John sees another vision of the holy city New Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. There follows a description of conditions in that holy city. God shall dwell with his people, and wipe away all tears from their eyes; no death, no sorrow, no crying, no pain, for the former things have passed away. Here is a scene of supreme beauty and supreme blessedness.
Verse Revelation 21:2. _AND I JOHN_] The writer of this book; whether the evangelist and apostle, or John the Ephesian presbyter, has been long doubted in the Church. _NEW JERUSALEM_] See Clarke's n...
AND I JOHN SAW THE HOLY CITY, NEW JERUSALEM, COMING DOWN FROM GOD OUT OF HEAVEN - See the Analysis of the chapter. On the phrase “new Jerusalem,” see the Galatians 4:26 note, and Hebrews 12:22 note. H...
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...
(_a)_ THE DISTANT VIEW OF THE CITY. Revelation 21:1. _cf._ Isaiah 65:17. SEA IS NO MORE: To the apostolic age the ocean spoke of separation and isolation.. For this element of unrest, this fruitful ca...
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...
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...
JOHN. The texts omit. NEW JERUSALEM. See Revelation 3:12. The city "above" (Galatians 1:4, Gal 1:26); "which hath the foundations" (Hebrews 11:10); "the heavenly Jerusalem" ...
The New Jerusalem, Revelation 21:2 2. _And I John saw_ Read simply, AND I SAW. _new Jerusalem_ For the old Jerusalem, though we saw (Revelation 20:9, and note) that it is to be again "a holy city" i...
ΤῊΝ ἉΓΊΑΝ. Aug. _magnam_. 2. THE NEW JERUSALEM This like Revelation 21:1 might still be part of a prefatory announcement of what is narrated in detail Revelation 21:9 sqq. 2. ἹΕΡΟΥΣΑΛῊΜ ΚΑΙΝΉΝ. For...
_WONDERFUL FELLOWSHIP WITH GOD REVELATION 21:1-7:_ God's faithful people do not die without hope. The sea that had prevented intimate fellowship in the presence of God is no more. (Revelation 21:1) Th...
ΕΊΔΟΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΌΡΆΩ (G912) видеть, ΙΕΡΟΥΣΑΛΉΜ ΚΑΙΝΉΝ (G2419; G2537) Новый Иерусалим. Об иудейских описаниях Нового, или небесного Иерусалима в свитках Мертвого моря cm.-DSST, 129-35; AT, 2...
DISCOURSE: 2529 THE HEAVENLY GLORY 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. And I John saw the hol...
I SAW A NEW HEAVEN AND A NEW EARTH, &C.— _A new heaven and a new earth_ succeed in the room of the _first heaven and first earth,_ which passed away at the general judgment, ch. Revelation 20:11. In t...
Strauss-' Comments SECTION 69 Text Revelation 21:1-27 And I saw a new heaven, and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth are passed away; and the sea is no more. 2 And I saw the holy c...
_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 I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. AND I JOHN. "John" is omitted in 'Aleph (') A B, Vulgate, Syriac, Copti...
__ Temple Section-The Former Resurrection 4 Those who have suffered death for their loyalty during the great persecutions of the end time are especially included in the former resurrection. This is...
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 I JOHN SAW THE HOLY CITY... — Better, _And the holy city, new Jerusalem, I saw coming down out of the heaven from God, prepared_... The name John is omitted in the best MSS. The new Jerusalem is m...
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...
the prelude to the last vision....
ἐκ =origin, ἀπὸ = originator. This conception of the new Jerusalem as messiah's bride in the latter days is an original touch, added by the prophet to the traditional Jewish material (_cf._ Volz, 336...
The title: Revelation 21:1 _a b_ = Revelation 20:11 _c_. Revelation 20:1 _c_ = Revelation 20:13 _a_. The ab
“A NEW HEAVEN AND A NEW EARTH” Revelation 21:1 Here is a vision of the new creation. This is the “restitution of all things” to which Peter refers in Acts 3:21, and the deliverance of creation from t...
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...
The devil and his forces have done all they could to break up this union, but the church is now seen separated from sin and beautifully dressed for her husband. (Ephesians 5:25-27) New Jerusalem is a...
(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. (2) The state of this glorious Church is first described generally to...
From the seventh verse of the foregoing chapter, begins as it were the third part of the Apocalypse containing the coming of antichrist, the great day of judgment, the punishment of the wicked, and th...
(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. (2) And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God...
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 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 I JOHN SAW THE HOLY CITY,.... The same with the beloved city in Revelation 20:9 the church of God: sometimes the church militant is called a city, of which the saints are now fellow citizens, gove...
And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. Ver. 2. _The holy city_] The Church in glory, saith Diodate. The Church w...
_And I saw_ So it runs, Revelation 19:11; Revelation 20:1; Revelation 20:4; Revelation 20:11, in a succession. All these s
AND I, JOHN, SAW THE HOLY CITY, NEW JERUSALEM, COMING DOWN FROM GOD OUT OF HEAVEN, PREPARED AS A BRIDE ADORNED FOR HER HUSBAND....
THE SEVENTH VISION: OF THE HEAVENLY JERUSALEM. The prelude:...
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...
_ 2 Then I, John, saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband._ A. It is clear that this is not a literal city. It is adorned rea...
1-8 The new heaven and the new earth will not be separate from each other; the earth of the saints, their glorified, bodies, will be heavenly. The old world, with all its troubles and tumults, will h...
THE HOLY CITY, NEW JERUSALEM; that is, the whole chorus or number of the elect of God, answering God's chosen people in Jerusalem. COMING DOWN FROM GOD OUT OF HEAVEN; not locally coming down, but who...
Irenaeus Against Heresies Book V He does not say this with any thought of an erratic Aeon, or of any other power which departed from the Pleroma, or of Prunicus, but of the Jerusalem which has been d...
Revelation 21:2 Then G2532 I G1473 John G2491 saw G1492 (G5627) holy G40 city G4172 New G2537 Jerusalem...
‘And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, made ready as a bride adorned for her husband.' See Revelation 21:9. This descent is on the new earth, the new creation. Th...
Revelation 21:2. The Apostle beholds the metropolis of the renovated world under the figure of that metropolis which was so intimately associated with the memories and aspirations of the people of God...
THE HOLY CITY, NEW JERUSALEM (την πολιν την αγιαν Ιερουσαλημ καινην). "The New Earth must have a new metropolis, not another Babylon, but another and greater Jerusalem" (Swete), and not the old Jeru...
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...
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...
THE NEW JERUSALEM. Not the old material city. This is the church of Christ (Matthew 16:18)_, "like a bride dressed to meet her husband_....
REVELATION—NOTE ON REVELATION 21:2 THE HOLY CITY, NEW JERUSALEM (compare Hebrews 12:22). The church redeemed by Jesus Christ will be adorne
REVELATION—NOTE ON REVELATION 21:1 The destruction of death will lead to the renewal of the entire created order. It will become the perfect home in which the Lamb will live forever with his bride, th...
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...
_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._ Many people get confused on this passage because they interpret the p...
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...
2 Corinthians 11:2; Ephesians 5:25; Ephesians 5:30; Galatians 4:25;...
I John. Omit John. New Jerusalem. Others join new with coming down, and render corning down new out of heaven. A bride. Compare Isaiah 61:10; Isaiah 61:5....
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
THE ALPHA AND OMEGA OF CREATION Genesis 1:1; _Revelation 21:1_ INTRODUCTORY WORDS 1. Genesis and Revelation contrasted. The Book of Genesis is commonly known as the Book of beginnings. It is there t...
And I saw the holy city — The new heaven, the new earth, and the new Jerusalem, are closely connected. This city is wholly new, belonging not to this world, not to the millennium, but to eternity. Thi...