What does Revelation 21:13 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"On the east three gates; on the north three gates; on the south three gates; and on the west three gates."
Verse Revelation 21:13. _ON THE EAST THREE GATES_] The city is here represented as standing to the four cardinal points of heaven, and presenting one side to each of these points....
ON THE EAST THREE GATES ... - The city was square Revelation 21:16, and the same number of gates is assigned to each quarter. There does not appear to be any special significancy in this fact, unless...
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...
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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_east … north … south … west_ The order of enumeration in Numbers is E. S. W. N., in Ezekiel N. E. S. W. in Enoch N. W. S. E., as in each of them the surveyor goes round methodically in order: in this...
THE MEASURE OF THE CITY...
_JOHN IS SHOWN THE NEW JERUSALEM REVELATION 21:9-17:_ The description of the New Jerusalem had to do with the glory of God. There was security because of the gates and the walls that were great and hi...
ΆΝΑΤΟΛΉ (G395) восход, восток (_см._ Matthew 2:1). ΒΟΡΡΆΣ (G1005) северный ветер, север. ΝΌΤΟΣ (G3558) юг, южный ветер, ΔΥΣΜΌΣ (G1424) закат, запад....
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...
_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...
On the east three gates; on the north three gates; on the south three gates; and on the west three gates. ON THE NORTH ... ON THE SOUTH. 'Aleph (') A B, Vulgate, Syriac, Coptic, read, 'and on the...
__ Second Temple Section-The Holy City 6 This is written from the standpoint of the time when John wrote, at Patmos, hence all is put in the future tense. _ This is vital to a true understanding of...
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 V1 Then I saw a new heaven and a ne...
AND HAD A WALL GREAT AND HIGH... — Or, better (for the construction is continued), _Having a wall great and high, and having twelve gate-towers, and at the gate-towers twelve angels, and names inscrib...
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 introd...
“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 blesse...
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...
A walled city in John's day was considered a place of security. There are three gates on each wall, east, north, south and west. They each have the name of one of the tribes of Israel which may symbol...
(12) 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: (13) On the eas...
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...
ON THE EAST THREE GATES,.... On which were written the names of Joseph, Benjamin, and Dan: ON THE NORTH THREE GATES; on which were written the names of Reuben, Judah, and Levi: ON THE SOUTH THREE GA...
On the east three gates; on the north three gates; on the south three gates; and on the west three gates. Ver. 13. _On the east three gates_] The Church is collected and heaven filled from all quarte...
_And there came unto me one of the seven angels_ Most probably the same who had (Revelation 17:1, &c.) showed John the mystic Babylon and her destruction, and now shows him, by way of contrast, the ne...
The vision of the heavenly Jerusalem:...
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...
_ 12Also she had a great and high wall with twelve gates, and twelve angels at the gates, and names written on them, which are the names of the twelve tribes of the children of Israel:_ 13 three gate...
9-21 God has various employments for his holy angels. Sometimes they sound the trumpet of Divine Providence, and warn a careless world; sometimes they discover things of a heavenly nature of the heir...
To signify it was made up of persons from all parts of the world. This agreeth with Ezekiel's vision, EZEKIEL 48:31. The triumphant church will be a collection of believers, who from all nations have...
Revelation 21:13 three G5140 gates G4440 on G575 east G395 three G5140 gates G4440 on G575 north G1005 three G5140 gates G4440 on G575 south G3558 and G2532 three G5140 gates G4440 on G575 west G1424...
‘Her light was like a most precious stone, as it were a jasper stone, clear as crystal, having a wall great and high, having twelve entrances, and at the entrances twelve angels, and names written on...
Revelation 21:13. The distribution of the gates follows in this verse....
THREE GATES (πυλωνες τρεις) on each of the four sides as in Ezekiel 42:16; "on the east" (απο ανατολης, as in Revelation 16:12, starting from the east), "on the north" (απο βορρα, from the north, a...
Revelation 21:10 We feel instinctively the beauty and the grandeur of this passage descriptive of the Church of Christ when she shall have passed through the successive stages of her earthly warfare a...
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 re...
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...
COME, AND I WILL SHOW YOU THE BRIDE. Under the symbolism of [spiritual] Jerusalem, _the New Jerusalem,_ the wife of the Lamb [the church of Christ] is described. This Holy City is the Church Triumphan...
REVELATION—NOTE ON REVELATION 21:12 The city’s HIGH WALL and TWELVE GATES symbolize absolute protection. The gates bear the names of Israel’s TWELVE TRIBES, and the Lamb’s TWELVE APOSTLES are named on...
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...
_11 HAVING THE GLORY OF GOD: AND HER LIGHT WAS LIKE UNTO A STONE MOST PRECIOUS, EVEN LIKE A JASPER STONE, CLEAR AS CRYSTAL;_ _ 12 AND HAD A WALL GREAT AND HIGH, AND HAD TWELVE GATES, AND AT THE GAT...
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...
Ezekiel 48:31...
East [α ν α τ ο λ η ς]. See on Matthew 2:2, and on day - spring, Luke 1:78. See the tribes arranged by gates in Ezekiel 48:31-34. West [δ υ σ μ ω ν]. Lit., the goings down or settings....
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 difficult to find, in bo...