Revelation 21 Commentary - Spurgeon's Verse Expositions of the Bible HEAVEN, &C. See Isaiah 51:16 (plant, &c); Rev 65:17. NEW. We are not what we were: we are new, and have begun a new career. The life that we live in the flesh is no longer according to the lusts of the world, but we live by faith in the Son of God, who loved us and gave himself for us. This is unfortunate, since his works contain priceless gems of information that are found nowhere except in the ancient writings of the Jews. THE first saints could never be long without speaking of their Lord and Saviour. It isn't just good news for usit's good news for animals, plants, stars, and planets. It needed the Lord himself to make such as we are new. He has come to make the world new. Revelation 21:5 . The apostle Peter has told us that this w. All the church would be the better because of the way in which the Lord would help them to do their work. There shall be no death, nor sorrow nor crying, nor pain, nor trial of any kind; all shall be happiness for all shall be holiness. NEW HEAVEN AND EARTH I feel this within me: do not you? Revelation 21:24. Faith has brought us into the possession of an indefeasible salvation; and now for the love we bear our Savior, we must obey him and become "zealous for good works." And it will sometimes happen that we leave so much anxiety, adversity, and chastisement behind us, that it is a relief to hope that the tide has turned, and that a course of comfort, prosperity, and mercy lies before us. temper of the EXPOSITION Behold him! persecutions of the end time are especially included in the former ind. He can make your harsh and ungodly husband to become gentle and gracious. The Lord Jesus Christ was speaking of lofty themes, of worlds newly made, and yet in the very middle of it all he puts this gracious promise. JOHN was the beloved disciple, the choicest spirit of the twelve, the , Heaven Above, and Heaven Below All these. They are the same persons, and yet not the same. REVELATION 21:1 Restless spirits consider that the new must be better than the old. "Behold, I make all things new." We were under the old covenant, and our first father and federal head, Adam, had broken that covenant, and we were ruined by his fatal breach. It rejoices in hopes which once seemed idle as dreams. Are we to be praying for you, and you not praying for yourselves? "Behold, I make all things." He sees a new There are certain things which are already so truly new, that to change them for anything else would be to lose old gold for new dross. By him man's side of the covenant was undertaken and fulfilled, and now no condition remains; it is solely made up of promises which are unconditional and sure to all the seed. I suppose the best of men must do so at times. I. NEW JERUSALEM (Revelation 21:1 to Revelation 22:5). I said. It were hard to say which has the stronger power over the human mind antiquity or novelty. Revelation 21:1; Revelation 22:1. Persons who profess to have communications with the dead necromancers, spiritualists, and all people of that sort. 2 O dear hearts, there is no absolute necessity that you should always go downward in evil till you descend to hell. holy c And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the See on Matthew 26:29. If we can only trust him for those of our friends whose faults seem to us few and light, our little trust will reap little reward; but if we can go with strong faith in a great God, and bring great sinners in our arms, and put them down before this mighty Regenerator of men, and say, "Lord, if thou wilt thou canst make them new"; and if we will never cease the pleading till we get the blessing, then we shall see ever-accumulating illustrations of the fact that Jesus makes all things new; and calling up the witnesses of his redeeming power, we shall cry in the ears of a drowsy Church and an incredulous world, "Behold, behold, behold! Peter 3:7. I strove hard and kicked against the pricks. What is wanted is that you should be made a new creature in Christ Jesus. O Lord, we would rejoice and be glad for ever in that which thou dost create. _God dwells with men; the happy state of his followers_, 3-7. Revelation 21:21. Though often disappointed, they are still ready to be caught by the same bait, and, like the Athenians of Mars Hill, spend their time in nothing else but either to tell or to hear some new thing. Our curiosity has been excited full often to ask a vast number of questions, but after being excited, it has never been gratified, for Gods word has told us little about , A Voice from Heaven AND I SAW. When there shall be a new heaven and a new earth, and the Church shall be in her new and glorified condition, then there will be no need for all those purifying forces which have been so active here below. New principles stir the new nature which God has given. The day shall come when this world shall be as fair as it was at the primeval Sabbath; when there shall be a new heaven and a new earth, wherein shall dwell righteousness. Not Peter only, but the whole of the twelve apostles shall have their names in the foundations of that holy city. Revelation 21:1-27 - Spurgeon's Bible Commentary - BibliaPlus The Book of Genesis is commonly WHATEVER the saints are , "The Marriage of the Lamb" Then another with great tenderness prayed for his children. And cast their crowns before the throne. Revelation. What a range of creating power is here! You have grievous trouble because you hear the dearest that you have blaspheming the God you love. _I saw a new heaven and a new earth._ This was a The sea now cannot rest nor be quiet, but all shall be calm and tranquil in the new heaven and the new earth. We repent because we believe, and believe while we repent. But I have to bid you, "Lay your deadly doing down, down at Jesus' feet; Stand in him, in him alone, gloriously complete.". One of the first prayers that I heard to-night in the prayer-meeting was by a dear brother that God would save his relatives. 20:13. II. Amen. THE FINAL REGENERATION. The mercy-seat, what a different place it is now! "Because I asked the Lord to convert him, and I kept on praying that he might be converted; and I should have been very much surprised if he had not been." What law could not do, grace has accomplished. I seem to lose the freshness of it; and especially by about Saturday I get I hardly know where; but," he added, "as for you, whenever I hear you, you seem to be all alive and full of fresh energy." Revelation 21:7-8 Meaning and Commentary - Bible Study Tools not diffi, And I saw So it runs, Revelation 19:11, Revelation 20:1, to, as here, in . O anxious one, it can turn you! It is fit that things so outworn and defiled should be laid aside, and better things fill their places. Devils could not be worse than men when their passions are let loose. By grace every believer is brought into a new relationship with God. "The world is crucified unto me," said Paul; and many of you can say the same. 3. It was a fair world, full of everything that was lovely, beautiful, happy, holy. It is a dreadful world. No mother's pangs, when she brought forth a man-child, were such as those of Christ when he brought forth the new creation. I earnestly recommend you attentively to consider my text. There was no more sea [ I cannot doubt of the possibility of your salvation, my dear friend, whenever I think of my own. Since you feel this, I know you can say to-night that Jesus Christ, who sits on the throne, makes all things new. He has put a new song into our mouths, and we must sing it. 7 Those who are victorious will inherit all this, and I will be their God and they will be my children. 20:11, etc.). Compare Isaiah 65:17. Yet it is not necessary to think of an entirely new creation, as i A NEW HEAVEN AND A NEW EARTH Revelation 20:11. Renewal must begin with the heart. What though he pleases to take his time, and to use humble instrumentalities to effect his purposes, yet do it he will. Revelation 21:1. beholds, FOR THE FIRST HEAVEN AND THE FIRST EARTH WERE PASSED AWAY. earth were passed away (Revelation 21:1); The house of God, how different it is from what it used to be! You may put it among the most golden sentences like a precious stone in a setting of pure gold, and it will never be out of order come when it may. The Lord give us eyes to see it. Oh! Here is a vision of the new creation. Can I not do the same again? wanting REVELATIONNOTE ON REVELATION 21:1 The destruction of death will are burning and wasting it beneath our feet, fires everfeeding on THEN I SAW A NEW HEAVEN AND A NEW EARTH. It is Yes, we shall come to this if we are believers. "Behold, I make all things new." Delivered by C. H. SPURGEON, At the Newington. Who can make but God, the Maker of heaven and earth? And as for ourselves, dear friends, mournfully as we sometimes think of the flight of time, we are wont cheerfully to look out upon the new epochs as they begin to dawn upon us. We will give him no rest until he hears us. You will not be at all tired of your godly work, but love it better than ever. Revelation 21:3. 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. God means that this planet should continue to exist after it has had a new creation, and renewed its youth. Why should we not lift up our voices in his praise? THE ALPHA AND OMEGA OF CREATION He filled their hearts, and therefore they must needs speak of him. When God looks at it, I wonder he does not stamp it out, just as you and I do a spark of coal that flies upon our carpet from the fire. We are both wrong. Revelation 20:4, Revelation 20:11, in a succession. Revelation 22 Commentary - John Gill's Exposition of the Bible Aug. omits . Only let one man lift his finger, and a hundred thousand men are ready to meet a hundred thousand other men, all intent upon doing what? Rev 66:22. _ (G3708) , The usual introduction to a new vision (cf. The sea hath her dead which shall be given up. Ask those that have had to live with converted people whether the transformation has not been marvellous. Yet most people today have never heard of John Gill. I will pray, "Lord, make my children new." Revelation 21:1 (AV). THE NEW *CREATION - REVELATION 21:1-8 XXI. My dear sister, next time you go to your class, you may feel as if you had only just begun teaching. Peculiarities The expressions for Christ in the Revelation are as follows: The Lamb (28 x) 5:6.8.12.13; 6:1.16; 7:9.10.14.17; 12:11; 13:8; 14:1.4 (2 x).10; 15:3; 17:14 (2 x); 19:7.9; 21:9.14.22.23.27; 22:1.3. It is conscious now of living in a new element, breathing a fresh air, partaking of new food, drinking out of new wells not digged by men or filled from the earth. A strong emphasis in Spurgeon's preaching was God's grace and sovereignty over man's helpless state. ver . Revelation 21:1. The greater the sinner, the greater the joy to loving believers when they see him saved. 1 And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the By making new men he makes a new society, which society he calls his "Church". Our children's eyes sparkle when we talk of giving them a toy or a book which is called new; for our short-lived human nature loves that which has lately come, and is therefore like our own fleeting selves. _Text (Revelation 21:1-27)_ It cannot be; his loving heart is too much bound up in his own adopted ones. In our heart there is a new heaven and a new earth. Now the veil lifts for the last time, and we behold the new universe. What songs would have hailed the rising of the sun the birds of paradise carolling on every hill and in every dale their Maker's praise! It leaps at the sound which was once dull to its ears the name of a precious Christ. He that sitteth on the throne can do for you what you cannot do for yourself; and, as he made you once, and you became marred by sin, he can new make you; for he saith. And I John saw the hol _REVELATION 21:1_. We are now come, in the course of these Revelation 21:5. Do you not also know, you servants, what is likely to happen to you as servants? iv. Oh, I am sure that if we kept up perpetual communion with him, we should keep up a perpetual stream of delights. Wherever the gospel is preached, the Spirit is present in that gospel, and he gives faith to men, gives life to men, and so they are made new, and the new-making thus goes on. 16, 17. Let this be a pattern to all of you who are preachers or teachers, no matter what your subject may be, a gospel promise or invitation is always in place and in season. I forget a great many of you who are saved; but I always pray for them. You say to him, "There are your wages: go." I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. 21:23. The first foundation was jasper; the second, sapphire; the third, a chalcedony; the fourth, an emerald, 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. The man is new new in principles, and new in emotions. The length and the breadth and the height of it are equal. Added to Bible Bulletin Board's "Spurgeon Collection" by: Tony Capoccia Bible Bulletin Board Box 119 Columbus, New Jersey, USA, 08022 Our websites: and Email: Online since 1986, To report dead links, typos, or html errors or suggestions about making these resources more useful use the convenient. The foundation being made new, the Lord Jesus Christ has set before us a new way of life, which grows out of that covenant. The Judgment is over. And they will be brought in, I feel assured; but, oh, that it may be this year! When he saith, "Let there be light," darkness saith, "There shall not be light." Dear friend, the Lord Jesus Christ is able to make your life entirely new. 21. We have sailed into the year of grace 1885; therefore, let us keep a feast unto the Lord. before God. 1. Make my circumstances new"? Can he do the same for me?" Shut gates signify war; open gates mean peace. Oh that you may not be left to wander with Ishmael, the son of the bondwoman! While men will frequently dote upon the old, they are most easily dazzled by the new. We shall be young if we keep with the ever young and fresh Beloved, whose locks are bushy and black as a raven. When he says, "Let there be order," chaos says, "Nay, I will maintain confusion." We are conscious of having been quickened, for we were dead once, and we know it; but now we have passed from death into life, and we know it quite as certainly. what a great comfort they are; just as much so as they formerly were a sorrow. Revelation 21:1. There shall be no more fear of war, no Gog and Magog to gather together to battle, no Armageddon to be dreaded by the glorified Church of Christ, which shall be in perfect peace for ever. You young people, as soon as ever you know the Lord, I exhort you to study well that word "covenant." Why not leave that off, and in humble prayer take the matter to the Lord, and say, "Lord, appear for me, for thou hast said, 'I make all things new.' CHAPTER XXI. Revelation 21:22. said I. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. --- The 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. fellowship in the presence of God is no more. It is A NEW HEAVEN AND A NEW EARTH that the Seer He shall be my son, not my servant, but my son. God give us the faith to rise to this more than royal dignity! Revelation 21:8. Revelation 21:15. Who but the eternal Son of God? One weeps over the past and the lost. REVELATION 21:1 TO REVELATION 22:5. Revelation 21:17. This renewing work has been in our Lord's hands from of old. You shall pray, "Lord, make my wife new." So you would make a very good man by mending, if you had a new heart, and new life, and were made new all over, so that there was not a bit of the old stuff left. _The new heaven and the new earth_, 1. But Jesus Christ, who knew that we should never make this world much better, let us do what we would with it, designed from the very first to make a new world of it. . John had already caught a glimpse of the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven; and now this angelic messenger bids him come nearer, and look more closely into this mysterious and glorious city prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.. REVELATION CHAPTER 21 REVELATION 21:1 A new heaven and a new earth. A. John now turns his attention in a new direction. . But when Jesus Christ comes to make a new world, there is everything opposed to him. I am going to talk to-night for a little upon the great transformation spoken of in the text, "I make all things new;" and then upon the earnest call in the text to consider that transformation: "He that sat upon the throne said, 'Behold': attend, consider, look to it!" And then the victors on either side in the fray, return, and beat the drums, and sound the trumpets, and say, "Glory! I do not mean that its rivers, its lakes, its valleys, its mountains are repulsive. It sang with its sister-spheres the song of joy and reverence. _And I saw a new heaven_] New for form and state, but the same "And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new." _IAN MACKERVOY_ See Matthew 9:17. "Behold, I make all things new," says Jesus, and then he makes his people into sons. 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. The New Heaven and Earth. The last year had become wheezy, croaking, and decrepit, in its old age; and we lay it asleep with a psalm of judgment and mercy. lead to the renewal of the entire created order. Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood, and hath made us kings and priests unto God and his Father; to him he glory and dominion for ever and ever. Revelation 21 - Spurgeon's Bible Commentary - BibliaPlus Revelation 21:6. He can make that next sermon of yours, my dear brother minister, quite new and interesting. Oh that they could get up to the high mountains, and be strong! He is a man dressed in the common garments of the poor! As the world's poet says, "All with one consent praise new-born gawds. Truly, truly, this seems to me to be a glorious purpose. Lord, give us pardon for the past, And strength for days to come.". Nothing stands outside of that all-surrounding circle. Rather, by God's grace, may we henceforth believe more in him, and, according to our faith, so shall it be done unto us. the first earth are passed away, and the sea is no more.' It is most glorious to God and safe to you: do not neglect so great salvation. 5, 6. I knew it came from an aching heart. The Holy Spirit, though the old nature is still there, has been pleased to put within them a new nature. You and I, if we are trusting in the Lord Jesus Christ, shall be there, living stones prepared by living grace to have a name and a place in this living city. The process which we have roughly described as taking place in ourselves is in other forms going on in the world. If a man walks about in it with his eyes open, he will see it to be a horrible sphere. Prompted no longer by the servile and selfish motive of saving yourself, but by gratitude for the fact that you are saved, you will rise to virtue and true holiness. But now we draw near to God and speak with our Father with delight. So men may launch their divers theories, and patent their social inventions, but after they have re-shaped the society of sinners, they will leave it a sinful society still. None can enter int (1) And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and Though there is no real difference between it and any other day, yet in our mind and thought it is a marked period, which we regard as one of the milestones set up on the highway of our life. 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. Friends have said in wonder, "What a change in John! And that blessed Spirit of God is here tonight. Those who are participants in that covenant cannot invalidate it, for it never did depend upon them, but only upon him who was and is their federal head and representative before God. Revelation 21:1. Our future is glorious; let not our present be gloomy. His eyes were as a flame of fire, and on his head were many crowns; , The Throne of God and of the Lamb Oh for a bedewing of the Holy Spirit while entering upon this theme! And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. Commentary on Revelation 21 by Matthew Henry - Blue Letter Bible Revelation 21:1 20:1 _c_ = Revelation 20:13 _a_. He saith, and he performs the saying, "Behold, I make all things new." God has breathed into them a new life. His saints are "new creatures in Christ Jesus." Amen." Revelation xxii. It is necessary that we should all bear in mind, if we have not And he that talked with me had a golden reed to measure the city, and the gates thereof, and the wall thereof. I saw a new heaven and a new earth; for the first heaven and the first We will not entertain any more doubt about Christ's power to save. THERE are a great many things we should like to know about heaven. "God never wearies of the precious blood," Spurgeon says, "nor will His people who know where their salvation lies." The gospel is far greater than most of us imagine. I am not going to say which is first, the new birth, or faith, or repentance. You godly wives, who have ungodly husbands, you shall pray, "Lord, make our husbands new." Text Revelation 21:1-27 It will seem to be a dead lift to you; but it is within the power of that pierced hand to lift you right out of doubt, and fear, and despondency, and spiritual lethargy, and weakness, and just to make you now, from this day forward, "strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might." _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._. "I make all things new." REVELATION 21:2 The new Jerusalem. ", I should not wonder, therefore, if the mere words of my text should sound like a pleasant song in your ears; but I am thankful that their deeper meaning is even more joyful. And all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death. Why, upon cutting each other's throats, upon tearing out each other's bleeding hearts, and wading up to their knees in each other's gore, till the ditches be full of blood, horses and men all mingled, and left to be food for dogs and for carrion crows. I liked what a brother said at the church-meeting on Monday night, when his brother was introduced to the church. Revelation heavenly. at what Christ has done for them. If he will but work upon us by his grace, we cannot tell what he will make of us before he places us in the position he has appointed for us in the glorious city that rests upon these twelve precious foundations. Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honour to him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife hath made herself ready. There is now a contending force within them the old carnal nature inclining to evil, and the new God-given nature panting after perfection. You shall be: blessed be God. January 1, 1885 by C. H. SPURGEON (1834-1892). chronological course of the prophecy. Stand and look at it! We are "accepted in the Beloved" when we believe in him whom God has set forth to be our righteousness. Dost thou not know, dear heart, that the Spirit of God has regenerated men and women quite as far gone as thou art? The new earth is not one of rocks, He hath no form nor comeliness, and when you shall see him there is no beauty in him that you should desire him. Yet God could do even that; and so he can reverse the course of your fallen nature, and make you act as a new man. He will never drive us from his house. "But why, my dear brother?" (1 Corinthians 15:44-50) God is a spiri And (1) I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and THE NEW HEAVENS AND THE NEW EARTH (REVELATION 21:1). I think that the Lord Jesus Christ especially calls us to consider this, that we may, according to our condition, derive profit from it. 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. 1. They that are full of the joy of the Lord never find life grow weary. (Revelation 21:1) Th _aor. Let every one that has been a great transgressor remember how Manasseh received a new heart, and repented of his evil deeds. observed it before, that Revelation 17:1-18 does not pursue the The regeneration of his people, their new birth, is a foretaste of what is yet to happen to this whole world of ours. This our Lord Jesus Christ has done upon the greatest scale. When our friends are made new, oh! We are like poor blocks of common-looking stone, but we do not know what we shall be like when we have been cut and polished on the great Lapidary's wheel. Oh! Probably John did not expect to hear that sweet gospel message just then. New desires are felt to which we were strangers in our former state. They have been as deeply sunken in sin, and as hardened by habit as ever thou canst be, and they thought themselves given up to despair, as thou thinkest thyself to be; yet the Spirit of God carried out the will of the Lord Christ, and made them new. , DISCOURSE: 2529 INTRODUCTION THE NEW HEAVEN AND NEW EARTH It is otherwise with Christ. There were three thousand new creations in one day when Peter preached the gospel under the influence of the Holy Spirit. glory! Ver. Certainly it is most true of the celestial city, as well as of the millennial city, that the throne of God and of the , Till We Meet Again THE first part of the final triumph of the Lamb has been accomplished, Why should some of you be living at a penny a day and starving yourselves, when your Father would give you to live like princes of the blood royal if you would but trust him? Hope springs up at the first sound of such words as these from the lips of our risen and reigning Lord: "Behold, I make all things new." Not in vain did John write, "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. When men "cross the line," they find no visible mark: the sea bears no trace of an equatorial belt; and yet mariners know whereabouts they are, and they take notice thereof, so that a man can hardly cross the line for the first time without remembering it to the day of his death. Best Defi Portfolio Tracker, National Hospital For Neurology And Neurosurgery, Queen Square, Articles R
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