I am the living one! Killed, but alive forever! Note the stress on life. I have authority. Compare Matthew 28:18. He has authority even over death and Hades [the world of the dead]. He will raise everyone from death at his Coming! See John 5:27-29.
Verse Revelation 1:18. I am _HE THAT LIVETH, AND WAS DEAD_] I am Jesus the Saviour, who, though the fountain of life, have died for mankind; and being raised from the dead I shall die no more, the gr...
I AM HE THAT LIVETH, AND WAS DEAD - I was indeed once dead, but now I live, and shall continue to live forever. This would at once identify him who thus appeared as the Lord Jesus Christ, for to no on...
ANALYSIS AND ANNOTATIONS I. THE PATMOS VISION OF THE GLORIFIED SON OF MAN CHAPTER 1 _ 1. The introduction (Revelation 1:1)_ 2. Greeting and benediction (Revelation 1:4) 3. The praise (Revel
THE PROLOGUE gives an account of the vision of the Son of Man, and the manner in which the messages to the seven churches came to the seer. Revelation 1:9. John your brother: the term brother in the N...
John turned to see the speaker whose voice had startled him, and his eyes rested upon. vision of surpassing glory. He beheld seven golden lamps, and among them walked one "like unto the Son of Man." H...
KEYS OF DEATH AND HELL. Rather, _Hades,_ the abode of the dead. The meaning is that he has the mastery over death and the abode of the dead. PRACTICAL AND SUGGESTIVE. 1. The apostles were the breth...
His head and his hair were white, as white as wool, like snow; and his eyes were as a flame of fire; and his feet were like beaten brass, as if it had been refined in a furnace; and his voice was as t...
GOD'S REVELATION TO MEN (Revelation 1:1-3)...
I... LIVETH. And the Living One. LIVETH, ALIVE. App-170. AND. Read "and yet". WAS. became. DEAD. See App-139. I AM ALIVE. Living (emph.) am I. AMEN. Omit. HELL... DEATH. The texts read "death a...
_I am he_ Literally, I AM THE FIRST AND THE LAST, AND HE THAT LIVETH; AND I WAS DEAD AND AM ALIVE. _l am alive_ The words "was" and "am" are emphatic contrasting His temporal and temporary death with...
ἘΓΕΝΌΜΗΝ is emphatic in intentional contrast to ἐγώ εἰμι ὁ πρῶτος, and still more to ζῶν εἰμί, setting His temporal and temporary death against His eternal life; see on Revelation 1:4. ΤΟΥ͂ ΘΑΝΆΤΟΥ ΚΑ...
_A REVELATION OF JESUS CHRIST REVELATION 1:12-20:_ What a blessing this must have been to John to see Jesus again. Jesus is pictured as standing in His magnificence in the midst of these seven churche...
ΖΏΝ _praes. act. part. (subst.)_ от ΖΆΩ (G2198) жить. _Praes._ обозначает длительную непрекращающуюся жизнь, ΈΓΕΝΌΜΗΝ _aor. ind. med. (dep.) от_ ΓΊΝΟΜΑΙ (G1096) становиться, ΚΛΕΊΣ (G2807) ключ, ΣΊΔ...
DISCOURSE: 2480 CHRIST’S POWER OVER THE INVISIBLE WORLD Revelation 1:17. _Fear not; I am the first and the last: I am he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and hav...
AMEN;— This seems to have been the exclamation of St. John, testifying his joyful assent to the nobletruths which precede; after which the discourse is continued in the person of Christ. We have often...
Strauss-' Comments SECTION 3 Text Revelation 1:9-20 9 I John, your brother and partaker with you in the tribulation and kingdom and patience which are in Jesus, was in the isle that is called Patmos,...
I am he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death. Greek, 'And THE LIVING ONE:' connected with Revelation 1:17. AND WAS, [ egeno...
1 This is the unveiling of a Person Jesus Christ-not merely a prediction revealed through Him. God gives it to Him as a reward for His sufferings. 1 Swiftly-not _ soon_, but with speed. On the morning...
1:18 became (f-7) _ Ginomai_ . see John 1:17 . Became what he was not before. hades. (g-27) Hades. see Note, Matthew 11:23 ....
THE VISION OF THE SON OF MAN St. John addresses 'the seven churches which are in Asia,' telling them of a vision of Christ, who bade him, write in a book what he saw and send it to them. 1-3. Introdu...
FROM NOW TO THE END OF TIME REVELATION _IAN MACKERVOY_ ABOUT THE BOOK OF REVELATION 1 THE WRITER The writer of this book simply calls himself John. He wrote to the *churches in Asia. He describe...
I AM HE THAT LIVETH, AND WAS DEAD. — Better, _and the living One_ (omit the words “I am”); _and I became dead; and, behold, I am alive_ (or, _I am living_)_ unto the ages of ages_ (or, _for evermore_)...
CHAPTER I. THE PROLOGUE. Revelation 1:1 The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave Him to show unto His servants, even the things which must shortly come to pass: and He sent and signified it th...
Not “it is I, the first and the last” (which would require ἐγώ εἰμι before μὴ φοβοῦ), but “I am, etc.” The eternal life of the exalted Christ is a comfort both in method and result; ἐγενόμην νεκρός (n...
FROM THE LIVING LORD TO THE CHURCHES Revelation 1:9 The tribulation and patience of Jesus are essential conditions of His Kingdom. We cannot exert the divine energies of the latter, unless we are wil...
The theme of this Book is found in its opening sentence, "The Revelation of Jesus Christ." This should be borne in mind from first to last, and our object should be to see Him as He is here revealed....
JOHN'S RESPONSE TO JESUS' GREATNESS The vision of Jesus was so powerful and awe-inspiring that John fell down as if he were dead (compare Isaiah 6:5; Ezekiel 1:29; Daniel 8:17; Daniel 8:27;...
_And alive, and was dead; always living as God, and as man was dead, died on the cross for the salvation of all men, rose again, triumphed over hell, death, and sin, and am living for ever and ever, a...
(9) 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 o...
That God should have chosen John to be the instrument of communicating the closing volume of the New Testament is worthy of our consideration. It is not a new thing for God thus to set out the stronge...
_JOHN’S SIGHT OF CHRIST_ ‘And when I saw Him, I fell at His feet as dead. And He laid His right hand upon me, saying unto me, Fear not; I am the first and the last: I am He that liveth, and was dead;...
_THE RESURRECTION CHANGE_ ‘I am He that liveth and was dead; and behold I am alive for evermore.’ Revelation 1:18 What should be our theme as we stand beside the empty tomb? There are many aspects...
I Am I. INTRODUCTION A. Isaiah 11:1-2 There shall come forth a Rod from the stem of Jesse, And a Branch shall grow out of his roots. 2 The Spirit of the LORD shall rest upon Him, The Spirit of wisd...
The revelation is one belonging to Jesus Christ, which God gave Him, and He signifies it to John. Though God over all blessed for ever, He is here seen as Son of man, the rejected Messiah or Lamb, and...
I [AM] HE THAT LIVETH,.... As the eternal God, who has life in himself, originally, essentially, and inderivatively, and is the fountain and author of life to others; and who ever lived as the Mediato...
I _am_ he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death. Ver. 18. _That liveth and was dead_] So can every regenerate man say, Luke 16:...
_And when I saw him_ In this awful, this glorious, and resplendent form, I was perfectly overwhelmed with the majesty of his appearance, so that _I fell at his feet as dead_ Human nature not being abl...
THE KEYS OF HELL AND OF DEATH; supreme power over hell and death. Hell, in the original Hades, is here the place of the dead....
I AM HE THAT LIVETH AND WAS DEAD; AND. BEHOLD, I AM ALIVE FOREVERMORE, AMEN; AND HAVE THE KEYS OF HELL AND OF DEATH....
Christ commands John to write:...
God gave this Revelation to Jesus Christ so that He might, as the Son of Man, communicate this to His servants. It is He who has been entrusted with the restitution of all things, and is therefore giv...
_ 18 I am He who lives, and was dead, and behold, I am alive forevermore. Amen. And I have the keys of Hades and of Death._ A. HE THAT LIVES - Jesus begins to describe himself. He is the one that liv...
12-20 The churches receive their light from Christ and the gospel, and hold it forth to others. They are golden candlesticks; they should be precious and pure; not only the ministers, but the members...
I AM HE THAT LIVETH, AND WAS DEAD; AND, BEHOLD, I AM ALIVE FOR EVERMORE; the living God, who had life in myself, and gave life to the world, but assumed the human nature, and was made man, and in that...
Revelation 1:18 G2532 lives G2198 (G5723) and G2532 was G1096 (G5633) dead G3498 and G2532 behold...
‘And he laid his right hand on me and said, “Do not be afraid. I am the first and the last, and the living one, I died and, see, I am alive for evermore, and I have the keys of death and of Hades”.' H...
Revelation 1:17-18. The effect of the vision upon the Seer is now described. I fell, he says, AT HIS FEET AS DEAD (cp. Exodus 33:20; Isaiah 6:5;...
We are introduced to a vision of the Saviour, in that light in which He is peculiarly presented to us in the Apocalypse the Head of His Church, the great High Priest and King of His people. From Him t...
AND I WAS DEAD (κα εγενομην νεκρος). "And I be came dead" (aorist middle participle of γινομα as in Revelation 1:9; Revelation 1:10, definite reference to the Cross).I AM ALIVE (ζων ειμ). Periphra...
HELL Hades. (_ See Scofield) - (Luke 16:23). _...
Revelation 1:18 Death. Death has been scoffingly called the preacher's commonplace, but a commonplace truth, like a commonplace person, is often only a name for one with whose appearance we are very...
In the first fourteen verses we have given to us part of the glowing description of the glories of the ascended Christ, and here it is completed. Revelation 1:15. _And his feet like unto fine brass,...
Revelation 1:1. _The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to show unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant J...
Revelation 1:1. _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 J...
CONTENTS: The Patmos vision of John and the command to write. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Holy Spirit, John. CONCLUSION: Jesus Christ, the Alpha and the Omega, speaks to believers through the Apostle J...
Revelation 1:1. _The Revelation of Jesus Christ,_ which reaches to the end of time, and is a continuation of the Hebrew, and the christian prophets of the new testament. This revelation properly begin...
REVELATION—NOTE ON REVELATION 1:18 I DIED... I AM ALIVE FOREVERMORE. John and the churches must “fear not” (v. Revelation 1:17), because Jesus has conquered death
John fell at his feet as dead; and Christ said: "Fear not I am the first and the last, he that liveth and was dead, and behold I am alive for evermore." I was dead; but I am dead no more. I have "the...
_CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES_ Revelation 1:12. SEE THE VOICE.—“See Him whose voice I heard.” SEVEN GOLDEN CANDLESTICKS.—Compare Zechariah 4:2. Lamp-stands would be a better term. Not one candlestick...
EXPOSITION THE TITLE. The simplest form of this, as of other books of the New Testament, is the oldest: 'The Revelation of John' (Αποκάλυψις Ιωάννου). Other forms worth noting are: 'The Revelation o...
_16 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._ _ 17 AND WHEN I SAW HIM, I FELL AT HIS FEE...
Shall we turn in our Bibles now to the book of Revelation, chapter one? The Revelation of Jesus Christ (Revelation 1:1), The Greek word "apokalupsis" is literally the unveiling. So in the very first...
2 Corinthians 13:4; 2 Corinthians 5:14; 2 Corinthians 5:15; Colossians 3:3;...
CHRIST AMONG THE CHURCHES Revelation 1:8 INTRODUCTORY WORDS We enter in this marvelously descriptive chapter, centering our thoughts upon the appearance of Christ as He walks among His Churches. 1....
And he that liveth — Another peculiar title of God. And I have the keys of death and of hades — That is, the invisible world. In the intermediate state, the body abides in death, the soul in hades. Ch...