All of the Lamb's enemies have been overthrown so there is no need to close the gates. The night hours have long been feared by good people because thieves and foreign armies have used its darkness to cover their evil deeds. In heaven, there will be no darkness nor evil deeds. Righteous people will bring God all the praise and honor they have received as his servants.
Verse 25. _THE GATES OF IT SHALL NOT BE SHUT AT ALL_] The Christian Church shall ever _stand open_ to receive sinners of all sorts, degrees, and nations. _THERE SHALL BE NO NIGHT THERE._] No more ido...
AND THE GATES OF IT SHALL NOT BE SHUT AT ALL BY DAY - It shall be constantly open, allowing free ingress and egress to all who reside there. The language is derived from Isaiah 60:11. See the notes on...
CHAPTER 21 Revelation 21:1 . And now the eternal state comes into view. “And I saw a new heaven and a new earth; for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away and the sea is no more.” Thi...
REVELATION 21:1 TO REVELATION 22:5. THE VISION OF THE NEW JERUSALEM. The doctrine of the new heaven and the new earth goes back to Isaiah 65:17, and is derived from the belief that the present world w...
(_c)_ THE CHARACTER OF THE CITY. Revelation 21:19 f. This list of stones should be compared with the stones of the high priest's breastplate (Exodus 28:17 ff. Exodus 39:10 ff.) and the description of...
9 There came to me one of the seven angels who have the seven bowls full of the seven last plagues, and he spoke with me. "Come, he said, "and I will show you the Bride, the wife of the Lamb." And he...
THE NEW CREATION (Revelation 21:1) _ 21:1 And I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had gone; and the sea was no more._ John has seen the doom of the wicked, a...
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_And the gates_&c. Isaiah 60:11. But the later prophet speaks of a further glory than the earlier: Isaiah recognises the succession of day and night, while St John sees that in that perpetual day the...
THE TEMPLE, THE LIGHT, THE RICHES, AND THE INHABITANTS OF THE CITY...
ΚΑῚ ΟἹ ΠΥΛΩ͂ΝΕΣ. Isaiah 60:11. But the latter prophet speaks of a further glory than the earlier: Isaiah recognises the succession of day and night, while St John sees that in that perpetual day the g...
_NOTHING THAT DEFILES WILL ENTER INTO IT REVELATION 21:18-27:_ God takes the most precious things that we are familiar with and made the city of these. Imagine the worth of this wonderful place. It wi...
ΟΎ ΜΉ G3756:G3361) никогда, ΚΛΕΙΣΘΏΣΙΝ _aor. conj. pass. от_ ΚΛΕΊΩ (G2808) закрывать, запирать. Ночью ворота для безопасности должны были бы быть закрыты (Ford). Исайя предрекал возрождение Иерусали...
THERE CAME UNTO ME ONE OF THE SEVEN ANGELS, &C.— A more particular description is now given of the new Jerusalem. _One of the seven angels_ (and most probably the same who had, ch. Revelation 17:1, &c...
Strauss-' Comments The Vision of the New Jerusalem Chapter Revelation 21:9-27 _Revelation 21:9_ The heavenly messenger who bore the seven bowls of anger appeared again. John was invited to see the b...
_TOMLINSON'S COMMENTS_ CHAPTER XXI BEHOLD, I MAKE ALL THINGS NEW _Text (Revelation 21:1-27)_ INTRODUCTION 1 And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth are pass...
And the gates of it shall not be shut at all by day: for there shall be no night there. NOT BE SHUT ... BY DAY - therefore never; for it shall always be day. Gates are usually shut by night; but i...
SECOND THRONE SECTION 24 The vision has ended. John now is back again in Patmos and tells what _ will be _ in the days of the vision. It is not that the common and abominable will be outside the city...
THE HOLY CITY The enemies of the Lamb have been conquered. The Judgment is over. The old condition of things has passed away: cp. Revelation 20:11. Now St. John sees in a vision the blissful glory of...
FROM NOW TO THE END OF TIME REVELATION _IAN MACKERVOY_ CHAPTER 21 THE NEW HEAVEN AND THE NEW EARTH - REVELATION 21:1-22 THE NEW *CREATION - REVELATION 21:1-8...
AND THE GATES OF IT... — Better, _And the gates_ (or, _gate-towers_)_ shall never be shut by day, for night shall not be there._ The gates shall never be shut: all day they shall be open, and that day...
CHAPTER XVII. THE NEW JERUSALEM. REV. Revelation 21:1; Revelation 22:1. THE first part of the final triumph of the Lamb has been accomplished, but the second has still to be unfolded. We are introdu...
Further traits borrowed from Isaiah 60. (see reff.)....
νὺξ κ. τ. λ. “for no night (when even in peace they would be shut, Nehemiah 13:19) shall be there”....
“THE HOLY CITY” Revelation 21:9 The “new Jerusalem” is the redeemed Church united with her Lord in the act of governing the whole world. A city is obviously the seat of imperial rule. In that blessed...
The endless end of evil has passed before the vision of the seer, and he now observes the resultant order. The holy city appears. Toward a city of God men had looked through long generations. Now it i...
(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 honour into it. (25) And the gates of it shall not be shut at all by day...
It is necessary that we should all bear in mind, if we have not observed it before, that Revelation 17:1-18 does not pursue the chronological course of the prophecy. It is a description, and not one o...
_THE NIGHT PASSED_ ‘There shall be no night there.’ Revelation 21:25 What does darkness stand for? Of what is it often spoken of as a type? I. DARKNESS IS THE EQUIVALENT OF UNCERTAINTY.—Only when...
The Real New World Order I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell--you see, I have friends in both places. --Mark Twain I would rather go to heaven alone than go to hell in company --R.A....
But there was a new heaven and a new earth; but no more sea no separation, nor part of the world not brought into an ordered earth before God. Here we do not find any mediatorial kingdom. The Lamb is...
AND THE GATES OF IT SHALL NOT BE SHUT AT ALL BY DAY,.... Which does not design the free communication between the living saints on the new earth, and the raised ones in the new heaven, as some have th...
And the gates of it shall not be shut at all by day: for there shall be no night there. Ver. 25. _For there shall be no night there_] And so no need to fear a sudden surprise by the enemy watching hi...
_And I saw no temple therein_ The whole city being, properly speaking, a temple; _the Lord God and the Lamb_ surrounding, filling, and sanctifying the whole, and being more intimately present in every...
AND THE GATES OF IT SHALL NOT BE SHUT AT ALL BY DAY; FOR THERE SHALL BE NO NIGHT THERE....
The wonderful glory of the city:...
THE NEW HEAVEN AND NEW EARTH Revelation 20:11 has indicated that at the time of the Great White Throne the earth and the heaven flee away. Now John sees a new heaven and a new earth, and the earth had...
_ 25 Its gates shall not be shut at all by day (there shall be no night there)._ A. The church is a pure place. It is safe from sin. There is no darkness of sin allowed in the church. Those in the ch...
22-27 Perfect and direct communion with God, will more than supply the place of gospel institutions. And what words can more full express the union and co-equality of the Son with the Father, in the...
AND THE GATES OF IT SHALL NOT BE SHUT AT ALL BY DAY: the reason of shutting a city's gates, is either to shut out enemies, or to keep in such as are within: there will be no need of shutting these gat...
Revelation 21:25 G2532 Its G846 gates G4440 shall G2808 not G3364 shut G2808 (G5686) all G3364 day...
Revelation 21:25. AND THE GATES OF IT SHALL NOT BE SHUT AT ALL BY DAY; FOR THERE SHALL BE NO NIGHT THERE. The design of the words is to set forth the perfect peace and security of the inhabitants of t...
SHALL IN NO WISE BE SHUT (ου μη κλεισθωσιν). Double negative with the first aorist passive subjunctive of κλειω.BY DAY (ημερας). Genitive of time. Mentioned alone without νυκτος (by night), "for...
Revelation 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._ Astronomers tell us that, within living memory, severa...
Revelation 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'...
Revelation 21:22. _And I saw no temple therein: for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple of it._ It has a temple, that better state, that land of the Well-beloved, but not a material tem...
Here we shall see a picture of what the Church of God is to be in the latter days; but inasmuch as this vision came out of heaven, it gives us an idea of what is in heaven already. Crowded as it is wi...
Contents: The seven new things of the Kingdom age earth, peoples, Jerusalem, temple, light, Paradise (Chap. 22). CONCLUSION: It will be the perfect happiness of the saints, when Christ re-turns to rei...
Revelation 21:1. _I saw a new heaven and a new earth._ This was a welcome sight, for this old earth is wearing out. Subterranean fires are burning and wasting it beneath our feet, fires everfeeding on...
REVELATION—NOTE ON REVELATION 21:24 BRING THEIR GLORY INTO IT. Compare Isaiah 60:3. The city’s GATES WILL NEVER BE SHUT bec
Verse nine to the end of the chapter inclusive is occupied with a new vision of this holy city New Jerusalem. An angel said: "Come hither, I will show thee the bride, the Lamb's wife." And he showed h...
THE NEW JERUSALEM _CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES_ “NOW is sealed the eternal doom of the dragon, beast, false prophet, and all their followers; yea, and of all who resemble them in the temper of the...
EXPOSITION REVELATION 21:1 AND I SAW. The usual introduction to a new vision (cf. Revelation 20:11, etc.). Having described the origin and progress of evil in the world, the final overthrow of Satan...
_25 AND THE GATES OF IT SHALL NOT BE SHUT AT ALL BY DAY: FOR THERE SHALL BE NO NIGHT THERE._ _ 26 AND THEY SHALL BRING THE GLORY AND HONOUR OF THE NATIONS INTO IT._ The gates would not even exist...
I saw a new heaven and a new earth; for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away (Revelation 21:1); Now, we are beyond the thousand years. The first heaven is passed away. Peter tells us...
Isaiah 60:11; Isaiah 60:20; Revelation 22:5; Zechariah 14:7...
THE MARRIAGE OF THE LAMB Revelation 19:1; _Revelation 21:1 and Revelation 22:1_ INTRODUCTORY WORDS 1. Old Testament analogies of the coming Marriage in the skies. It is not diffi