is 26:1, Is 60:18
    • Peace be within thy walls, and prosperity within thy palaces.  (Psa 122:7)
    • Build the walls of Jerusalem – Ps 51:18
    • Is 49:16 – thy walls are ever before me
    • God will be a wall for His people – Zech 2:5
    • Given a name within my walls – Is 56:5
    • Build thy walls – Isa 60:10
    • The watchman on the walls of Jerusalem will never hold their peace – Isa 62:6
    • God’s people are like a fenced brazen wall – Jer 15:20
    • Jeremiah as a defensed city with brazen walls – Jer 1:18, Jer 15:20
    • Tears run down face of the wall of Jerusalem – Lam 2:18
    • Restored temple – Eze 40:5, Eze 42:20
    • For I, saith the LORD, will be unto her a wall of fire round about, and will be the glory in the midst of her. (Zec 2:5)
  • That which protects the city –  Isa 25:12, Heb 11:30, Jer 1:15-18, Isa 2:15, Isa 22:10-11
  • Great and high
    • High walls – see Isa 25:12, Is 30:13
    • Rich man’s high walls of conceit – Pr 18:11
    • High walls to come down – curse on Israel (false salvation) – Deut 28:52
    • High walls of Og, king of Bashan fell – Deut 3:5
  • Most high God
    • The LORD on high is mightier than the noise of many waters, yea, than the mighty waves of the sea. (Psa 93:4)
    • But thou, LORD, art most high for evermore. (Psa 92:8)
    • For thou, LORD, art high above all the earth: thou art exalted far above all gods. (Psa 97:9)
    • The LORD is great in Zion; and he is high above all the people. (Psa 99:2)
    • The LORD is high above all nations, and his glory above the heavens. (Psa 113:4)
  • Great salvation
    • How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation; which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by them that heard him (Heb 2:3)
  • Walled city
    • And if a man sell a dwelling house in a walled city, then he may redeem it within a whole year after it is sold; within a full year may he redeem it. (Lev 25:29)
    • Nevertheless the people be strong that dwell in the land, and the cities are walled, and very great: and moreover we saw the children of Anak there. (Num 13:28)
    • And the suburbs of the cities, which ye shall give unto the Levites, shall reach from the wall of the city and outward a thousand cubits round about. (Num 35:4)
    • Whither shall we go up? our brethren have discouraged our heart, saying, The people is greater and taller than we; the cities are great and walled up to heaven; and moreover we have seen the sons of the Anakims there. (Deu 1:28)
    • All these cities were fenced with high walls, gates, and bars; beside unwalled towns a great many. (Deu 3:5)
    • The son of Geber, in Ramothgilead; to him pertained the towns of Jair the son of Manasseh, which are in Gilead; to him also pertained the region of Argob, which is in Bashan, threescore great cities with walls and brasen bars: (1Ki 4:13)
    • Also he built Bethhoron the upper, and Bethhoron the nether, fenced cities, with walls, gates, and bars; (2Ch 8:5)
    • Therefore he said unto Judah, Let us build these cities, and make about them walls, and towers, gates, and bars, while the land is yet before us; because we have sought the LORD our God, we have sought him, and he hath given us rest on every side. So they built and prospered. (2Ch 14:7)
    • And he went forth and warred against the Philistines, and brake down the wall of Gath, and the wall of Jabneh, and the wall of Ashdod, and built cities about Ashdod, and among the Philistines. (2Ch 26:6)
    • Now after this he built a wall without the city of David, on the west side of Gihon, in the valley, even to the entering in at the fish gate, and compassed about Ophel, and raised it up a very great height, and put captains of war in all the fenced cities of Judah. (2Ch 33:14)
    • For, lo, I will call all the families of the kingdoms of the north, saith the LORD; and they shall come, and they shall set every one his throne at the entering of the gates of Jerusalem, and against all the walls thereof round about, and against all the cities of Judah. (Jer 1:15)
    • And if it be not redeemed within the space of a full year, then the house that is in the walled city shall be established for ever to him that bought it throughout his generations: it shall not go out in the jubile. (Lev 25:30)
    • And the suburbs of the cities, which ye shall give unto the Levites, shall reach from the wall of the city and outward a thousand cubits round about. (Num 35:4)
    • And it shall come to pass, that when they make a long blast with the ram’s horn, and when ye hear the sound of the trumpet, all the people shall shout with a great shout; and the wall of the city shall fall down flat, and the people shall ascend up every man straight before him. (Jos 6:5)
    • So the people shouted when the priests blew with the trumpets: and it came to pass, when the people heard the sound of the trumpet, and the people shouted with a great shout, that the wall fell down flat, so that the people went up into the city, every man straight before him, and they took the city. (Jos 6:20)
    • And if so be that the king’s wrath arise, and he say unto thee, Wherefore approached ye so nigh unto the city when ye did fight? knew ye not that they would shoot from the wall? (2Sa 11:20)
    • And they came and besieged him in Abel of Bethmaachah, and they cast up a bank against the city, and it stood in the trench: and all the people that were with Joab battered the wall, to throw it down. (2Sa 20:15)
    • The matter is not so: but a man of mount Ephraim, Sheba the son of Bichri by name, hath lifted up his hand against the king, even against David: deliver him only, and I will depart from the city. And the woman said unto Joab, Behold, his head shall be thrown to thee over the wall. (2Sa 20:21)
    • And Solomon made affinity with Pharaoh king of Egypt, and took Pharaoh’s daughter, and brought her into the city of David, until he had made an end of building his own house, and the house of the LORD, and the wall of Jerusalem round about. (1Ki 3:1)
    • But the rest fled to Aphek, into the city; and there a wall fell upon twenty and seven thousand of the men that were left. And Benhadad fled, and came into the city, into an inner chamber. (1Ki 20:30)
    • And the city was broken up, and all the men of war fled by night by the way of the gate between two walls, which is by the king’s garden: (now the Chaldees were against the city round about:) and the king went the way toward the plain. (2Ki 25:4)
    • Also he strengthened himself, and built up all the wall that was broken, and raised it up to the towers, and another wall without, and repaired Millo in the city of David, and made darts and shields in abundance. (2Ch 32:5)
    • Then they cried with a loud voice in the Jews’ speech unto the people of Jerusalem that were on the wall, to affright them, and to trouble them; that they might take the city. (2Ch 32:18)
    • Now after this he built a wall without the city of David, on the west side of Gihon, in the valley, even to the entering in at the fish gate, and compassed about Ophel, and raised it up a very great height, and put captains of war in all the fenced cities of Judah. (2Ch 33:14)
    • Be it known unto the king, that the Jews which came up from thee to us are come unto Jerusalem, building the rebellious and the bad city, and have set up the walls thereof, and joined the foundations. (Ezr 4:12)
    • Be it known now unto the king, that, if this city be builded, and the walls set up again, then will they not pay toll, tribute, and custom, and so thou shalt endamage the revenue of the kings. (Ezr 4:13)
    • We certify the king that, if this city be builded again, and the walls thereof set up, by this means thou shalt have no portion on this side the river. (Ezr 4:16)
    • And a letter unto Asaph the keeper of the king’s forest, that he may give me timber to make beams for the gates of the palace which appertained to the house, and for the wall of the city, and for the house that I shall enter into. And the king granted me, according to the good hand of my God upon me. (Neh 2:8)
    • But the gate of the fountain repaired Shallun the son of Colhozeh, the ruler of part of Mizpah; he built it, and covered it, and set up the doors thereof, the locks thereof, and the bars thereof, and the wall of the pool of Siloah by the king’s garden, and unto the stairs that go down from the city of David. (Neh 3:15)
    • And at the fountain gate, which was over against them, they went up by the stairs of the city of David, at the going up of the wall, above the house of David, even unto the water gate eastward. (Neh 12:37)
    • The rich man’s wealth is his strong city, and as an high wall in his own conceit. (Pro 18:11)
    • He that hath no rule over his own spirit is like a city that is broken down, and without walls. (Pro 25:28)
    • The watchmen that went about the city found me, they smote me, they wounded me; the keepers of the walls took away my veil from me. (Son 5:7)
    • In that day shall this song be sung in the land of Judah; We have a strong city; salvation will God appoint for walls and bulwarks. (Isa 26:1)
    • For, behold, I have made thee this day a defenced city, and an iron pillar, and brasen walls against the whole land, against the kings of Judah, against the princes thereof, against the priests thereof, and against the people of the land. (Jer 1:18)
    • Thus saith the LORD God of Israel; Behold, I will turn back the weapons of war that are in your hands, wherewith ye fight against the king of Babylon, and against the Chaldeans, which besiege you without the walls, and I will assemble them into the midst of this city. (Jer 21:4)
    • And it came to pass, that when Zedekiah the king of Judah saw them, and all the men of war, then they fled, and went forth out of the city by night, by the way of the king’s garden, by the gate betwixt the two walls: and he went out the way of the plain. (Jer 39:4)
    • Then the city was broken up, and all the men of war fled, and went forth out of the city by night by the way of the gate between the two walls, which was by the king’s garden; (now the Chaldeans were by the city round about:) and they went by the way of the plain. (Jer 52:7)
    • Moreover take thou unto thee an iron pan, and set it for a wall of iron between thee and the city: and set thy face against it, and it shall be besieged, and thou shalt lay siege against it. This shall be a sign to the house of Israel. (Eze 4:3)
    • By reason of the abundance of his horses their dust shall cover thee: thy walls shall shake at the noise of the horsemen, and of the wheels, and of the chariots, when he shall enter into thy gates, as men enter into a city wherein is made a breach. (Eze 26:10)
    • They shall run to and fro in the city; they shall run upon the wall, they shall climb up upon the houses; they shall enter in at the windows like a thief. (Joe 2:9)
    • And the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and in them the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb. (Rev 21:14)
    • And he that talked with me had a golden reed to measure the city, and the gates thereof, and the wall thereof. (Rev 21:15)
    • And the building of the wall of it was of jasper: and the city was pure gold, like unto clear glass. (Rev 21:18)
    • And the foundations of the wall of the city were garnished with all manner of precious stones. The first foundation was jasper; the second, sapphire; the third, a chalcedony; the fourth, an emerald; (Rev 21:19)
  • Unwalled cities (H6518 through H6522, Perizzites) – place of peace and safety
    • All these cities were fenced with high walls, gates, and bars; beside unwalled towns a great many.  (Deu 3:5)
    • And said unto him, Run, speak to this young man, saying, Jerusalem shall be inhabited as towns without walls for the multitude of men and cattle therein:  (Zec 2:4)
    • And thou shalt say, I will go up to the land of unwalled villages; I will go to them that are at rest, that dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates,  (Eze 38:11)
    • They that are delivered from the noise of archers in the places of drawing water, there shall they rehearse the righteous acts of the LORD, even the righteous acts toward the inhabitants of his villages in Israel: then shall the people of the LORD go down to the gates.  (Jdg 5:11)
  • Break down walls (fire / climb) – Judgment Day
    • Is 25:12 – high fort of the walls will be brought down to dust
    • Tyre – Eze 26:4, Eze 26:9-12, Eze 27:11, Amos 1:10
    • Against Jerusalem / Israel – Jer 1:15, Deut 28:52, Jer 52:7, 2 Ki 25:4, 2Ki 25:4, 2Ki 25:10, 2Ch 36:19, Jer 39:8, Jer 52:7, Jer 52:14, Lam 2:7-8
    • Kindle a fire in the walls of Damascus – Jer 49:27
    • Babylon’s walls are thrown down – Jer 50:15, Jer 51:12, Jer 51:44, Jer 51:58
    • Against God, of the land of Magog – Eze 38:11, Eze 38:20
    • Climb the walls on Judgment day – Joel 2:7, Joel 2:9
    • Fire on the wall of Gaza – Amos 1:7
    • Rabbah – Amos 1:14
    • Amos 7:7-8 – Judgment (plumbline)
    • Nineveh – Nahum 2:5, Nahum 3:8
  • Cities without walls – place of safety and rest – Eze 38:11
    • He who has no control over his spirit is like a city without walls – Pr 25:28
  • Iniquity as a swelling in a high wall ready to break down – Is 30:13, Ps 62:3
  • False assurance of salvation – wall with un-tempered mortar (false prophets) to be broken down – Eze 13:10-15, Deut 28:52

21:12b-13   12 Gates of the City – Names of 12 Tribes

And had a wall great and high, and had twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels, and names written thereon, which are the names of the twelve tribes of the children of Israel:

On the east three gates; on the north three gates; on the south three gates; and on the west three gates.

• Parallel passage in Eze 48:30-35
  • And these are the goings out of the city on the north side, four thousand and five hundred measures. And the gates of the city shall be after the names of the tribes of Israel: three gates northward; one gate of Reuben, one gate of Judah, one gate of Levi. And at the east side four thousand and five hundred: and three gates; and one gate of Joseph, one gate of Benjamin, one gate of Dan. And at the south side four thousand and five hundred measures: and three gates; one gate of Simeon, one gate of Issachar, one gate of Zebulun. At the west side four thousand and five hundred, with their three gates; one gate of Gad, one gate of Asher, one gate of Naphtali. It was round about eighteen thousand measures: and the name of the city from that day shall be, The LORD is there. (Eze 48:30-35)
• 12 Represents the government of the work of the church of God as a pillar for sending forth truth
• 12 Patriarchs / 12 tribes of Old Testament Israel, which was the church in the wilderness (Acts 7:38)
  • Israel is a type of the church (God’s People) – church in the wilderness – Acts 7:38
  • 12 Tribes of Israel – Acts 7:8-9, Gen 49:28, Ex 24:4, Ex 24:21, 39:14, Num 1:44
  • 12 Sons of Jacob – Gen 35:22, Gen 42:13, Gen 42:32
  • Jacob begat the 12 patriarchs – Acts 7:8
  • Paul, before King Agrippa, refers to the 12 tribes of Israel as the fathers who were to receive the promise – Acts 26:7
  • James to the 12 tribes scattered abroad – James 1:1
  • Rev 7:5-8 – 12 tribes of Israel each have 12,000 members for a total of 144,000
  • Woman with crown of 12 stars upon her head – Rev 12:1
• 12 disciples / apostles of Jesus Christ, the Lamb of God for New Testament Christian church
  • 12 Apostles – Mat 10:1-5, Acts 1, Acts 6:2, 1 Cor 15:5-6, Lk 6:13, Mk 3:14
  • Ordained 12 disciples to send forth and preach – Mk 3:14
  • Commands given to 12 disciples – Mat 11:1
  • 12 disciples sent forth 2 by 2 – Mat 10:5, Mk 6:7
  • 12 given authority over devils and to cure disease – Lk 9:1
  • 12 disciples concerned about feeding the multitude – Lk 9:12
  • Disciples to sit on 12 thrones of glory judging the 12 tribes of Israel – Lk 22:30, Mat 19:28
  • Taught 12 disciples – Mat 20:17, Mk 9:35
  • One of the 12 – Judas – Mat 26:14, Mk 14:10, Mk 14:17, Mk 14:20, Mk 14:43
  • Last supper with the 12 – Mat 26:20, Lk 22:14, Lk 22:30
  • Betrayed by one of the 12 – Mat 26:47
  • 12 ask about parable – Mk 4:10
  • Jesus chose 12 disciples, who he also called apostles – Lk 6:13, John 6:70
  • 12 with Him as he preached – Lk 8:1
  • Satan entered Judas, one of the 12 – Lk 22:3
  • Judas, one of the 12 betrayed Jesus with a kiss – Lk 22:47
  • Jesus chose the 12, but one was a devil – John 6:70-71
  • Jesus asked the 12 if they would also go away – John 6:67
  • Thomas, one of the 12 – John 20:24
  • 12 to not serve tables, will not leave the Word of God (establishment of deacons) – Acts 6:2
  • The 12 disciples told about what would happen to Christ – Mk 10:32Lk 18:31
  • Jesus to Bethany with the 12 – Mk 11:11
  • Jesus seen of the 12 – 1 Cor 15:5
  • Apostles / 12 tribes together in Scripture – Rev 21:12-14, Mat 19:28, Lk 22:30, 2 Pet 3:2, Eph 2:20, 3:5
• Gates
  • Where judgment is made including salvation / damnation resulting in entry into the kingdom of God of hell
  • Gates – Praise – see Is 60:18, where wealth of nations comes from – Is 60:11
    • Where the righteous enter – Is 26:2, 62:10, Ps 118:19-20, Ps 100:4, John 10:9
  • Gates of death
    • Have mercy upon me, O LORD; consider my trouble which I suffer of them that hate me, thou that liftest me up from the gates of death: (Psa 9:13)
    • Their soul abhorreth all manner of meat; and they draw near unto the gates of death. (Psa 107:18)
  • Gates of hell
    • And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. (Mat 16:18)
  • Gr: pulon (G4440) – Gateway (portal) – 18 occurrences
    • Eternal New Jerusalem gates – Rev 21:12-15, Rev 21:21, Rev 21:25, Rev 22:14 – refers to Eze 48:30-35 gates:
      • And these are the goings out of the city on the north side, four thousand and five hundred measures. And the gates of the city shall be after the names of the tribes of Israel: three gates northward; one gate of Reuben, one gate of Judah, one gate of Levi. And at the east side four thousand and five hundred: and three gates; and one gate of Joseph, one gate of Benjamin, one gate of Dan. And at the south side four thousand and five hundred measures: and three gates; one gate of Simeon, one gate of Issachar, one gate of Zebulun. At the west side four thousand and five hundred, with their three gates; one gate of Gad, one gate of Asher, one gate of Naphtali. It was round about eighteen thousand measures: and the name of the city from that day shall be, The LORD is there. (Eze 48:30-35)
    • Lazarus laid at the rich man’s gate – Lk 16:20
    • Acts 12:13-14 – Dorcas at the door (G2374) of the gateway (G4440)
    • See also Acts 14:13, Acts 10:17, Mat 27:61 (porch)
  • See also G4439 (pule – gate – 10 occurrences)
    • Acts 9:24 – watched gates to kill Saul (Paul)
    • Mat 16:18 – gates of hell will not prevail against the church
    • Mat 7:13-14, Lk 13:24 – straight gate leads to life, wide gate leads to death
    • Lk 7:12 – Jesus came close to the gate of the city – Lk 7:12
    • Lame man at the gate of the temple for alms – Acts 3:10
    • Acts 12:10 – iron gate that leads into the city (Peter)
    • Jesus suffered outside the gate – Heb 13:12
  • See also G2374 (thura – door – 39 occurrences)
    • Mat 6:6 – Pray – go in closet and shuit door (not be seen)
    • Nearness of Christ’s coming (at the door) – Mat 24:33, Mk 13:29
    • Door shut – no more salvation – Mat 25:10
    • Great stone rolled to the door of the sepulcher – Mat 27:60, Mat 28:2, Mk 15:46, Mk 16:3
    • All city gathered at gate for healings of Jesus – Mk 1:33
    • Where the Word of Jesus was preached – Mk 2:2
    • Colt (which Jesus rode into Jerusalem) tied by the door – Mk 11:14
    • Door closed – not willing to share with importune friend – Lk 11:7
    • Judgment day – door is closed – Lk 13:25
    • Good Shepherd must enter by the door (otherwise a thief and robber – John 10:1-2
    • Jesus is the door – John 10:7,9
    • Peter brought through the door into courtyard – John 18:16
    • Jesus met with disciples with the doors shut – John 20:19, 20:26
    • Place of being healed – Lame man at the gate of the temple, called beautiful – Acts 3:12
    • At the door to bury Ananias and Sapphira – Acts 5:9
    • Angel of the Lord open prison doors and brought apostles out – Acts 5:19, 5:23
    • Door of prison where Peter kept was guarded by 2 soldiers (Acts 12:6)
    • Peter knocks on the door of the disciples – Acts 12:13
    • Opened the door of faith unto the Gentiles – Acts 14:17
    • Earthquake opened the doors of the prison – Acts 16:26-27
    • Paul taken, drawn out of the temple and the doors were closed – Acts 21:30
    • A great door and effectual is opened – 1 Cor 16:9
    • Door opened to Paul to preach at Troas – 2 Cor 2:12
    • A door of utterance was opened of the Lord – Col 4:3
    • Judge stands before the door – James 5:9
    • Open door for the church at Philadelphia – Rev 3:8
    • Jesus stands t the door and knocks (Laodicean church) – Rev 3:20
    • John saw a door opened in heaven, where he received Word of God – Rev 4:1
  • Old Testament – H8179 (Shaar – gate, 374 occurrences)
    • And these are the goings out of the city on the north side, four thousand and five hundred measures. And the gates of the city shall be after the names of the tribes of Israel: three gates northward; one gate of Reuben, one gate of Judah, one gate of Levi. And at the east side four thousand and five hundred: and three gates; and one gate of Joseph, one gate of Benjamin, one gate of Dan. And at the south side four thousand and five hundred measures: and three gates; one gate of Simeon, one gate of Issachar, one gate of Zebulun. At the west side four thousand and five hundred, with their three gates; one gate of Gad, one gate of Asher, one gate of Naphtali. It was round about eighteen thousand measures: and the name of the city from that day shall be, The LORD is there. (Eze 48:30-35)
    • Absalom judges at the gate in Jerusalem – 2 Sam 15:1-6
  • Gate in the Psalms and Proverbs
    • Have mercy upon me, O LORD; consider my trouble which I suffer of them that hate me, thou that liftest me up from the gates of death: (Psa 9:13)
    • That I may shew forth all thy praise in the gates of the daughter of Zion: I will rejoice in thy salvation. (Psa 9:14)
    • Lift up your heads, O ye gates; and be ye lift up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in. (Psa 24:7)
    • Lift up your heads, O ye gates; even lift them up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in. (Psa 24:9)
    • They that sit in the gate speak against me; and I was the song of the drunkards. (Psa 69:12)
    • The LORD loveth the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob. (Psa 87:2)
    • Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise: be thankful unto him, and bless his name. (Psa 100:4)
    • For he hath broken the gates of brass, and cut the bars of iron in sunder. (Psa 107:16)
    • Their soul abhorreth all manner of meat; and they draw near unto the gates of death. (Psa 107:18)
    • Open to me the gates of righteousness: I will go into them, and I will praise the LORD: (Psa 118:19)
    • This gate of the LORD, into which the righteous shall enter. (Psa 118:20)
    • Our feet shall stand within thy gates, O Jerusalem. (Psa 122:2)
    • Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them: they shall not be ashamed, but they shall speak with the enemies in the gate. (Psa 127:5)
    • For he hath strengthened the bars of thy gates; he hath blessed thy children within thee. (Psa 147:13)
  • Gate / door in Proverbs
    • H1817 (Heb: deleth) – swinging door
      • Blessed is the man that heareth me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at the posts of my doors. (Pro 8:34)
      • As the door turneth upon his hinges, so doth the slothful upon his bed. (Pro 26:14)
    • H8179 (Heb: shaar) – a door / gate
      • She crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates: in the city she uttereth her words, saying, (Pro 1:21)
      • She crieth at the gates, at the entry of the city, at the coming in at the doors. (Pro 8:3)
      • The evil bow before the good; and the wicked at the gates of the righteous. (Pro 14:19)
      • Rob not the poor, because he is poor: neither oppress the afflicted in the gate: (Pro 22:22)
      • Wisdom is too high for a fool: he openeth not his mouth in the gate. (Pro 24:7)
      • Her husband is known in the gates, when he sitteth among the elders of the land. (Pro 31:23)
      • Give her of the fruit of her hands; and let her own works praise her in the gates. (Pro 31:31)
    • H6607 (Heb:
      • She crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates: in the city she uttereth her words, saying, (Pro 1:21)
      • Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house: (Pro 5:8)
      • She crieth at the gates, at the entry of the city, at the coming in at the doors. (Pro 8:3)
      • Blessed is the man that heareth me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at the posts of my doors. (Pro 8:34)
      • For she sitteth at the door of her house, on a seat in the high places of the city, (Pro 9:14)
      • He loveth transgression that loveth strife: and he that exalteth his gate seeketh destruction. (Pro 17:19)
    • Gate in Isaiah:
      • And her gates shall lament and mourn; and she being desolate shall sit upon the ground. (Isa 3:26)
      • Lift ye up a banner upon the high mountain, exalt the voice unto them, shake the hand, that they may go into the gates of the nobles. (Isa 13:2)
      • Howl, O gate; cry, O city; thou, whole Palestina, art dissolved: for there shall come from the north a smoke, and none shall be alone in his appointed times. (Isa 14:31)
      • And it shall come to pass, that thy choicest valleys shall be full of chariots, and the horsemen shall set themselves in array at the gate. (Isa 22:7)
      • In the city is left desolation, and the gate is smitten with destruction. (Isa 24:12)
      • Open ye the gates, that the righteous nation which keepeth the truth may enter in. (Isa 26:2)
      • And for a spirit of judgment to him that sitteth in judgment, and for strength to them that turn the battle to the gate. (Isa 28:6)
      • That make a man an offender for a word, and lay a snare for him that reproveth in the gate, and turn aside the just for a thing of nought. (Isa 29:21)
      • I said in the cutting off of my days, I shall go to the gates of the grave: I am deprived of the residue of my years. (Isa 38:10)
      • Thus saith the LORD to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have holden, to subdue nations before him; and I will loose the loins of kings, to open before him the two leaved gates; and the gates shall not be shut; (Isa 45:1)
      • I will go before thee, and make the crooked places straight: I will break in pieces the gates of brass, and cut in sunder the bars of iron: (Isa 45:2)
      • And I will make thy windows of agates, and thy gates of carbuncles, and all thy borders of pleasant stones. (Isa 54:12)
      • Therefore thy gates shall be open continually; they shall not be shut day nor night; that men may bring unto thee the forces of the Gentiles, and that their kings may be brought. (Isa 60:11)
      • Violence shall no more be heard in thy land, wasting nor destruction within thy borders; but thou shalt call thy walls Salvation, and thy gates Praise. (Isa 60:18)
      • Go through, go through the gates; prepare ye the way of the people; cast up, cast up the highway; gather out the stones; lift up a standard for the people. (Isa 62:10)
    • Old Testament – H6607 (pethach – door opening, 164 occurrences)
    • Old Testament – H1817 (deleth – door, 88 occurrences)
      • Where God’s people wait for salvation – Pr 8:34-35
      • Lot went out the door and shut it after him, wicked men tried to brak the door down to get to the angels – Gen 19:6,9-10
      • Place of judgment
        • Brought to the judges – Ex 21:6, Deut 15:17
      • Out of doors – loss of protection / sacrificed – Josh 2:19, Jud 11:31, Jud 19:22,27, 2 Sam 13:17-18
      • Doors shut – safety – 2 Ki 4:4,33
      • Samson took the door of the gates of the city – Jud 16:3
      • Door of olive trees for entry into oracle – 1 Ki 6:31-34, 1 Ki 7:50
    • Tribes
      • Gr: G5443 (Phule) – lit: rod, ‘offshoot’ – a related family (race)
        • Mat 19:28, Mat 24:30, Luk 2:36, Luk 22:30, Act 13:21, Rom 11:1, Php 3:5, Heb 7:13, Heb 7:14, Jas 1:1, Rev 1:7, Rev 5:5, Rev 5:9, Rev 7:4, Rev 7:5, Rev 7:6, Rev 7:7, Rev 7:8, Rev 7:9, Rev 11:9, Rev 13:7, Rev 14:6, Rev 21:12.
        • All occurrences point to the tribes of Israel
      • Children – Gr: uihow – literally ‘son’ – 382 occurrences
      • Israel
        • Gr: G2474
        • Israel – literal meaning ‘Prince with God’ – see Gen 32:28
        • Heb: H3478 (yisrael) – From H8280 and H410; he will rule as God
          • H8280 – sarah – literally, prince – same as H8282 and H8283 (princess) – Sarah (H8283)
          • H410 – el – God
          • In Gen 32:28 – “…as a prince hast thou power with God” – Hebrew words H8280 (prince), H5973 (with) and H430 (el – literally, God)
        • In Mat 2:15 (w/ Ex 4:22, Num 24:8, Hos 11:1), we find an important truth that Jesus Christ is actually the fulfillment of Israel. The name Israel literally means ‘Prince with God’.  We know that Jesus is the ‘Prince of life’ (Acts 3:15), the exalted Prince (Acts 5:31), the Prince of princes (Dan 8:25) and the Prince of Peace (Is 9:6).
        • And was there until the death of Herod: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken of the Lord by the prophet, saying, Out of Egypt have I called my son. (Mat 2:15)
        • And thou shalt say unto Pharaoh, Thus saith the LORD, Israel is my son, even my firstborn: And I say unto thee, Let my son go, that he may serve me: and if thou refuse to let him go, behold, I will slay thy son, even thy firstborn. (Exo 4:22-23)
        • When Israel was a child, then I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt. (Hos 11:1)
        • Jesus is the first-born Son – Ro 8:29, Col 1:15, Col 1:18, Heb 1:6, Heb 12:23, Rev 1:5, Ps 89:27
        • And he rose up that night, and took his two wives, and his two women-servants, and his eleven sons, and passed over the ford Jabbok. And he took them, and sent them over the brook, and sent over that he had. And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man with him until the breaking of the day. And when he saw that he prevailed not against him, he touched the hollow of his thigh; and the hollow of Jacob’s thigh was out of joint, as he wrestled with him. And he said, Let me go, for the day breaketh. And he said, I will not let thee go, except thou bless me. And he said unto him, What is thy name? And he said, Jacob. And he said, Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel: for as a prince hast thou power with God and with men, and hast prevailed. And Jacob asked him, and said, Tell me, I pray thee, thy name. And he said, Wherefore is it that thou dost ask after my name? And he blessed him there. And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: for I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved. And as he passed over Penuel the sun rose upon him, and he halted upon his thigh. Therefore the children of Israel eat not of the sinew which shrank, which is upon the hollow of the thigh, unto this day: because he touched the hollow of Jacob’s thigh in the sinew that shrank. (Gen 32:22-32)
        • Tribes (sons) of Israel – 144,000 – Rev 7:1-8
      • Mothers of the 12 tribes of Israel
        • 4 wives of Jacob:
          • Leah (literally, weary) – Gen 29:23-25
          • Zilpah (literally, to trickle) , Leah’s maid – Gen 29:24
          • Rachel (literally, an ewe) – Gen 29:28-30
          • Bilhah (literally, timid) – Gen 29:29
        • Names of the 12 Sons and 1 Daughter
          • Eze 48:30-35 above – the original 12 tribes including Levi and Joseph (not Ephraim and Manasseh)
          • right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world: (Mat 25:34)

• Reuben (Leah)
  • Reuben (H7205) – to see a son
  • And when the LORD saw that Leah was hated, he opened her womb: but Rachel was barren.  (Gen 29:31)
  • And Leah conceived, and bare a son, and she called his name Reuben: for she said, Surely the LORD hath looked upon my affliction; now therefore my husband will love me.  (Gen 29:32)
  • Reuben, thou art my firstborn, my might, and the beginning of my strength, the excellency of dignity, and the excellency of power:  (Gen 49:3)
  • Unstable as water, thou shalt not excel; because thou wentest up to thy father’s bed; then defiledst thou it: he went up to my couch.  (Gen 49:4)
  • Firstborn son:
    • And knew her not till she had brought forth her firstborn son: and he called his name JESUS. (Mat 1:25)
    • And she brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger; because there was no room for them in the inn. (Luk 2:7)
    • For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren. (Rom 8:29)
    • Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature: (Col 1:15)
    • And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence. (Col 1:18)
    • Through faith he kept the passover, and the sprinkling of blood, lest he that destroyed the firstborn should touch them. (Heb 11:28)
    • To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect, (Heb 12:23)
  • Simeon (Leah)
    • Simeon (H8095) – hearing (from H8085 to hear)
    • And she conceived again, and bare a son; and said, Because the LORD hath heard that I was hated, he hath therefore given me this son also: and she called his name Simeon.  (Gen 29:33)
    • Simeon and Levi are brethren; instruments of cruelty are in their habitations.  (Gen 49:5)
    • Christians are made able to spiritually hear:
      • Deaf Mute (Mk 7:31‑37)
      • Malchus (Lk 22:49‑51, John 18:10)
      • Significance : Ps 40:6, Mat 13:13-16, Job 33:16, Is 50:4-5, Deut 29:4, Ro 10:17, Is 29:18, Is 35:5, Is 42:18‑19, Is 43:8, Mat 13:13‑16, Acts 28:26f, Ro 11:8, Ro 11:25, Is 6:9, Jer 5:21, John 9:39‑41, Gal 3:2-5, Hos 4:1, Eze 36:14, 37:4, Hab 3:2, Is 1:10, Mk 7:31-37, Lk 22:49-51, John 18:10
    • He that hath an ear to hear – 7 churches – Rev 2:7, Rev 2:11, Rev 2:17m Rev 2:29, Rev 3:6, Rev 3:13, Rev 13:22
      • The messages to the churches are only for those who have ears to hear. This points to spiritual hearing – (see Ro 10:17, Is 29:18, Is 35:5, Is 42:18‑19, Is 43:8, Mat 13:13‑16, Acts 28:26f, Ro 11:8, Ro 11:25, Is 6:9, Jer 5:21, John 9:39‑41, hearing ‑ Special Revelation ‑ Ro 10:17, Gal 3:2, Gal 3:5, Hos 4:1, Eze 36:14, Hos 37:4, Hab 3:2, Is 1:10). Those who are unsaved do not have spiritual ears to hear. They have closed their ears to the truth of God’s Word (Acts 28:26f). They will keep on hearing, but not understand (Mat 13:14). Then heart of the people has grown dull and with their ears they scarcely hear (Mat 13:15). In the case of Israel, God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes to see not and ears to hear not Ro 11:8).
    • Ears to hear – Mat 11:15, Mat 13:30, Mat 13:43, Mk 4:9, Mk 4:23, Mk 7:16, Lk 8:8, Lk 14:35
    • God hears our prayers:
      • And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us:  (1Jn 5:14)
      • And if we know that he hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of him.  (1Jn 5:15)
      • But verily God hath heard me; he hath attended to the voice of my prayer.  (Psa 66:19)
      • This poor man cried, and the LORD heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles.  (Psa 34:6)
      • The LORD hath heard my supplication; the LORD will receive my prayer.  (Psa 6:9)
      • I love the LORD, because he hath heard my voice and my supplications.   Because he hath inclined his ear unto me, therefore will I call upon him as long as I live.  (Psa 116:1-2)
      • The righteous cry, and the LORD heareth, and delivereth them out of all their troubles.  (Psa 34:17)
      • The LORD is far from the wicked: but he heareth the prayer of the righteous.  (Pro 15:29)
      • For I said in my haste, I am cut off from before thine eyes: nevertheless thou heardest the voice of my supplications when I cried unto thee.  (Psa 31:22)
    • Levi (Leah)
      • Levi (H3878) – attached (from H3867- to twine) – bind together, unite, etc.
      • And she conceived again, and bare a son; and said, Now this time will my husband be joined unto me, because I have born him three sons: therefore was his name called Levi.  (Gen 29:34)
      • Simeon and Levi are brethren; instruments of cruelty are in their habitations.  (Gen 49:5)
      • Levi – priesthood
        • And verily they that are of the sons of Levi, who receive the office of the priesthood, have a commandment to take tithes of the people according to the law, that is, of their brethren, though they come out of the loins of Abraham: (Heb 7:5)
      • Levi – did not inherit lands – distributed throughout Israel – Josh 13:14, Josh 13:33, Num 18:20-24, Deut 10:9, Deut 12:12, Deut 18:2
      • Priests – Intercedes to directly to God ‑ 1 Pet 2:5,9, Is 61:6, 66:21, Phil 3:20, Eph 2:19
      • Christian unity
        • Union with Christ ‑ John 14:20, 15:4, Eph 1:4, 1 Cor 1:30, Ro 8:1, Gal 5:6, 1 John 3:24, Ro 12:5
        • Love is bond of unity ‑ Col 3:14
        • Jesus prayed for so world would know us ‑ John 17:21
        • Jesus prayed that we may be perfected in unity ‑ John 17:11, 21-23
        • Same mind ‑ Phil 2:2, Ro 15:5
        • One mind, one spirit striving for the Gospel ‑ Phil 1:27
        • How good for bothers to dwell in ‑ Ps 133;1
        • Is 52:8, Acts 1:14, 1 Pet 3:8, Eph 4:1‑6, 1 Cor 1:10, Ro 12:16, Phil 3:15‑16, Jer 32:39, Col 3:14, 2 Cor 13:11, Col 2:2
        • Disunity ‑ Phil 1:27, 2:2, 1 Cor 1:10, Ro 12:16, Ps 133:1, Is 52:8, Acts 1:14, Jer 32:39, John 17:21,23, 1 Pet 3:8, Eph 4:1‑6, Acts 2:46, Ro 15:5, Col 2:2, 3:14, Lk 12:51‑53, Mat 10:34‑36, 1Cor 1:10‑17, 3:1‑5, 11:18‑19
      • Judah (Leah)
        • Judah (H3063) – literally, celebrated (from H3034 – to praise)
        • And she conceived again, and bare a son: and she said, Now will I praise the LORD: therefore she called his name Judah; and left bearing.  (Gen 29:35)
        • O my soul, come not thou into their secret; unto their assembly, mine honour, be not thou united: for in their anger they slew a man, and in their selfwill they digged down a wall.  (Gen 49:6)
        • Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce; and their wrath, for it was cruel: I will divide them in Jacob, and scatter them in Israel.  (Gen 49:7)
        • Judah, thou art he whom thy brethren shall praise: thy hand shall be in the neck of thine enemies; thy father’s children shall bow down before thee.  (Gen 49:8)
        • Judah is a lion’s whelp: from the prey, my son, thou art gone up: he stooped down, he couched as a lion, and as an old lion; who shall rouse him up?  (Gen 49:9)
        • The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and unto him shall the gathering of the people be.  (Gen 49:10)
        • Binding his foal unto the vine, and his ass’s colt unto the choice vine; he washed his garments in wine, and his clothes in the blood of grapes:  (Gen 49:11)
        • His eyes shall be red with wine, and his teeth white with milk.  (Gen 49:12)
        • And one of the elders saith unto me, Weep not: behold, the Lion of the tribe of Juda, the Root of David, hath prevailed to open the book, and to loose the seven seals thereof.  (Rev 5:5)
        • Praise the Lord:
          • And she conceived again, and bare a son: and she said, Now will I praise the LORD: therefore she called his name Judah; and left bearing. (Gen 29:35)
          • But in the fourth year all the fruit thereof shall be holy to praise the LORD withal. (Lev 19:24)
          • And he appointed certain of the Levites to minister before the ark of the LORD, and to record, and to thank and praise the LORD God of Israel: (1Ch 16:4)
          • And to stand every morning to thank and praise the LORD, and likewise at even; (1Ch 23:30)
          • Of Jeduthun: the sons of Jeduthun; Gedaliah, and Zeri, and Jeshaiah, Hashabiah, and Mattithiah, six, under the hands of their father Jeduthun, who prophesied with a harp, to give thanks and to praise the LORD. (1Ch 25:3)
          • And the priests waited on their offices: the Levites also with instruments of musick of the LORD, which David the king had made to praise the LORD, because his mercy endureth for ever, when David praised by their ministry; and the priests sounded trumpets before them, and all Israel stood. (2Ch 7:6)
          • And the Levites, of the children of the Kohathites, and of the children of the Korhites, stood up to praise the LORD God of Israel with a loud voice on high. (2Ch 20:19)
          • And when he had consulted with the people, he appointed singers unto the LORD, and that should praise the beauty of holiness, as they went out before the army, and to say, Praise the LORD; for his mercy endureth for ever. (2Ch 20:21)
          • And when the builders laid the foundation of the temple of the LORD, they set the priests in their apparel with trumpets, and the Levites the sons of Asaph with cymbals, to praise the LORD, after the ordinance of David king of Israel. (Ezr 3:10)
          • I will praise the LORD according to his righteousness: and will sing praise to the name of the LORD most high. (Psa 7:17)
          • The meek shall eat and be satisfied: they shall praise the LORD that seek him: your heart shall live for ever. (Psa 22:26)
          • Praise the LORD with harp: sing unto him with the psaltery and an instrument of ten strings. (Psa 33:2)
          • This shall be written for the generation to come: and the people which shall be created shall praise the LORD. (Psa 102:18)
          • Oh that men would praise the LORD for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men! (Psa 107:8)
          • Oh that men would praise the LORD for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men! (Psa 107:15)
          • Oh that men would praise the LORD for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men! (Psa 107:21)
          • Oh that men would praise the LORD for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men! (Psa 107:31)
          • I will greatly praise the LORD with my mouth; yea, I will praise him among the multitude. (Psa 109:30)
          • Praise ye the LORD. I will praise the LORD with my whole heart, in the assembly of the upright, and in the congregation. (Psa 111:1)
          • But we will bless the LORD from this time forth and for evermore. Praise the LORD. (Psa 115:18)
          • O praise the LORD, all ye nations: praise him, all ye people. (Psa 117:1)
          • Open to me the gates of righteousness: I will go into them, and I will praise the LORD: (Psa 118:19)
          • Praise the LORD; for the LORD is good: sing praises unto his name; for it is pleasant. (Psa 135:3)
          • Praise ye the LORD. Praise the LORD, O my soul. (Psa 146:1)
          • While I live will I praise the LORD: I will sing praises unto my God while I have any being. (Psa 146:2)
          • Praise the LORD, O Jerusalem; praise thy God, O Zion. (Psa 147:12)
          • Praise the LORD from the earth, ye dragons, and all deeps: (Psa 148:7)
          • Let every thing that hath breath praise the LORD. Praise ye the LORD. (Psa 150:6)
          • And in that day shall ye say, Praise the LORD, call upon his name, declare his doings among the people, make mention that his name is exalted. (Isa 12:4)
          • But they that have gathered it shall eat it, and praise the LORD; and they that have brought it together shall drink it in the courts of my holiness. (Isa 62:9)
          • The voice of joy, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, the voice of them that shall say, Praise the LORD of hosts: for the LORD is good; for his mercy endureth for ever: and of them that shall bring the sacrifice of praise into the house of the LORD. For I will cause to return the captivity of the land, as at the first, saith the LORD. (Jer 33:11)
          • And again, Praise the Lord, all ye Gentiles; and laud him, all ye people. (Rom 15:11)
• Dan (Bilhah, maid of Rachel)
  • Dan (H1835) – literally, judge (from H1777)
  • And when Rachel saw that she bare Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister; and said unto Jacob, Give me children, or else I die.  (Gen 30:1)
  • And Jacob’s anger was kindled against Rachel: and he said, Am I in God’s stead, who hath withheld from thee the fruit of the womb?  (Gen 30:2)
  • And she said, Behold my maid Bilhah, go in unto her; and she shall bear upon my knees, that I may also have children by her.  (Gen 30:3)
  • And she gave him Bilhah her handmaid to wife: and Jacob went in unto her.  (Gen 30:4)
  • And Bilhah conceived, and bare Jacob a son.  (Gen 30:5)
  • And Rachel said, God hath judged me, and hath also heard my voice, and hath given me a son: therefore called she his name Dan.  (Gen 30:6)
  • Dan shall judge his people, as one of the tribes of Israel.  (Gen 49:16)
  • Dan shall be a serpent by the way, an adder in the path, that biteth the horse heels, so that his rider shall fall backward.  (Gen 49:17)
  • I have waited for thy salvation, O LORD.  (Gen 49:18)
  • Christians as judges:
    • Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment.  (Joh 7:24)
    • For I determined not to know anything among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified.  (1Co 2:2)
    • And as they went through the cities, they delivered them the decrees for to keep, that were ordained of the apostles and elders which were at Jerusalem.  (Act 16:4)
    • And when she was baptized, and her household, she besought us, saying, If ye have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come into my house, and abide And she constrained us.  (Act 16:15)
    • For Paul had determined to sail by Ephesus, because he would not spend the time in Asia: for he hasted, if it were possible for him, to be at Jerusalem the day of Pentecost.  (Act 20:16)
    • As touching the Gentiles which believe, we have written and concluded that they observe no such thing, save only that they keep themselves from things offered to idols, and from blood, and from strangled, and from fornication.  (Act 21:25)
    • For I verily, as absent in body, but present in spirit, have judged already, as though I were present, concerning him that hath so done this deed,  (1Co 5:3)
    • For what have I to do to judge them also that are without? do not ye judge them that are within?  (1Co 5:12)
    • But them that are without God judgeth. Therefore put away from among yourselves that wicked person.  (1Co 5:13)
    • Dare any of you, having a matter against another, go to law before the unjust, and not before the saints?  (1Co 6:1)
    • Do ye not know that the saints shall judge the world? and if the world shall be judged by you, are ye unworthy to judge the smallest matters?  (1Co 6:2)
    • Know ye not that we shall judge angels? how much more things that pertain to this life?  (1Co 6:3)
    • Wherefore my sentence is, that we trouble not them, which from among the Gentiles are turned to God:  (Act 15:19)
    • Simon answered and said, I suppose that he, to whom he forgave most. And he said unto him, Thou hast rightly judged.  (Luk 7:43)
    • But brother goeth to law with brother, and that before the unbelievers.  (1Co 6:6)
    • Now therefore there is utterly a fault among you, because ye go to law one with another.  Why do ye not rather take wrong? why do ye not rather suffer yourselves to be defrauded?  (1Co 6:7)
    • Nevertheless he that standeth stedfast in his heart, having no necessity, but hath power over his own will, and hath so decreed in his heart that he will keep his virgin, doeth well.  (1Co 7:37)
    • I speak as to wise men; judge ye what I say.  (1Co 10:15)
    • Judge in yourselves: is it comely that a woman pray unto God uncovered?  (1Co 11:13)
    • For if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged.  (1Co 11:31)
    • But when we are judged, we are chastened of the Lord, that we should not be condemned with the world.  (1Co 11:32)
    • But I determined this with myself, that I would not come again to you in heaviness.  (2Co 2:1)
    • For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead:  (2Co 5:14)
    • When I shall send Artemas unto thee, or Tychicus, be diligent to come unto me to Nicopolis: for I have determined there to winter.  (Tit 3:12)
    • My brethren, be not many masters, knowing that we shall receive the greater condemnation.  (Jas 3:1)
    • And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.  (Rev 20:4)
    • Anakrino:
      • These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so.  (Act 17:11)
      • But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.  (1Co 2:14)
      • But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man.  (1Co 2:15)
    • Napthali (Bilhah, maid of Rachel)
      • Napthali (H5321) – literally, a wrestling (from H6617)
      • And Bilhah Rachel’s maid conceived again, and bare Jacob a second son.  (Gen 30:7)
      • And Rachel said, With great wrestlings have I wrestled with my sister, and I have prevailed: and she called his name Naphtali.  (Gen 30:8)
      • Naphtali is a hind let loose: he giveth goodly words.  (Gen 49:21)
      • Now when Jesus had heard that John was cast into prison, he departed into Galilee; And leaving Nazareth, he came and dwelt in Capernaum, which is upon the sea coast, in the borders of Zabulon and Nephthalim: That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Esaias the prophet, saying, The land of Zabulon, and the land of Nephthalim, by the way of the sea, beyond Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles; The people which sat in darkness saw great light; and to them which sat in the region and shadow of death light is sprung up. (Mat 4:12-16)
      • Nevertheless the dimness shall not be such as was in her vexation, when at the first he lightly afflicted the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, and afterward did more grievously afflict her by the way of the sea, beyond Jordan, in Galilee of the nations. The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined. Thou hast multiplied the nation, and not increased the joy: they joy before thee according to the joy in harvest, and as men rejoice when they divide the spoil. (Isa 9:1-3)
    • Gad (Zilpah, Leah’s maid)
      • Gad (H1410) – literally, to crowd upon, attack, invade (from H1464)
      • When Leah saw that she had left bearing, she took Zilpah her maid, and gave her Jacob to wife.  (Gen 30:9)
      • And Zilpah Leah’s maid bare Jacob a son.  (Gen 30:10)
      • And Leah said, A troop cometh: and she called his name Gad.  (Gen 30:11)
      • Gad, a troop shall overcome him: but he shall overcome at the last.  (Gen 49:19)
      • Points to Christians being persecuted (Great Tribulation) – Christians surrounded
        • And they went up on the breadth of the earth, and compassed the camp of the saints about, and the beloved city: and fire came down from God out of heaven, and devoured them.  (Rev 20:9)
        • Jerusalem being encompassed during the Great Tribulation period described in Lk 21:20, Mat 24:15 and Mk 13:14, Lk 19:43
        • Compassed – see Rev 11:2-4 for parallel, Hab 1:6 (believers are trapped, appears to be no hope in the world), see also 2 Ki 6:15, Mic 2:13, Mat 16:16-18, Lk 19:43
        • Babylonian captivity – Jer 32:2, Jer 37:5, Dan 1:1, 2 Ki 24:11, Jer 21;4, Jer 21:9, Eze 4:3 – see Babylonian Captivity study
        • Throughout the Bible, there are many references to encompassing cities which usually point to a period of Great Tribulation (e.g., Dan 9:27, Rev 5:11, 7:11, Ps 118:10-12 and many other verses in Jeremiah and Ezekiel referring to the siege of Jerusalem).
      • Asher (Zilpah, Leah’s maid)
        • Asher (H836) – literally, happy (see H833 – blessed)
        • And Zilpah Leah’s maid bare Jacob a second son.  (Gen 30:12)
        • And Leah said, Happy am I, for the daughters will call me blessed: and she called his name Asher.  (Gen 30:13)
        • Out of Asher his bread shall be fat, and he shall yield royal dainties.  (Gen 49:20)
        • H835 – Heb: esher – literally, happy
          • Happy is the man  that findeth  wisdom,  and the man  that getteth understanding.   (Pro 3:13)
          • Now therefore hearken  unto me, O ye children:  for blessed  are they that keep  my ways.   (Pro 8:32)
          • Blessed is the man  that heareth  me, watching  daily  at  my gates,  waiting  at the posts  of my doors.   (Pro 8:34)
          • He that despiseth his neighbour  sinneth:  but he that hath mercy on  the poor,  happy  is  (Pro 14:21)
          • He that handleth a matter wisely shall find good: and whoso trusteth  in the LORD,  happy  is  (Pro 16:20)
          • The just man walketh in his integrity:  his children  are blessed  after    (Pro 20:7)
          • Happy is the man  that feareth  alway:  but he that hardeneth  his heart  shall fall  into mischief.   (Pro 28:14)
          • Where there is no vision,  the people  perish:  but he that keepeth  the law,  happy  is  (Pro 29:18)
        • … Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered. Blessed is the man unto whom the LORD imputes not iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no guile. (Psa 32:1-2)
        • 7 Beatitudes of Revelation, for example:
          • Rev 19:9 – Blessed are those who are called to go to the marriage supper of the Lamb
        • Issachar (Leah)
          • Issachar (H3485) – literally, lift up a reward
          • And Reuben went in the days of wheat harvest, and found mandrakes in the field, and brought them unto his mother Leah. Then Rachel said to Leah, Give me, I pray thee, of thy son’s mandrakes.  (Gen 30:14)
          • And she said unto her, Is it a small matter that thou hast taken my husband? and wouldest thou take away my son’s mandrakes also? And Rachel said, Therefore he shall lie with thee to night for thy son’s mandrakes.  (Gen 30:15)
          • And Jacob came out of the field in the evening, and Leah went out to meet him, and said, Thou must come in unto me; for surely I have hired thee with my son’s mandrakes. And he lay with her that night.  (Gen 30:16)
          • And God hearkened unto Leah, and she conceived, and bare Jacob the fifth son.  (Gen 30:17)
          • And Leah said, God hath given me my hire, because I have given my maiden to my husband: and she called his name Issachar.  (Gen 30:18)
          • Issachar is a strong ass couching down between two burdens:  (Gen 49:14)
          • And he saw that rest was good, and the land that it was pleasant; and bowed his shoulder to bear, and became a servant unto tribute.  (Gen 49:15)
          • Reward in the New Testament
            • Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you. (Mat 5:12)
            • For if ye love them which love you, what reward have ye? do not even the publicans the same? (Mat 5:46)
            • Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, to be seen of them: otherwise ye have no reward of your Father which is in heaven. (Mat 6:1)
            • Therefore when thou doest thine alms, do not sound a trumpet before thee, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may have glory of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward. (Mat 6:2)
            • That thine alms may be in secret: and thy Father which seeth in secret himself shall reward thee openly. (Mat 6:4)
            • And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward. (Mat 6:5)
            • But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly. (Mat 6:6)
            • Moreover when ye fast, be not, as the hypocrites, of a sad countenance: for they disfigure their faces, that they may appear unto men to fast. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward. (Mat 6:16)
            • That thou appear not unto men to fast, but unto thy Father which is in secret: and thy Father, which seeth in secret, shall reward thee openly. (Mat 6:18)
            • He that receiveth a prophet in the name of a prophet shall receive a prophet’s reward; and he that receiveth a righteous man in the name of a righteous man shall receive a righteous man’s reward. (Mat 10:41)
            • And whosoever shall give to drink unto one of these little ones a cup of cold water only in the name of a disciple, verily I say unto you, he shall in no wise lose his reward. (Mat 10:42)
            • For the Son of man shall come in the glory of his Father with his angels; and then he shall reward every man according to his works. (Mat 16:27)
            • For whosoever shall give you a cup of water to drink in my name, because ye belong to Christ, verily I say unto you, he shall not lose his reward. (Mar 9:41)
            • Rejoice ye in that day, and leap for joy: for, behold, your reward is great in heaven: for in the like manner did their fathers unto the prophets. (Luk 6:23)
            • But love ye your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing again; and your reward shall be great, and ye shall be the children of the Highest: for he is kind unto the unthankful and to the evil. (Luk 6:35)
            • And we indeed justly; for we receive the due reward of our deeds: but this man hath done nothing amiss. (Luk 23:41)
            • Now this man purchased a field with the reward of iniquity; and falling headlong, he burst asunder in the midst, and all his bowels gushed out. (Act 1:18)
            • Now to him that worketh is the reward not reckoned of grace, but of debt. (Rom 4:4)
            • Now he that planteth and he that watereth are one: and every man shall receive his own reward according to his own labour. (1Co 3:8)
            • If any man’s work abide which he hath built thereupon, he shall receive a reward. (1Co 3:14)
            • For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1Co 9:9-10)
            • For if I do this thing willingly, I have a reward: but if against my will, a dispensation of the gospel is committed unto me. (1Co 9:17)
            • What is my reward then? Verily that, when I preach the gospel, I may make the gospel of Christ without charge, that I abuse not my power in the gospel. (1Co 9:18)
            • Let no man beguile you of your reward in a voluntary humility and worshipping of angels, intruding into those things which he hath not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind, (Col 2:18)
            • Knowing that of the Lord ye shall receive the reward of the inheritance: for ye serve the Lord Christ. (Col 3:24)
            • For the scripture saith, Thou shalt not muzzle the ox that treadeth out the corn. And, The labourer is worthy of his reward. (1Ti 5:18)
            • Alexander the coppersmith did me much evil: the Lord reward him according to his works: (2Ti 4:14)
            • For if the word spoken by angels was stedfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompence of reward; (Heb 2:2)
            • Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompence of reward. (Heb 10:35)
            • Esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures in Egypt: for he had respect unto the recompence of the reward. (Heb 11:26)
            • And shall receive the reward of unrighteousness, as they that count it pleasure to riot in the day time. Spots they are and blemishes, sporting themselves with their own deceivings while they feast with you; (2Pe 2:13)
            • Look to yourselves, that we lose not those things which we have wrought, but that we receive a full reward. (2Jn 1:8)
            • Woe unto them! for they have gone in the way of Cain, and ran greedily after the error of Balaam for reward, and perished in the gainsaying of Core. (Jud 1:11)
            • And the nations were angry, and thy wrath is come, and the time of the dead, that they should be judged, and that thou shouldest give reward unto thy servants the prophets, and to the saints, and them that fear thy name, small and great; and shouldest destroy them which destroy the earth. (Rev 11:18)
            • Reward her even as she rewarded you, and double unto her double according to her works: in the cup which she hath filled fill to her double. (Rev 18:6)
            • And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be. (Rev 22:12)
• Zebulun (Leah)
  • Zebulun (H2074) – literally, habitation
  • And Leah conceived again, and bare Jacob the sixth son.  (Gen 30:19)
  • And Leah said, God hath endued me with a good dowry; now will my husband dwell with me, because I have born him six sons: and she called his name Zebulun.  (Gen 30:20)
  • Zebulun shall dwell at the haven of the sea; and he shall be for an haven of ships; and his border shall be unto Zidon.  (Gen 49:13)
  • God dwells with His people:
    • God will dwell with His people – Rev 21:3-4, Rev 22:3, Exo 29:45, 1Ki 6:1, 1Ch 23:25, Psa 68:16-18, Isa 4:5-6, Joh 1:14, 1Co 3:16, 2Co 6:16
  • But now they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a city. (Heb 11:16)
  • … 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. And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain … (Rev 21:3-4)
• Dinah (Leah’s daughter of Jacob)
  • Dinah (H1783)– literally, justice
  • And afterwards she bare a daughter, and called her name Dinah.  (Gen 30:21)
  • And Dinah the daughter of Leah, which she bare unto Jacob, went out to see the daughters of the land. (Gen 34:1)
  • And his soul clave unto Dinah the daughter of Jacob, and he loved the damsel, and spake kindly unto the damsel. (Gen 34:3)
  • And Jacob heard that he had defiled Dinah his daughter: now his sons were with his cattle in the field: and Jacob held his peace until they were come. (Gen 34:5)
  • And the sons of Jacob answered Shechem and Hamor his father deceitfully, and said, because he had defiled Dinah their sister: (Gen 34:13)
  • And it came to pass on the third day, when they were sore, that two of the sons of Jacob, Simeon and Levi, Dinah’s brethren, took each man his sword, and came upon the city boldly, and slew all the males. (Gen 34:25)
  • And they slew Hamor and Shechem his son with the edge of the sword, and took Dinah out of Shechem’s house, and went out. (Gen 34:26)
  • These be the sons of Leah, which she bare unto Jacob in Padanaram, with his daughter Dinah: all the souls of his sons and his daughters were thirty and three. (Gen 46:15)
• Joseph (Rachel)
  • Joseph (H3130) – literally, to add
  • And God remembered Rachel, and God hearkened to her, and opened her womb.  (Gen 30:22)
  • And she conceived, and bare a son; and said, God hath taken away my reproach:  (Gen 30:23)
  • And she called his name Joseph; and said, The LORD shall add to me another son.  (Gen 30:24)
  • Joseph is a fruitful bough, even a fruitful bough by a well; whose branches run over the wall:  (Gen 49:22)
  • The archers have sorely grieved him, and shot at him, and hated him:  (Gen 49:23)
  • But his bow abode in strength, and the arms of his hands were made strong by the hands of the mighty God of Jacob; (from thence is the shepherd, the stone of Israel:)  (Gen 49:24)
  • Even by the God of thy father, who shall help thee; and by the Almighty, who shall bless thee with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that lieth under, blessings of the breasts, and of the womb:  (Gen 49:25)
  • The blessings of thy father have prevailed above the blessings of my progenitors unto the utmost bound of the everlasting hills: they shall be on the head of Joseph, and on the crown of the head of him that was separate from his brethren.  (Gen 49:26)
  • New Testament add:
    • Then they that gladly received his word were baptized: and the same day there were added unto them about three thousand souls.  (Act 2:41)
    • Praising God, and having favour with all the people. And the Lord added to the church daily such as should be saved.  (Act 2:47)
    • And believers were the more added to the Lord, multitudes both of men and women.)  (Act 5:14)
    • For he was a good man, and full of the Holy Ghost and of faith: and much people was added unto the Lord.  (Act 11:24)
    • And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge;  (2Pe 1:5)
    • But rather seek ye the kingdom of God; and all these things shall be added unto you.  (Luk 12:31)
    • But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.  (Mat 6:33)
  • Benoni / Benjamin (Rachel)
    • Benoni (H1226) – literally, the son of my sorrow
    • Benjamin (H1144) – literally, son of the right hand
    • And they journeyed from Bethel; and there was but a little way to come to Ephrath: and Rachel travailed, and she had hard labour.  (Gen 35:16)
    • And it came to pass, when she was in hard labour, that the midwife said unto her, Fear not; thou shalt have this son also.  (Gen 35:17)
    • And it came to pass, as her soul was in departing, (for she died) that she called his name Benoni: but his father called him Benjamin.  (Gen 35:18)
    • And Rachel died, and was buried in the way to Ephrath, which is Bethlehem.  (Gen 35:19)
    • Benjamin shall ravin as a wolf: in the morning he shall devour the prey, and at night he shall divide the spoil.  (Gen 49:27)
    • And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus:  (Eph 2:6)
    • Right hand:
    • And if thy right hand offend thee, cut it off, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell. (Mat 5:30)
    • But when thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth: (Mat 6:3)
    • And he said unto her, What wilt thou? She saith unto him, Grant that these my two sons may sit, the one on thy right hand, and the other on the left, in thy kingdom. (Mat 20:21)
    • And he saith unto them, Ye shall drink indeed of my cup, and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with: but to sit on my right hand, and on my left, is not mine to give, but it shall be given to them for whom it is prepared of my Father. (Mat 20:23)
    • The LORD said unto my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand, till I make thine enemies thy footstool? (Mat 22:44)
    • And he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left. (Mat 25:33)
    • Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world: (Mat 25:34)
    • Jesus saith unto him, Thou hast said: nevertheless I say unto you, Hereafter shall ye see the Son of man sitting on the right hand of power, and coming in the clouds of heaven. (Mat 26:64)
    • And when they had platted a crown of thorns, they put it upon his head, and a reed in his right hand: and they bowed the knee before him, and mocked him, saying, Hail, King of the Jews! (Mat 27:29)
    • Then were there two thieves crucified with him, one on the right hand, and another on the left. (Mat 27:38)
    • They said unto him, Grant unto us that we may sit, one on thy right hand, and the other on thy left hand, in thy glory. (Mar 10:37)
    • But to sit on my right hand and on my left hand is not mine to give; but it shall be given to them for whom it is prepared. (Mar 10:40)
    • For David himself said by the Holy Ghost, The LORD said to my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand, till I make thine enemies thy footstool. (Mar 12:36)
    • And Jesus said, I am: and ye shall see the Son of man sitting on the right hand of power, and coming in the clouds of heaven. (Mar 14:62)
    • And with him they crucify two thieves; the one on his right hand, and the other on his left. (Mar 15:27)
    • So then after the Lord had spoken unto them, he was received up into heaven, and sat on the right hand of God. (Mar 16:19)
    • And it came to pass also on another sabbath, that he entered into the synagogue and taught: and there was a man whose right hand was withered. (Luk 6:6)
    • And David himself saith in the book of Psalms, The LORD said unto my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand, (Luk 20:42)
    • Hereafter shall the Son of man sit on the right hand of the power of God. (Luk 22:69)
    • And when they were come to the place, which is called Calvary, there they crucified him, and the malefactors, one on the right hand, and the other on the left. (Luk 23:33)
    • For David speaketh concerning him, I foresaw the Lord always before my face, for he is on my right hand, that I should not be moved: (Act 2:25)
    • Therefore being by the right hand of God exalted, and having received of the Father the promise of the Holy Ghost, he hath shed forth this, which ye now see and hear. (Act 2:33)
    • For David is not ascended into the heavens: but he saith himself, The LORD said unto my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand, (Act 2:34)
    • And he took him by the right hand, and lifted him up: and immediately his feet and ankle bones received strength. (Act 3:7)
    • Him hath God exalted with his right hand to be a Prince and a Saviour, for to give repentance to Israel, and forgiveness of sins. (Act 5:31)
    • But he, being full of the Holy Ghost, looked up stedfastly into heaven, and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing on the right hand of God, (Act 7:55)
    • And said, Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of man standing on the right hand of God. (Act 7:56)
    • Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us. (Rom 8:34)
    • By the word of truth, by the power of God, by the armour of righteousness on the right hand and on the left, (2Co 6:7)
    • Which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places, (Eph 1:20)
    • If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. (Col 3:1)
    • Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high; (Heb 1:3)
    • But to which of the angels said he at any time, Sit on my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool? (Heb 1:13)
    • Now of the things which we have spoken this is the sum: We have such an high priest, who is set on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens; (Heb 8:1)
    • But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God; (Heb 10:12)
    • Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God. (Heb 12:2)
    • Who is gone into heaven, and is on the right hand of God; angels and authorities and powers being made subject unto him. (1Pe 3:22)
    • And he had in his right hand seven stars: and out of his mouth went a sharp twoedged sword: and his countenance was as the sun shineth in his strength. (Rev 1:16)
    • The mystery of the seven stars which thou sawest in my right hand, and the seven golden candlesticks. The seven stars are the angels of the seven churches: and the seven candlesticks which thou sawest are the seven churches. (Rev 1:20)
  • 12 gates w/ angels
    • 12 – see notes above on 12
    • Angels – messengers – those who bring the Word of God – see Rev 1:1 notes
    • Names of the 12 tribes of Israel – see Rev 7:1-8, Rev 4:4 – fullness of church
  • 4 – universal extent
    • Rev 4:5-9, 7:1, 17:15, 20:8, 21:13, Mat 24:31, Mk 13:27, Acts  10:11, Is 11:12, Jer 49:36, Gen 2:10, Ez 7:2, 14:21, Dan 7:2-3, etc
    • 4 corners – the outermost areas – Rev 7:1, Job 1:19 (wind), Acts 10:11, 11:5, Is 11:12, Ez 7:2
    • World not flat – circle of the earth – Is 40:22, hangs the earth upon nothing – Job 26:7
    • 4 points of the compass – Dan 11:4
    • four winds – Rev 7:1, Ez 37:9 (where saving breath comes from), Dan 7:2, 8:8, Jer 49:36 (that which scatters)
  • Gates – see Rev 21:12 notes above
  • 3 – Sovereign will of God
    • 3^rd Heaven – where God dwells – 2 Cor 12:2
    • 3 appeals to take away thorn – 2 Cor 12:7-8
    • 3 days/night – John 2:19-20, Mk 8:31, Mat 27:63
    • Build temple in three days – Mk 15:29
    • 3 gifts to the Christ child – Mat 2:11
    • Jesus to rise the third day – Mk 9:31
    • 3 disciples found in garden sleeping – Mk 14:33, 41
    • Peter denied Christ 3 times – John 18:15-27, Mk 14:29-30,69-72,  John 13:37-38, Lk 22:34, 56-61, Mat 26:69-74
    • 3 women at the cross – Mk 15:40, 16:1
    • 3 crosses = Mk 15:27
    • Crucified at the third hour of the day – Mk 15:25
    • Darkness 3 hours – Mk 15:33
    • Command to take purse, script, sword – Lk 22:35-36
    • 3 transfigured – Mat 17:1-9, Mk 9:2-8, Lk 9:28-36

21:14  12 Foundations of the Wall – Names of the 12 Apostles

And the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and in them the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.

• Wall – Rev 21:12 (salvation / safety)
• City – kingdom of God (organization) – see Rev 21:2 notes
• 12 – see Rev 21:12 notes – points to the organization of God’s people
• 12 foundations – Christ – 1 Cor 3:10-12 (Word of God – apostles brought Word of God – see below)
  • Eph 2:20 (apostles), Heb 11:10 (foundation=Gospel ‑ Ro 15:20, 1 Cor 3:10‑12, Heb 6:1, Rev 21:14, 1 Tim 3:15, 2 Tim 2:19
  • Foundation – G2310 – Gr: themelios – Luk 6:48-49 (2), Luk 14:29, Rom 15:20, 1Co 3:10-12 (3), Eph 2:20, 1Ti 6:19, 2Ti 2:19, Heb 6:1, Act 16:26, Heb 11:10, Rev 21:14, Rev 21:19
• Names of the 12 apostles of the Lamb
• Now the names of the twelve apostles are these; The first, Simon, who is called Peter, and Andrew his brother; James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother; Philip, and Bartholomew; Thomas, and Matthew the publican; James the son of Alphaeus, and Lebbaeus, whose surname was Thaddaeus; Simon the Canaanite, and Judas Iscariot, who also betrayed him. (Mat 10:2-4)
• And he goeth up into a mountain, and calleth unto him whom he would: and they came unto him. And he ordained twelve, that they should be with him, and that he might send them forth to preach, And to have power to heal sicknesses, and to cast out devils: And Simon he surnamed Peter; And James the son of Zebedee, and John the brother of James; and he surnamed them Boanerges, which is, The sons of thunder: And Andrew, and Philip, and Bartholomew, and Matthew, and Thomas, and James the son of Alphaeus, and Thaddaeus, and Simon the Canaanite, And Judas Iscariot, which also betrayed him: and they went into an house. (Mar 3:13-19)
• And it came to pass in those days, that he went out into a mountain to pray, and continued all night in prayer to God. And when it was day, he called unto him his disciples: and of them he chose twelve, whom also he named apostles; Simon, (whom he also named Peter,) and Andrew his brother, James and John, Philip and Bartholomew, Matthew and Thomas, James the son of Alphaeus, and Simon called Zelotes, And Judas the brother of James, and Judas Iscariot, which also was the traitor. (Luk 6:12-16)
• And they gave forth their lots; and the lot fell upon Matthias; and he was numbered with the eleven apostles. (Act 1:26)
  • Simon Peter
  • Andrew
  • James, son of Zebedee, surnamed them Boanerges (son of thunder)
  • John, son of Zebedee, surnamed them Boanerges (son of thunder)
  • Philip
  • Bartholomew
  • Thomas
  • Matthew, the publican
  • James, the son of Alphaeus
  • Lebbaeus, surname was Thaddaeus (a.k.a., Judas, the brother of James – see John 14:22)
  • Simon the Canaanite, called Zelotes
  • Matthias
  • Judas Iscariot
• 12 Apostles – see Rev 21:12, Rev 4:4, 7:18 – fullness of church
  • Apostles – G652 (Gr: apostolos) – literally, set apart (sent out ones)
• Apostles wrote New Testament
  • And Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon Barjona: for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven. (Mat 16:17)
  • Therefore also said the wisdom of God, I will send them prophets and apostles, and some of them they shall slay and persecute: (Luk 11:49)
  • Until the day in which he was taken up, after that he through the Holy Ghost had given commandments unto the apostles whom he had chosen: To whom also he shewed himself alive after his passion by many infallible proofs, being seen of them forty days, and speaking of the things pertaining to the kingdom of God: (Act 1:2-3)
  • That he may take part of this ministry and apostleship, from which Judas by transgression fell, that he might go to his own place. (Act 1:25)
  • And they continued stedfastly in the apostles’ doctrine and fellowship, and in breaking of bread, and in prayers. And fear came upon every soul: and many wonders and signs were done by the apostles. (Act 2:42-43)
  • And with great power gave the apostles witness of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus: and great grace was upon them all. (Act 4:33)
  • And when Simon saw that through laying on of the apostles’ hands the Holy Ghost was given, he offered them money, (Act 8:18)
  • Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, separated unto the gospel of God, (Rom 1:1)
  • Now to him that is of power to stablish you according to my gospel, and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery, which was kept secret since the world began, (Rom 16:25)
  • Am I not an apostle? am I not free? have I not seen Jesus Christ our Lord? are not ye my work in the Lord? (1Co 9:1)
  • And God hath set some in the church, first apostles, secondarily prophets, thirdly teachers, after that miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, governments, diversities of tongues. (1Co 12:28)
  • After that, he was seen of James; then of all the apostles. (1Co 15:7)
  • It is not expedient for me doubtless to glory. I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord. (2Co 12:1)
  • And lest I should be exalted above measure through the abundance of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I should be exalted above measure. (2Co 12:7)
  • Paul, an apostle, (not of men, neither by man, but by Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who raised him from the dead;) … But I certify you, brethren, that the gospel which was preached of me is not after man. For I neither received it of man, neither was I taught it, but by the revelation of Jesus Christ. (Gal 1:1, 11-12)
  • How that by revelation he made known unto me the mystery; (as I wrote afore in few words, (Eph 3:3)
  • Which in other ages was not made known unto the sons of men, as it is now revealed unto his holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit; (Eph 3:5)
  • And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone; (Eph 2:20)
  • Which in other ages was not made known unto the sons of men, as it is now revealed unto his holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit; (Eph 3:5)
  • Paul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God’s elect, and the acknowledging of the truth which is after godliness; (Tit 1:1)
  • That ye may be mindful of the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets, and of the commandment of us the apostles of the Lord and Saviour: (2Pe 3:2)
  • But, beloved, remember ye the words which were spoken before of the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ; (Jud 1:17)
  • The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John: (Rev 1:1)
  • Rejoice over her, thou heaven, and ye holy apostles and prophets; for God hath avenged you on her. (Rev 18:20)
  • And had a wall great and high, and had twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels, and names written thereon, which are the names of the twelve tribes of the children of Israel: On the east three gates; on the north three gates; on the south three gates; and on the west three gates. And the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and in them the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb. (Rev 21:12-14)
• Jesus Christ Appeared to all the Apostles
  • Wherefore of these men which have companied with us all the time that the Lord Jesus went in and out among us, Beginning from the baptism of John, unto that same day that he was taken up from us, must one be ordained to be a witness with us of his resurrection. And they appointed two, Joseph called Barsabas, who was surnamed Justus, and Matthias. (Act 1:21-23)
  • Am I not an apostle? am I not free? have I not seen Jesus Christ our Lord? are not ye my work in the Lord? (1Co 9:1)
  • Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand; By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain. For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures: And that he was seen of Cephas, then of the twelve: After that, he was seen of above five hundred brethren at once; of whom the greater part remain unto this present, but some are fallen asleep. After that, he was seen of James; then of all the apostles. And last of all he was seen of me also, as of one born out of due time. For I am the least of the apostles, that am not meet to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God. But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain; but I laboured more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me. (1Co 15:1-10, especially verse 7)

21:15-17   Measuring the City

 

21:15

And he that talked with me had a golden reed to measure the city, and the gates thereof, and the wall thereof.

• Gold – great value to God (1 Pet 1:7, Job 28:16, Zeph 1:18, Ps 127, Ps 119:72, Ps 19:7-10, Is 13;12, Pr 16:16, Pr 8:10, Pr 8:19, Pr 3:13-15, etc.).
• Reed – New Testament
  • G2563 (Gr: kalamos) – reed / stalk – 12 occurrences
  • Mat 11:7, Lk 7:24 – John the Baptist as a reed shaken with the wind
  • Mat 12:20 – Jesus Christ: a bruised reed shall He not break, a smoking flax, He shall not quench until He send forth judgment unto victory
  • Mat 27:29-30, Mk 15:19 – Jesus received crown and a reed inn His right hand and was mocked as the King of the Jews, smote on the head with the reed
  • Mat 27:48, Mk 15:36 – Sponge filled with vinegar and put it on a reed for Him to drink
  • 3 John 13 – John writes with a ‘pen’ and ink
  • Rev 11:1 – used to measure the temple
  • Rev 21:15-16 – golden reed to measure the Holy City (length, breadth, height all 12,000 furlongs)
• Reed – Old Testament
  • H7070: (Heb: qaneh) – reed / stalk – 62 occurrences
  • Gen 41:5; Gen 41:22; Exo 25:31; Exo 25:32; Exo 25:33; Exo 25:35; Exo 25:36; Exo 30:23; Exo 37:17; Exo 37:18; Exo 37:19; Exo 37:21; Exo 37:22; 1Ki 14:15; 2Ki 18:21; Job 31:22; Job 40:21; Psa 68:30; Son 4:14; Isa 19:6; Isa 35:7; Isa 36:6; Isa 42:3; Isa 43:24; Isa 46:6; Jer 6:20; Eze 27:19; Eze 29:6; Eze 40:3; Eze 40:5; Eze 40:6; Eze 40:7; Eze 40:8; Eze 41:8; Eze 42:16; Eze 42:17; Eze 42:18; Eze 42:19.
• Measure – God’s plan of the grace by the faith of Christ to build God’s temple
  • G3354 (Gr: metreo) – to measure – 10 occurrences
  • Also, G3355, G3356, G3357, G3358 – 16 occurrences
  • Mat 7:2 – By what judgment, you judge, you shall be judged – what measure you measure, you shall be measures
  • Mat 23:32 – Pharisees – fill up the measure of your fathers (children of those who killed the prophets)
  • Mk 4:24 – take heed what you hear – what measure you measure, shall be measured unto you – unto you who hear, shall more be given
  • Lk 6:38 – give and it shall be give n unto you – good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over, men shall give unto your bosom – with the same measure you measure, it shall be measured unto you
  • John 2:6 – 6 water pots containing 2 or 3 measures each (water into wine)
  • John 3:34 – God gives not the Spirit by measure (to Jesus)
  • Acts 20:12 – young man alive, not a little comforted
  • Ro 12:3 – God has given each the measure of faith (do not think highly of yourself)
  • 2 Cor 10:12-13 – For we dare not make ourselves of the number, or compare ourselves with some that commend themselves: but they measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves among themselves, are not wise. But we will not boast of things without our measure, but according to the measure of the rule which God hath distributed to us, a measure to reach even unto you. (2Co 10:12-13)
  • Eph 4:7 – Every one given grace according to the measure of the gift of Christ
  • Eph 4:13 – until we all come in the unity of the faith – unto the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ
  • Eph 4:16 – the effectual working in the measure of every part of the body of Christ
  • Heb 5:2 – have compassion on the ignorant and of them that are out of the way – Heb 5:2
  • Rev 11:1 – measure the temple of God, but measure not the court
  • Rev 21:15-17 – And he that talked with me had a golden reed to measure the city, and the gates thereof, and the wall thereof. And the city lieth foursquare, and the length is as large as the breadth: and he measured the city with the reed, twelve thousand furlongs. The length and the breadth and the height of it are equal. And he measured the wall thereof, an hundred and forty and four cubits, according to the measure of a man, that is, of the angel. (Rev 21:15-17)
  • Old Testament:
    • Measure – Heb: 4058 (madad) – 36 of 51 occurrences in Eze 40-48
    • Eze 40-48 – the eternal temple – approximately 35 occurrences
    • Tabernacle and Solomon’s temple had precise measurements
    • Related to building of the house of God – Zech 1:16, Zech 2:1-2, 1 Chr 29, 2 Sam 8:2, Hab 3:6, Isa 40:12, Isa 65:7, Deut 21:2, Num 35:5
  • Key verses in the Prophets:
    • Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that the city shall be built to the LORD from the tower of Hananeel unto the gate of the corner. And the measuring line shall yet go forth over against it upon the hill Gareb, and shall compass about to Goath. (Jer 31:38-39)
    • And he brought me thither, and, behold, there was a man, whose appearance was like the appearance of brass, with a line of flax in his hand, and a measuring reed; and he stood in the gate. (Eze 40:3)
    • He measured also the porch of the gate within, one reed. Then measured he the porch of the gate, eight cubits; and the posts thereof, two cubits; and the porch of the gate was inward. (Eze 40:8-9)
    • I lifted up mine eyes again, and looked, and behold a man with a measuring line in his hand. Then said I, Whither goest thou? And he said unto me, To measure Jerusalem, to see what is the breadth thereof, and what is the length thereof. And, behold, the angel that talked with me went forth, and another angel went out to meet him, And said unto him, Run, speak to this young man, saying, Jerusalem shall be inhabited as towns without walls for the multitude of men and ca-ttle therein: For I, saith the LORD, will be unto her a wall of fire round about, and will be the glory in the midst of her. (Zec 2:1-5)
    • Therefore thus saith the LORD; I am returned to Jerusalem with mercies: my house shall be built in it, saith the LORD of hosts, and a line shall be stretched forth upon Jerusalem. Cry yet, saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; My cities through prosperity shall yet be spread abroad; and the LORD shall yet comfort Zion, and shall yet choose Jerusalem. (Zec 1:16-17)
  • Built (Edify)
    • Then had the churches rest throughout all Judaea and Galilee and Samaria, and were edified; and walking in the fear of the Lord, and in the comfort of the Holy Ghost, were multiplied. (Act 9:31)
    • Let us therefore follow after the things which make for peace, and things wherewith one may edify another. (Rom 14:19)
    • Let every one of us please his neighbour for his good to edification. (Rom 15:2)
    • Now as touching things offered unto idols, we know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but charity edifieth. (1Co 8:1)
    • All things are lawful for me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but all things edify not. (1Co 10:23)
    • But he that prophesieth speaketh unto men to edification, and exhortation, and comfort. (1Co 14:3)
    • He that speaketh in an unknown tongue edifieth himself; but he that prophesieth edifieth the church. (1Co 14:4)
    • I would that ye all spake with tongues, but rather that ye prophesied: for greater is he that prophesieth than he that speaketh with tongues, except he interpret, that the church may receive edifying. (1Co 14:5)
    • Even so ye, forasmuch as ye are zealous of spiritual gifts, seek that ye may excel to the edifying of the church. (1Co 14:12)
    • For thou verily givest thanks well, but the other is not edified. (1Co 14:17)
    • How is it then, brethren? when ye come together, every one of you hath a psalm, hath a doctrine, hath a tongue, hath a revelation, hath an interpretation. Let all things be done unto edifying. (1Co 14:26)
    • For though I should boast somewhat more of our authority, which the Lord hath given us for edification, and not for your destruction, I should not be ashamed: (2Co 10:8)
    • Again, think ye that we excuse ourselves unto you? we speak before God in Christ: but we do all things, dearly beloved, for your edifying. (2Co 12:19)
    • Therefore I write these things being absent, lest being present I should use sharpness, according to the power which the Lord hath given me to edification, and not to destruction. (2Co 13:10)
    • For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ: (Eph 4:12)
    • From whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, maketh increase of the body unto the edifying of itself in love. (Eph 4:16)
    • Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers. (Eph 4:29)
    • Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as also ye do. (1Th 5:11)
    • Neither give heed to fables and endless genealogies, which minister questions, rather than godly edifying which is in faith: so do. (1Ti 1:4)
  • Foundation of the world
    • That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying, I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things which have been kept secret from the foundation of the world. (Mat 13:35)
    • Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world: (Mat 25:34)
    • That the blood of all the prophets, which was shed from the foundation of the world, may be required of this generation; (Luk 11:50)
    • Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am; that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given me: for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world. (Joh 17:24)
    • According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love: (Eph 1:4)
    • For we which have believed do enter into rest, as he said, As I have sworn in my wrath, if they shall enter into my rest: although the works were finished from the foundation of the world. (Heb 4:3)
    • For then must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world: but now once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself. (Heb 9:26)
    • Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you, (1Pe 1:20)
    • And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world. (Rev 13:8)
    • 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, when they behold the beast that was, and is not, and yet is. (Rev 17:8)
  • City – Kingdom of God – see Rev 21:2, Rev 21:10 notes
  • Gates – access to kingdom of God (salvation) – see Rev 21:12 notes
  • Wall – salvation – protects – see Rev 21:12 notes

21:16 

And the city lieth foursquare, and the length is as large as the breadth: and he measured the city with the reed, twelve thousand furlongs. The length and the breadth and the height of it are equal.

• Four square Gr: tetragonos (G5068) – literally, 4 corners – Rev 21:16 (New Jerusalem)
  • 4 – points to universality – see Rev 21:13 notes above; also Rev 4:5-9 notes
• 12,000
  • 12 – see Rev 4:4, Rev 7:1-8, Rev 21:12 notes
  • 1000 – see Rev 20:2 notes
    • In 2 Peter 3:9, we see that a 1000 years is as 1 day and 1 day as a 1000 years. Other than Revelation 20, this is the only other occurrence of 1000 years in the New Testament.
    • 1000 Points to the Fullness of God’s Salvation Program during the Church Age – Rev 20:3-7
    • For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night. Ps 90:4
    • For every beast of the forest is mine, and the cattle upon a thousand hills. (Psalms 50:10)
    • He hath remembered his covenant forever, the word which he commanded to a thousand generations. (Psalms 105:8)
    • The law of thy mouth is better unto me than thousands of gold and silver. (Psalms 119:72)
    • But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. (2 Peter 3:8)
    • For a day in thy courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness. (Psalms 84:10)
    • For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night. (Psalms 90:4)
    • A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at thy right hand; but it shall not come nigh thee. (Psalms 91:7)
    • Yea, though he live a thousand years twice told, yet hath he seen no good: do not all go to one place? (Ecclesiastes 6:6)
    • Which yet my soul seeketh, but I find not: one man among a thousand have I found; but a woman among all those have I not found. (Ecclesiastes 7:28)
    • And the women answered one another as they played, and said, Saul hath slain his thousands, and David his ten thousands. (1 Samuel 18:7)
    • (The LORD God of your fathers make you a thousand times so many more as ye are, and bless you, as he hath promised you!) (Deuteronomy 1:11)
    • And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me and keep my commandments. (Deuteronomy 5:10)
    • Know therefore that the LORD thy God, he is God, the faithful God, which keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations; (Deuteronomy 7:9)
    • Thy neck is like the tower of David builded for an armoury, whereon there hang a thousand bucklers, all shields of mighty men. (Song of Solomon 4:4)
    • And it shall come to pass in that day, that every place shall be, where there were a thousand vines at a thousand silverlings, it shall even be for briers and thorns. (Isaiah 7:23)
    • One thousand shall flee at the rebuke of one; at the rebuke of five shall ye flee: till ye be left as a beacon upon the top of a mountain, and as an ensign on an hill. (Isaiah 30:17)
    • A little one shall become a thousand, and a small one a strong nation: I the LORD will hasten it in his time. (Isaiah 60:22)
    • For thus saith the Lord GOD; The city that went out by a thousand shall leave an hundred, and that which went forth by an hundred shall leave ten, to the house of Israel. (Amos 5:3)
    • If there be a messenger with him, an interpreter, one among a thousand, to shew unto man his uprightness: (Job 33:23)
    • If he will contend with him, he cannot answer him one of a thousand. (Job 9:3)
    • See 20:1-3 , Rev 7:1-8, Ps 50:10, Ps 105:8, Ps 119:72, 2 Pet 3:8, Rev 20:1-8, Ps 84:10, Ps 90:4, 91:7, Ecc 6:6, 7:28, 1 Sam 18:7, Deut 1:11, Deut 5:10, Deut 7:9
  • Furlong – (Gr: stadion) – 6 occurrences

• • Furlong – G4712 (Gr: stadion)

• Emmaus to Jerusalem – 600 furlongs – Lk 24:13
• 25-30 furlongs saw Jesus walking on water – John 6:19
• Bethany to Jerusalem – 15 furlong – John 11:18
• A race – 1 Cor 9:24
• 1600 furlongs – blood – Rev 14:20
• 12,000 furlongs – New Jerusalem – Rev 21:16 (1 and ½ miles)
• Furlong – 660 feet (about one-eighth of a mile)

• Length, breath, height the same – 3 – Will of God (see 21:13 notes)
  • … The length and the breadth and the height of it are equal. (Rev 21:16)
  • 3 Directions – points to the will of God (see previous slide)
  • … being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height and to know the love of Christ, which passes knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fullness of God.  (Eph 3:17-19)
  • 4 direction – universal love of Christ
  • Wherefore he says, When he ascended up on high, he led captivity captive, and gave gifts unto men. (Eph 4:8)
  • … I send the promise of my Father upon you: but tarry ye in the city of Jerusalem, until ye be endued with power from on high. (Luk 24:49)
  • Let the brother of low degree rejoice in that he is exalted (Jas 1:9)

21:17 

And he measured the wall thereof, an hundred and forty and four cubits, according to the measure of a man, that is, of the angel.

• Measured – see notes above on Rev 21:15
• Bible does not state whether this is the height or thickness of the wall
• Man – Anthropos (G444) – mankind
• Angel – Gr: aggelos (G32 – messenger)
  • Mankind meant to be messengers of the Gospel
• Wall – see notes on 21:12 above
• 12 – See notes Rev 21:12 above
• 144 Cubits – see Rev 7:1-8 notes
  • Saved – Jew and Gentile
    • Is he the God of the Jews only? is he not also of the Gentiles? Yes, of the Gentiles also:  (Rom 3:29)
    • Even us, whom he hath called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles?  (Rom 9:24)
    • Give none offence, neither to the Jews, nor to the Gentiles, nor to the church of God:  (1Co 10:32)
    • For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit.  (1Co 12:13)
  • Points to pre-cross church (Israel) and post-cross church
  • God is not a respecter of persons ‑ Acts 10:34-38, Deut 10:17, 2 Chr 19:7, Ro 2:11, Gal 2:6, Eph 6:9, Col 3:25, 1 Pet 1:17
  • See notes on Rev 4:6-9 concerning the numbers 12 and 24
  • 144,000 in Rev 14:1-5 – points to totality of God’s people
  • 24 elders together – Rev 4:4, Rev 4:10, Rev 5:8, Rev 5:14, Rev 7:11, Rev 19:4 – completeness of OT and NT church
  • Israel / Church no longer two but one – Eph 2:11-22, Gal 6:16, Ro 2:28-29, Ro 9:6-8, Acts 7:52,  James 1:1, 2 Cor 6:16 w/ Ez 37:15-28
  • New Jerusalem had 12 gates, with 12 angels at the 12 gates with the names of the 12 tribes of the children of Israel – Rev 21:12
  • Wall of city had 12 foundations, with the names of the 12 apostles of the Lamb – Rev 21:14
  • Apostles / 12 tribes together in Scripture – Rev 21:12-14, Mat 19:28, Lk 22:30, 2 Pet 3:2, Eph 2:20, 3:5
  • Israel (Old Testament) – God’s chosen people – Deut 7:7-8, Amos 3:2, Gen 17:7, Ex 129:5-6, Is 51:2, etc.
  • 12 of Benjamin and 12 servants of David – 2 Sam 2:15
  • David’s Government:

• • • 24,000 Levites work on the house of the Lord (plus 6000 as officers and judges) – 1 Chr 23:4

• 24 priests for governors (1 Sam 24:5) of the sanctuary – 1 Chr 24:3-19
• 24 groups (watches) of musicians with harps, psalteries and cymbals to prophecy (each with 12 brethren) – 1 Chr 25:9-31

• • • 12 courses (one for each month) were 24,000 officers that served the king in any matter (1 Chr 27:1-15)

• 24 bulls for sacrifice – Num 7:88

• • 24,000 died in plague (Baalam) – Num 25:9
  • Philistine man of great stature with 12 fingers and 12 toes – 2 Sam 21:20, 1 Chr 20:6
  • Baasha the son of Ahijah to reign over all Israel – 24 years  – 1Ki 15:33

• 24^th day prophecies – 10:4, Hag. 1:15, Hag 2:10, Hag 2:18, Hag 2:20, Zec. 1:7.
• 12 x 12 – fulLness of church organization

• Cubit (G4083) – Gr: pechus
  • Who can add a cubit to his stature – Mat 6:27, Lk 12:25
  • 200 cubits off the shore – John 21:8
  • Rev 21:17 – 144 cubits – the measure of the wall (thickness)
• Man, that is, an angel – men are intended to be witnesses/messengers – see Ro 10:14-18

21:18  Wall of Jasper, City of Gold

And the building of the wall of it was of jasper: and the city was pure gold, like unto clear glass.

• Wall – see notes on Rev 21:12 above
• City – see notes on Rev 21:2 above
• Jasper – see Rev 21:11 notes above (throne – Rev 4:3)
• Pure gold – Gold – great value – see Rev 21:15 notes above
• Pure – see Rev 21:11 notes
• Clear glass – Rev 21:11 notes above
• Clear – Gr: katharos (G2513)
  • Gr: katharos (G2513) – clean, clear, pure – 28 occurrences – see also G2511, G2512, G2514
  • 7 angels with 7 bowls of wrath – Rev 15:4-6
  • Armies in heaven with fine linen white and pure – Rev 19:14 (see also Rev 17:14, Psa 68:17, Psa 149:6-9, Zec 14:5, Mat 26:53, 2Th 1:7, Jud 1:14
  • Pure river water of Life – Rev 22:1
  • Lamb’s wife – clean and white – Rev 19:8
  • Word of God is referred to as pure – Ps 119:140, Pr 30:5, Heb 10:20, Ps 12:6, Pr 15:26, Titus 1:15
  • Our hearts should be pure – 1 Tim 1:5, Mat 5:8, 2 Tim 2:22
  • Our consciences should be pure – 1 Tim 3:9, 2 Tim 1:3
• Glass (G5193 (hualinos) / G5194 (hualos) – 4 total occurrences)
  • And before the throne there was a sea of glass like unto crystal … (Rev 4:6)
  • And I saw as it were a sea of glass mingled with fire: and them that had gotten the victory over the beast, and over his image, and over his mark, and over the number of his name, stand on the sea of glass, having the harps of God. (Rev 15:2)
  • And the building of the wall of it was of jasper: and the city was pure gold, like unto clear glass. (Rev 21:18)
    • Glass equate with ‘pure’ (G2513, katharos – literally, pure – 28 occurrences)
    • ‘Pure’ cognates – G2511-G2514 (66 occurrences as pure, cleansed, clean, etc.)
  • And the twelve gates were twelve pearls; every several gate was of one pearl: and the street of the city was pure gold, as it were transparent glass. (Rev 21:21)
    • Transparent (G1307, diaphanous, literally – to shine through (G5316))

21:19-20    Precious Stones of the Foundation

And the foundations of the wall of the city were garnished with all manner of precious stones. The first foundation was jasper; the second, sapphire; the third, a chalcedony; the fourth, an emerald; The fifth, sardonyx; the sixth, sardius; the seventh, chrysolyte; the eighth, beryl; the ninth, a topaz; the tenth, a chrysoprasus; the eleventh, a jacinth; the twelfth, an amethyst.

 

• Foundations – see Rev 21:14 notes
• Precious stones – see Rev 21:11 notes – type of believers
• 1^st – Jasper – see Rev 4:3, Rev 21:11, Rev 21:18 notes
  • Jasper – opaque quartz – polished
    • New Testament (G2393) – Rev 21:11 (glory), Rev 21:18-19
    • New Jerusalem – Having the glory of God: and her light was like unto a stone most precious, even like a jasper stone, clear as crystal – (Rev 21:11) – clear as crystal – see Rev 22:1 (only other occurrence of crystal) – points to the river of the water of life. Job 28:17 (crystal) refers to great value compared to the greater value of wisdom
    • See additional notes on Rev 4:6 concerning crystal
    • Walls of New Jerusalem – jasper – Rev 21:18
    • 1^st stone in foundation – Rev 21:19
    • Old Testament (H3471) – Eze 28:13 (precious stone covering Satan in Garden of Eden), Ex 28:20 (4^th stone in Aaron’s breastplate – Ex 39:13)
  • 2^nd – Sapphire
    • Ex 28:18, 39:11 (Aaron’s breastplate), Eze 1:26, 10:1 (throne over cherubim), Ez 28:13 (Satan’s covering in Garden), Is 54:11 (foundation), Lam 4:7 (believers)
  • 3^rd – chalcedony – G5472 (only occurrence) – derived from G5475 (chalkos) meaning brass
    • Brass – Brass is an inferior metal to gold and silver (Dan 2:33-45, Isa 60:17) and is typically used by those who are work. Brass can be the material of idols (Rev 9:20, Dan 5:4, Dan 5:23).  But, it is also representative of the feet of Christ that walked the earth and therefore, refer to the work of salvation (Rev 1:15, 2:18).  Brass is used as money (Mat 10:9). It is also used to represent Greece (Dan 2:32).  It also represents someone who is obstinate (Is 48:4).  It was used for its strength (Job 40:18, Isa 45:2, Ps 107:16).  The altar of God in the temple where sacrifices were made was brass (Ex 39:39) (as well as other objects that made up the temple or were related to the temple (pillars, laver, staves, fasteners, etc. – Exo 26:11, Exo 26:37, Exo 27:2, Exo 27:3, Exo 27:4, Exo 27:6, Exo 27:10, Exo 27:11, Exo 27:17, Exo 27:18, Exo 27:19, Exo 30:18, Exo 31:4, Exo 35:5, Exo 35:24, Exo 35:32, Exo 36:18, Exo 36:38, Exo 38:2, Exo 38:3, Exo 38:5, Exo 38:6, Exo 38:8, Exo 38:11, Exo 38:17, Exo 38:19, Exo 38:20, Exo 38:29, Exo 39:39).  Therefore, we can see brass in the Babylonian merchandise as a symbol of strength and work.
  • 4^th – emerald – see Rev 4:3 notes – rainbow covenant
    • Emerald – green stone
      • Stone in New Jerusalem foundation – Rev 21:19
      • Stone was covering of Satan in Garden of Eden (cherub that covers) – Eze 28:13
      • Stone in Aaron’s breastplate – Ex 28:18, Ex 39:11
      • Syria merchandise – Eze 27:16
    • 5^th – sardonyx – only occurrence
    • 6^th – Sardius – see Rev 4:3 notes (ruby – red – blood)
      • Sardius – a red stone – Rev 21:20
        • New Testament (H4555/H4556) – a red stone – Rev 4:3 / Rev 21:20
        • Old Testament – H124 (odem), similar to Edom (H123) – Ex 28:13, Ex 28:17, Ex 39:10
        • Sacrifices ‑ Num 19:2, Ex 25:5, 26:14, 35:7, 23, 36:19, 34
        • Red as blood – 2 Ki 3:22
        • Edom ‑ Gen 25:30
        • David was ruddy ‑ 1 Sam 16:12, 17:42
      • 7^th – chrysolite – only occurrence – golden stone
      • 8^th – beryl – Ex 28:20, 39:13, Song 5:14, Eze 1:16,10:9, 28:13
      • 9^th – Topaz – Ex 28:17, 39:10, Eze 28:13
      • 10^th – chyroprasus – Golden leek, only occurrence
      • 11^th – jacinth – see Rev 9:17 notes
        • Only occurrence of G5191 (huakinthinos) – literally, from hyacinthine – deep blue
          • G5192 (huakinthos) – Rev 21:20 – name of the eleventh apostolic precious bluish stone
          • Satan’s kingdom looks like true apostle
        • Blue in OT – H8504 (Heb: tekeleth, 49 occurrences)
          • Tabernacle, curtains, loops, vail, hangings – Ex 25:4, Ex 26:1, Ex 26:4, Ex 26:31, Ex 26:36, Ex 27:16, Ex 35:6, Ex 35:23, Ex 35:25, Ex 35:35, Ex 36:8, Ex 36:11, Ex 36:35, Ex 36:37, Ex 38:18, Ex 38:23, Num 4:6
          • Table of showbread – cloth of blue – Num 4:7
          • Cloth of blue to cover the candlestick of light – Num 4:9
          • Golden altar of incense – cover – Num 4:11
          • Instruments of service of the tabernacle wrapped in blue cloth – Num 4:12
          • Color in the high priests ephod / girdle / lace – Ex 28:5-6, Ex 28:8, Ex 28:28, Ex 39:1-2, Ex 39:5, Ex 39:29
          • Robe of ephod all blue – Ex 28:31, Ex 28:33 (pomegranates of blue), Ex 39:3 Ex 39:22, Ex 39:24
          • Blue lace on the mitre for the priests head – Ex 28:37-38, Ex 39:31
          • Breastplate – Ex 28:15, Ex 39:8, Ex 39:21
          • Fringes (tassles) on borders of their garments – Num 15:38
          • Preparation for building the temple – 2 Chr 2:7
          • Vail of blue, purple crimson, fine linen with cherubims – 2 Chr 3:14
          • Court of King Ahasuerus’ garden for feast – Est 1:6
          • Mordecai in royal apparel of blue and white – Est 8:15
          • Idolators – blue and purple is their clothing – Jer 10:9
          • Tyre’s fine linen from Egypt – blue and purple – blue clothes – Ex 27:7, Ex 27:24
          • Often combined with purple – Exo 25:4, Exo 26:1, Exo 26:31, Exo 26:36, Exo 27:16, Exo 28:5, Exo 28:6, Exo 28:8, Exo 28:15, Exo 28:33, Exo 35:6, Exo 35:23, Exo 35:25, Exo 35:35, Exo 36:8, Exo 36:35, Exo 36:37, Exo 38:18, Exo 38:23, Exo 39:1, Exo 39:2, Exo 39:3, Exo 39:5, Exo 39:8, Exo 39:24, Exo 39:29, 2Ch 2:7, 2Ch 2:14, 2Ch 3:14, Est 1:6, Est 8:15, Jer 10:9, Eze 27:7
          • Purple
            • Mk 15:17-20, John 19:2-5 – Christ was made to wear a ‘purple robe’ and mocked prior to His crucifixion
            • Est 8:15, Song 7:5 – Purple, along with fine linen, was considered to be royal apparel
            • Ex 39:5 – used in the Ephod for the high priest of Israel
            • Lk 16:19 – adorned on the rich man
            • Babylon – Rev 17:4
            • Babylon’s merchandise – Rev 18:12, Rev 18:16
          • Blue, purple and scarlet in combination – Exo 25:4, Exo 26:1, Exo 26:31, Exo 26:36, Exo 27:16, Exo 28:5, Exo 28:6, Exo 28:8, Exo 28:15, Exo 28:33, Exo 35:6, Exo 35:23, Exo 35:25, Exo 35:35, Exo 36:8, Exo 36:35, Exo 36:37, Exo 38:18, Exo 38:23, Exo 39:1, Exo 39:2, Exo 39:3, Exo 39:5, Exo 39:8, Exo 39:24, Exo 39:29.
          • Imitation of Christians as priests and kings – Rev 1:6, Rev 5:10, 1 Pet 2:9‑10, Eph 2:6, 2 Tim 2:12, Ro 5:17
        • 12^th – Amethyst – Ex 28:19, 39:12
        • Aaron’s breastplate
          • And thou shalt set in it settings of stones, even four rows of stones: the first row shall be a sardius, a topaz, and a carbuncle: this shall be the first row. And the second row shall be an emerald, a sapphire, and a diamond. And the third row a ligure, an agate, and an amethyst. And the fourth row a beryl, and an onyx, and a jasper: they shall be set in gold in their inclosings. And the stones shall be with the names of the children of Israel, twelve, according to their names, like the engravings of a signet; every one with his name shall they be according to the twelve tribes. (Exo 28:17-21)

21:21  12 Gates and the Street

And the twelve gates were twelve pearls: every several gate was of one pearl: and the street of the city was pure gold, as it were transparent glass.

• 12 – see notes above on Rev 21:12 – point to the organization of God’s people
• 12 Pearls – see notes on Rev 17:4, 18:12,16, Mat 7:6, 13:45-46
  • Pearls – An important reference to a pearl is found in the parable of the Pearl of Great Price (Mat 13:44-45). In that parable, the kingdom of God is compared to a merchant who is searching for pearls and finds a pearl of great price.  He sells all he has so he can buy this pearl.  In the Bible, we find that pearls are something considered very precious (1 Tim 2:9, Eze 16:10, Eze 16:13, Job 28:18) and should not be unduly cast before swine (represents the reprobate), so that they may trample on them (Mat 7:6).  Notably, the 12 gates that allow entrance into heavenly Jerusalem are pearls (Rev 21:21).  The gates are the way of salvation in the eternal city of God, which indeed is of infinite value.  It is worth more than anything else we own and therefore, selling all we have for that great pearl is warranted.  The wearing of pearls by Babylon reflect an appearance of Christian salvation, but is not reflective of her actual works.
  • Mat 13:44-45 – Merchant sold all he had for the pearl of great price (man gives all for salvation)
    • For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?  (Mar 8:36)
    • Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?  (Mar 8:37)
    • For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?  (Mat 16:26)
    • For what is a man advantaged, if he gain the whole world, and lose himself, or be cast away?  (Luk 9:25)
    • They that trust in their wealth, and boast themselves in the multitude of their riches;  None of them can by any means redeem his brother, nor give to God a ransom for him:   (For the redemption of their soul is precious, and it ceaseth for ever:)  (Psa 49:6-8)
    • And Satan answered the LORD, and said, Skin for skin, yea, all that a man hath will he give for his life.  (Job 2:4)
  • Street – broad way – see Rev 11:8 notes
  • Street – the place of witnessing (outside of the temple)
  • Street in eternity is Paradise (Rev 22:2 with Rev 2:7) – Tree of Life in midst
    • Paradise – Gr: paradeisos  – 3 occurrences – 2 Cor 12:4, Lk 23:43, Rev 2:7, Eze 31:8
    • And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.  (Gen 2:9)
  • Street – G4113, plateia – literally, wide area – 9 occurrences
    • Hypocrites love to pray in the corners of the streets – Mat 6:5
    • Will not hear Jesus’ voice in the streets – Mat 12:19 (quoted in Is 42:1-4 (street = H2351, chuts)
    • If a disciple is not received in a city, then go out into the street and shake of the dust of your feet as a testimony … Lk 10:10
    • Master of house taught in our (unsaved) streets – Lk 13:26
    • Go into streets and lanes of the city and bring in poor, maimed, halt and blind … Lk 14:21
    • Brought sick into the streets so shadow of Peter may overshadow them – Acts 5:15
    • 2 witnesses dead bodies in the street of Jerusalem – Rev 11:8
    • Street of New Jerusalem pure gold, transparent glass – Rev 21:21
    • Midst of street and on either side of the river was the tree of life – Rev 22:2
  • Street (H2351, chuts – quoted in Mat 12:19) – 164 occurrences (literally, to sever, i.e., outside, without)
  • Street (H7339, rechob) – 43 occurrences, literally – a broad place (often used with H2351)
    • Sodom – where angels intended to abide at night – Gen 19:2
    • Where spoil of a conquered city is brought to – Deut 13:16
    • Levite and the old man: No man took him into house, so he stayed in streets / saw wayfaring man in streets – Jud 19:15-20
    • Where the Philistines hung Saul and Jonathan – 2 Sam 21:2
    • Hezekiah gathers priests and the Levites together  into the east  street  (2Ch 29:4)
    • And he set captains  of war  over  the people,  and gathered them together  to  him in  the street  of the gate  of the city  (2Ch 32:6)
    • Then all the men  of Judah  and Benjamin  gathered themselves together  unto Jerusalem  within three    It  was the ninth  month,  on the twentieth  day of the month;  and all  the people  sat  in the street  of the house  of God,  trembling  because  of this matter,  and for the great rain.   (Ezr 10:9)
    • And all the people  gathered themselves together  as one  man  into  the street  that  was before  the water  gate;  and they spake  unto Ezra  the scribe  to bring the book  of the law  of Moses,  which  the LORD  had commanded  to Israel. (Neh 8:1)
    • And he read therein before  the street  that  was before  the water  gate  from  the morning  until  midday,    before  the men  and the women,  and those that could understand;  and the ears  of all  the people  were attentive unto  the book  of the law.  (Neh 8:3)
    • So the people went forth,  and brought  them, and made  themselves booths,  every one  upon  the roof of his house,  and in their courts,  and in the courts  of the house  of God,  and in the street  of the water  gate,  and in the street  of the gate  of Ephraim.  (Neh 8:16)
    • So Hatach went forth  to  Mordecai  unto  the street  of the city,  which  was before  the king’s    (Est 4:6)
    • Mordecai honored in the streets of the city – Est 6:9-11
    • A place of honor of Job: When I went out to the gate  through  the city,  when I prepared  my seat  in the street!  (Job 29:7)
    • David’s complaint: Wickedness  is in the midst  thereof: deceit  and guile  depart  not  from  her streets. (Psa 55:11)
    • That our oxen may be strong to labour;  that there be no  breaking in,  nor  going out;  that there be no  complaining  in our streets.  (Psa 144:14)
    • The slothful man saith,  There is a lion  in the way;  a lion  is in  the streets.  (Pro 26:13)
    • I will rise now,  and go about  the city  in the streets,  and in the broad ways  I will seek  him whom my soul  loveth:    I sought  him, but I found  him not. (Son 3:2)
    • And judgment is turned away  backward,  and justice  standeth  afar off:    for  truth  is fallen  in the street,  and equity  cannot enter. (Isa 59:14)
    • There shall be lamentation generally  upon  all  the housetops  of Moab,  and in the streets  thereof: for  I have broken Moab  like a vessel  wherein is no  pleasure,  saith  the LORD. (Jer 48:38)
    • Therefore her young men  shall fall  in her streets,  and all  the men  of war  shall be cut off  in that  day,  saith  the LORD  of hosts. (Jer 49:26)
    • Therefore shall her young men  fall  in the streets,  and all  her men  of war  shall be cut off  in that  day,  saith  the LORD.  (Jer 50:30)
    • Mine eyes do fail  with tears,  my bowels  are troubled,  my liver  is poured  upon the earth,  for  the destruction  of the daughter  of my people;  because the children  and the sucklings  swoon  in the streets  of the city.  (Lam 2:11)
    • They say to their mothers,  Where  is corn  and wine?  when they swooned  as the wounded  in the streets  of the city,  when their soul  was poured out  into  their mothers’    (Lam 2:12)
    • They hunt our steps,  that we cannot go    in our streets:  our end  is near,  our days  are fulfilled;  for  our end  is come.  (Lam 4:18)
    • That thou hast also built unto thee an eminent place,  and hast made  thee an high place  in every   (Eze 16:24)
    • In that thou buildest thine eminent place  in the head  of every  way,  and makest  thine high place  in every  street;  and hast not  been  as an harlot,  in that thou scornest  hire;  (Eze 16:31)
    • Know therefore and understand,  that from  the going forth  of the commandment  to restore  and to build  Jerusalem  unto  the Messiah  the Prince  shall be seven  weeks,  and threescore  and two  weeks:  the street  shall be built  again,  and the wall,  even in troublous   (Dan 9:25)
    • Thus saith  the LORD  of hosts;  There shall yet  old men  and old women  dwell  in the streets  of Jerusalem,  and every man  with his staff  in his hand  for very  (Zec 8:4)
    • And the streets of the city  shall be full  of boys  and girls  playing  in the streets   (Zec 8:5)
  • H2351 with H7339
    • Wisdom crieth  without;  she uttereth  her voice  in the streets  (Pro 1:20)
    • Let thy fountains be dispersed  abroad,  and rivers  of waters  in the streets.  (Pro 5:16)
    • Now is she without,  now  in the streets,  and lieth in wait  at  every  corner (Pro 7:12)
    • The slothful man saith,  There is a lion  without,  I shall be slain  in  the streets. (Pro 22:13)
    • In their streets they shall gird  themselves with sackcloth:  on  the tops of their houses,  and in their streets,  every one  shall howl,  weeping    (Isa 15:3)
    • Run ye to and fro through the streets  of Jerusalem,  and see  now,  and know,  and seek  in the broad places  thereof, if  ye can find  a man,  if  there be  any that executeth  judgment,  that seeketh  the truth;  and I will pardon   (Jer 5:1)
    • For death  is come up  into our windows,  and is entered  into our palaces,  to cut off  the children  from without,  and the young men  from the streets. (Jer 9:21)
    • Therefore the LORD,  the God  of hosts,  the Lord,  saith  thus;  Wailing  shall be in all  streets;  and they shall say  in all  the highways,  Alas!  alas!  and they shall call  the husbandman  to  mourning,  and such as are skillful of lamentation  to    (Amo 5:16)
    • The chariots shall rage  in the streets,  they shall jostle one against another  in the broad ways:  they shall seem  like torches,  they shall run  like the lightnings. (Nah 2:4)
  • Pure gold – see 21:18 notes – Gr: katharos (G2513) – clean, clear, pure – 28 occurrences – see also G2511, G2512, G2514
    • Pure gold is as transparent glass
    • Pure’ cognates – G2511-G2514 (66 occurrences as pure, cleansed, clean, etc.)
  • Gold – great value to God (1 Pet 1:7, Job 28:16, Zeph 1:18, Ps 127, Ps 119:72, Ps 19:7-10, Is 13;12, Pr 16:16, Pr 8:10, Pr 8:19, Pr 3:13-15, etc.).
  • Transparent glass – see 21:18 notes
  • Glass (G5193 (hualinos) / G5194 (hualos) – 4 total occurrences)
    • And before the throne there was a sea of glass like unto crystal … (Rev 4:6)
    • And I saw as it were a sea of glass mingled with fire: and them that had gotten the victory over the beast, and over his image, and over his mark, and over the number of his name, stand on the sea of glass, having the harps of God. (Rev 15:2)
    • And the building of the wall of it was of jasper: and the city was pure gold, like unto clear glass. (Rev 21:18)
    • And the twelve gates were twelve pearls; every several gate was of one pearl: and the street of the city was pure gold, as it were transparent glass. (Rev 21:21)
    • Transparent (G1307, diaphanous, literally – to shine through (G5316))

21:22-24  No Temple, No Sun, No Moon – Nations Walk in the Light

 

21:22

And I saw no temple therein: for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple of it.

• At that day ye shall know that I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you.  (Joh 14:20)
• Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the LORD for ever.  (Psa 23:6)
• Thou shalt guide me with thy counsel, and afterward receive me to glory. Whom have I in heaven but thee? and there is none upon earth that I desire beside thee. My flesh and my heart faileth: but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever. (Psa 73:24-26)
• How excellent is thy lovingkindness, O God! therefore the children of men put their trust under the shadow of thy wings. They shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of thy house; and thou shalt make them drink of the river of thy pleasures. For with thee is the fountain of life: in thy light shall we see light. O continue thy lovingkindness unto them that know thee; and thy righteousness to the upright in heart. (Psa 36:7-10)
• For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring.  (Act 17:28)
• See also Joh 6:56, Joh 15:5-7, Rom 8:1, Rom 16:7, 1Co 1:30, 2Co 5:17, 2Co 12:2, 2Co 13:5, Gal 2:20, Eph 2:10, Col 1:27, 1Jn 4:12
• Temple – Gr: naos (G3485) – 46 occurrences
  • Mat 23:16, Mat 23:17, Mat 23:21, Mat 23:35, Mat 26:61, Mat 27:5, Mat 27:40, Mat 27:51, Mar 14:58, Mar 15:29, Mar 15:38, Luk 1:9, Luk 1:21, Luk 1:22, Luk 23:45, Joh 2:19, Joh 2:20, Joh 2:21, Act 7:48, Act 17:24, Act 19:24, 1Co 3:16, 1Co 3:17, 1Co 6:19, 2Co 6:16, Eph 2:21, 2Th 2:4, Rev 3:12, Rev 7:15, Rev 11:1, Rev 11:2, Rev 11:19, Rev 14:15, Rev 14:17, Rev 15:5, Rev 15:6, Rev 15:8, Rev 16:1, Rev 16:17, Rev 21:22.
• Temple – Where God and His people reside
  • Individual Christian – 1 Cor 6:19
  • Church – 2 Thess 2:4, 1 Cor 3:16-17, 2 Cor 6:16, Eph 2:21
  • Christ’s Body – Mat 26:61, Mat 27:40, Mk 14:58, Mk 15:29, John 2:19-21 (all naos – see below)
  • Christ’s body is the church – Col 1:18, Col 1:24, Col 2:17-19, Col 3:15, Eph 1:23, Eph 2:16, Eph 4:12-16, Eph 5:23,Eph 5:30, 1 Cor 12:12-27
  • Spiritual place in heaven – Rev 11:2, Rev 11:19, Rev 14:15-17, Rev 15:5-8, Is 6:1-4
    • Christians are seated in heavenly places – Eph 2:5-6, Eph 1:13, Mat 26:29, Lk 12:37, Lk 22:29-30, John 12:26, John 14:3, John 17:21-26, Rev 3:20-21
  • Temple equals house – Lk 11:51
  • The True Tabernacle – Heb 8:2, 9:11,24 (kingdom of God)
  • Church equals house – John 14:2, 2 John 10, 1 Cor 16:15-19, 2 Tim 2:20, Eph 2:19, Heb 3:6, 1 Pet 2:5, 1 Pet 4:17, Ro 16:5
  • God does not dwell in physical temples – Acts 7:48, Acts 17:24, 1 Ki 8:27
  • God’s people are in Him:
    • For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring.  (Act 17:28)
    • For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him: And he is before all things, and by him all things consist. (Col 1:16-17)
    • He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, and lifteth up the beggar from the dunghill, to set them among princes, and to make them inherit the throne of glory: for the pillars of the earth are the LORD’S, and he hath set the world upon them. (1Sa 2:8)
    • Yet a little while, and the world seeth me no more; but ye see me: because I live, ye shall live also. At that day ye shall know that I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you. (Joh 14:19-20)
    • In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind. (Job 12:10)
    • For he is not a God of the dead, but of the living: for all live unto him. (Luk 20:38)

21:23 

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.

• No sun, no moon – see notes on Rev 22:5 below
• The sun shall be no more thy light by day; neither for brightness shall the moon give light unto thee: but the LORD shall be unto thee an everlasting light, and thy God thy glory. Thy sun shall no more go down; neither shall thy moon withdraw itself: for the LORD shall be thine everlasting light, and the days of thy mourning shall be ended. (Isa 60:19-20)
• … for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof. (Rev 21:23)
• Having the glory of God: and her light was like unto a stone most precious … (Rev 21:11)
• Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of the LORD is risen upon thee.  (Isa 60:1)
• The sun shall be no more thy light by day; neither for brightness shall the moon give light unto thee: but the LORD shall be unto thee an everlasting light, and thy God thy glory.  (Isa 60:19)
• Then shall thy light break forth as the morning, and thine health shall spring forth speedily: and thy righteousness shall go before thee; the glory of the LORD shall be thy rereward.  (Isa 58:8)
• Christ is symbolized as the Sun (Mal 4:2, 2 Pet 1:19, Rev 2:28, Rev 22:16, Mat 2:2, Mat 4:16, Num 24:7, Eph 5:14, Lk 1:78, Is 9:1-2, Is 59:8). He is the Sun of righteousness that rises with healing in His wings. He is the express radiance of God’s glory. We see when Christ was transfigured that the glory of Christ is like the sun (Mat 17:2).
• Light represents the Gospel (2 Cor 4:4-6, 2 Pet 1:19, 2 Tim 1:10, 1 Pet 2:9, Ps 43:3, Is 8:20
• No moon – see Rev 6:12, Rev 8:12, Rev 12:1 (that which reflects light) – no more types
• Creation reveals truth of God’s creation – Ps 19:1-5
• Christ is the Light ‑ John 1:4, John 1:9, John 3:19, John 8:12, John 9:5, John 11:9, John 12:36, John 12:46, John 21:23, Isa 60:1, Isa 60:20, 1 John 1:5, Ps 27:1, Ps 4:6, put on armour of light – Ro 13:12

• Moon – see notes on Rev 6:12 (that which reflects light – types and figures – month)
  • Feet – subjection – see notes on Rev 1:15-17, Rev 2:18, Rev 3:9

• Moon – a type of Old Covenant (Ceremonial law being a veiled symbol of the Gospel) – Gen 37:9-10, Rev 12:1, Job 25:5
  • Moon governed festivals / months – moon has no brightness in itself – it is a picture of types and figures which reflect spiritual truth
  • New moons related to law of God (symbols) – Col 2:13-17, Col 2:20-21, Gal 4:8-11
  • Moon under the feet of the woman – Rev 12:1
  • New Jerusalem has no need of the sun or moon – Rev 21:23
  • Moon has its type of glory – 1 Cor 15:41
  • Lunatic (G4583) – Mat 4:23-24, Mat 17:15
  • Moon appointed for seasons – Ps 104:19 (feasts)
  • Month (H2320 Heb: chodesh – 279 occurrences) – based on revolution of the moon – indicated when festivals occurred
  • Moon (Heb: H3394 / H3393, H3391, Heb: yareach) – 41 occurrences
  • Moon rules by night – Ps 136:7-9, Gen 1:14-18, Jer 31:35 (given for ordinances), Ps 104:19 (feasts)
  • Moon reflects light of sun – Christians are light in a dark world (Mat 5:14, Eph 5:8-14, Lk 11:34-36, Lk 16:8, John 12:36, 1 Thess 5:5, Col 1:12-13, Phil 2:15)
  • People to be judged by the Words of Christ / Law of God – John 12:48, Rev 19:11-13, 2 Thess 1:8, Ro 2:12-27, Rom 2:16, Rom 3:19-20, Rom 4:15, Rom 7:7-11, Rom 8:3; Deu 27:26; 2Co 3:7-9; Gal 2:16-19; Gal 3:10, Gal 3:22; Jas 2:10; Rev 20:12-15
  • Joseph’s dream – sun, moon and 11 stars bowed to him – Gen 37:9
  • Worship of sun, moon and stars – Deut 4:19, Deut 17:3, 2 Ki 23:5, Jer 8:2
  • Sun and moon stood still – Josh 10:12-13, Hab 3:11
  • God’s work of creation – Ps 8:3, Gen 1:14-16
  • God feared as long as the moon exists – Ps 72:5
  • Abundance of peace as long as the moon shines – Ps 72:7
  • Moon a faithful witness – Ps 89:37
  • Moon praises God – Ps 148:3
  • Will not be smitten by the moon – Ps 121:6
  • Sun by day, moon by night – Gen 1:16, Ps 121:6, Ps 136:9, Jer 31:35
  • Christians not ‘under the law’ – Rom 3:19, Rom 6:14, Rom 6:15, 1Co 9:20, 1Co 9:21, Gal 3:23, Gal 4:4, Gal 4:5, Gal 4:21, Gal 5:18.
  • Old Testament – shadow of the New – Col 2:17, Heb 8:5, Heb 10:1,
• Glory (due to who He is) – Ro 11:36, Lk 2:14, Ro 1:23, 2 Cor 1:20, Is 6:3, Ex 33:18-22, etc.
  • Rev 21:11, Rev 18:1, Isa 2:10, Isa 2:19, Isa 2:21, Hab 3:3, Mat 16:27, Mar 8:38, Joh 17:24, Act 22:11
  • Having the glory of God: and her light was like unto a stone most precious, even like a jasper stone, clear as crystal (Rev 21:11)

21:24 

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 honor into it.

• Gentiles come to the light:
  • And the Gentiles shall come to thy light, and kings to the brightness of thy rising. Lift up thine eyes round about, and see: all they gather themselves together, they come to thee: thy sons shall come from far, and thy daughters shall be nursed at thy side. Then thou shalt see, and flow together, and thine heart shall fear, and be enlarged; because the abundance of the sea shall be converted unto thee, the forces of the Gentiles shall come unto thee. (Isa 60:3-5)
  • Deu 32:43, Psa 22:27, Isa 2:2, Isa 52:15, Isa 55:5, Isa 55:10, Isa 66:12, Isa 66:18, Jer 4:2, Zec 2:11, Zec 8:22-23, Rom 15:10-12, Rom 15:16, Rom 15:26
• Nations – Gr: ethnos (G1484)
• Nations – The Greek word for nations is ‘ethnos’, which means a group of people who have a common ethnic (or cultural) background. This word is used extensively to refer to ‘gentiles’, which were those who were outside of the commonwealth of Israel (Eph 2:11-12).  This word should not be used in the context of people who live in a particular country unless the people of the country are all of the same ethnicity
• Extensively used in Revelation – Rev 2:26, Rev 5:9, Rev 7:9, Rev 10:11, Rev 11:2, Rev 11:9, Rev 11:18, Rev 12:5, Rev 13:7, Rev 14:6, Rev 14:8, Rev 15:4, Rev 16:19, Rev 17:15, Rev 18:3, Rev 18:23, Rev 19:15, Rev 20:3, Rev 20:8, Rev 21:24, Rev 21:26, Rev 22:2.
• Nation, kindred, tongue, people, multitudes – God is not a respecter of persons – Rev 5:9, Rev 7:9, Rev 10:11, Rev 13:7, Rev 14:6, Rev 17:15
• Points to those being saved:
  • And they sung a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open the seals thereof: for thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation,  (Rev 5:9)
  • After this I beheld, and, lo, a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues, stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in their hands,  (Rev 7:9)
  • And I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth, and to every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people,  (Rev 14:6)
  • Who shall not fear thee, O Lord, and glorify thy name? for thou only art holy: for all nations shall come and worship before thee, for thy judgments are made manifest.  (Rev 15:4)
  • And cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years should be fulfilled: and after that he must be loosed a little season.  (Rev 20:3)
  • 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.  (Rev 21:24)
  • In the midst of the street of it, and on either side of the river, was there the tree of life, which bare twelve manner of fruits, and yielded her fruit every month: and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the  (Rev 22:2)
• Walk in the light – see Rev 1:16 notes, see Is 60:3-5
• For thou hast delivered my soul from death: wilt not thou deliver my feet from falling, that I may walk before God in the light of the living? (Psa 56:13)
• Blessed is the people that know the joyful sound: they shall walk, O LORD, in the light of thy countenance. (Psa 89:15)
• house of Jacob, come ye, and let us walk in the light of the LORD. (Isa 2:5)
• Therefore is judgment far from us, neither doth justice overtake us: we wait for light, but behold obscurity; for brightness, but we walk in darkness. (Isa 59:9)
• Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life. (Joh 8:12)
• Jesus answered, Are there not twelve hours in the day? If any man walk in the day, he stumbleth not, because he seeth the light of this world. (Joh 11:9)
• But if a man walk in the night, he stumbleth, because there is no light in him. (Joh 11:10)
• Then Jesus said unto them, Yet a little while is the light with you. Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you: for he that walketh in darkness knoweth not whither he goeth. (Joh 12:35)
• For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light: (Eph 5:8)
• But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin. (1Jn 1:7)
• 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. (Rev 21:24)
• Kings of the earth – believers – see Rev 1:6 notes, Is 49:23, 60:16
• God has made us kings so that we reign with Christ – Rev 1:6, Rev 5:10, 1 Pet 2:9‑10, Eph 2:6, 2 Tim 2:12, Ro 5:17.
• Believers are seated with Christ in heavenly places – Eph 2:1-6, Ro 5:17.
• Believers are in the Kingdom of Christ – Acts 26:18, Col 1:13. We have been transferred from Satan’s kingdom into God’s kingdom.
• Ultimately, believers receive the crown of eternal life – 1 Pet 5:4, 1 Cor 9:25, 2 Tim 4:8, Rev 2:10, 1 Thess 2:19.
• Believers reign in heaven, not on earth – Rev 20:2-3, 1 Cor 4:5-8. Christians are currently ambassadors for Christ in the domain of Satan (2 Cor 5:20).
• Glory and honor – all submit to God
• See Isa 60:3-10
• Glory (due to who He is) – Ro 11:36, Lk 2:14, Ro 1:23, 2 Cor 1:20, Is 6:3, Ex 33:18-22, etc.
• Honor (due to what He does) – 1 Tim 1:17, 6:16, Heb 2:7-9,Heb 3:3, Rev 5:12-13, Rev 4:11, Rev 19:1
• The kings of Tarshish and of the isles shall bring presents: the kings of Sheba and Seba shall offer gifts. Yea, all kings shall fall down before him: all nations shall serve him. (Psa 72:10-11)
• That ye may suck, and be satisfied with the breasts of her consolations; that ye may milk out, and be delighted with the abundance of her glory. For thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will extend peace to her like a river, and the glory of the Gentiles like a flowing stream: then shall ye suck, ye shall be borne upon her sides, and be dandled upon her knees. (Isa 66:11-12)
• Christians to be glorified ‑ Eph 3:13, 1 Pet 5:10, 1 Sam 2:8, Ps 73:24, Pr 3:35, 2 Tim 2:10, Heb 2:10, Mat 13:43, Lk 9:30-31, Rev 22:5, 1 Pet 5:1, Rev 7:9, Rev 14:1
• And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory, Even us, whom he hath called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles? (Rom 9:23-24)
• Whereunto he called you by our gospel, to the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ. (2Th 2:14)
• For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory;  (2Co 4:17)
• So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption: It is sown in dishonour; it is raised in glory: it is sown in weakness; it is raised in power: It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body. (1Co 15:42-44)
• For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ: Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself. (Php 3:20-21)
• When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory. (Col 3:4)
• For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Are not even ye in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ at his coming? For ye are our glory and joy. (1Th 2:19-20)
• And when the chief Shepherd shall appear, ye shall receive a crown of glory that fadeth not away. (1Pe 5:4)
• And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together. For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us. (Rom 8:17-18)
• For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren. Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified. (Rom 8:29-30)
• Honor of God’s people
  • G1784 – entimos – literally, in honor – 5 occurrences
    • Receive him therefore in the Lord with all gladness; and hold such in reputation (Php 2:29)
  • G5091 – timao – literally, valuable – 21
    • If any man serve me, let him follow me; and where I am, there shall also my servant be: if any man serve me, him will my Father honor. (Joh 12:26)
    • So when this was done, others also, which had diseases in the island, came, and were healed: Who also honoured us with many honours; and when we departed, they laded us with such things as were necessary. (Act 28:9-10)
  • G5092 – time – literally, valuable – 43
    • To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honour and immortality, eternal life:  (Rom 2:7)
    • But glory, honour, and peace, to every man that worketh good, to the Jew first, and also to the Gentile:  (Rom 2:10)
    • Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour?  (Rom 9:21)
    • Let the elders that rule well be counted worthy of double honour, especially they who labour in the word and doctrine.  (1Ti 5:17)
    • But in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and of silver, but also of wood and of earth; and some to honour, and some to dishonour. If a man therefore purge himself from these, he shall be a vessel unto honour, sanctified, and meet for the master’s use, and prepared unto every good work. (2Ti 2:20-21)
    • 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. (Rev 21:24)
    • And they shall bring the glory and honour of the nations into it. (Rev 21:26)
  • G5093 – Gr: timios – literally valued (usually precious)
    • That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ: (1Pe 1:7)
  • Honor in the Old Testament
    • He that followeth after righteousness and mercy findeth life, righteousness, and honour.  (Pro 21:21)
    • By humility and the fear of the LORD are riches, and honour, and life.  (Pro 22:4)
    • It is the glory of God to conceal a thing: but the honour of kings is to search out a matter.  (Pro 25:2)
    • A man’s pride shall bring him low: but honour shall uphold the humble in spirit.  (Pro 29:23)

21:25-27  Gates Never Shut / No Night

 

21:25

And the gates of it shall not be shut at all by day: for there shall be no night there.

• Gates not shut – all are saved – see John 10:9, Rev 21:12 notes
  • Therefore thy gates shall be open continually; they shall not be shut day nor night; that men may bring unto thee the forces of the Gentiles, and that their kings may be brought. (Isa 60:11)
  • And when they were come, and had gathered the church together, they rehearsed all that God had done with them, and how he had opened the door of faith unto the Gentiles.  (Act 14:27)
  • And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write; These things saith he that is holy, he that is true, he that hath the key of David, he that openeth, and no man shutteth; and shutteth, and no man openeth;  (Rev 3:7)
  • And the key of the house of David will I lay upon his shoulder; so he shall open, and none shall shut; and he shall shut, and none shall open. (Isa 22:22)
  • Jesus is the door to salvation (John 10:3, John 10:9). He is also the doorkeeper (John 10:3). He has the keys to the kingdom (See on keys – Rev 1:18, Rev 9:1, Rev 20:1) and has sovereign authority over salvation.
  • I know thy works: behold, I have set before thee an open door, and no man can shut it: for thou hast a little strength, and hast kept my word, and hast not denied my name.  (Rev 3:8)
    • This points back to Rev 3:7 (see also 1 Cor 16:9, 2 Cor 2:12, Col 4:3). Jesus is sovereign over salvation. Once He opens the door of salvation, no man can resist His will. No man can shut the door. Once a person is saved, their salvation cannot be lost. Christians have eternal security (Phil 1:6, Jude 24, etc). Christians have eternal life. Life could not be eternal if salvation could be lost.
      • Door Open in Heaven ‑ Rev 4:1. Eze 1:1, Mat 3:16, Acts 7:56, 10:11
      • Salvation ‑ John 10:1‑9, 1 Cor 16:9, 2 Cor 2:12, Col 4:3, Rev 3:8, Rev 3:20
      • Salvation at second coming ‑ Mat 24:33, Mk 13:29, Lk 12:36, James 5:9, Mat 25:10
      • Door = Jesus ‑ John 10:7-9
    • After this I looked, and, behold, a door was opened in heaven: and the first voice which I heard was as it were of a trumpet talking with me; which said, Come up hither, and I will shew thee things which must be hereafter.  (Rev 4:1)
    • Open to me the gates of righteousness: I will go into them, and I will praise the LORD:  (Psa 118:19)
    • Open ye the gates, that the righteous nation which keepeth the truth may enter in.  (Isa 26:2)
    • Thus saith the LORD to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have holden, to subdue nations before him; and I will loose the loins of kings, to open before him the two leaved gates; and the gates shall not be shut;  (Isa 45:1)
  • Day of salvation
    • And it shall be said in that day, Lo, this is our God; we have waited for him, and he will save us: this is the LORD; we have waited for him, we will be glad and rejoice in his salvation. (Isa 25:9)
    • In that day shall this song be sung in the land of Judah; We have a strong city; salvation will God appoint for walls and bulwarks. (Isa 26:1)
    • (For he saith, I have heard thee in a time accepted, and in the day of salvation have I succoured thee: behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.) (2 Cor 6:2)
    • But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation. (1 Thess 5:8)
    • That ye may approve things that are excellent; that ye may be sincere and without offence till the day of Christ; (Philippians 1:10)
    • Holding forth the word of life; that I may rejoice in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, neither laboured in vain. (Philippians 2:16)
    • That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand. (2 Thessalonians 2:2)
    • Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing. (2 Timothy 4:8)
  • No night – see Rev 22:5 notes below, also Rev 20:2 notes, Zech 14:7

21:26 

And they shall bring the glory and honor of the nations into it.

• See notes on Rev 21:24

21:27 

And there shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defileth, neither whatsoever worketh abomination, or maketh a lie: but they which are written in the Lamb’s book of life.

• Not enter it – Isa 52:1, Isa 44:9, Zech 14:21
• Nothing that defiles
  • To make unclean – Mat 15:11,18,20, Mk 7:15,18-23 (see Rev 19:8 notes)
  • G2840 – Gr: koinoo – 15 occurrences (also G2839 – Gr: koinos – 12 occurrences) – to make common
    • For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies: These are the things which defile a man: but to eat with unwashen hands defileth not a man. (Mat 15:19-20)
    • Of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace? (Heb 10:29)
  • No abomination – see Rev 21:8 notes above, 17:4-5 notes, something that is hated (worship of other gods and idols)
    • No lies (G5527, pseudos) – see Rev 21:8 notes, 1 John 2:22 (denies Jesus), 1 John 4:20 (hates brother), 1 John 5:10 (not believing God), Ro 1:25, 2 Thess 2:11, 1 John 2:21,27 (Opposite of God’s truth), John 8:44 (Devil is a liar), Every man (Ro 3:4), Liars – see Rev 22:15 notes, Rev 2:2 notes, Pr 19:5-9, Is 9:15, John 8:44, 2 Thess 2:9, 1 Tim 4:2, 1 John 2:22
  • They that are written in the Lamb’s book of life
  • There are multiple books – Rev 20:12, Rev 20:15, Dan 7:10
  • Lamb’s book of life – Rev 21:27
  • Book of remembrance – Mal 3:16
  • Book of Life – Rev 20:12, Rev 20:15, Rev 21:27, Phil 4:3, Is 4:3, Dan 12:1
  • God will not erase the saved person’s name from the book of life – Rev 3:5
  • Some names are not written from the foundation of the earth – Rev 13:8, Rev 17:8 (see also Eph 1:3-4)
  • Names recorded in heaven – Lk 10:20, Eze 13:9, Heb 12:23, Ps 87:6, Is 4:3
  • Names can be blotted out from Thy book – Ex 32:32-33, Ps 69:28 (Rev 3:5)
  • The above Biblical facts reveal that there is a Book of Life written from the foundation of the world that contains all the names of those who will be saved (Eph 1:3-4). It is from this book that no names will be erased. But, there is another Book of Life that contains all the people’s names who would ever live. From this book, the unsaved person’s names will be erased as they spiritually die because of sin, do not repent of their sins, and die unsaved. In the final count, the books (plural) will each contain the same names, that of the believers.
  • Book – G975 – biblion – a small scroll (the written Word of God, preserved by God, 32 occurrences)
    • They say unto him, Why did Moses then command to give a writing of divorcement, and to put her away? (Mat 19:7)
    • And they said, Moses suffered to write a bill of divorcement, and to put her (Mar 10:4)
    • And there was delivered unto him the book of the prophet Esaias. And when he had opened the book, he found the place where it was written, (Luk 4:17)
    • And he closed the book, and he gave it again to the minister, and sat down. And the eyes of all them that were in the synagogue were fastened on him. (Luk 4:20)
    • And many other signs truly did Jesus in the presence of his disciples, which are not written in this book: (Joh 20:30)
    • And there are also many other things which Jesus did, the which, if they should be written every one, I suppose that even the world itself could not contain the books that should be written. Amen. (Joh 21:25)
    • For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse: for it is written, Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them. (Gal 3:10)
    • The cloke that I left at Troas with Carpus, when thou comest, bring with thee, and the books, but especially the parchments. (2Ti 4:13)
    • For when Moses had spoken every precept to all the people according to the law, he took the blood of calves and of goats, with water, and scarlet wool, and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book, and all the people, (Heb 9:19)
    • Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do thy will, O God. (Heb 10:7)
    • Saying, I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the last: and, What thou seest, write in a book, and send it unto the seven churches which are in Asia; unto Ephesus, and unto Smyrna, and unto Pergamos, and unto Thyatira, and unto Sardis, and unto Philadelphia, and unto Laodicea.
      (Rev 1:11)
    • And I saw in the right hand of him that sat on the throne a book written within and on the backside, sealed with seven seals. And I saw a strong angel proclaiming with a loud voice, Who is worthy to open the book, and to loose the seals thereof?  And no man in heaven, nor in earth, neither under the earth, was able to open the book, neither to look thereon.  And I wept much, because no man was found worthy to open and to read the book, neither to look thereon. And one of the elders saith unto me, Weep not: behold, the Lion of the tribe of Juda, the Root of David, hath prevailed to open the book, and to loose the seven seals thereof. (Rev 5:1-5)
    • And he came and took the book out of the right hand of him that sat upon the throne. And when he had taken the book, the four beasts and four and twenty elders fell down before the Lamb, having every one of them harps, and golden vials full of odours, which are the prayers of saints. And they sung a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open the seals thereof: for thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation (Rev 5:7-:9)
    • 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, when they behold the beast that was, and is not, and yet is. (Rev 17:8)
    • And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works. (Rev 20:12)
    • And there shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defileth, neither whatsoever worketh abomination, or maketh a lie: but they which are written in the Lamb’s book of life. (Rev 21:27)
    • Behold, I come quickly: blessed is he that keepeth the sayings of the prophecy of this book. (Rev 22:7)
    • Then saith he unto me, See thou do it not: for I am thy fellowservant, and of thy brethren the prophets, and of them which keep the sayings of this book: worship God. (Rev 22:9)
    • And he saith unto me, Seal not the sayings of the prophecy of this book: for the time is at hand. (Rev 22:10)
    • For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book: And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book.  (Rev 22:18-19)

River of Life / Tree of Life (Rev 22:1-5)

And he shewed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb.  (Rev 22:1)

In the midst of the street of it, and on either side of the river, was there the tree of life, which bare twelve manner of fruits, and yielded her fruit every month: and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.  (Rev 22:2)

And there shall be no more curse: but the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it; and his servants shall serve him:  (Rev 22:3)

And they shall see his face; and his name shall be in their foreheads.  (Rev 22:4)

And there shall be no night there; and they need no candle, neither light of the sun; for the Lord God giveth them light: and they shall reign for ever and ever.  (Rev 22:5)

 

Note: Eze 47:1-12 is a parallel passage to Rev 22:1-2

 

• Eze 47:1-12 – Parallel passage to Rev 22:1-2:
  • Eze 47:1-6 – Waters come from the House of God
    • (1) Afterward he brought me again unto the door of the house; and, behold, waters issued out from under the threshold of the house eastward: for the forefront of the house stood toward the east, and the waters came down from under from the right side of the house, at the south side of the altar.  (2)  Then brought he me out of the way of the gate northward, and led me about the way without unto the utter gate by the way that looketh eastward; and, behold, there ran out waters on the right side.  (3)  And when the man that had the line in his hand went forth eastward, he measured a thousand cubits, and he brought me through the waters; the waters were to the ankles.  (4)  Again he measured a thousand, and brought me through the waters; the waters were to the knees. Again he measured a thousand, and brought me through; the waters were to the loins.  (5)  Afterward he measured a thousand; and it was a river that I could not pass over: for the waters were risen, waters to swim in, a river that could not be passed over.  (6)  And he said unto me, Son of man, hast thou seen this? Then he brought me, and caused me to return to the brink of the river. (Eze 47:1-6)
  • Eze 47:7.12 – Many trees on both sides of the river – bring forth fruit
    • Now when I had returned, behold, at the bank of the river were very many trees on the one side and on the other.  (Eze 47:7)
    • And by the river upon the bank thereof, on this side and on that side, shall grow all trees for meat, whose leaf shall not fade, neither shall the fruit thereof be consumed: it shall bring forth new fruit according to his months, because their waters they issued out of the sanctuary: and the fruit thereof shall be for meat, and the leaf thereof for medicine.  (Eze 47:12)
  • Eze 47:8-10 – The rivers travel to the sea / produce life and great multitude of fish
    • (8) Then said he unto me, These waters issue out toward the east country, and go down into the desert, and go into the sea: which being brought forth into the sea, the waters shall be healed.  (9)  And it shall come to pass, that every thing that liveth, which moveth, whithersoever the rivers shall come, shall live: and there shall be a very great multitude of fish, because these waters shall come thither: for they shall be healed; and every thing shall live whither the river cometh.  (10)  And it shall come to pass, that the fishers shall stand upon it from Engedi even unto Eneglaim; they shall be a place to spread forth nets; their fish shall be according to their kinds, as the fish of the great sea, exceeding many. (Eze 47:8-10)
  • Eze 47:11 – Miry places / marshes will not be healed / given to salt (judgment)
    • But the miry places thereof and the marishes thereof shall not be healed; they shall be given to salt.  (Eze 47:11)

 

22:1 

And he shewed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb.

• Pure River of water of life – Symbolic: The Holy Spirit Satisfies the Thirst for the Eternal Life of Righteousness
• Pure – Gr: katharos (G2513)
  • Gr: katharos (G2513) – clean, clear, pure – 28 occurrences – see also G2511, G2512, G2514
  • 7 angels with 7 bowls of wrath – Rev 15:4-6
  • Armies in heaven with fine linen white and pure – Rev 19:14 (see also Rev 17:14, Psa 68:17, Psa 149:6-9, Zec 14:5, Mat 26:53, 2Th 1:7, Jud 1:14
  • Pure river water of Life – Rev 22:1
  • Lamb’s wife – clean and white – Rev 19:8
  • Word of God is referred to as pure – Ps 119:140, Pr 30:5, Heb 10:20, Ps 12:6, Pr 15:26, Titus 1:15
  • Our hearts should be pure – 1 Tim 1:5, Mat 5:8, 2 Tim 2:22
  • Our consciences should be pure – 1 Tim 3:9, 2 Tim 1:3
• Rivers and fountains – that which brings the nourishment of life eternal in the righteousness of Jesus Christ
• River of water of Life – see Rev 7:17, Rev 22:17, Ps 46:4, Eze 47:1
• Out of throne of God and Lamb – source of salvation – Phil 2:13
  • Throne – see notes on Rev 21:5
  • And out of the throne proceeded lightnings and thunderings and voices: and there were seven lamps of fire burning before the throne, which are the seven Spirits of God. (Rev 4:5)
  • And the seventh angel poured out his vial into the air; and there came a great voice out of the temple of heaven, from the throne, saying, It is done. (Rev 16:17)
  • And a voice came out of the throne, saying, Praise our God, all ye his servants, and ye that fear him, both small and great. (Rev 19:5)
  • And he shewed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb. (Rev 22:1)
• Holy Spirit sent from the Father and Son (see poured out below)
  • And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father.  (Gal 4:6)
  • If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children: how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him?  (Luk 11:13)
  • If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask him?  (Mat 7:11)
  • And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever;  (Joh 14:16)
  • And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.  (Rom 5:5)
  • For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father. The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God: And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together. (Rom 8:15-17)
  • Who hath also sealed us, and given the earnest of the Spirit in our hearts. (2Co 1:22)
  • In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise,  (Eph 1:13)
  • And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.  (Eph 4:30)
  • 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 unto you; but if I depart, I will send him unto you. And when he is come, he will reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment: Of sin, because they believe not on me; Of righteousness, because I go to my Father, and ye see me no more; Of judgment, because the prince of this world is judged. I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now. Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come. He shall glorify me: for he shall receive of mine, and shall shew it unto you. All things that the Father hath are mine: therefore said I, that he shall take of mine, and shall shew it unto you. (Joh 16:7-15)
  • I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you.  (Joh 14:18)
  • But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.  (Joh 14:26)
  • But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me:  (Joh 15:26)
• Thirst
• And the people thirsted there for water; and the people murmured against Moses, and said, Wherefore is this that thou hast brought us up out of Egypt, to kill us and our children and our cattle with thirst? (Exo 17:3)
• Therefore shalt thou serve thine enemies which the LORD shall send against thee, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want of all things: and he shall put a yoke of iron upon thy neck, until he have destroyed thee. (Deu 28:48)
• And it come to pass, when he heareth the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, I shall have peace, though I walk in the imagination of mine heart, to add drunkenness to thirst: (Deu 29:19)
• And he said unto her, Give me, I pray thee, a little water to drink; for I am thirsty. And she opened a bottle of milk, and gave him drink, and covered him. (Jdg 4:19)
• And he was sore athirst, and called on the LORD, and said, Thou hast given this great deliverance into the hand of thy servant: and now shall I die for thirst, and fall into the hand of the uncircumcised? (Jdg 15:18)
• Let thine eyes be on the field that they do reap, and go thou after them: have I not charged the young men that they shall not touch thee? and when thou art athirst, go unto the vessels, and drink of that which the young men have drawn. (Rth 2:9)
• And honey, and butter, and sheep, and cheese of kine, for David, and for the people that were with him, to eat: for they said, The people is hungry, and weary, and thirsty, in the wilderness. (2Sa 17:29)
• Doth not Hezekiah persuade you to give over yourselves to die by famine and by thirst, saying, The LORD our God shall deliver us out of the hand of the king of Assyria? (2Ch 32:11)
• And gavest them bread from heaven for their hunger, and broughtest forth water for them out of the rock for their thirst, and promisedst them that they should go in to possess the land which thou hadst sworn to give them. (Neh 9:15)
• Thou gavest also thy good spirit to instruct them, and withheldest not thy manna from their mouth, and gavest them water for their thirst. (Neh 9:20)
• Which make oil within their walls, and tread their winepresses, and suffer thirst. (Job 24:11)
• My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God: when shall I come and appear before God? (Psa 42:2)
• A Psalm of David, when he was in the wilderness of Judah. O God, thou art my God; early will I seek thee: my soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is; (Psa 63:1)
• They gave me also gall for my meat; and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink. (Psa 69:21)
• They give drink to every beast of the field: the wild asses quench their thirst. (Psa 104:11)
• Hungry and thirsty, their soul fainted in them. (Psa 107:5)
• I stretch forth my hands unto thee: my soul thirsteth after thee, as a thirsty land. Selah. (Psa 143:6)
• If thine enemy be hungry, give him bread to eat; and if he be thirsty, give him water to drink: (Pro 25:21)
• As cold waters to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country. (Pro 25:25)
• The bloodthirsty hate the upright: but the just seek his soul. (Pro 29:10)
• Therefore my people are gone into captivity, because they have no knowledge: and their honourable men are famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst. (Isa 5:13)
• The inhabitants of the land of Tema brought water to him that was thirsty, they prevented with their bread him that fled. (Isa 21:14)
• It shall even be as when an hungry man dreameth, and, behold, he eateth; but he awaketh, and his soul is empty: or as when a thirsty man dreameth, and, behold, he drinketh; but he awaketh, and, behold, he is faint, and his soul hath appetite: so shall the multitude of all the nations be, that fight against mount Zion. (Isa 29:8)
• For the vile person will speak villany, and his heart will work iniquity, to practise hypocrisy, and to utter error against the LORD, to make empty the soul of the hungry, and he will cause the drink of the thirsty to fail. (Isa 32:6)
• And the parched ground shall become a pool, and the thirsty land springs of water: in the habitation of dragons, where each lay, shall be grass with reeds and rushes. (Isa 35:7)
• When the poor and needy seek water, and there is none, and their tongue faileth for thirst, I the LORD will hear them, I the God of Israel will not forsake them. (Isa 41:17)
• For I will pour water upon him that is thirsty, and floods upon the dry ground: I will pour my spirit upon thy seed, and my blessing upon thine offspring: (Isa 44:3)
• And they thirsted not when he led them through the deserts: he caused the waters to flow out of the rock for them: he clave the rock also, and the waters gushed out. (Isa 48:21)
• They shall not hunger nor thirst; neither shall the heat nor sun smite them: for he that hath mercy on them shall lead them, even by the springs of water shall he guide them. (Isa 49:10)
• Wherefore, when I came, was there no man? when I called, was there none to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it cannot redeem? or have I no power to deliver? behold, at my rebuke I dry up the sea, I make the rivers a wilderness: their fish stinketh, because there is no water, and dieth for thirst. (Isa 50:2)
• Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and he that hath no money; come ye, buy, and eat; yea, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price. (Isa 55:1)
• Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, my servants shall eat, but ye shall be hungry: behold, my servants shall drink, but ye shall be thirsty: behold, my servants shall rejoice, but ye shall be ashamed: (Isa 65:13)
• Withhold thy foot from being unshod, and thy throat from thirst: but thou saidst, There is no hope: no; for I have loved strangers, and after them will I go. (Jer 2:25)
• Thou daughter that dost inhabit Dibon, come down from thy glory, and sit in thirst; for the spoiler of Moab shall come upon thee, and he shall destroy thy strong holds. (Jer 48:18)
• The tongue of the sucking child cleaveth to the roof of his mouth for thirst: the young children ask bread, and no man breaketh it unto them. (Lam 4:4)
• And now she is planted in the wilderness, in a dry and thirsty ground. (Eze 19:13)
• Lest I strip her naked, and set her as in the day that she was born, and make her as a wilderness, and set her like a dry land, and slay her with thirst. (Hos 2:3)
• Behold, the days come, saith the Lord GOD, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the LORD: (Amo 8:11)
• In that day shall the fair virgins and young men faint for thirst. (Amo 8:13)
• Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled. (Mat 5:6)
• For I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in: (Mat 25:35)
• Then shall the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, and fed thee? or thirsty, and gave thee drink? (Mat 25:37)
• For I was an hungred, and ye gave me no meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me no drink: (Mat 25:42)
• Then shall they also answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, or athirst, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister unto thee? (Mat 25:44)
• Jesus answered and said unto her, Whosoever drinketh of this water shall thirst again: (Joh 4:13)
• But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life. (Joh 4:14)
• The woman saith unto him, Sir, give me this water, that I thirst not, neither come hither to draw. (Joh 4:15)
• And Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me shall never thirst. (Joh 6:35)
• In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink. (Joh 7:37)
• After this, Jesus knowing that all things were now accomplished, that the scripture might be fulfilled, saith, I thirst. (Joh 19:28)
• Therefore if thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink: for in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire on his head. (Rom 12:20)
• Even unto this present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have no certain dwellingplace; (1Co 4:11)
• In weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness. (2Co 11:27)
• They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more; neither shall the sun light on them, nor any heat. (Rev 7:16)
• And he said unto me, It is done. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely. (Rev 21:6)
• And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him that heareth say, Come. And let him that is athirst come. And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely. (Rev 22:17)
• Rivers and fountains of water (Rev 7:17, Rev 16:4)
• River – Gr: potamos (G4215/G4216) – 16 occurrences
  • Christians – out of their belly will flow rivers of living water – John 7:38
  • River of water of life – Rev 22:1
  • River feeding the tree of life in eternity – Rev 22:2
  • ‘Floods’ come – house built on a rock or sand – Mat 7:25-27, Lk 6:48-49
  • Baptized in the river Jordan – Mk 1:5
  • River – where prayer is done – Acts 16:13
  • Paul in perils of water – 2 Cor 11:26
  • Third part of rivers – Rev 8:10
  • Loose angel bound at the River Euphrates – Rev 9:14
  • Serpent cast out water like a flood – Rev 12:15-16
  • 3^rd angel – Rivers and fountains of water became blood – Rev 16:4
  • 6^th angel – poured out on Euphrates river – prepare the way for the kings of the east – Rev 16:12
• Old Testament
  • H6388, peleg, stream – 10 occurrences
    • There is a river, the stream makes glad the city of God – Ps 46:4
    • A king who reigns in righteousness (Christ) – rivers of water – Is 32:1-2
    • Rivers and streams of water in the glorious day – Is 30:25
    • Let your fountains be dispersed, rivers run in the street – Pr 5:15-16
    • Saved person – Like a tree planted by the rivers of water – Ps 1:3
    • God enriches the world with the river of God – Ps 65:9
    • Tears of lamentation like streams – Lam 3:48, Ps 119:136
  • H5103 (nehar) / H5104 (nahar) – larger river, flood – 134 occurrences
    • There is a river, the stream makes glad the city of God – Ps 46:4
    • Peace like a river – Is 66:12, Is 48:18
    • 4 rivers out of Eden to water the land – Gen 2:10, Gen 2:13-14
    • God’s people’s branch grows toward the river – Ps 80:11
    • Waters gushed out of Rock like a river – Ps 105:41, Ps 78:15-16
    • Floods have lifted up their voice – thy testimonies are very sure – Ps 93:3-5
  • H5158 (nachal) – streams – 148 occurrences
    • Drink of the water of thy pleasures, the fountain of life – Ps 36:8-9
    • He shall drunk of the brook in the way, therefore, he shall lift up his head – Ps 110:7
    • The words of a man’s mouth are as deep waters and the wellspring of wisdom as a flowing brook – Pr 18:4
    • The good land of brooks of waters – Deut 8:7
    • The glory of the Gentiles like a flowing stream – Is 66:12
    • He smote the Rock and the streams overflowed – Ps 78:20
  • Fountain – Heb: H4726, machor (something dug out) – 18 occurrences
    • Fountain of life – Ps 36:8-9
    • Fountain of Israel – Ps 68:26
    • Let thy fountain be blessed – Pr 5:18
    • Law of the wise is a fountain of life, to depart from the snares of death – Pr 13:14
    • The Fear of the Lord is a fountain of life to depart from the snares of death – Pr 14:27
    • My people have departed from the fountains of life, hewed broken cisterns that cannot hold water – Jer 2:13
    • Fountain of tears mourning for Israel – Jer 9:1
    • The Lord is the Fountain of waters – Jer 17:13
    • A fountain to be opened in that day – Zech 13:1
    • A righteous man falling down before the wicked is a troubled fountain, a corrupt ‘spring’- Pr 25:26
    • Samaria desolate, spring and fountains dried up – Hos 13:15
    • Understanding is a wellspring of life – Pr 16:22
    • Words of a man’s mouth are a wellspring of wisdom, like deep waters – Ps 18:4
    • The mouth of the righteous is a well of life, violence covers the mouth of the wicked – Pr 10:11
    • Babylon’s springs to become dry – Jer 51:36
  • Fountain – Heb: H4599 – mayan, a spring – 23 occurrences
    • A righteous man falling down before the wicked is a troubled fountain, a corrupt ‘spring’- Pr 25:26
    • Samaria desolate, spring and fountains dried up – Hos 13:15
    • Turned rock into standing water, flint into fountains of waters – Ps 114:8
    • Eternity – fountain from the house of the Lord – Joel 3:18
    • Fountains of the deep broken up – Gen 7:11, Gen 8:2
    • Place to find salvation for horses / mules – 1 Ki 18:5
    • Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad – Pr 5:16
    • Wisdom brought forth when no fountains – Pr 8:24
    • Eternity – fountains in the valley – Is 41:18
    • With joy, draw the water out of the wells of salvation – Is 12:3
    • Singers, players on instruments – all my springs – Ps 87:7
    • He sends the springs into the valleys – Ps 104:10
    • Through the valley of weeping, make it a spring – Ps 84:6
  • Fountain Heb: mabbua (H4002) – 3 occurrences
    • Eternity – thirsty land – springs of water – Is 35:7
    • Eternity – springs of water – Is 49:10
    • Pitcher broken at the fountain – Ecc 12:6
  • Springs – Heb: 4161 (H4161) – 27 occurrences
    • He turneth rivers into a wilderness, and the watersprings into dry ground;  (Psa 107:33)
    • He turneth the wilderness into a standing water, and dry ground into watersprings.  (Psa 107:35)
    • I will open rivers in high places, and fountains in the midst of the valleys: I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water.  (Isa 41:18)
    • And the LORD shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in drought, and make fat thy bones: and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not.  (Isa 58:11)
  • Fountains – Gr: pege (G4077) – gushing (fountain of water) – 12 occurrences
    • Jacob’s ‘well’ – John 4:6
    • ‘Well’ of water springing up to eternal life – John 4:14
    • Does a fountain bring forth both sweet and bitter – James 3:12
    • False teachers – wells without water – 2 Pet 2:17
    • Lead to living fountains of water – Rev 7:17
    • Worship Him who made the fountains of waters – Rev 14:7
    • Judgment on the fountains of waters – Rev 16:4
    • He who thirst will receive of the fountains of waters freely – Rev 21:6
  • Water – Word of God – Eph 5:25-26, Eph 5:18, Is 55:1, Is 55:10-11, Deut 32:1-2
    • Water refers to the Gospel ‑ Eph 5:25‑26
    • Washing of regeneration ‑ Titus 3:5, 1 Cor 6:11, Acts 22:16
    • Living waters –Zech 14:8, Eze 47:1-12, Joel 3:18, John 4:10, John 4:14, John 7:38, Rev 22:1-2, Rev 22:17, Song 4:15, Jer 2:13, Jer 17:13, Rev 7:17
    • Initial salvation (spirit) – Is 55:1, John 4:14, Jer 2:11-13, Jer 17:13, Ps 46:4, Job 20:17, Is 58:11
    • Fullness of salvation – Rev 21:6, Rev 22:1
    • Water of the Gospel / salvation – Eph 5:25-26, Eze 16:9, John 15:3, John 17:7, 1 Pet 1:23, Eph 5:18, Is 55:10-11, Ro 10:8-9, Ro 10:17, Rev 22:1, Rev 22:17, Ps 46:4, Eze 47:1, Ps 36:8, Ps 65:9, Is 8:6, Is 32:2, Is 44:3, Is 58:11, Mk 1:8
    • Pour out Spirit:
      • Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you. (Pro 1:23)
      • For the LORD hath poured out upon you the spirit of deep sleep, and hath closed your eyes: the prophets and your rulers, the seers hath he covered. (Isa 29:10)
      • Until the spirit be poured upon us from on high, and the wilderness be a fruitful field, and the fruitful field be counted for a forest. (Isa 32:15)
      • For I will pour water upon him that is thirsty, and floods upon the dry ground: I will pour my spirit upon thy seed, and my blessing upon thine offspring: (Isa 44:3)
      • Neither will I hide my face any more from them: for I have poured out my spirit upon the house of Israel, saith the Lord GOD. (Eze 39:29)
      • And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions: (Joe 2:28)
      • And also upon the servants and upon the handmaids in those days will I pour out my spirit. (Joe 2:29)
      • And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn. (Zec 12:10)
      • And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams: (Act 2:17)
      • And on my servants and on my handmaidens I will pour out in those days of my Spirit; and they shall prophesy: (Act 2:18)
      • And they of the circumcision which believed were astonished, as many as came with Peter, because that on the Gentiles also was poured out the gift of the Holy Ghost.  (Act 10:45)
      • And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.  (Rom 5:5)
      • Neither will I hide my face any more from them: for I have poured out my spirit upon the house of Israel, saith the Lord GOD.  (Eze 39:29)
    • Baptized by the Holy Spirit
      • And Jesus, when he was baptized, went up straightway out of the water: and, lo, the heavens were opened unto him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove, and lighting upon him: (Mat 3:16)
      • And I knew him not: but he that sent me to baptize with water, the same said unto me, Upon whom thou shalt see the Spirit descending, and remaining on him, the same is he which baptizeth with the Holy Ghost. (Joh 1:33)
      • This man was instructed in the way of the Lord; and being fervent in the spirit, he spake and taught diligently the things of the Lord, knowing only the baptism of John. (Act 18:25)
      • For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit. (1Co 12:13)
      • I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance: but he that cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost, and with fire: (Mat 3:11)
      • Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: (Mat 28:19)
      • I indeed have baptized you with water: but he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost. (Mar 1:8)
      • John answered, saying unto them all, I indeed baptize you with water; but one mightier than I cometh, the latchet of whose shoes I am not worthy to unloose: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost and with fire: (Luk 3:16)
      • And I knew him not: but he that sent me to baptize with water, the same said unto me, Upon whom thou shalt see the Spirit descending, and remaining on him, the same is he which baptizeth with the Holy Ghost. (Joh 1:33)
      • For John truly baptized with water; but ye shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost not many days hence. (Act 1:5)
      • Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. (Act 2:38)
      • Can any man forbid water, that these should not be baptized, which have received the Holy Ghost as well as we? (Act 10:47)
      • Then remembered I the word of the Lord, how that he said, John indeed baptized with water; but ye shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost. (Act 11:16)
    • Filled with the Holy Spirit
      • For he shall be great in the sight of the Lord, and shall drink neither wine nor strong drink; and he shall be filled with the Holy Ghost, even from his mother’s womb. (Luk 1:15)
      • And it came to pass, that, when Elisabeth heard the salutation of Mary, the babe leaped in her womb; and Elisabeth was filled with the Holy Ghost: (Luk 1:41)
      • And his father Zacharias was filled with the Holy Ghost, and prophesied, saying, (Luk 1:67)
      • And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance. (Act 2:4)
      • Then Peter, filled with the Holy Ghost, said unto them, Ye rulers of the people, and elders of Israel, (Act 4:8)
      • And when they had prayed, the place was shaken where they were assembled together; and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and they spake the word of God with boldness. (Act 4:31)
      • But Peter said, Ananias, why hath Satan filled thine heart to lie to the Holy Ghost, and to keep back part of the price of the land? (Act 5:3)
      • And Ananias went his way, and entered into the house; and putting his hands on him said, Brother Saul, the Lord, even Jesus, that appeared unto thee in the way as thou camest, hath sent me, that thou mightest receive thy sight, and be filled with the Holy Ghost. (Act 9:17)
      • Then Saul, (who also is called Paul,) filled with the Holy Ghost, set his eyes on him, (Act 13:9)
      • And the disciples were filled with joy, and with the Holy Ghost. (Act 13:52)
      • Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost. (Rom 15:13)
    • Water and the Spirit
      • And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. (Gen 1:2)
      • And it came to pass, when all the kings of the Amorites, which were on the side of Jordan westward, and all the kings of the Canaanites, which were by the sea, heard that the LORD had dried up the waters of Jordan from before the children of Israel, until we were passed over, that their heart melted, neither was there spirit in them any more, because of the children of Israel. (Jos 5:1)
      • But God clave an hollow place that was in the jaw, and there came water thereout; and when he had drunk, his spirit came again, and he revived: wherefore he called the name thereof Enhakkore, which is in Lehi unto this day. (Jdg 15:19)
      • And they gave him a piece of a cake of figs, and two clusters of raisins: and when he had eaten, his spirit came again to him: for he had eaten no bread, nor drunk any water, three days and three nights. (1Sa 30:12)
      • Thou gavest also thy good spirit to instruct them, and withheldest not thy manna from their mouth, and gavest them water for their thirst. (Neh 9:20)
      • For I will pour water upon him that is thirsty, and floods upon the dry ground: I will pour my spirit upon thy seed, and my blessing upon thine offspring: (Isa 44:3)
      • And it shall be, when they say unto thee, Wherefore sighest thou? that thou shalt answer, For the tidings; because it cometh: and every heart shall melt, and all hands shall be feeble, and every spirit shall faint, and all knees shall be weak as water: behold, it cometh, and shall be brought to pass, saith the Lord GOD. (Eze 21:7)
      • And Jesus, when he was baptized, went up straightway out of the water: and, lo, the heavens were opened unto him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove, and lighting upon him: (Mat 3:16)
      • And straightway coming up out of the water, he saw the heavens opened, and the Spirit like a dove descending upon him: (Mar 1:10)
      • And I knew him not: but he that sent me to baptize with water, the same said unto me, Upon whom thou shalt see the Spirit descending, and remaining on him, the same is he which baptizeth with the Holy Ghost. (Joh 1:33)
      • Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. (Joh 3:5)
      • And when they were come up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord caught away Philip, that the eunuch saw him no more: and he went on his way rejoicing. (Act 8:39)
      • This is he that came by water and blood, even Jesus Christ; not by water only, but by water and blood. And it is the Spirit that beareth witness, because the Spirit is truth. (1Jn 5:6)
      • And there are three that bear witness in earth, the Spirit, and the water, and the blood: and these three agree in one. (1Jn 5:8)
      • And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him that heareth say, Come. And let him that is athirst come. And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely. (Rev 22:17)
    • Spirit of Life
      • Thou hast granted me life and favour, and thy visitation hath preserved my spirit. (Job 10:12)
      • The Spirit of God hath made me, and the breath of the Almighty hath given me life. (Job 33:4)
      • It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life. (Joh 6:63)
      • For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death. (Rom 8:2)
      • And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness. (Rom 8:10)
      • Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life. (2Co 3:6)
      • For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting. (Gal 6:8)
      • He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the midst of the paradise of God. (Rev 2:7)
      • And after three days and an half the Spirit of life from God entered into them, and they stood upon their feet; and great fear fell upon them which saw them. (Rev 11:11)
      • And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him that heareth say, Come. And let him that is athirst come. And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely. (Rev 22:17)
    • Clear as crystal – Brightness of righteousness in eternal salvation
    • Crystal – see notes on Rev 21:11
    • Clear – Gr: lampros (G2986) – bright as a lamp
      • ‘White’ linen – Rev 15:6
      • What Babylon lusted after (‘goodly’) – Rev 18:14
      • G2985 / G2986 / G2987 / G2988 / G2989 – Mat 25:1, Mat 25:3, Mat 25:4, Mat 25:7, Mat 25:8, Joh 18:3, Act 20:8, Rev 4:5, Rev 8:10, Luk 23:11, Act 10:30, Jas 2:2, Jas 2:3, Rev 15:6, Rev 18:14, Rev 19:8, Rev 22:1, Rev 22:16, Act 26:13, Luk 16:19, Mat 5:15, Mat 5:16, Mat 17:2, Luk 17:24, Act 12:7, 2Co 4:6
      • White points to purity, cleanness, and righteousness – see Rev 1:14-15, Rev 3:4, Rev 3:18 with Rev 19:8, Rev 19:14, Rev 6:1-2, Rev 7:13-14, Ecc 9:7-8, Dan  7:9, Dan 11:35, Dan 12:10, Rev 15:6).
      • Lam 4:7 – the consecrated ones are purer than snow and whiter than milk.
      • Ps 51:7 – snow as a picture on one who has been washed clean, whiter than snow.
      • Is 1:18 – sins are made white as snow

 

22:2 

In the midst of the street of it, and on either side of the river, was there the tree of life, which bare twelve manner of fruits, and yielded her fruit every month: and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.

• Street in eternity is Paradise (Rev 22:2 with Rev 2:7) – Tree of Life in midst
  • Paradise – Gr: paradeisos  – 3 occurrences – 2 Cor 12:4, Lk 23:43, Rev 2:7, Eze 31:8
  • And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.  (Gen 2:9)
  • But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.  (Gen 3:3)
• Midst of the street – see Rev 21:21
  • Christ is the center of everything in the church (Mat 18:20, Ro 11:36, Heb 1:2, Heb 2:10, Col 1:16, 1 Cor 8:6, John 1:3, John 1:10, John 20:19, Luke 24:36). For from Him and through Him and to Him are all things (Ro 11:36). God is the centerpiece of our devotion and faith. Christ is the One who is in the midst of the church’s attention and devotion.
• Midst – Gr: mesos, literally middle – points to Jesus Christ in Revelation usages:
  • And in the midst of the seven candlesticks one like unto the Son of man, clothed with a garment down to the foot, and girt about the paps with a golden girdle. (Rev 1:13)
  • Unto the angel of the church of Ephesus write; These things saith he that holdeth the seven stars in his right hand, who walketh in the midst of the seven golden candlesticks; (Rev 2:1)
  • He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the midst of the paradise of God. (Rev 2:7)
  • And before the throne there was a sea of glass like unto crystal: and in the midst of the throne, and round about the throne, were four beasts full of eyes before and behind. (Rev 4:6)
  • And I beheld, and, lo, in the midst of the throne and of the four beasts, and in the midst of the elders, stood a Lamb as it had been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God sent forth into all the earth. (Rev 5:6)
  • And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts say, A measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley for a penny; and see thou hurt not the oil and the wine. (Rev 6:6)
  • For the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall feed them, and shall lead them unto living fountains of waters: and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes. (Rev 7:17)
  • And I beheld, and heard an angel flying through the midst of heaven, saying with a loud voice, Woe, woe, woe, to the inhabiters of the earth by reason of the other voices of the trumpet of the three angels, which are yet to sound! (Rev 8:13)
  • And I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth, and to every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people, (Rev 14:6)
  • And I saw an angel standing in the sun; and he cried with a loud voice, saying to all the fowls that fly in the midst of heaven, Come and gather yourselves together unto the supper of the great God; (Rev 19:17)
  • In the midst of the street of it, and on either side of the river, was there the tree of life, which bare twelve manner of fruits, and yielded her fruit every month: and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations. (Rev 22:2)
• Street – the place of witnessing, congregating, honor
• Street – G4113, plateia – literally, wide area – 9 occurrences
  • Hypocrites love to pray in the corners of the streets – Mat 6:5
  • Will not hear Jesus’ voice in the streets – Mat 12:19 (quoted in Is 42:1-4 (street = H2351, chuts)
  • If a disciple is not received in a city, then go out into the street and shake of the dust of your feet as a testimony … Lk 10:10
  • Master of house taught in our (unsaved) streets – Lk 13:26
  • Go into streets and lanes of the city and bring in poor, maimed, halt and blind … Lk 14:21
  • Brought sick into the streets so shadow of Peter may overshadow them – Acts 5:15
  • 2 witnesses dead bodies in the street of Jerusalem – Rev 11:8
  • Street of New Jerusalem pure gold, transparent glass – Rev 21:21
  • Midst of street and on either side of the river was the tree of life – Rev 22:2
• Street (H2351, chuts – quoted in Mat 12:19) – 164 occurrences (literally, to sever, i.e., outside, without)
• Street (H7339, rechob) – 43 occurrences, literally – a broad place (often used with H2351)
  • Sodom – where angels intended to abide at night – Gen 19:2
  • Where spoil of a conquered city is brought to – Deut 13:16
  • Levite and the old man: No man took him into house, so he stayed in streets / saw wayfaring man in streets – Jud 19:15-20
  • Where the Philistines hung Saul and Jonathan – 2 Sam 21:2
  • Hezekiah gathers priests and the Levites together  into the east  street  (2Ch 29:4)
  • And he set captains of war over the people, and gathered them together to him i  the street  of the gate  of the city  (2Ch 32:6)
  • Then all the men of Judah and Benjamin  gathered themselves together  unto Jerusalem  within three days.  It was the ninth month,  on the twentieth day of the month;  and all the people sat in the street of the house of God, trembling  because  of this matter,  and for the great rain.   (Ezr 10:9)
  • And all the people  gathered themselves together  as one  man  into  the street  that  was before  the water  gate;  and they spake  unto Ezra  the scribe  to bring the book  of the law  of Moses,  which  the LORD  had commanded  to Israel. (Neh 8:1)
  • And he read therein before  the street  that  was before  the water  gate  from  the morning  until  midday,    before  the men  and the women,  and those that could understand;  and the ears  of all  the people  were attentive unto  the book  of the law.  (Neh 8:3)
  • So the people went forth,  and brought  them, and made  themselves booths,  every one  upon  the roof of his house,  and in their courts,  and in the courts  of the house  of God,  and in the street  of the water  gate,  and in the street  of the gate  of Ephraim.  (Neh 8:16)
  • So Hatach went forth  to  Mordecai  unto  the street  of the city, which was before  the king’s    (Est 4:6)
  • Mordecai honored in the streets of the city – Est 6:9-11
  • A place of honor of Job: When I went out to the gate  through  the city, when I prepared  my seat  in the street!  (Job 29:7)
  • David’s complaint: Wickedness is in the midst thereof: deceit and guile depart not from her streets. (Psa 55:11)
  • That our oxen may be strong to labour;  that there be no  breaking in nor going out;  that there be no  complaining  in our streets.  (Psa 144:14)
  • The slothful man saith,  There is a lion  in the way;  a lion  is in  the streets.  (Pro 26:13)
  • I will rise now,  and go about  the city  in the streets,  and in the broad ways  I will seek  him whom my soul  loveth:    I sought  him, but I found  him not. (Son 3:2)
  • And judgment is turned away  backward,  and justice  standeth  afar off:  for truth is fallen in the street,  and equity  cannot enter. (Isa 59:14)
  • There shall be lamentation generally  upon  all  the housetops  of Moab,  and in the streets  thereof: for  I have broken Moab  like a vessel  wherein is no  pleasure,  saith  the LORD. (Jer 48:38)
  • Therefore her young men  shall fall  in her streets,  and all  the men  of war  shall be cut off  in that  day,  saith  the LORD  of hosts. (Jer 49:26)
  • Therefore shall her young men fall in the streets,  and all  her men  of war  shall be cut off  in that  day,  saith  the LORD.  (Jer 50:30)
  • Mine eyes do fail with tears, my bowels  are troubled,  my liver  is poured  upon the earth,  for  the destruction  of the daughter  of my people;  because the children  and the sucklings  swoon  in the streets  of the city.  (Lam 2:11)
  • They say to their mothers, Where  is corn  and wine?  when they swooned  as the wounded  in the streets  of the city, when their soul  was poured out  into  their mothers’    (Lam 2:12)
  • They hunt our steps,  that we cannot go    in our streets:  our end  is near,  our days  are fulfilled;  for  our end  is come.  (Lam 4:18)
  • That thou hast also built unto thee an eminent place,  and hast made  thee an high place  in every   (Eze 16:24)
  • In that thou buildest thine eminent place  in the head  of every  way,  and makest  thine high place  in every  street;  and hast not  been  as an harlot,  in that thou scornest  hire;  (Eze 16:31)
  • Know therefore and understand,  that from  the going forth  of the commandment  to restore  and to build  Jerusalem  unto  the Messiah  the Prince  shall be seven  weeks,  and threescore  and two  weeks:  the street  shall be built  again,  and the wall,  even in troublous   (Dan 9:25)
  • Thus saith  the LORD  of hosts;  There shall yet old men and old women  dwell  in the streets  of Jerusalem,  and every man  with his staff  in his hand  for very  (Zec 8:4)
  • And the streets of the city  shall be full of boys and girls playing in the streets   (Zec 8:5)
• H2351 (outside / street) with H7339 (street)
  • Wisdom crieth  without;  she uttereth  her voice  in the streets  (Pro 1:20)
  • Let thy fountains be dispersed  abroad,  and rivers  of waters  in the streets.  (Pro 5:16)
  • Now is she without,  now  in the streets,  and lieth in wait  at  every  corner (Pro 7:12)
  • The slothful man saith,  There is a lion  without,  I shall be slain  in  the streets. (Pro 22:13)
  • In their streets they shall gird  themselves with sackcloth:  on  the tops of their houses,  and in their streets,  every one  shall howl,  weeping    (Isa 15:3)
  • Run ye to and fro through the streets  of Jerusalem,  and see  now,  and know,  and seek  in the broad places  thereof, if  ye can find  a man,  if  there be  any that executeth  judgment,  that seeketh  the truth;  and I will pardon   (Jer 5:1)
  • For death  is come up  into our windows,  and is entered  into our palaces,  to cut off  the children  from without,    and the young men  from the streets. (Jer 9:21)
  • Therefore the LORD,  the God  of hosts,  the Lord,  saith  thus;  Wailing  shall be in all  streets;  and they shall say  in all  the highways,  Alas!  alas!  and they shall call  the husbandman  to  mourning,  and such as are skillful of lamentation  to    (Amo 5:16)
  • The chariots shall rage  in the streets,  they shall jostle one against another  in the broad ways:  they shall seem  like torches,  they shall run  like the lightnings. (Nah 2:4)
• On either side – Eze 47:7,12
  • Eze 47:7.12 – Many trees on both sides of the river – bring forth fruit (points to God’s people bringing forth eternal fruit, but is dependent on the river of life and the Tree of life
    • Now when I had returned, behold, at the bank of the river were very many trees on the one side and on the other.  (Eze 47:7)
    • And by the river upon the bank thereof, on this side and on that side, shall grow all trees for meat, whose leaf shall not fade, neither shall the fruit thereof be consumed: it shall bring forth new fruit according to his months, because their waters they issued out of the sanctuary: and the fruit thereof shall be for meat, and the leaf thereof for medicine.  (Eze 47:12)
    • And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.  (Psa 1:3)
  • Either side of the river – see notes above Rev 22:1 concerning ‘river of water of life’
    • Either side – literally, hence and hence
    • Where they crucified him, and two other with him, on either side one, and Jesus in the midst.  (Joh 19:18)
    • See Eze 47:12 above – points to the nourishment of the trees providing their fruit
  • Tree of life – 1^st occurrence – no definite article, 2^nd occurrence has the definite article ‘the’ (G3588)
  • Tree – G3586 (Gr: xulos) – literally, wood (Note: this word is wood which is different from the tree (Greek word dendron G1186 – e.g., Rev 8:7, Rev 9:4)
    • G3585 (xulinos) / G3586 (xulon) occurs 21 times
      • 5 occurrences point to the cross – Acts 5:30, Acts 10:39, Acts 13:29, Gal 3:13, 1 Pet 2:24
      • 3 occurrences of the Tree (wood) of life – Rev 2:7, Rev 22:2, Rev 22:14
      • Church members – 1 Cor 3:12, 2 Tim 2:20
      • Precious wood – Rev 18:12
      • Green tree – Lk 23:31 (symbol of Jesus Christ)
    • Tree Gr: dendron – 26 occurrences (G1186) – Mat 3:10, Mat 7:17, Mat 7:18, Mat 7:19, Mat 12:33, Mat 13:32, Mat 21:8, Mar 8:24, Mar 11:8, Luk 3:9, Luk 6:43, Luk 6:44, Luk 13:19, Luk 21:29, Jud 1:12, Rev 7:1, Rev 7:3, Rev 8:7, Rev 9:4.
    • Tree
      • God’s people – Ps 1:1-3, Ps 52:8, Ps 92:12, Pr 11:30, Is 1:30, Is 61:3, Jer 11:16, Jer 17:8, Mat 12:33
      • God’s people as cedars by the water – Num 24:6, Ps 92:12, Eze 17:1-3Hos 14:5-6, Eze 17:22-23
      • Trees often refer to people ‑ Ps 1:3, Is 55:12, 1 Chr 16:33, Ps 92:12‑14, Eze 31:3‑9, Eze 19:10, Jer 17:8, Is 60:13, Mat 3:10
      • That which provides fruit of good works – Mat 3:10, 7:18-19, 12:33, 6:43-44, Jude 12, Ps 1:3
      • God’s servants – Jer 11:19, Zech 4:3, Zech 4:11, Rev 11:4, Is 56:3
      • Kingdoms – Eze 17:24, Eze 31:1-18, Dan 4:10-14, Dan 4:20-26, Hos 14:4-8, Zech 11:1-2, Lk 23:31, Ro 11:24
        • Olive Tree – Hos 14:6, Ps 52:8, Ps 80:9-11, Ro 11:16-24
        • Kingdom of heaven – Mat 13:32, Lk 13:19
      • Also represents eternal life (John 14:6, Mat 13:32, Pr 13:12, Gen 2:9, Gen 2:24, Rev 2:7, 22:2,14,19, Pr 3:18, Pr 11:30, Pr 13:12, Pr 15:4, Eze 17, Eze 31:4‑18, Eze 47:12)
      • That which provides fruit of good works ‑ Mat 3:10, Mat 7:18‑19, Mat 12:33, 6:43‑44, Jude 12, Ps 1:3
      • Trees with fruit withered ‑ know a tree by its fruit ‑ Mat 12:33, 7:16‑20, Lk 6:44, James 3:12, Ps 1:3, 92:14
      • Wicked people judged – Job 15:33, Job 24:20, Ps 37:35-36, Ps 52:5
      • False teachers – Mat 7:17-19, Lk 6:43-44, Jude 12
    • Tree – Old Testament (H6086, Heb: ets) – 329 occurrences
      • Tree of Life – The nourishment of eternal life through Jesus Christ
        • And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.  (Gen 2:9)
        • And the LORD God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever:  (Gen 3:22)
        • So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.  (Gen 3:24)
        • She is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her: and happy is every one that retaineth her.  (Pro 3:18)
        • The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life; and he that winneth souls is wise.  (Pro 11:30)
        • Hope deferred maketh the heart sick: but when the desire cometh, it is a tree of life.  (Pro 13:12)
        • A wholesome tongue is a tree of life: but perverseness therein is a breach in the spirit.  (Pro 15:4)
      • Tree of Life – The Tree of Life represents eternal life in Jesus Christ (John 14:6, Mat 13:32, Gen 2:9 (midst of the garden), Gen 3:24 (cherubim keep the way to the tree of life), Rev 2:7, Rev 22:2, Rev 22:14-19, Pr 3:18 (wisdom), Pr 11:30 (fruit of the righteous), Pr 13:12 (hope deferred makes the heart sick, but when desire comes, it is a tree of life), Pr 15:4 (wholesome tongue), Eze 17:22-24 (Jesus Christ, the high cedar), Eze 31:4‑18, Eze 47:12, Gen 3:22 (eat and live forever).
        • Note: The many trees of Eze 47:7,12 point to the fruit of God’s people
      • Life – Gr: zoe (G2222) – 134 occurrences – eternal salvation
        • Jesus is the way, the truth and the life – John 14:6
        • And, behold, one came and said unto him, Good Master, what good thing shall I do, that I may have eternal life? (Mat 19:16)
        • And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal. (Mat 25:46)
        • And when he was gone forth into the way, there came one running, and kneeled to him, and asked him, Good Master, what shall I do that I may inherit eternal life? (Mar 10:17)
        • But he shall receive an hundredfold now in this time, houses, and brethren, and sisters, and mothers, and children, and lands, with persecutions; and in the world to come eternal life. (Mar 10:30)
        • And, behold, a certain lawyer stood up, and tempted him, saying, Master, what shall I do to inherit eternal life? (Luk 10:25)
        • And a certain ruler asked him, saying, Good Master, what shall I do to inherit eternal life? (Luk 18:18)
        • That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life. (Joh 3:15)
        • And he that reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit unto life eternal: that both he that soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice together. (Joh 4:36)
        • Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me. (Joh 5:39)
        • Whoso eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day. (Joh 6:54)
        • Then Simon Peter answered him, Lord, to whom shall we go? thou hast the words of eternal life. (Joh 6:68)
        • And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand. (Joh 10:28)
        • He that loveth his life shall lose it; and he that hateth his life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal. (Joh 12:25)
        • As thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him. (Joh 17:2)
        • And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent. (Joh 17:3)
        • And when the Gentiles heard this, they were glad, and glorified the word of the Lord: and as many as were ordained to eternal life believed. (Act 13:48)
        • To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honour and immortality, eternal life: (Rom 2:7)
        • That as sin hath reigned unto death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord. (Rom 5:21)
        • For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. (Rom 6:23)
        • Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, whereunto thou art also called, and hast professed a good profession before many witnesses. (1Ti 6:12)
        • Laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come, that they may lay hold on eternal life. (1Ti 6:19)
        • In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began; (Tit 1:2)
        • That being justified by his grace, we should be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life. (Tit 3:7)
        • (For the life was manifested, and we have seen it, and bear witness, and shew unto you that eternal life, which was with the Father, and was manifested unto us;) (1Jn 1:2)
        • And this is the promise that he hath promised us, even eternal life. (1Jn 2:25)
        • Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer: and ye know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him. (1Jn 3:15)
        • And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. (1Jn 5:11)
        • These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God. (1Jn 5:13)
        • And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding, that we may know him that is true, and we are in him that is true, even in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life. (1Jn 5:20)
        • Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life. (Jud 1:21)
      • 12 manners of fruit
        • Manners – not in original Bible text
        • 12 Represents the government of the work of the church of God as a pillar for sending forth truth – see notes on Rev 21:12
        • Fruit every month – good works – Mat 3:8, 7:16-20, Mat 12:33, Mat 13:8, Mat 13:26, Mat 21:19-43, Ja 3:17-18, Heb 12:11, Heb 13:15, etc.
        • 12 months – Solomon’s servants / order of the kingdom
        • Months – Solomon had 12 officers over Israel which provided food to the king (per month) – 1 Ki 4:7
        • Months – end of 12 months, he walked in the palace (Nebuchadnezzar) – Dan 4:29

• • 12 courses (one for each month) were 24,000 officers that served the king ion any matter (1 Chr 27:1-15)

• Months – Purification of women in Persia 12 months – Est 2:12
• 12 hours in a day – John 11:9
• Woman healed with issue of blood 12 years – Mat 9:29, Mk 5:25, Lk 8:43
• Months – Tree of life bears 12 fruits and yielded her fruit every month – Rev 22:2

• Fruit
  • Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful. But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night. And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper. (Psa 1:1-3)
  • The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree: he shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon. Those that be planted in the house of the LORD shall flourish in the courts of our God. They shall still bring forth fruit in old age; they shall be fat and flourishing; (Psa 92:12-14)
  • Blessed is the man that trusteth in the LORD, and whose hope the LORD is. For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and that spreadeth out her roots by the river, and shall not see when heat cometh, but her leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit. (Jer 17:7-8)
  • And by the river upon the bank thereof, on this side and on that side, shall grow all trees for meat, whose leaf shall not fade, neither shall the fruit thereof be consumed: it shall bring forth new fruit according to his months, because their waters they issued out of the sanctuary: and the fruit thereof shall be for meat, and the leaf thereof for medicine.  (Eze 47:12)
  • For the hope which is laid up for you in heaven, whereof ye heard before in the word of the truth of the gospel; Which is come unto you, as it is in all the world; and bringeth forth fruit, as it doth also in you, since the day ye heard of it, and knew the grace of God in truth: (Col 1:5-6)
  • Sower and the seed – Mat 13:23, Mk 4:20, Lk 8:15
  • Fig Tree with leaves only, no fruit – Mat 21:19, Mk 11:12-14, Lk 13:16-17
  • Being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are by Jesus Christ, unto the glory and praise of God.  (Php 1:11)
  • Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby.  (Heb 12:11)
  • For the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth  (Eph 5:9)
  • But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law. (Gal 5:22-23)
  • But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life.  (Rom 6:22)
  • I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman.  Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit.  (Joh 15:1-2)
  • Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me. I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing. (Joh 15:4-5)
  • Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; so shall ye be my disciples.  (Joh 15:8)
  • Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you.  (Joh 15:16)
  • Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit.  (Joh 12:24)
  • And he that reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit unto life eternal: that both he that soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice together.  (Joh 4:36)
  • For a good tree bringeth not forth corrupt fruit; neither doth a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. For every tree is known by his own fruit. For of thorns men do not gather figs, nor of a bramble bush gather they grapes.  (Luk 6:43-44)
  • Either make the tree good, and his fruit good; or else make the tree corrupt, and his fruit corrupt: for the tree is known by his fruit.  (Mat 12:33)
  • And now also the axe is laid unto the root of the trees: therefore every tree which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.  (Mat 3:10)
  • Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit. A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire. (Mat 7:17-19)
  • To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that he might be glorified.  (Isa 61:3)
  • Those that be planted in the house of the LORD shall flourish in the courts of our God. They shall still bring forth fruit in old age; they shall be fat and flourishing (Psa 92:13-14)
• Union with Christ
  • At that day ye shall know that I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you.  (Joh 14:20)
  • Abide in the vine to bear fruit – John 15:5-7
  • I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.  (Joh 15:5)
  • That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me. And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one: I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me. (Joh 17:21-23)
  • He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, dwelleth in me, and I in him.  (Joh 6:56)
  • But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption:  (1Co 1:30)
  • But now hath God set the members every one of them in the body, as it hath pleased him.  (1Co 12:18)
  • Now ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular.  (1Co 12:27)
  • So we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another.  (Rom 12:5)
  • I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me.  (Joh 17:23)
  • Created in Christ ( 2:10)
  • Crucified with him ( 2:20)
  • Buried with him / raised with Him ( 2:12)
    • Buried with him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with him through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised him from the dead.  (Col 2:12)
  • Baptized into Christ and his death ( 6:3)
  • United with him in his resurrection ( 6:5)
  • Seated with him in the heavenly places ( 2:6);
  • Christ is formed in believers ( 4:19) and dwells in our hearts (Eph. 3:17
  • The church is the body of Christ (1 Cor. 6:15; 12:27)
  • Christ is in us (2 Cor. 13:5) and we are in him (1 Cor. 1:30)
  • The church is one flesh with Christ ( 5:31–32)
  • Believers gain Christ and are found in him ( 3:8–9)
  • In Christ (Ro 8:1) – We are justified ( 8:1), glorified (8:30), sanctified (1 Cor. 1:2), called (1:9); made alive (Eph. 2:5), created anew (2 Cor. 5:17), adopted (Gal. 3:26), and elected (Eph. 1:4–5)
• Eat the fruit
  • And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden: (Gen 3:2)
  • But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die. (Gen 3:3)
  • And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat. (Gen 3:6)
  • For they covered the face of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened; and they did eat every herb of the land, and all the fruit of the trees which the hail had left: and there remained not any green thing in the trees, or in the herbs of the field, through all the land of Egypt. (Exo 10:15)
  • And in the fifth year shall ye eat of the fruit thereof, that it may yield unto you the increase thereof: I am the LORD your God. (Lev 19:25)
  • And the land shall yield her fruit, and ye shall eat your fill, and dwell therein in safety. (Lev 25:19)
  • And ye shall sow the eighth year, and eat yet of old fruit until the ninth year; until her fruits come in ye shall eat of the old store. (Lev 25:22)
  • The fruit of thy land, and all thy labours, shall a nation which thou knowest not eat up; and thou shalt be only oppressed and crushed alway: (Deu 28:33)
  • And he shall eat the fruit of thy cattle, and the fruit of thy land, until thou be destroyed: which also shall not leave thee either corn, wine, or oil, or the increase of thy kine, or flocks of thy sheep, until he have destroyed thee. (Deu 28:51)
  • And thou shalt eat the fruit of thine own body, the flesh of thy sons and of thy daughters, which the LORD thy God hath given thee, in the siege, and in the straitness, wherewith thine enemies shall distress thee: (Deu 28:53)
  • And the manna ceased on the morrow after they had eaten of the old corn of the land; neither had the children of Israel manna any more; but they did eat of the fruit of the land of Canaan that year. (Jos 5:12)
  • And the king said unto Ziba, What meanest thou by these? And Ziba said, The asses be for the king’s household to ride on; and the bread and summer fruit for the young men to eat; and the wine, that such as be faint in the wilderness may drink. (2Sa 16:2)
  • And they took strong cities, and a fat land, and possessed houses full of all goods, wells digged, vineyards, and oliveyards, and fruit trees in abundance: so they did eat, and were filled, and became fat, and delighted themselves in thy great goodness. (Neh 9:25)
  • Behold, we are servants this day, and for the land that thou gavest unto our fathers to eat the fruit thereof and the good thereof, behold, we are servants in it: (Neh 9:36)
  • And did eat up all the herbs in their land, and devoured the fruit of their ground. (Psa 105:35)
  • Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices. (Pro 1:31)
  • A man shall eat good by the fruit of his mouth: but the soul of the transgressors shall eat violence. (Pro 13:2)
  • Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof. (Pro 18:21)
  • Whoso keepeth the fig tree shall eat the fruit thereof: so he that waiteth on his master shall be honoured. (Pro 27:18)
  • Say ye to the righteous, that it shall be well with him: for they shall eat the fruit of their doings. (Isa 3:10)
  • And this shall be a sign unto thee, Ye shall eat this year such as groweth of itself; and the second year that which springeth of the same: and in the third year sow ye, and reap, and plant vineyards, and eat the fruit thereof. (Isa 37:30)
  • And they shall build houses, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and eat the fruit of them. (Isa 65:21)
  • And I brought you into a plentiful country, to eat the fruit thereof and the goodness thereof; but when ye entered, ye defiled my land, and made mine heritage an abomination. (Jer 2:7)
  • Build ye houses, and dwell in them; and plant gardens, and eat the fruit of them; (Jer 29:5)
  • For therefore he sent unto us in Babylon, saying, This captivity is long: build ye houses, and dwell in them; and plant gardens, and eat the fruit of them. (Jer 29:28)
  • Behold, O LORD, and consider to whom thou hast done this. Shall the women eat their fruit, and children of a span long? shall the priest and the prophet be slain in the sanctuary of the Lord? (Lam 2:20)
  • Behold, therefore I will deliver thee to the men of the east for a possession, and they shall set their palaces in thee, and make their dwellings in thee: they shall eat thy fruit, and they shall drink thy milk. (Eze 25:4)
  • And I will bring again the captivity of my people of Israel, and they shall build the waste cities, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and drink the wine thereof; they shall also make gardens, and eat the fruit of them. (Amo 9:14)
  • Woe is me! for I am as when they have gathered the summer fruits, as the grapegleanings of the vintage: there is no cluster to eat: my soul desired the firstripe fruit. (Mic 7:1)
  • And Jesus answered and said unto it, No man eat fruit of thee hereafter for ever. And his disciples heard it. (Mar 11:14)
• Leaves
  • Normally associated with lack of fruit – Mk 11:13, Mat 21:19
  • That which fades away – Is 1:30, Is 34:4, Is 64:6, Jer 17:8, Eze 17:9
  • Whole tree productive, not just fruit – Eze 47:12, Ps 1:3
• Healing
  • And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; 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.  (Rev 21:4)
  • Healing of the nations – Ps 147:3, Is 6:10, Isa 57:18-19, Jer 17:14, Mal 4:2, Hos 14:4, Eze 47:8-12, Hos 14:4, Mal 4:2, Lk 4:18, 1 Pet 2:24
  • Healing – Gr: therapeia (G2322 (4 occurrences) / G2323) – to cure (give attendance to)
• Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his lord hath made ruler over his household, to give them meat in due season?  (Mat 24:45)
• And the people, when they knew it, followed him: and he received them, and spake unto them of the kingdom of God, and healed them that had need of healing.  (Luk 9:11)
• And the Lord said, Who then is that faithful and wise steward, whom his lord shall make ruler over his household, to give them their portion of meat in due season?  (Luk 12:42)
• In the midst of the street of it, and on either side of the river, was there the tree of life, which bare twelve manner of fruits, and yielded her fruit every month: and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.  (Rev 22:2)
• Healing – Heb: terupha (H8644, 1 occurrence – Eze 47:12 based on H7495, Heb: rapha – 68 occurrences)
• And said, If thou wilt diligently hearken to the voice of the LORD thy God, and wilt do that which is right in his sight, and wilt give ear to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of these diseases upon thee, which I have brought upon the Egyptians: for I am the LORD that healeth  (Exo 15:26)
• If he rise again, and walk abroad upon his staff, then shall he that smote him be quit: only he shall pay for the loss of his time, and shall cause him to be thoroughly healed.  (Exo 21:19)
• The flesh also, in which, even in the skin thereof, was a boil, and is healed,  (Lev 13:18)
• But if the scall be in his sight at a stay, and that there is black hair grown up therein; the scall is healed, he is clean: and the priest shall pronounce him clean.  (Lev 13:37)
• And the priest shall go forth out of the camp; and the priest shall look, and, behold, if the plague of leprosy be healed in the leper;  (Lev 14:3)
• And if the priest shall come in, and look upon it, and, behold, the plague hath not spread in the house, after the house was plaistered: then the priest shall pronounce the house clean, because the plague is healed.  (Lev 14:48)
• And Moses cried unto the LORD, saying, Heal her now, O God, I beseech thee.  (Num 12:13)
• The LORD will smite thee with the botch of Egypt, and with the emerods, and with the scab, and with the itch, whereof thou canst not be healed.  (Deu 28:27)
• The LORD shall smite thee in the knees, and in the legs, with a sore botch that cannot be healed, from the sole  of thy foot unto the top of thy head.  (Deu 28:35)
• See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god with me: I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal: neither is there any that can deliver out of my hand.  (Deu 32:39)
• And they said, If ye send away the ark of the God of Israel, send it not empty; but in any wise return him a trespass offering: then ye shall be healed, and it shall be known to you why his hand is not removed from you.  (1Sa 6:3)
• And Elijah said unto all the people, Come near unto me. And all the people came near unto him. And he repaired the altar of the LORD that was broken down.  (1Ki 18:30)
• And he went forth unto the spring of the waters, and cast the salt in there, and said, Thus saith the LORD, I have healed these waters; there shall not be from thence any more death or barren  (2Ki 2:21)
• So the waters were healed unto this day, according to the saying of Elisha which he spake.  (2Ki 2:22)
• Therefore the heart of the king of Syria was sore troubled for this thing; and he called his servants, and said unto them, Will ye not shew me which of  us is for the king of Israel?  (2Ki 6:11)
• And king Joram went back to be healed in Jezreel of the wounds which the Syrians had given him at Ramah, when he fought against Hazael king of Syria. And Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah went down to see Joram the son of Ahab in Jezreel, because he was sick.  (2Ki 8:29)
• But king Joram was returned to be healed in Jezreel of the wounds which the Syrians had given him, when he fought with Hazael king of Syria.) And Jehu said, If it be your minds, then let none go forth nor escape out of the city to go to tell it in Jezreel.  (2Ki 9:15)
• Turn again, and tell Hezekiah the captain of my people, Thus saith the LORD, the God of David thy father, I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tears: behold, I will heal thee: on the third day thou shalt go up unto the house of the LORD.  (2Ki 20:5)
• And Hezekiah said unto Isaiah, What shall be the sign that the LORD will heal me, and that I shall go up into the house of the LORD the third day?  (2Ki 20:8)
• If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways;  then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.  (2Ch 7:14)
• And Asa in the thirty and ninth year of his reign was diseased in his feet, until his disease was exceeding great: yet in his disease he sought not to the LORD, but to the physicians.  (2Ch 16:12)
• And he returned to be healed in Jezreel because of the wounds which were given him at Ramah, when he fought with Hazael king of Syria. And Azariah the son of Jehoram king of Judah went down to see Jehoram the son of Ahab at Jezreel, because he was sick.  (2Ch 22:6)
• And the LORD hearkened to Hezekiah, and healed the people.  (2Ch 30:20)
• For he maketh sore, and bindeth up: he woundeth, and his hands make whole.  (Job 5:18)
• But ye are forgers of lies, ye are all physicians of no value.  (Job 13:4)
• Have mercy upon me, O LORD; for I am weak: O LORD, heal me; for my bones are vexed.  (Psa 6:2)
  • LORD my God, I cried unto thee, and thou hast healed me.  (Psa 30:2)
• I said, LORD, be merciful unto me: heal my soul; for I have sinned against thee.  (Psa 41:4)
• Thou hast made the earth to tremble; thou hast broken it: heal the breaches thereof; for it shaketh.  (Psa 60:2)
• Who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases;  (Psa 103:3)
• He sent his word, and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions.  (Psa 107:20)
• He healeth the broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds.  (Psa 147:3)
• A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;  (Ecc 3:3)
• Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and convert, and be healed.  (Isa 6:10)
• And the LORD shall smite Egypt: he shall smite and heal it: and they shall return even to the LORD, and he shall be intreated of them, and shall heal them.  (Isa 19:22)
• Moreover the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days, in the day that the LORD bindeth up the breach of his people, and healeth the stroke of their wound.  (Isa 30:26)
• But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities:  the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.  (Isa 53:5)
• I have seen his ways, and will heal him: I will lead him also, and restore comforts unto him and to his mourners.  (Isa 57:18)
• I create the fruit of the lips; Peace, peace to him that is far off, and to him that is near, saith the LORD; and I will heal him.  (Isa 57:19)
• Return, ye backsliding children, and I will heal your backslidings. Behold, we come unto thee; for thou art the LORD our God.  (Jer 3:22)
• They have healed also the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.  (Jer 6:14)
• For they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.  (Jer 8:11)
• Is there no balm in Gilead; is there no physician there? why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered?  (Jer 8:22)
• Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, which refuseth to be healed? wilt thou be altogether unto me as a liar, and as waters that fail?   (Jer 15:18)
• Heal me, O LORD, and I shall be healed; save me, and I shall be saved: for thou art my praise.  (Jer 17:14)
• And shalt say unto them, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Even so will I break this people and this city, as one breaketh a potter’s vessel, that cannot be made whole again: and they shall bury them in Tophet, till there be no  place to bury.  (Jer 19:11)
• For I will restore health unto thee, and I will heal thee of thy wounds, saith the LORD; because they called thee an Outcast, saying, This is Zion, whom no man seeketh after.  (Jer 30:17)
• Behold, I will bring it health and cure, and I will cure them, and will reveal unto them the abundance of peace and truth.  (Jer 33:6)
• Babylon is suddenly fallen and destroyed: howl for her; take balm for her pain, if so be she may be healed.  (Jer 51:8)
• We would have healed Babylon, but she is not healed: forsake her, and let us go every one into his own country: for her judgment reacheth unto heaven, and is lifted up even to the skies.  (Jer 51:9)
• What thing shall I take to witness for thee? what thing shall I liken to thee, O daughter of Jerusalem? what shall I equal to thee, that I may comfort thee, O virgin daughter of Zion? for thy breach is great like the sea: who can heal thee?  (Lam 2:13)
• The diseased have ye not strengthened, neither have ye healed that which was sick, neither have ye bound up that which was broken, neither have ye brought again that which was driven away, neither have ye sought that which was lost; but with force and with cruelty have ye ruled them.  (Eze 34:4)
• Then said he unto me, These waters issue out toward the east country, and go down into the desert, and go into the sea: which being brought forth into the sea, the waters shall be healed.  (Eze 47:8)
• And it shall come to pass, that every thing that liveth, which moveth, whithersoever the rivers shall come, shall live: and there shall be a very great multitude of fish, because these waters shall come thither: for they shall be healed; and every thing shall live whither  the river cometh.  (Eze 47:9)
• But the miry places thereof and the marishes thereof shall not be healed; they shall be given to salt.  (Eze 47:11)
• When Ephraim saw his sickness, and Judah saw his wound, then went Ephraim to the Assyrian, and sent to king Jareb: yet could he not heal you, nor cure you of your wound.  (Hos 5:13)
• Come, and let us return unto the LORD: for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up.  (Hos 6:1)
• When I would have healed Israel, then the iniquity of Ephraim was discovered, and the wickedness of Samaria: for they commit falsehood; and the thief cometh in, and the troop of robbers spoileth without.  (Hos 7:1)
• I taught Ephraim also to go, taking them by their arms; but they knew not that I healed them.  (Hos 11:3)
• I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely: for mine anger is turned away from him.  (Hos 14:4)
• For, lo, I will raise up a shepherd in the land, which shall not visit those that be cut off, neither shall seek the young one, nor heal that that is broken, nor feed that that standeth still: but he shall eat the flesh of the fat, and tear their claws in pieces.  (Zec 11:16)
• Sickness represents spiritual sickness of sin – Mat 8:17, Eze 34:4, Ps 102:4, Pr 13:12, Ps 38:2-3, Is 1:4-6, Jer 8:22, Jer 30:12, Is 53:4-5, 1 Tim 1:10, 2 Tim 1:13, 4:3, Titus 1:9,13, 2:1-2, 1 Cor 11:26-30, Jer 31:8, Ps 41:4, Ps 103:1-4, 1 Pet 2:24, John 9:39, 12:40, Is 35:5-6, Acts 28:7, Mal 4:2)
• Healing is Salvation ‑ Jer 31:8, John 9:39, 12:40, Is 35:5‑6, 53:3‑5, Acts 28:27, Mal 4:2, Ps 107:20, 19:22, Jer 8:22, Ps 30:2, 33:6, Job 5:18, Ex 23:25
  • Healing of the nations ‑ Ps 147:3, Is 6:10, 57:18‑19, Jer 17:14, Mal 4:2, Hos 14:4, Ez 47:8‑11, Rev 22:2
  • Healed from sickness of iniquity ‑ Is 57:19
  • Heals bruise / wound of sin ‑ Is 30:6, Jer 30:14‑17, Micah 1:9, Nah 3:19, Deut 32:39, Is 53:5
  • Heal unfaithfulness ‑ Jer 3:22
  • Heal soul from sin ‑ Ps 41:4
  • Heal iniquity, Heal diseases ‑ Ps 103:1‑4
  • Healed from transgression ‑ Is 53:5, 1 Pet 2:24
  • Heal from disease ‑ Ex 15:26
  • Heal brokenhearted ‑ Ps 147:3

22:3 

And there shall be no more curse: but the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it; and his servants shall serve him:

• Curse – Gr: katanathema (G2652 – only occurrence), based on G2596 (kata meaning down) and G331 (anathema)
  • G331 (anathema) – literally, to ban or excommunicate (6 occurrences):
  • And they came to the chief priests and elders, and said, We have bound ourselves under a great curse, that we will eat nothing until we have slain Paul.  (Act 23:14)
  • For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh:  (Rom 9:3)
  • Wherefore I give you to understand, that no man speaking by the Spirit of God calleth Jesus accursed: and that no man can say that Jesus is the Lord, but by the Holy Ghost.  (1Co 12:3)
  • If any man love not the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be Anathema Maranatha.  (1Co 16:22)
  • But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed. As we said before, so say I now again, If any man preach any other gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him be accursed. (Gal 1:8-9)
• No more curse – Deut 27-28 (blessing vs. curse), Gal 3:10-13, Josh 6:26, Gen 3:14-17, 4:11, Zech 14:11, 8:13
  • Thou hast rebuked the proud that are cursed, which do err from thy commandments.  (Psa 119:21)
  • And say thou unto them, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel; Cursed be the man that obeyeth not the words of this covenant,  (Jer 11:3)
  • Thus saith the LORD; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the LORD.  (Jer 17:5)
  • Cursed be he that doeth the work of the LORD deceitfully, and cursed be he that keepeth back his sword from blood.  (Jer 48:10)
• Blessing is the opposite of a curse (Deut 28:1-14 compared to Deut 28:15-68)
  • Parable of the sheep and the goats:
  • Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world:  (Mat 25:34)
  • Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels (Mat 25:41)
  • The highest spiritual good (salvation)
  • … Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are covered. Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin. (Rom 4:7-8)
• Blessed (Beatitudes of Revelation):
  • Rev 1:3 – those who read, hear and keep the prophecy of Revelation
  • Rev 14:13 – the dead who die in the Lord
  • Rev 16:15 – those who watch and keep their garments
  • Rev 19:9 – those who are called to go to the marriage supper of the Lamb
  • Rev 20:6 – those that take part of the 1^st resurrection
  • Rev 22:7 – those that keep the words of this prophecy of Revelation
  • Rev 22:14 – those that keep God’s commandments
• Throne – see Rev 21:5 notes
• Servants – see Rev 1:1, 4:8, 7:15 notes
• See Rev 22:6 notes below

 

22:4 

And they shall see his face; and his name shall be in their foreheads.

• Perfect holiness of God – Hab 1:13
• Previously, men could not see God and live – John 1:18, 1 John 4:12, Ex 33:20, John 6:46, Col 1:15, 1 Tim 6:16
• We shall see God – Mat 5:8, 1 John 3:1-3, Heb 12:14, 1 Cor 13:12, John 17:24, John 12:26, Isa 35:2, Isa 40:5, Isa 33:17-20, Ps 17:15, Ps 42:2, Job 33:23-26, 2 Cor 3:12-18, Exo 33:11-23, Deut 34:10, Ps 4:6, Isa 33:17, Isa 40:5, John 12:26, John 17:24, Gen 32:20, Job 19:26-27, Gen 16:13, Exo 24:10-11, Num 12:8, Deu 5:24, Deu 34:10, Jud 6:22-23, Jud 13:21-22, Isa 6:5, 2 Cor 3:18, 2 Cor 4:6, Gal 1:6, Eph 1:17, Col 1:15, 2 Tim 1:10, Heb 11:27
• God is Holy and cannot look upon sin:
  • Thou art of purer eyes than to behold evil, and canst not look on iniquity: wherefore lookest thou upon them that deal treacherously, and holdest thy tongue when the wicked devoureth the man that is more righteous than he?  (Hab 1:13)
• Name in their foreheads – see Rev 7:3, Rev 14:1 notes, John 10:30, Zech 14:9
• Foreheads
• Where God’s seal is – Rev 7:3, Rev 9:4, Rev 13:16, Rev 14:1, Rev 14:9, Rev 17:5, Rev 20:4, Rev 22:4
• Ezekiel’s forehead made like flint – Ez 3:8-9
• Saved marked – Ez 9:4-6
• Where phylacteries were – see Rev 13:16, Deut 6:8, Deut 11:18, Ex 13:9, Ex 13:16, Mat 23:5
• Aaron’s forehead – ‘Holy to the Lord’ – Ex 28:38
• Satan numbers his too (Rev 13:18)
• Unsaved – minds are at enmity w/ God – 1 Tim 6:5, 2 Tim 3:8, Col 1:21, 2 Cor 3:14-4:6
• Saved have the mind of Christ – 1 Cor 2:16, Heb 8:10 (see Heb 10:16-17, Jer 31:34), 2 Cor 3:3, Col 3:9-10, 2 Cor 1:21-22, 2 Tim 1:7. 2 Pet 3:1, Ro 8:5
• Saved must strive to keep their minds on Christ – Eph 5:18, Mat 22:37 (w/ Deut 6:4-5, Lk 10:27, Mk 12:30), 1 Pet 2:2, 1 Thess 2:13, Eph 1:15-19, Eph 4:13, Eph 4:23, 2 Pet 1:5-8, 2 Pet 3:18, Phil 1:9-11, Phil 2:5, Phil 4:7-8, Col 1:9-11, Col 2:3, Col 3:2, James 3:13, 1 Pet 1:13, Ro 12:2
• Satan’s also has a mark on his people – Represents that Satan influences the mind of unsaved – held in captive to sin – 2 Tim 2:24-26, but mankind willingly submit themselves to servitude since people like sin (Ro 39-23, Jer 17:9, etc). Because people are sinful, their minds are at enmity with God (Ro 8:1-9, 1 Tim 6:5, 2 Tim 3:8, Col 1:21, 2 Cor 3:14-4:6, James 4:4). People are children of Satan – 1 John 3:8-10, Mat 13:38, John 8:44)
• Father’s name written in foreheads – see Ex 28:38, Rev 3:12, Rev 22:4
• In Rev 7:1-8, a seal was placed
• Points to God’s People – 144,000 not a literal number of people
• Foreheads represent minds – Deut 6:6-8, Heb 8:10, 1 Cor 2:16
  • Mark of the Beast points to the unsaved – Rev 13:16
• … the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it; and his servants shall serve him: And they shall see his face; and his name shall be in their foreheads. (Rev 22:3-4)
• Him that overcomes will I make a pillar in the temple of my God … and I will write upon him my new name. (Rev 3:12)
• Father’s name – all that God is
  • Elohim – strong one – Gen 1:1
  • Adonai – Lord/Master – Joshua 5:14, Is 6:8-11
  • Yahweh – I am the one who is – Ex 3:14
  • Yahweh Jireh – The Lord provides – Gen 22:14
  • Yahweh Nissu – The Lord is my banner – Ex 17:1
  • Yahweh Shalom – The Lord is peace – Judges 6:24
  • Yahweh Sabbaoth – The Lord of Hosts – 1 Sam 1:3
  • Yahweh Maccaddeshcem – The Lord your sanctifier – Ex 31:13
  • Yahweh Raah – The Lord my Shepherd – Ps 23:1
  • Yahweh Tsidkenu – The Lord our righteousness – Jer 23:6
  • Yahweh Shammah – The Lord is there – Ex 48:3
  • Yahweh Elohim – The Lord God – Judges 5:3, Is 17:6

22:5 

And there shall be no night there; and they need no candle, neither light of the sun; for the Lord God giveth them light: and they shall reign for ever and ever.

• No More night – see Rev 21:25, Rev 18:23 notes, Zech 14:7
• Gr: nux (G3571) – 65 occurrences
• Rev 22:5, John 9:4, 11:10, Ro 13:12, Rev 21:25, John 3:2
• 1 John 1:5‑7, Col 1:13, John 3:19 (time of the need for salvation)
• Night used symbolically ‑ a time of darkness ‑ 1 John 1:5‑7,2:9, 1 Pet 2:9, Eph 5:11,6:12, 2 Cor 6:14, Ro 2:19, Acts 26:18, John 3:19, Ro 13:12‑13
• Day of salvation – 2 Cor 6:1‑2, Heb 3:7, Heb 4:1-10, Lk 9:57‑62, Mat 8:21‑22, Is 49:8, Lk 4:18, Is 61:2, Is 58:5
• No candle – no more need of salvation – see Rev 1:16 notes
• Gr: luchnos (G3088) – 14 occurrences
  • Christians as a light – Mat 5:15 in the context of Mat 5:14-16, Mk 4:21, Lk 8:16, Lk 11:33 John 5:34-35, Lk 12:35
• Neither light of the sun, God gives light – see Rev 21:23-25 notes
• Sun no longer

• Sun, moon and starts together in Scripture – That which brings light into darkness (for signs and seasons) ‑ Gen 1:14‑18, Ps 74:16, Ps 136:7‑9, Zech 14:6, Ps 19:1‑2, Ps 50:6, Ps 8:1, Acts 2:20, Joel 2:10, Joel 3:15, Mat 24:29-30, Mk 13:24-26, Lk 21:25-26, Ps 148:3 (all praise to God), Is 13:10, Gen 37:9‑10, Rev 12:1-3, Amos 5:20, Amos 8:9, Ecc 12:2, Zeph 1:15, Acts 2:20 – part of Judgment Day
  • Immediately after tribulation – Mat 24:29, Mk 13:24, Lk 21:25
  • Second coming – Joel 2:10, Joel 2:31, Joel 3:15, Acts 2:20, Rev 16:8, Rev 8:12, Jer 4:23-28, Eze 32:7-8, Is 13:10, Is 24:23, Is 60:19-20, Zech 14:6 (Judgment Day)
  • Sackcloth – mourning – Gen 37:34, 2Sa 3:31, 2Sa 21:10, 1Ki 20:31, 1Ki 20:32, 1Ki 21:27, 2Ki 6:30, 2Ki 19:1, 2Ki 19:2, 1Ch 21:16, Neh 9:1, Est 4:1, Est 4:2, Est 4:3, Est 4:4, Job 16:15, Psa 30:11, Psa 35:13, Psa 69:11, Isa 3:24, Isa 15:3, Isa 20:2, Isa 22:12, Isa 32:11, Isa 37:1, Isa 37:2, Isa 50:3, Isa 58:5, Jer 4:8, Jer 6:26, Jer 48:37, Jer 49:3, Lam 2:10, Eze 7:18, Eze 27:31, Dan 9:3, Joe 1:8, Joe 1:13, Amo 8:10, Jon 3:5, Jon 3:6, Jon 3:8, Mat 11:21, Luk 10:13, Rev 6:12, Rev 11:3, John 3:5-8, Rev 18:8.
  • John the Baptist (prophet) dressed in camel’s hair (mourning for sins of people, preached repentance) – Mat 3:1-4, Mat 11:8, 2 Ki 1:8, Zech 13l4, Mal 4:5, Mk 1:6, Lk 1:17, Rev 11:3
  • Hair given as a glory for women, but has turned to mourning – 1 Cor 11:14-15 (see Absalom – 2 Sam 14:25-26, Nazirite vow – Num 6)
  • Sun represents Christ as Light of the Gospel – Mal 4:2, 2 Pet 1:19, Rev 2:28, Rev 22:16, Mat 2:2, Mat 4:16, Num 24:7, Eph 5:14, Lk 1:78, Is 9:1-2, Is 59:8, Ps 19:4-5, Is 60:1-2
  • Sun dark at 1^st coming of Christ – Lk 23:45
  • Light of the Gospel is completed (Judgment Day has arrived) – 2 Cor 4:6, 2 Tim 1:10, 1 Pet 2:9, Ps 43:3, Is 8:20, John 1:4, John 1:9, John 3:19, John 8:12, John 9:5, John 12:36, John 12:46, etc.
  • Jesus as the sun shining – Mal 4:2, 2 Pet 1:19, Rev 1:16, Rev 2:28, Rev 10:1, Rev 22:16, Mat 2:2, Mat 4:16, Num 24:17, Eph 5:14, Lk 1:78, Is 9:1‑2, Is 30:26, Is 59:8
  • Transfiguration – Mk 9:2-5, Mat 17:1-4, Lk 9:28-33 (shined as the sun)
  • Christ as rising of the sun ‑ 2 Sam 23:1‑4, Rev 7:2‑3, Is 60:1‑2, Num 24:17, Mal 4:2 (when Christ rose from the dead
  • Darkness is Judgment Day – Zeph 1:15, Amos 5:18-20
  • Reign forever – Dan 7:18,27, Mat 19:28, Ro 5:17 – see 1:6 notes, Lk 19:11-27

• • Reigns – God is King – see notes Rev 1:5, Rev 4:2-3, Rev 11:17, see below on Rev 19:16
    • Last enemy to be destroyed is death – 1 Cor 15:26-27

Epilogue – Jesus Christ is Coming (Rev 22:6-21)

And he said unto me, These sayings are faithful and true: and the Lord God of the holy prophets sent his angel to shew unto his servants the things which must shortly be done.  (Rev 22:6)

Behold, I come quickly: blessed is he that keepeth the sayings of the prophecy of this book.  (Rev 22:7)

And I John saw these things, and heard them. And when I had heard and seen, I fell down to worship before the feet of the angel which shewed me these things.  (Rev 22:8)

Then saith he unto me, See thou do it not: for I am thy fellowservant, and of thy brethren the prophets, and of them which keep the sayings of this book: worship God.  (Rev 22:9)

And he saith unto me, Seal not the sayings of the prophecy of this book: for the time is at hand.  (Rev 22:10)

He that is unjust, let him be unjust still: and he which is filthy, let him be filthy still: and he that is righteous, let him be righteous still: and he that is holy, let him be holy still.  (Rev 22:11)

And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be.  (Rev 22:12)

I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last.  (Rev 22:13)

Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city.  (Rev 22:14)

For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie.  (Rev 22:15)

I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches. I am the root and the offspring of David, and the bright and morning star.  (Rev 22:16)

And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him that heareth say, Come. And let him that is athirst come. And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely.  (Rev 22:17)

For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book:  (Rev 22:18)

And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book.  (Rev 22:19)

He which testifieth these things saith, Surely I come quickly. Amen. Even so, come, Lord Jesus.  (Rev 22:20)

The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.  (Rev 22:21)

 

22:6 

And he said unto me, These sayings are faithful and true: and the Lord God of the holy prophets sent his angel to shew unto his servants the things which must shortly be done.

• Faithful and True – Amen – see Rev 21:5 notes above, see Rev 19:9 notes
• Holy prophets – see Rev 1:11, Rev 10:7, Rev 11:10, Rev 11:18 notes

• • Spirit of prophecy – to speak Word of God (2 Pet 1:20-21, Rev 1:3,11:6, 1 Tim 1:18, 4:14, 1 Cor 12:10, 1 Cor 13:8, 1 Cor 13:14)

• Greek (G4394-G4398) – propheteia – pro (before), phemi (speak, proclaim) – to speak of things that will come – total 200 occurrences in New Testament

• • Prophets faithfully bring word of God ‑ all believers are prophets (1 Cor 11:5, 14:1‑3)
  • Future events – Judgment Day, salvation, eternity, etc.
  • Prophets ‑ Word of God ‑ Lk 1:70, Ro 1:2, Heb 1:1, Acts 3:21

• Angel – literally, messenger
• Angels are servant messengers (human – Mat 11:10, Lk 7:24, 9:52, Ja 2:25 and angelic spirits)
• Angels are ministering spirits (Heb 1:14, 1 Cor 11:10, Mat 4:11, Lk 22:43, Ps 34:7, Acts 12:7-9, Mat 18:10, Lk 16:22), announce Christ (Mat 1:20, Lk 1:11, Mat 28:2, John 20:12, Acts 1:10-11), work at second coming (Mat 13:39, 16:27, 24:31), not to be worshiped (Col 2:18-19, Rev 22:8-9)
• Angels in Revelation
  • Revelation signified by and angel of Jesus Christ – Rev 1:1, Rev 22:6, Rev 22:8, Rev 22:16
  • The angels to the 7 churches – Rev 1:20, Rev 2:1, Rev 2:8, Rev 2:12, Rev 2:18, Rev 3:1, Rev 3:7, Rev 3:14
  • The Fathers angels (many around throne) – Rev 3:5, Rev 5:11, Rev 7:11, Rev 14:10
  • Strong angel pronounces the Lamb is worthy to open the Book – Rev 5:2
  • 4 angels at 4 corners of earth, holding back the four winds – Rev 7:1
  • Angel ascending from the east with the seal of God – Rev 7:2
  • 7 angels with 7 trumpets – Rev 8:2, Rev 8:6-12, Rev 9:1, Rev 9:13-14, Rev 11:15
  • Angel with golden censer at golden altar of prayers – Rev 8:3-5
  • Angel flying through the midst of heaven with a loud voice – Rev 8:13
  • Angel of the bottomless pit (Abaddon / Apollyon) – Rev 9:11
  • Four angels bound in the Euphrates to slay 1/3 of men – Rev 9:14-15
  • Mighty angel with 7 thunders – Rev 10:1, Rev 10:5-10
  • Angel commands John to measure the temple of God – Rev 11:1
  • Michael and his angels fought against the dragon and his angels – Rev 12:7-9
  • 3 angels with everlasting gospel, announcement of Babylon’s fall, and warning of the wrath of God – Rev 14:6-10
  • Angel calls for the time to reap the earth – Rev 14:15
  • Angel with a sharp sickle – Rev 14:17-19
  • Angel with power over fire commands angel to reap the earth – Rev 14:18
  • 7 angels with 7 last plagues (bowls of wrath) and the announcement of Babylon’s doom – Rev 15:1, Rev 15:6-8, Rev 16:1-17, Rev 17:1., Rev 17:7, Rev 21:9 (shows the Bride of Christ)
  • Angel that lights the earth with glory – Rev 18:1
  • Mighty angel with a great millstone – Rev 18:21
  • Angel standing in the sun – announces supper of the great God – Rev 19:17
  • Angel comes down from heaven to bind Satan – Rev 20:1
  • 12 angels at the 12 gates of New Jerusalem – Rev 21:12
  • Measure of a man , that is of an angel – Rev 21:17
• Show His servants – see Rev 1:1 notes
  • All true Christians are servants of Christ. We find the term slaves used in the Bible to refer to all believers. Prior to being saved, we were bond servants of Satan (2 Tim 2:24, 2 Pet 2:19) and sin (Ro 6:6, John 6:17-18, Gal 4:3-11, etc.).  However, once we are slaves, we find in our lives an earnest desire to do the will of God and to know His will. We become slaves of righteousness (Ro 6:15-23, James 1:1, Eph 6:5-6, 1 Pet 2:16).  We are God’s willing slaves (Col 3:23-24, 2 Cor 4:5, etc.). It is God who is at work in us to do and to will for His good pleasure (Phil 2:13).  If we find ourselves without a bond-servant relationship to God in th  at we always are interested in doing His will and learning of God, it may be that we have never truly become saved.   Normally, a servant does not know what his master does, but Jesus Christ is our friend as well:
  • Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you. (Joh 15:15)
• Things must shortly be done
  • Christ’s coming as imminent – Rev 1:1, Rev 1:3, Ro 16:20, Lk 18:8, Rev 1:19, Rev 2:16, Rev 3:10-11, Rev 22:6, Rev 22:12, Rev 22:20, 6:9‑11, 1 Cor 10:11, Lk 18:7, 1 Pet 4:7, Ro 13:11f, 1 Cor 7:29-32, Heb  9:26, Heb 10:37, Phil 4:5, Mat 26:64,  James 5:8-9, 1 John 2:18.
  • The end of the ages actually refers to the entire church age. In fact, in the writings to the Corinthians, we see that the end of the ages were already in progress (1 Cor 10:11).  We see that the end of all things are at hand (1 Pet 4:7). We see that God promises that Satan will soon be crushed under our feet (Ro 16:20). We find in Ro 13:11f that salvation is nearer that what we thought. Another example is 1 John 2:18 where the Word teaches us that we are in the last hour (1 John 2:18). Verses like this have can cause much concern. Is it that the Bible has failed? Of course not. So, what is God trying to teach us by telling us that the end is soon to occur.
  • With God, one day is as a 1000 years and a 1000 years as one day (1 Pet 3:8, Ps 90:4). For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night (Psa 90:4).  To God, in the grand viewpoint of eternity, the time between the writing of the New Testament and the return of Christ and Judgment Day is just a brief time. It is the final hour, the end of the ages, the Last Days. In fact, the Bible teaches that we are already in the last Days – Acts 2:16-21, Heb 1:1-2, 1 Cor 10:11, 1 Pet 1:20, 2 Tim 3:1. To understand this apparent paradox, we must also remember that in principle, life is extremely short. It is just a quick vapor that appears for a little while and then passes away (James 4:14). All flesh is brief like grass, but the Word of God endures forever (1 Pet 1:24). Also, once our brief, vain life passes away, we, if not saved, will be ready for Judgment Day (Heb 9:27). Therefore, for all people, there is an urgency about the Word of God and the things in the Revelation. In the grand scheme of time, Judgment Day is right at the door. In our own lives, we teeter close to death always.  Today is the Day of Salvation (2 Cor 6:2).
  • … things which must shortly be done. (Rev 22:6)
  • … I come quickly … (Rev 22:7, 22:12, 22:20)
  • Greek: tachos / tachu – literally, quickly
  • And the God of peace shall bruise Satan under your feet shortly … (Rom 16:20)
  • I tell you that he will avenge them speedily … (Luk 18:8)
  • Knowing that shortly I must put off this my tabernacle, even as our Lord Jesus Christ hath shewed me. (2Pe 1:14)

22:7 

Behold, I come quickly: blessed is he that keepeth the sayings of the prophecy of this book.

• I come quickly – see 1:1, Rev 22:6 notes above
• Blessed is he who keeps sayings – see Rev 1:3 notes, also Rev 14:13, Rev 16:15, Rev 20:6, Rev 22:14
• Prophecy – see notes above on Rev 22:6
• Keep the word of prophecy – points to the desire for prophecy (salvation / eternity)
  • See Rev 22:20 – Come – desire for the return of Christ – purifies – 1 John 3:2-3, 1 Pet 1:13, 2 Pet 3:12, Is 25:9, 2 Tim 4:8 (everyone who loves His appearing), Heb 9:28, Rom 8:19,23; 1Co 2:9; 2Co 5:2; 1Th 1:10; Tit 2:13, 1 Cor 1:7, Phil 3:20-21, 1 Cor 4:5, Gen 49:18, Mat 25:1, Lk 12:36, 1 Th 1:10, Heb 10:36-37, James 5:7-8, Jude 21
• Why Studying Prophecy is important
  • An Elementary Doctrine
• Therefore leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on unto perfection; not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God, of the doctrine of baptisms, and of laying on of hands, and of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment. Heb 6:1-2
• In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to my gospel. Ro 2:16
• And I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth, and to every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people, saying with a loud voice, Fear God, and give glory to him; for the hour of his judgment is come: and worship him that made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters. Rev 14:6-7
• Hope of Eternal Life
• Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is. And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure. 1 John 3:2-3 (see also 1 Pet 1:13, 2 Cor 5:1-5, 1 Cor 15)
• Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat? 2 Pet 3:12
• Studying the End Times is Comforting to the Christian
• But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope. For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him. For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep. For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.  Wherefore comfort one another with these words.  1 Thess 4:13-18
• Studying the End Times Keeps us From Being Deceived
• Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him, that ye be not soon shaken in mind, or are troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ at hand. Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition  2 Thess 2:1-3
• Studying the End Times Results in Holiness
  • 1 John 3:2-3
  • For this cause also thank we God without ceasing, because, when ye received the word of God which ye heard of us, ye received it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which effectually worketh also in you that believe. 1 Thess 2:13
  • Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way? by taking heed thereto according to thy word. With my whole heart have I sought thee: O let me not wander from thy commandments. Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee.  Ps 119:9-11
  • All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: That the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works. 2 Tim 3:16-17
  • Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, all evil speakings, As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby: 1 Pet 2:1-2
• Book – see notes on Rev 21:27
• Sayings – Gr: logos (G3056) – word of God
  • Who bare record of the word of God, and of the testimony of Jesus Christ, and of all things that he saw. (Rev 1:2)
  • I John, who also am your brother, and companion in tribulation, and in the kingdom and patience of Jesus Christ, was in the isle that is called Patmos, for the word of God, and for the testimony of Jesus Christ. (Rev 1:9)
  • And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain for the word of God, and for the testimony which they held: (Rev 6:9)
  • And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and his name is called The Word of God. (Rev 19:13)
  • And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years. (Rev 20:4)
• Blessed – Beatitude (see Rev 1:3, Rev 14:13, Rev 19:9, Rev 20:6, Rev 22:7, Rev 22:14)
• Keep sayings (word):
  • But whoso keepeth his word, in him verily is the love of God perfected: hereby know we that we are in him.  (1Jn 2:5)
• Then saith he unto me, See thou do it not: for I am thy fellowservant, and of thy brethren the prophets, and of them which keep the sayings of this book: worship God.  (Rev 22:9)
• Blessed is he that readeth, and they that hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written therein: for the time is at hand.  (Rev 1:3)
• See also – 1 John 2:3-4; Psa 105:45, Psa 106:3, Psa 119:2, Psa 119:4, Psa 119:146; Pro 8:32, Pro 28:7; Ecc 8:5; Eze 36:27; Luk 11:28; Joh 14:21, Joh 14:23; Rev 12:17, Rev 14:12

• False Prophets:
  • The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love to have it so: and what will ye do in the end thereof? (Jer 5:31)
  • For from the least of them even unto the greatest of them every one is given to covetousness; and from the prophet even unto the priest every one dealeth falsely. (Jer 6:13)
  • Therefore will I give their wives unto others, and their fields to them that shall inherit them: for every one from the least even unto the greatest is given to covetousness, from the prophet even unto the priest every one dealeth falsely. (Jer 8:10)
  • Then the LORD said unto me, The prophets prophesy lies in my name: I sent them not, neither have I commanded them, neither spake unto them: they prophesy unto you a false vision and divination, and a thing of nought, and the deceit of their heart. (Jer 14:14)
  • Thy prophets have seen vain and foolish things for thee: and they have not discovered thine iniquity, to turn away thy captivity; but have seen for thee false burdens and causes of banishment. (Lam 2:14)
  • If a man walking in the spirit and falsehood do lie, saying, I will prophesy unto thee of wine and of strong drink; he shall even be the prophet of this people. (Mic 2:11)
  • Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. (Mat 7:15)
  • And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many. (Mat 24:11)
  • For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect. (Mat 24:24)
  • For false Christs and false prophets shall rise, and shall shew signs and wonders, to seduce, if it were possible, even the elect. (Mar 13:22)
  • Woe unto you, when all men shall speak well of you! for so did their fathers to the false prophets. (Luk 6:26)
  • And when they had gone through the isle unto Paphos, they found a certain sorcerer, a false prophet, a Jew, whose name was Barjesus: (Act 13:6)
  • But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction. (2Pe 2:1)
  • Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world. (1Jn 4:1)
  • And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet. (Rev 16:13)
  • And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone. (Rev 19:20)
  • And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are, and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever. (Rev 20:10)

22:8-9 

And I John saw these things, and heard them. And when I had heard and seen, I fell down to worship before the feet of the angel which shewed me these things.  Then saith he unto me, See thou do it not: for I am thy fellowservant, and of thy brethren the prophets, and of them which keep the sayings of this book: worship God.

• Seeing
  • Blindness
  • Demoniac (Mat 12:22, Lk 11:14)
  • The eyes in the Bible refer to spiritual discernment (Eph 1:18, 1 John 2:11, Ro 11:8-10, John 12:40, 9:39-41, Mat 13:14-16, etc.).
  • 2 blind men (Mat 9:27‑31)
  • Man at Bethsaida (Mk 8:22‑26)
  • Man born blind (John 9:1‑7)
  • Bartimaeus (Mat 20:29‑34, Mk 10:46‑52, Lk 18:35‑43)
  • Significance : (Mat 13:13‑16, Acts 28:26f, Jer 31:8, Is 59:10, 35:6, 42:7,16‑19, Ro 11:8,25, Is 6:9, Jer 5:21, Ez 12:2, John 9:39‑41, seeing ‑ General Revelation ‑ Ro 1:20, Acts 14:17, 17:24ff, Ps 19, etc)
• Hearing
  • The messages to the churches are only for those who have ears to hear. This points to spiritual hearing – (see Ro 10:17, Is 29:18, Is 35:5, Is 42:18‑19, Is 43:8, Mat 13:13‑16, Acts 28:26f, Ro 11:8, Ro 11:25, Is 6:9, Jer 5:21, John 9:39‑41, hearing ‑ Special Revelation ‑ Ro 10:17, Gal 3:2, Gal 3:5, Hos 4:1, Eze 36:14, Hos 37:4, Hab 3:2, Is 1:10). Those who are unsaved do not have spiritual ears to hear. They have closed their ears to the truth of God’s Word (Acts 28:26f). They will keep on hearing, but not understand (Mat 13:14). Then heart of the people has grown dull and with their ears they scarcely hear (Mat 13:15). In the case of Israel, God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes to see not and ears to hear not Ro 11:8). The ears in the Bible, therefore, can be viewed as a type of having the ability to truly hear and understand God’s Word. It is only the saved, through the illumination and teaching of the Holy Spirit (John 14:26, John 15:26, 1 John 2:20-27), that can truly understand God’s Word.
  • HEARING
  • Deaf Mute (Mk 7:31‑37)
  • Malchus (Lk 22:49‑51, John 18:10)
  • Significance : Ps 40:6, Mat 13:13-16, Job 33:16, Is 50:4-5, Deut 29:4, Ro 10:17, Is 29:18, Is 35:5, Is 42:18‑19, Is 43:8, Mat 13:13‑16, Acts 28:26f, Ro 11:8, Ro 11:25, Is 6:9, Jer 5:21, John 9:39‑41, Gal 3:2-5, Hos 4:1, Eze 36:14, 37:4, Hab 3:2, Is 1:10, Mk 7:31-37, Lk 22:49-51, John 18:10
• Fell down to worship – see Rev 4:10-11 notes
  • 24 Elders fell down and worshiped God
    • Complete submissive worship (Lk 8:41, 17:16, John 11:32, 1 Cor 14:25, Rev 22:8, Job 1:20, Dan 9:18, Dan 9:25)
  • Angels not to be worshipped:
    • And I fell at his feet to worship him. And he said unto me, See thou do it not: I am thy fellowservant, and of thy brethren that have the testimony of Jesus: worship God: for the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy. (Rev 19:10)
    • And I John saw these things, and heard them. And when I had heard and seen, I fell down to worship before the feet of the angel which shewed me these things. Then saith he unto me, See thou do it not: for I am thy fellowservant, and of thy brethren the prophets, and of them which keep the sayings of this book: worship God. (Rev 22:8-9)
    • Let no man beguile you of your reward in a voluntary humility and worshipping of angels, intruding into those things which he hath not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind (Col 2:18)
    • Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen. (Ro 1:25)
    • For though there be that are called gods, whether in heaven or in earth, (as there be gods many, and lords many,) But to us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we in him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him. (1 Cor 8:5-6)
  • Do not worship angels – Col 2:18-19 (worship God alone)
  • Fellowservant – see Rev 1:1 notes (angels are not superior, hey are also servants – see Heb 1:14)
    • All true Christians are servants of Christ. We find the term slaves used in the Bible to refer to all believers. Prior to being saved, we were bond servants of Satan (2 Tim 2:24, 2 Pet 2:19) and sin (Ro 6:6, John 6:17-18, Gal 4:3-11, etc.).  However, once we are slaves, we find in our lives an earnest desire to do the will of God and to know His will. We become slaves of righteousness (Ro 6:15-23, James 1:1, Eph 6:5-6, 1 Pet 2:16).  We are God’s willing slaves (Col 3:23-24, 2 Cor 4:5, etc.). It is God who is at work in us to do and to will for His good pleasure (Phil 2:13).  If we find ourselves without a bond-servant relationship to God in th  at we always are interested in doing His will and learning of God, it may be that we have never truly become saved.   Normally, a servant does not know what his master does, but Jesus Christ is our friend as well:
    • Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you. (Joh 15:15)
  • Blessed Hope of Prophecy:
    • Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is. And every man that hath this hope in him purifies himself, even as he is pure. (1Jn 3:2-3)
    • Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Savior Jesus Christ; Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works. (Tit 2:13-14)
  • Brethren thy prophets – see Rev 22:6 notes above
  • Brethren – believers are brothers – see Rev 6:11, Rev 12:10, Rev 19:10, James 1:2,16, 3:1, etc.
  • Sayings – see Rev 1:3 notes
    • Gr: logos (G3056)
    • Keep ‑ All true believers will be obedient (1 John 2:3-6, 1 Pet 1:1-2, John 15:9,11-14, Ps 103:17-18, Eph 5:5-6, Mat 7:21-27) – But he said, Yea rather, blessed are they that hear the word of God, and keep it. (Luk 11:28)

22:10 

And he saith unto me, Seal not the sayings of the prophecy of this book: for the time is at hand.

• Seal not – see 6:1 notes – Christ is revealer, unsealer, see Rev 1:20 notes
  • Seal represents a guarantee (certainty) – Mat 27:66, Neh 9:38
    • King Ahasuerus seals decrees with the king’s ring – Est 3:12, Est 8:8, Est 8:10
    • No man can reverse – Est 8:8
    • Books are sealed until the end time – Dan 12:4, Dan 12:9
  • Seal on a letter – guarantee that the letters will not be read except by the addressee
    • Jezebel sealed letters with a seal to elders / nobles – 1 Ki 21:8
    • Learned one cannot read books that are sealed – Is 29:11
  • Christians are sealed – John 3:33, John 6:27, Ro 15:28, Ro 4:11, 1 Cor 9:2, 2 Tim 2:19, Rev 7:2-8
    • With Holy Spirit as the earnest (downpayment) – Eph 4:30, 2 Cor 1:22, Eph 1:13
    • Then he openeth the ears of men, and sealeth their instruction – Job 33:16
    • End (seal up) sin and seal prophecy and vision – Dan 9:24
    • Seal of living God to the 144,000 on their foreheads (Rev 7:2-8, Rev 9:4)
    • Transgressions sealed up in a bag – Job 14:17
    • 12 patriarchs were engraved in High Priest’s breastplate stones by signet – Ex 28:11, Ex 28:21
  • Word of God is sealed – Neh 9:38, Job 9:7, Job 33:16
    • Revelation book with 7 seals – Rev 5:1-2, Rev 5:5, Rev 5:9, Rev 6:1, Rev 6:3, Rev 6:5, Rev 6:7, Rev 6:9, Rev 6:12, Rev 8:1
    • Seal not prophecy of this book – Rev 22:10
    • 7 thunders sealed up – Rev 10:4
    • Satan sealed in pit so he would not deceive – Rev 20:3
    • End (seal up) sin and seal prophecy and vision – Dan 9:24
    • And the vision of all is become unto you as the words of a book that is sealed, which men deliver to one that is learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee: and he saith, I cannot;  for it is sealed – Isa 29:11
    • Bind up the testimony, seal the law to God’s disciples – Is 8:16
    • Then he openeth the ears of men, and sealeth their instruction – Job 33:16
    • Daniel to seal up the book until the end – Dan 12:4, Dan 12:9
    • Jeremiah purchases land – one book sealed, one book unsealed – Jer 32:10-14
  • Sealed – New Testament Passages
    • Gr: G4972, sphragizo – sealed, 26 occurrences
    • Gr: 4973, sphragis – seal, 16 occurrences
    • Jesus tomb sealed – Mat 27:66
    • Those who receive Christ’s testimony seal that God is true – John 3:33
    • Food (bread) that is given to Christians, who are sealed – John 6:27
    • The sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had yet being uncircumcised – Ro 4:11
    • Fruit sealed to saints at Jerusalem – Ro 15:28
    • Corinthians were the seal of Paul’s apostleship – 1 Cor 9:2
    • Christians are sealed – given the earnest of the Spirit in their hearts – 2 Cor 1:22
    • After hearing Word of truth, Gospel, Christians were sealed with Holy Spirit of promise – Eph 1:13
    • Grieve not the Holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption – (Eph 4:30)
    • The seal of the Lord knowing who are His, who depart from iniquity – 2 Tim 2:19
    • Scroll (book) with 7 seals (right hand of God) written inside and outside (Lamb of God opens) – Rev 5:1-2, Rev 5:5, Rev 5:9, Rev 6:1, Rev 6:3, Rev 6:5, Rev 6:7, Rev 6:9, Rev 6:12, Rev 8:1
    • Seal of living God to the 144,000 on their foreheads (Rev 7:2-8, Rev 9:4)
    • 7 Thunders sealed up – Rev 10:4
    • Satan sealed in the bottomless pit for 1000 years – Rev 20:3
    • Seal not the sayings of the prophecy of this book: for the time is at hand – Rev 22:10
  • Sealed – Old Testament Passages
    • H2856 (chatham – seal, 27 occurrences)
    • H2368 (chotham – signet, 14 occurrences) – see also H2885 – ring (lit: sink ring)
    • And this shall be his uncleanness in his issue: whether his flesh run with his issue, or his flesh be stopped from his issue … (Lev 15:3)
    • Is not this laid up in store with me, and sealed up among my treasures? (Deu 32:34)
    • Jezebel sealed letters with a seal to elders / nobles – 1 Ki 21:8
    • … we make a sure covenant, and write it; and our princes, Levites, and priests, seal  unto it. (Neh 9:38)
    • Now those that sealed were, Nehemiah, the Tirshatha, the son of Hachaliah, and Zidkijah  (Neh 10:1)
    • King Ahasuerus seals decrees with the king’s ring – Est 3:12, Est 8:8, Est 8:10
    • Mordecai receives the king’s ring – Est 8:1-2
    • God commands the sun and seals up the stars – Job 9:7
    • My transgression is sealed up in a bag, and thou sewest up mine iniquity – Job 14:17
    • In the dark they dig through houses, which they had marked for themselves in the daytime: they know not the light. (Job 24:16)
    • Then he openeth the ears of men, and sealeth their instruction – Job 33:16
    • He sealeth up the hand of every man; that all men may know his work – Job 37:7
    • A garden inclosed is my sister, my spouse; a spring shut up, a fountain sealed – Son 4:12
    • Bind up the testimony, seal the law among my disciples – Isa 8:16
    • And the vision of all is become unto you as the words of a book that is sealed, which men deliver to one that is learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee: and he saith, I cannot;  for it is sealed – Isa 29:11
    • And I subscribed the evidence, and sealed it, and took witnesses, and weighed him the money in the balances – Jer 32:10
    • So I took the evidence of the purchase, both that which was sealed according to the law and custom, and that which was open Jer 32:11
    • Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Take these evidences, this evidence of the purchase, both which is sealed, and this evidence which is open; and put them in an earthen vessel, that they may continue many days – Jer 32:14
    • Men shall buy fields for money, and subscribe evidences, and seal them, and take witnesses in the land of Benjamin, and in the places about Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, and in the cities of the mountains, and in the cities of the valley, and in the cities of the south: for I will cause their captivity to return, saith the LORD – Jer 32:44
    • Son of man, take up a lamentation upon the king of Tyrus, and say unto him, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Thou sealest up the sum, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty – Eze 28:12
    • Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end [lit: seal] of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy – Dan 9:24
    • But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased – Dan 12:4
    • And he said, Go thy way, Daniel: for the words are closed up and sealed till the time of the end – Dan 12:9
    • And he said, What pledge shall I give thee? And she said, Thy signet, and thy bracelets, and thy staff that is in thine hand. And he gave it her, and came in unto her, and she conceived by him – Gen 38:18
    • With the work of an engraver in stone, like the engravings of a signet, shalt thou engrave the two stones with the names of the children of Israel: thou shalt make them to be set in ouches of gold – Exo 28:11
    • And the stones shall be with the names of the children of Israel, twelve, according to their names, like the engravings of a signet; every one with his name shall they be according to the twelve  tribes – Exo 28:21
    • And thou shalt make a plate of pure gold, and grave upon it, like the engravings of a signet, HOLINESS TO THE LORD – Exo 28:36
    • And they wrought onyx stones inclosed in ouches of gold, graven, as signets are graven, with the names of the children of Israel – Exo 39:6
    • And the stones were according to the names of the children of Israel, twelve, according to their names, like the engravings of a signet, everyone with his name, according to the twelve  tribes – Exo 39:14
    • And they made the plate of the holy crown of pure gold, and wrote upon it a writing, like to the engravings of a signet, HOLINESS TO THE LORD – Exo 39:30
    • It is turned as clay to the seal; and they stand as a garment – Job 38:14
    • His scales are his pride, shut up together as with a close seal – Job 41:15
    • Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame – Son 8:6
    • As I live, saith the LORD, though Coniah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah were the signet upon my right hand, yet would I pluck thee thence – Jer 22:24
    • In that day, saith the LORD of hosts, will I take thee, O Zerubbabel, my servant, the son of Shealtiel, saith the LORD, and will make thee as a signet: for I have chosen thee, saith the LORD of hosts – Hag 2:23
  • God’s Word is sure, but also a mystery – see also Mk 4:34, Ps 49:4, Ps 78:2
    • No one understood the vision of Daniel – Dan 8:27, Dan 12:8-9
    • Christians have eyes to see – Mat 13:14-15
  • Seal with signet ring ‑ 1 Ki 21:8, Est 8:8, 10, Jer 32:10‑14, Jer 32:44
  • God’s Word is a mystery (see notes 1:20, Dan 8:6, Dan 12:4-9, Is 8:16, Is 29:11)
  • Blindness of man – (Mat 13:13-16, Acts 28:26f, Ro 11:8,25, Is 6:9, Jer 5:21, Ez 12:2, John 9:39-41)
  • But, Christians understand spiritual truth – 1 Cor 2:14-15 , Mat 13:10-16, 1 Cor 2:6-16, 1 John 4:6, 2 Cor 3:12-4:4, Heb 10:16, Jer 31:33-34, 2 John 1-2, Col 3:9-10, John 10:3, 2 Tim 1:7, John 2:26-27, Ps 19:7-8, 25:12-14, 32:8, Luke 11:33-36, Phil 3:15, Mk 5:15, 2 Thess 2:11, John 8:47, John 18:37
• Time is at hand – see Rev 1:1, see Rev 22:6-7 notes above
  • Gr: eggus (G1451) / eggizo (G1448) – literally to squeeze (near)
  • Blessed is he that readeth, and they that hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written therein: for the time is at hand.  (Rev 1:3)
  • And he saith unto me, Seal not the sayings of the prophecy of this book: for the time is at hand. (Rev 22:10)
  • Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When his branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is nigh:  (Mat 24:32)
  • So ye in like manner, when ye shall see these things come to pass, know that it is nigh, even at the doors.  (Mar 13:29)
  • Parable of the 10 minas:
    • And as they heard these things, he added and spake a parable, because he was nigh to Jerusalem, and because they thought that the kingdom of God should immediately appear.  (Luk 19:11)
  • When they now shoot forth, ye see and know of your own selves that summer is now nigh at hand. So likewise ye, when ye see these things come to pass, know ye that the kingdom of God is nigh at hand. (Luk 21:30-31)
  • But that which beareth thorns and briers is rejected, and is nigh unto cursing; whose end is to be burned. (Heb 6:8)
  • Let your moderation be known unto all men. The Lord is at hand.  (Php 4:5)
  • Parable of the tenants:
    • And when the time of the fruit drew near, he sent his servants to the husbandmen, that they might receive the fruits of it.  (Mat 21:34)
  • And he said, Take heed that ye be not deceived: for many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and the time draweth near: go ye not therefore after them.  (Luk 21:8)
  • And when ye shall see Jerusalem compassed with armies, then know that the desolation thereof is nigh.  (Luk 21:20)
  • And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh.  (Luk 21:28)
  • Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain. Be ye also patient; stablish your hearts: for the coming of the Lord draweth nigh. Grudge not one against another, brethren, lest ye be condemned: behold, the judge standeth before the door. (Jas 5:7-9)
  • The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light.  (Rom 13:12)
  • But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer.  (1Pe 4:7)
  • And as ye go, preach, saying, The kingdom of heaven is at hand.  (Mat 10:7)
  • Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.  (Heb 10:25)
• Prophecy – see Rev 22:7 notes above

22:11 

He that is unjust, let him be unjust still: and he which is filthy, let him be filthy still: and he that is righteous, let him be righteous still: and he that is holy, let him be holy still.

• Still – Gr: eti (G2089) – yet, still, hereafter
  • Last Day – No more repentance to occur – Rev 9:20-21
    • Gr: metanoeo (lit: another mind)
  • Intimately Linked with Salvation – Lk 24:46-48, Lk 13:3, Lk 13:5, 2 Pet 3:9, Acts 17:30-31, Acts 26:20
    • See also Lk 15:7, Rev 2:5, Rev 2:16, Rev 2:21‑22, Rev 3:3, Rev 3:19, Rev 9:20‑21, Rev 16:9‑11
  • Preaching Gospel Involves Repentance ‑ Mk 11:20‑21, Mk 12:41, Acts 2:38, Acts 3:19, Mk 1:14‑15, Mk 2:17, Mk 6:12, Mat 9:13, Mat 4:17, Lk 5:32, Acts 20:20‑21
    • John the Baptist preached repentance – Mat 3:2,8,11, Mk 1:4, Lk 3:3,8, Acts 13:24, 19:4
      • Repentance Granted by God – Acts 5:31, 2 Tim 2:24-26, Ro 2:4, Acts 11:18
      • False Repentance
    • Esau ‑ Heb 12:17, Judas ‑ Mat 27:3
  • Unsaved minds are hostile ‑ Eph 4:17‑18, Ro 8:6‑7, Col 2:18, Eph 2:3, Ro 1:21,28, 1 Tim 6:5, 2 Tim 3:8, Titus 2:15
  • Christians minds are changed ‑ 1 Cor 2:16, Heb 8:10, 10:16‑17, Jer 31:34, Col 3:9‑10, 2 Tim 1:7, 2 Pet 3:1, Ro 8:5, Eph 4:23, Phil 4:7, Col 3:2, 1 Pet 1:13, Ro 12:2, Phil 4:8
    • Last Day – Perseverance of the saints
    • But Christ as a son over his own house; whose house are we, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end….For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence steadfast unto the end Heb 3:6,14
    • In the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight: If ye continue in the faith grounded and settled, and be not moved away from the hope of the gospel, which ye have heard, and which was preached to every creature which is under heaven; whereof I Paul am made a minister. Col 1:22‑23
    • Endure to the end ‑ Mat 10:22, 24:13
    • Reap if you do not grow weary ‑ Gal 6:9
    • Hold fast to what you have ‑ Rev 2:10,25, 3:11
    • If you abide, you are Christ’s disciples ‑ John 8:30‑32, 15:1‑10
    • Encouragement to continue in the faith ‑ Acts 14:22, 11:23
    • Salvation for those who persevere ‑ Ro 2:7
    • It is possible to labor in vain ‑ Gal 4:11, 1 Thess 3:5, 2 Cor 6:1, Phil 2:16
    • After escaping from world and then becoming entangled ‑ 2 Pet 2:18‑22
    • Demons return to the house ‑ Mat 12:43‑45, Lk 11:24‑26
    • Only the seed in good ground results in grain ‑ Mat 13:9‑23
    • Saved if you hold fast to the word ‑ 1 Cor 15:2
    • Continue in His kindness, otherwise cut off ‑ Ro 11:22
    • The remnant still bring the Gospel ‑ Mat 24:14
    • Those who seek to keep their life will lose it, he who loses shall preserve it ‑ Lk 17:33
    • Hearts are unblameable at coming of Christ ‑ 1 Thess 3:13
  • Unjust – Gr: adikeo (G91) – literally, without righteousness
    • 1 Cor 6:7-8 – go to law instead of being hurt by brother
    • 2 Cor 7:12 – sin in church
    • Lk 10:19, Rev 9:19, treading on serpents and scorpions – will not be hurt
    • Rev 6:6 – do not hurt oil or wine
    • In Revelation – Rev 2:11, Rev 6:6, Rev 9:2-4, Rev 9:10, Rev 9:19, Rev 11:5, Rev 22:11
  • Filthy – not clean – dirty with sin – G4507 through G4510 (morally, dirty)
    • Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.  (Jas 1:21)
    • For if there come unto your assembly a man with a gold ring, in goodly apparel, and there come in also a poor man in vile raiment;  (Jas 2:2)
    • The like figure whereunto even baptism doth also now save us (not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God,) by the resurrection of Jesus Christ:  (1Pe 3:21)
    • He that is unjust, let him be unjust still: and he which is filthy, let him be filthy still: and he that is righteous, let him be righteous still: and he that is holy, let him be holy still.  (Rev 22:11)
  • Righteous
    • Righteousness not found in the law – Ro 10:3, 3:21, 9:30-32, Gal 3:21
    • Righteousness imputed by Christ by faith – Ro 3:22-26, 4:3-13,22, Ro 10:4, James 2:23
    • In Christ ‑ 2 Cor 6:14, 2 Tim 4:8, Ro 3:21‑31,4:3,22, 8:10
    • Righteousness ‑ Is 51:6,8, 56:1, Jer 23:5‑6, Ro 1:17, 9:30, 3:21‑22, Phil 3:9
    • Without fault / blameless ‑ all Christians are seen as righteous ‑ Heb 9:14, 1 Pet 1:19, Jude 24, etc.
    • Just live by faith – Hab 2:4, Heb 10:38, Gal 3:11, Ro 1:17
    • Doers of law are justified – Ro 2:13
    • None righteous – Ro 3:10
    • By Christ’s obedience are many made righteous – Ro 5:19
    • Faith counted for righteousness – Ro 4:3-13,22, Gal 3:6
  • Holy – set apart – see notes on Rev 19:7
    • Sanctification ‑ God works in each Christian
    • For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God. For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father. The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God: Ro 8:14‑16 (see also Gal 4:6)
    • For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure. Phil 2:13
    • For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast. For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them. Eph 2:8‑10
    • Ro 5:5, 2 Thess 2:17, 1 Thess 2:13, 5:23, 2 Cor 2:14, 3:18, 4:16, 5:14‑15, 13:4, Luke 11:34, Heb 2:11, 9:14, 10:14, 13:20‑21, Titus 2:11‑12, 2 Pet 1:3‑4, Col 1:29, Ro 8:11, John 12:24, 14:26, 15:26, 16:13, Ps 16:2, 37:5‑6,23‑24, Ez 36:27, Eph 1:3,1:19,3:7,4:16, 5:25‑27, Gal 4:6, 4:19, 1 Cor 2:16, 12:6,11,13, Phil 1:6,11, 1 Pet 2:5, Gal 2:8,21, Phil 3:21, 1 Cor 15:10
    • Saints ‑ set apart, sanctified ones ‑ all believers are saints ‑ 1 Pet 1:2,15, 2:24, Gal 6:15, 2 Thess 2:13, Jude 1, Heb 3:1, Col 2:11‑13, 2 Cor 3:1‑11, Ps 4:3, 5:4, Col 3:12, 1 Cor 1:2,12,30,6:11,5:7, Acts 20:32, 2 Cor 5:17, Jer 1:5, Rev 1:5, etc
    • Church is being sanctified ‑ 1 Pet 1:15‑16, Ps 1:1‑6, 2 Thess 2:13, Heb 10:10‑14, 2 Cor 4:16, 3:18, 7:1, Ro 8:29, Titus 2:14, 3:5, Eph 5:26‑27, 1 Pet 1:2, Phil 1:6, John 17:17‑19, 1 Thess 4:3‑4, Phil 1:6
    • Word works in us:
      • 1 Thess 2:13, Ps 119:9‑11, 2 Tim 3:16‑17, 1 Pet 2:1‑2, Ps 119, Heb 5:11‑14, Titus 1:1, Col 1:9‑10,2:2, John 6:63, James 1:21, John 8:31‑32, 1 Tim 6:3‑4, Eph 5:25‑26, 2 Pet 3:18, 2 Cor 3:18, Ps 1:1‑4, Heb 4:12, Joshua 1:8, Ro 10:17, John 17:14‑19, Ro

22:12 

And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be.

• I come quickly – see Rev 1:1, Rev 22:6-7 notes
• Reward – Gr: misthos (G3408)
• Reward on earth is futile – Mat 5:46, 6:2,5,16, Acts 1:18, Jude 11
• Reward of judgment – 2 -et 2:13, Rev 18:6, 2 Tim 4:14, Mat 16:27
• Indignation and wrath – Ro 2:6-10, Ps 62:12, Pr 24:12
  • Christians all receive the same reward
  • Laborers in the Vineyard ‑ Mat 20:1‑16
  • Reward is unfadeable ‑ 1 Pet 1:4
  • Former things will not come to mind ‑ Is 65:17
  • The future reward is eternal life ‑ Mat 19:27‑30, Mk 10:28‑31, Lk 18:28‑30 (in this time it is other believers)
• Greatest will be like the least ‑ Lk 22:24‑27, Mat 20:25‑28, Mk 10:42‑45
• Freely given all things ‑ Ro 8:32‑33, Ro 28‑31
• Sins to be remembered no more ‑ Heb 10:16‑17, Micah 7:19, Is 43:25
• Joint Heirs of eternal life ‑ Ro 8:16‑17, Col 3:24, Titus 3:7, Rev 21:7, Acts 20:32
• Reward in heaven is salvation – Heb 10:34-39, 11:26
• Give according to works – Jer 17:10, Mat 16:27, Rev 2:23 notes, Ro 2:6, Rom 14:22; Job 34:11; Psa 62:12; Pro 24:2; Isa 3:10-11; Jer 17:10, Jer 32:19; Eze 18:30; Mat 16:27, Mat 25:34-46; 1Co 3:8, 1Co 4:5; 2Co 5:10; Gal 6:7-8; Rev 2:23, Rev 20:12, Rev 22:12

22:13 

I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last.

• Alpha/Omega, Beginning/End, First/Last – see notes on Rev 21:6 above (Rev 1:8,11,17)

22:14 

Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city.

• Blessed are they – see Rev 1:3, 14:13, 16:15, 20:6, 22:7,14
• Do His commandments – all believers are obedient – 1 John 2:3-6, Heb 5:8-9, John 15:9-14, Ps 103:17-18, Eph 5:5-6, Mat 7:21-27, 12:49-50, etc
• …though he was a Son, yet He learned obedience by the things which He suffered. And having been perfected, He became the author of eternal salvation to all who obey Him…” lIeb 5:8-9
• Now by this we know that we know Him, if we keep His commandments. He who says, ‘I know Him,’ and does not keep His commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in him. But whoever keeps His word, truly the love of God is perfected in him. By this we know that we are in Him. He who says he abides in Him ought himself also to walk just as He walked. 1 John 2:3-6 (see also 5:2-3, 3:24)
• Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the pilgrims of the Dispersion in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, elect according to the foreknowledge of God the father, in sanctification of the Spirit, for obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ.. 1 Peter 1:1-2
• As the Father loved Me, I also have loved you; abide in My love. If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love, just as I have kept My Father’s commandments and abide in His love. These things I have spoken to you, that my joy may remain in you, and that your joy may be ..You are My friends if you do whatever I command you.  John 15:9-11, 14
• But the mercy of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting on those who fear Him, and His righteousness to children’s children to such as keep His And to those who remember His commandments to do them Ps 103:17-18
• For this you know, that no fornicator, unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God. Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience. Eph5:5-6
• Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven. Many will say to Me in that day, ‘Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in Your name? And then 1will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness. Matthew 7:21-23
• Therefore whoever hears these sayings of Mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise man who built his house on the rock and the rain descended, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house; and it did not fall, for it was founded on the rock. But everyone who hears these sayings of Mine, and does not do them, will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand and the rain descended, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house; and it fell. And great was its Matthew 7:24-27
• And He stretched out His hand toward His disciples and said, ‘Here are My mother and My brothers. For whoever does the will of My Father in heaven is My brother and sister and mother. Mat 12:49-50
• Right – Greek: exousia (G1859) – literally, ability / authority
• Right due to Christ’s work – John 1:12-13 (same Greek word – G1859) – see Gal 3:26, 1 John 3:1
• Faith of Jesus
  • Jesus is the Faithful One – Rev 1:5, Rev 3:14, Heb 10:23, 1 Cor 1:9, Deut 7:9, 2 Tim 2:13, Ps 33:4, Ps 91:4, 2 Thes 3:3, Ps 119:90, Ro 8:38-39, Christ is the faithful one ‑ Rev 1:5, Rev 3:14, Rev 1:9, Rev 19:11 (name is Faithful), Heb 10:23, 1 Cor 1:9, 1 Cor 10:13, 1 Thess 5:24, 1 John 1:9, Is 49:7
  • Faithful – 2 Tim 2:13, Deut 7:9, Is 11:5, Ps 36:5, Lam 3:22-23, Heb 10:23
  • God’s words are faithful and true – Rev 21:5, Rev 22:6
  • Faith is a gift – Eph 2:8-9, Phil 1:29, Phil 2:13, Ro 1:17, John 6:37
  • Faith given to believers – 2 Pet 1:1, Eph 2:8‑9, Phil 1:29, 1 Cor 7:25, James 2:1, John 6:65, John 3:27, 1 Cor 4:7, Heb 12:2, 1 Tim 1:14, Acts 3:16
  • Faith is of Christ – Gal 2:16, Gal 2:20, Gal 3:2, Gal 5:7, Phil 3:9. Ro 3:22, Ro 1:17
• Tree of Life – see Rev 2:7, Rev 22:2 notes above
• Enter in through the gates into the city – see notes on Rev 21:12
• City – (G4172), Gr: polis
  • Opposite of the wilderness – 2 Cor 11:26, Ps 107:4, Jud 1:16, John 11:54
  • Where people gathered together – opposite of the wilderness – Jos 8:20, Jdg 1:16, Jdg 8:16, Jdg 20:42, 2Ch 8:4, Psa 107:4, Isa 14:17, Isa 27:10, Isa 42:11, Isa 64:10, Jer 4:26, Jer 22:6, Jer 51:43, Joh 11:54, 2Co 11:26
  • That which has rule (organization) – Pr 25:28, Pr 16:32
  • Zion, the city of then Great King – Ps 48:2
  • Cities have strength – Deut 2:36, Pr 18:19
  • Where the multitude is – Job 39:6
  • The rich man’s wealth is his strong city – Pr 10:15, Pr 18:11

22:15 

For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie.

• Outside – not saved / not part of the kingdom of God
• Dog
• Dogs – That which is not holy – Mat 7:6, Mat 15:26-27, Mk 7:27-28
• Unsaved religionists – Jud 7:5, 2 Pet 2:22, Deut 23:18, Mat 15:26-27, Mk 7:27-28, Is 56:10-11
• Dogs represent Christians in the Bible
• The Greek word for ‘worship’ is partly based on the nature of a dog
• Therefore, dogs are very important symbols for Christians
• Unclean Animal – Lev 11:3-8, Deut 14:3-8
• Often used to represent bad people
  • Fake religious people – 2 Pet 2:22, Phil 3:2, Mat 7:6, Is 56:10-11
  • Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city. For outside are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loves and makes a lie. (Rev 22:14-15)
• Points to a humble Christian
  • And, behold, a woman of Canaan…cried unto him, saying, Have mercy on me, O Lord, thou Son of David; my daughter is grievously vexed with a devil…But he answered and said, I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel. Then came she and worshipped him, saying, Lord, help me. But he answered and said, It is not meet to take the children’s bread, and to cast it to dogs. And she said, Truth, Lord: yet the dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their masters’ table. Then Jesus answered and said unto her, O woman, great is thy faith: be it unto thee even as thou wilt. And her daughter was made whole from that very hour. (Mat 15:22, 24-28)
• Lick wounds of God’s people
  • And there was a certain beggar named Lazarus, which was laid at his gate, full of sores, And desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man’s table: moreover the dogs came and licked his sores. (Luke 16:20-21)
  • Christian service
    • …for it is written, thou shalt worship the Lord thy God and Him only shall thy serve (Lk 4:8)
    • …as you have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, you have done it unto me [Christ] (Mat 25:40)
  • Faithfulness
    • And, behold, a woman of Canaan…cried unto him, saying, Have mercy on me, O Lord, thou Son of David; my daughter is grievously vexed with a devil…Truth, Lord: yet the dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their masters’ table. Then Jesus answered and said unto her, O woman, great is thy faith: be it unto thee even as thou wilt. And her daughter was made whole from that very hour. (Mat 15:22, 27-28)
  • Sorcerers
    • Sorceries – Gr: pharmakeia (Gal 5:20, Rev 18:23, Rev 21:8, Rev 22:15), see also Is 47:9,12, Mal 3:5, Dan 2:2, Ex 7:11, 22:18, Jer 27:9-10, Deut 18:10, 2 Chr 33:6, 2 Ki 9:22, Micah 5:12, Nahum 3:4
    • See in-depth study on sorcery in Babylon Study (Rev 17-18, particularly Rev 18:23) –
      • Sorcery is the deception and merchandising by worldliness
    • Whoremongers
      • Immorality – Gr: porneia – Mat 15:19, 1 Cor 5:1, 6:13,18, 7:2, Gal 5:19, Eph 5:3, Col 3:5, 1 Thess 4:3
      • Spiritually – worship of other gods and idols
        • Babylon – Rev 17:1-2, Rev 17:18, Rev 18:3, Rev 18:9
        • Israel was to wander 40 years in the wilderness (Num 14:33) for her whoredoms).
        • Similarly, the northern 10 tribes called Israel and southern two tribes called Judah also committed abominable whoredom just as their fathers did (Eze 20:30).
        • Ezekiel 16 provides a history of the whore Israel and records her whoredoms she committed with idols of other gods (Eze 16:17, 36).
        • In Ezekiel 23, Israel and Judah are signified by two sisters, Oholah and Oholibah) which committed great whoredoms against God.
        • In the book of Hosea, Israel is recognized as being an adulterous whore (Hos 3:3, 4:10-15-18, 5:3-4, 6:10, 9:1) in that she rebelled from God’s holy path. Hosea was told to marry a whore (Gomer), which symbolized the nation of Israel (Hos 1:2, Hos 2:2-5, Hos 3:3, Hos 4:10-15, Hos 4:18).
        • There are many other references to Israel / Judah being considered as an adulterous whore, which represented their going after false gods and idols (Eze 6:9, 43:9, Jer 3:1-9, 5:7, 2 Ki 9:22, 2 Chr 21:11-15, Ex 34:15-16, Deut 31:16, Judges 2:16-17, Micah 1:7, Pr 7:10, Ps 73:27, 106:39, Lev 17:7, Is 1:21, etc.)
      • Murderers
        • Spiritual (see notes on Rev 6:3-4)
          • Christians die daily – Mat 24:9, 2 Cor 1:9, 2 Cor 4:10-12, 2 Cor 6:9, 2 Cor 7:3, Ro 8:35-39, James 5:6, 1 John 3:15, 1 Cor 4:9, 1 Cor 15:31, Mat 5:21-22, Hab 1:2-4, James 2:9-11, Ps 94:1-7, Ps 44:22, Rev 6:9, Mk 8:35
          • Lose life for Christ – Lk 9:24, Mat 10:39, Mk 8:35
          • Old Testament ‘violence’ – persecution of the righteous – Hab 1:2,9, Ob 10, Pr 16:29, Joel 3:19, Gen 27:41, Ez 25:12, Amos 1:11, Jer 20:8, Ps 11:5, Mat 24:9
            • Innocent blood – 2 Ki 24:4, Jer 22:17
          • Christians Have Been Crucified w/ Christ – Gal 2:20, Gal 5:24, Gal 6:14, Ro 6:2, Ro 6:6
          • Christians are living sacrifices – Ro 12:1-2, 1 Pet 2:5, Heb 13:15
        • Idolaters
          • In the New Testament, the Greek words for ‘idol’, ‘idolatry’ or ‘idolator’ (G1493, G1494, G1495, G1496, G1497) are based on the Greek word eido (G1492), which simply means to ‘see’. In the New Testament, we find that Christians are exhorted to keep themselves from idols (1 John 5:21, 1 Thess 1:9, 2 Cor 6:16, Acts 15:20, 1 Cor 5:10-11, 1 Cor 6:9, Gal 5:20, Eph 5:5, 1 Pet 4:3, Rev 21:8, Rev 22:15).
          • The New Testament provides the following examples of idolatry:
            • Greediness (Col 3:5)
            • Demons (works of the hands – gold, silver, brass, stone, wood, which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk) – Rev 9:20
            • Objects that are revered, but cannot speak – 1 Cor 12:2
            • Temple robber – Ro 2:22 (John 2:16, Lk 19:45-46, Mk 11:17, Mat 21:13, Jer 7:9-11 – those in the church of God who practice, in part the burning of incense unto Baal and walk after gods whom they know not)
            • Israel’s calf – Acts 7:41, 1 Cor 10:7 (with Ex 32:1-8, 17-20, Ps 106:19-21)
            • Worshiping demons (false gospels) – 1 Cor 10:19-20 (eating things offered to idols – 1 Cor 8:1, 4, 7, 10, 1 Cor 10:19, 28, Rev 2:14, Rev 2:20 as opposed to eating / drinking of the Lord’s table)
          • Liars – see notes on Rev 21:8 – see Rev 2:2 notes, Pr 19:5-9, Is 9:15, John 8:44, 2 Thess 2:9, 1 Tim 4:2, 1 John 2:22
            • Satan – the father of lies – John 8:44

22:16 

I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches. I am the root and the offspring of David, and the bright and morning star.

• I, Jesus – The Revealer – see Rev 1:1 notes, 1 Pet 1:11, Ro 8:9, 2 Pet 1:21
• Sent mine angel – messenger – see notes on Rev 1:1
• Testify – see Rev 22:18,20, 1:2,9, 6:9, 11:7, 12:11,17, 19:10 notes
  • All believers are witnesses ‑ Gr: marturion – 1 John 5:10, Heb 12:1, 1 Tim 6:12, Ro 8:16, 2 Cor 1:12, 2 Thess 1:10, 2 Tim 1:8, 1 Tim 6:13, Heb 11:4, 1 John 1:2, John 1:7‑15, Is 43:10‑12, Is 44:8, etc.
• In the Churches – where 2 or 3 gathered together there is Jesus – see Mat 28:20, Exo 20:24, zech 2:5, John 8:58, Rev 1:11-13 (Jesus among the candlesticks), Rev 2:1, Rev 21:3
  • For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them. (Mat 18:20)
  • See also – Gen 49:10, Joh 20:19, Joh 20:26, 1Co 5:4, 1Th 1:1, Phm 1:2
• Root and offspring of David –
  • Root and Offspring of David – see Rev 5:5 notes, Mat 1:1, 2:2
• Root of David – Rev 5:5 and Rev 22:16
  • Root – Gr: rhiza – 17 occurrences
    • And now also the axe is laid unto the root of the trees: therefore every tree which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire. (Mat 3:10)
    • And when the sun was up, they were scorched; and because they had no root, they withered away. (Mat 13:6)
    • Yet hath he not root in himself, but dureth for a while: for when tribulation or persecution ariseth because of the word, by and by he is offended. (Mat 13:21)
    • But when the sun was up, it was scorched; and because it had no root, it withered away. (Mar 4:6)
    • And have no root in themselves, and so endure but for a time: afterward, when affliction or persecution ariseth for the word’s sake, immediately they are offended. (Mar 4:17)
    • And in the morning, as they passed by, they saw the fig tree dried up from the roots. (Mar 11:20)
    • And now also the axe is laid unto the root of the trees: every tree therefore which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire. (Luk 3:9)
    • They on the rock are they, which, when they hear, receive the word with joy; and these have no root, which for a while believe, and in time of temptation fall away. (Luk 8:13)
    • For if the firstfruit be holy, the lump is also holy: and if the root be holy, so are the branches. (Rom 11:16)
    • And if some of the branches be broken off, and thou, being a wild olive tree, wert graffed in among them, and with them partakest of the root and fatness of the olive tree; (Rom 11:17)
    • Boast not against the branches. But if thou boast, thou bearest not the root, but the root thee. (Rom 11:18)
    • And again, Esaias saith, There shall be a root of Jesse, and he that shall rise to reign over the Gentiles; in him shall the Gentiles trust. (Rom 15:12)
    • For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows. (1Ti 6:10)
    • Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled (Heb 12:15)
    • And one of the elders saith unto me, Weep not: behold, the Lion of the tribe of Juda, the Root of David, hath prevailed to open the book, and to loose the seven seals thereof. (Rev 5:5)
    • I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches. I am the root and the offspring of David, and the bright and morning star. (Rev 22:16)
  • Jesus Christ was source of David and also David’s offspring – Rev 22:16
  • Jesus Christ (Israel – Hos 11:1) as a root in the Old Testament (comes from the ground – points to the humanity of Jesus Christ)
    • Root – H8327 / H8328 / H8330 (sharash / shoresh) – 44 occurrences
    • Israel: Turn us again, O God of hosts, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved. Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt: thou hast cast out the heathen, and planted it. Thou preparedst room before it, and didst cause it to take deep root, and it filled the land. The hills were covered with the shadow of it, and the boughs thereof were like the goodly cedars. She sent out her boughs unto the sea, and her branches unto the river.  (Psa 80:7-11)
    • He shall cause them that come of Jacob to take root: Israel shall blossom and bud, and fill the face of the world with fruit. (Isa 27:6)
    • Thou hast planted them, yea, they have taken root: they grow, yea, they bring forth fruit: thou art near in their mouth, and far from their reins. (Jer 12:2)
    • And the remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah shall yet again take root downward, and bear fruit upward. (2Ki 19:30)
    • The wicked desireth the net of evil men: but the root of the righteous yieldeth fruit. (Pro 12:12)
    • And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse, and a Branch shall grow out of his roots: (Isa 11:1)
    • And in that day there shall be a root of Jesse, which shall stand for an ensign of the people; to it shall the Gentiles seek: and his rest shall be glorious. (Isa 11:10)
    • And the remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah shall again take root downward, and bear fruit upward: For out of Jerusalem shall go forth a remnant, and they that escape out of mount Zion: the zeal of the LORD of hosts shall do this. (Isa 37:31-32)
    • For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him. He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not. Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed. All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned everyone to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all. He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth. (Isa 53:2-7)
    • For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and that spreadeth out her roots by the river, and shall not see when heat cometh, but her leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit. (Jer 17:8)
    • I will be as the dew unto Israel: he shall grow as the lily, and cast forth his roots as Lebanon. (Hos 14:5)
  • David was a victorious king
    • Now therefore so shalt thou say unto my servant David, Thus says the LORD of hosts, I took thee from the sheepcote, from following the sheep, to be ruler over my people, over Israel: And I was with thee wherever you went, and have cut off all thine enemies out of thy sight, and have made thee a great name, like unto the name of the great men that are in the earth. (2Sa 7:8-9)
    • He teaches my hands to war, so that a bow of steel is broken by mine arms. Thou hast also given me the shield of thy salvation: and thy right hand has held me up, and thy gentleness hath made me great. Thou hast enlarged my steps under me, that my feet did not slip. I have pursued mine enemies, and overtaken them: neither did I turn again till they were consumed. (Psa 18:34-37)
  • Son of David, but also his Lord – Mat 22:41-46
    • While the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them, Saying, What think ye of Christ? whose son is he? They say unto him, The Son of David. He saith unto them, How then doth David in spirit call him Lord, saying, The LORD said unto my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand, till I make thine enemies thy footstool? If David then call him Lord, how is he his son? And no man was able to answer him a word, neither durst any man from that day forth ask him any more questions. (Mat 22:41-46)
  • Jesus (as a man) is the Son of David – Mat 1:1; Mat 1:20; Mat 9:27; Mat 12:23; Mat 15:22; Mat 20:30; Mat 20:31; Mat 21:9; Mat 21:15; Mat 22:42; Mar 10:47; Mar 10:48; Mar 12:35; Luk 3:31; Luk 18:38; Luk 18:39.
  • David (literally, Beloved) ‑ type of Christ ‑ Eze 34:23‑24, 37:24, Jer 30:9, Is 55:3‑5, Hos 3:5, Lk 1:69, Acts 2:30, 13:23‑24
  • David, a man after God’s own heart ‑ 1 Sam 13:13, Acts 7:46, 13:22
  • David, the great Psalm writer ‑ 2 Sam 22:1, 23:1‑3
  • The covenant of salvation with David ‑ 2 Sam 7, 1 Chr 17, Lk 1:32
  • Promise of salvation through David’s seed – 2 Sam 7:10-17, Ps 89:4, Ps 132:11, 1 Chr 17:11-14, 2 Chr 6:16, Acts 2:30-31, Acts 13:23,34, Eze 34:23, Eze 37:24-25, Jer 23:5-6, 30:9, Zech 6:12, Hos 3:5, Lk 1:69, Is 11:10, Is 55:3-5, Rev 22:16, Ro 1:3, Ro 15:12
  • Bright Morning Star
  • Bright – Gr: lampros (G2986) – see Rev 21:1 notes above (cleanness / pureness)
  • Morning star (i.e., the sun) – see Rev 1:16
  • Christ is symbolized as the Sun (Mal 4:2, 2 Pet 1:19, Rev 2:28, Rev 22:16, Mat 2:2, Mat 4:16, Num 24:7, Eph 5:14, Lk 1:78, Is 9:1-2, Is 59:8). He is the Sun of righteousness that rises with healing in His wings. He is the express radiance of God’s glory. We see when Christ was transfigured that the glory of Christ is like the sun (Mat 17:2).
• The reason that Christ is pictured often as the sun is that the sun is that which gives off light. The Bible is clear that light represents the Gospel (2 Cor 4:4-6, 2 Pet 1:19, 2 Tim 1:10, 1 Pet 2:9, Ps 43:3, Is 8:20). Also, Christ is referred to as the Light of the world (John 1:4, John 1:9, John 3:19, John 8:12, John 9:5, John 12:36, John 12:46, John 21:23, Is 60:1, Is 60:20, 1 John 1:5, Ps 27:1,4:6). It is Christ that brings the light of salvation to an otherwise darkened world. It is He that shines in men’s dark hearts so that they may see the light and become saved.

22:17 

And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him that heareth say, Come. And let him that is athirst come. And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely.

• Spirit – The source of God’s Word – 1 Pet 1:11, Ro 8:9, John 14:26, 15:26, 16:13f
• Bride – see 18:23, 21:2, 9  notes
• Spirit and Bride – Those who bring word of God – Ro 10:14-16, Is 52:7, Eph 2:17, 4:21, Acts 8:31, Titus 1:3
• Come – desire for the return of Christ – purifies – 1 John 3:2-3, 1 Pet 1:13, 2 Pet 3:12
• Him that hears
  • The messages to the churches are only for those who have ears to hear. This points to spiritual hearing – (see Ro 10:17, Is 29:18, Is 35:5, Is 42:18‑19, Is 43:8, Mat 13:13‑16, Acts 28:26f, Ro 11:8, Ro 11:25, Is 6:9, Jer 5:21, John 9:39‑41, hearing ‑ Special Revelation ‑ Ro 10:17, Gal 3:2, Gal 3:5, Hos 4:1, Eze 36:14, Hos 37:4, Hab 3:2, Is 1:10). Those who are unsaved do not have spiritual ears to hear. They have closed their ears to the truth of God’s Word (Acts 28:26f). They will keep on hearing, but not understand (Mat 13:14). Then heart of the people has grown dull and with their ears they scarcely hear (Mat 13:15). In the case of Israel, God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes to see not and ears to hear not Ro 11:8). The ears in the Bible, therefore, can be viewed as a type of having the ability to truly hear and understand God’s Word. It is only the saved, through the illumination and teaching of the Holy Spirit (John 14:26, John 15:26, 1 John 2:20-27), that can truly understand God’s Word.
• Him that thirsts, take water of life freely – see notes on Rev 21:6 and Rev 22:1 above
• Hunger and thirst – 2 Cor 11:27, 1 Cor 4:11, subject to physical body/persecution
• Jesus – Mat 4:2, Mat 12:1-3, Mat 25:35-44
• Rev 7:16, 2 Cor 11:27, 1 Cor 4:11
• Hunger and thirst for righteousness – Rev 7:16, 2 Cor 11:27, 1 Cor 4:11, Mat 5:6, Lk 6:21, Eze 34:29, Is 55:1, Jer 2:11‑13, John 4:13-14
• Spiritual hunger and thirst for God – Psa 42:1-2, Psa 63:1-2, Psa 84:2, Psa 107:9, Amo 8:11-13, Luk 1:53, Luk 6:21, Luk 6:25, Joh 6:27
• For righteousness – Psa 4:6-7, Psa 17:15, Psa 63:5, Psa 65:4, Psa 145:19, Son 5:1, Isa 25:6, Isa 41:17, Isa 44:3, Isa 49:9-10, Isa 55:1-3, Isa 65:13, Isa 66:11, Joh 4:14, Joh 6:48-58, Joh 7:37, Rev 7:16

22:18 

For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book

• Man that hears – spiritual hearing – see App H
• Words of the prophecy of the book – see 1:11, 22:7 notes
• Prophecy – see Rev 22:7 notes above
• Book – see notes on Rev 21:27
• Add to these things – Word of God is complete – Jude 3, Eph 6:10, Deut 4:2, 12:32, Pr 30:6, 2 Tim 3:15-17, John 15:15, Acts 20:27
  • God repeats passages – emphasizes no more revelation – 1 Chr 16 and Ps 105, Ps 18 and 2 Sam 22
  • Signs and wonders are complete with apostles
    • Apostles are those who heard Christ – see 18:20 notes
    • Signs of an apostle – see 18:20 notes
  • Add plagues – see Rev 15-16 (damantion/judgment)

22:19 

And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book.

• Take away words of the book – Deut 4:2, Deut 12:32, Pr 30:6
• Book – see nots on Rev 21:27
• Prophecy – see Rev 22:7 notes above, Rev 1:11 notes
• Take away from book of life – see Rev 21:27 notes above, Rev 3:5 notes
• Holy City – see Rev 21:2 notes above
• Things that are written – i.e., salvation throughout Book of Revelation (see Blessed passages)
  • Blessed – Beatitude (see Rev 1:3, Rev 14:13, Rev 19:9, Rev 20:6, Rev 22:7, Rev 22:14)
• Note: notice 22:18-19 that Word of God is a two edged sword (salvation and judgment) – see 1:16, 2:12,16, 19:15 notes

22:20 

He which testifieth these things saith, Surely I come quickly. Amen. Even so, come, Lord Jesus.

• He that testifieth – Jesus Christ see 22:16 notes
• All believers are witnesses ‑ Gr: marturion – 1 John 5:10, Heb 12:1, 1 Tim 6:12, Ro 8:16, 2 Cor 1:12, 2 Thess 1:10, 2 Tim 1:8, 1 Tim 6:13, Heb 11:4, 1 John 1:2, John 1:7‑15, Is 43:10‑12, Is 44:8, etc.
• I come quickly – see Rev 1:1, Rev 22:6-7 notes above
• Amen – see Rev 1:6, rev 3:14 notes, see Rev 2:21 notes below
• Lord Jesus – see below on Rev 22:21
• Come – desire for the return of Christ – purifies – Rev 22:20, 1 John 3:2-3, 1 Pet 1:13, 2 Pet 3:12, Is 25:9, 2 Tim 4:8 (everyone who loves His appearing), Heb 9:28, Rom 8:19,23; 1Co 2:9; 2Co 5:2; 1Th 1:10; Tit 2:13, 1 Cor 1:7, Phil 3:20-21, 1 Cor 4:5, Gen 49:18, Mat 25:1, Lk 12:36, 1 Th 1:10, Heb 10:36-37, James 5:7-8, Jude 21
• For thus saith the LORD of hosts; Yet once, it is a little while, and I will shake the heavens, and the earth, and the sea, and the dry land; And I will shake all nations, and the desire of all nations shall come: and I will fill this house with glory, saith the LORD of hosts. (Hag 2:6-7)

22:21 

The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.

• Grace – see Rev 1:4 notes (God’s gift)
  • It is by grace we are saved (Eph 2:8).
  • It is by grace that we have been justified (Titus 3:7).
  • For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast. (Eph 2:8-9)
• Lord Jesus Christ
  • The word Christ in the Greek (Gr. Christos) and Hebrew (Heb: mashach) literally means to be ‘rubbed with oil’ or ‘anointed’.  Therefore, Jesus is the anointed one.  The word for anointed in the Hebrew is often transliterated as the ‘Messiah’.  Therefore, Jesus is the Messiah (i.e., Christ or anointed one). The anointed offices are prophets, priests and kings.  Therefore, Jesus is the prophet, Priest and King.  A Christian believes that Jesus is the Christ (Messiah)  – see 1 John 5:1.  That is, the Christian believers that Jesus Christ is the Prophet, Priest and King of his or her life.  Jesus is the Prophet in that he is the Word of God (John 1:1, John 1:14, John 6:63). He is the Priest in that He is the only way to salvation and by His elective work alone, a Christian is saved (Acts 4:12, Heb 7, etc).  As the Prophet (Acts 3:22-23, John 4:19, Lk 24:19, Lk 13:33), Jesus Christ is the Word of God (John 1:1, John 1:14).  As the Priest, Jesus Christ is the Intercessor for His people with God the Father. He is the faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make reconciliation for the sins of the people.  (Heb 2:17, see also Heb 4:14, 5:10, 6:19-20, 9:22-28). Jesus is the only way to salvation (John 14:6, Acts 4:12). Finally Jesus is a King who must be obeyed (Rev 19:16, 2 Pet 1:3, etc.).  He is a King in that He is the Lord of a Christian’s life and the Christian will serve Him and be faithful and obedient to Him.
• Amen – Faithful and True – see notes on Rev 1:6, Rev 3:14
  • Amen – Rev 3:14 – These things say the Amen, the Faithful and True Witness – Christ is described as the Amen or the truth. The word ‘Amen’ means firm and is used extensively through the Bible.  In the New Testament, this Hebrew word often is translated as ‘verily’ or ‘truly’ (e.g., Mat 5:18, Mat 6:2, Mat 6:5, etc., etc.).  He is the Word of God (John 1:1).  He is also the perfect fulfillment of faith. In fact, it is His faithfulness; it is the faithful of Christ that saves (Gal 2:16, Phil 3:9). It is the faith of Christ that is given to believers as a gift (Eph 2:8-9). It then becomes their faith by which they are saved. Christ was faithful in that He patiently endured the cross as a perfect example of obedience (Heb 5:9).  Although scourged and blasphemed, He did not sin. He came as a Lamb to be sacrificed. Jesus testified before Pontius Pilate and made the good confession (1 Tim 6:13).  In Rev 3:14, Jesus is called the faithful and true witness.  Isaiah says that Jesus Christ would be given as a witness to the people, a leader and commander.  Christians have also been given the faith of Christ (Eph 2:8-9) as a gift, by which they are saved (Gal 2:16, see also Gal 3:2, Gal 3:5, Gal 3:7, Gal 2:20, Phil 3:9, Ro 3:22, Ro 1:17, Rev 2:13, 14:12).