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William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - Revelation 7:13-14

7:13,14 And one of the elders said to me: "Do you know who these are who are clothed in white robes and where they came from?" I said to him: "Sir, you know." He said to me: "These are they who are coming out of the great tribulation, and who have washed their robes, and have made them white through the power of the blood of the Lamb." One thing is to be noted before we go on to deal with this passage in detail. The King James Version generalizes the meaning by translating: "These are they... read more

William Barclay

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - Revelation 7:13-14

This passage speaks of the blood of the Lamb. The New Testament has much to say about the blood of Jesus Christ. We must be careful to give this phrase its full meaning. To us blood indicates death, and certainly the blood of Jesus Christ speaks of his death. But to the Hebrews the blood stood for the life. That was why the orthodox Jew never would--and still will not--eat anything which had blood in it ( Genesis 9:4 ). The blood is the life and the life belongs to God; and the blood must... read more

William Barclay

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - Revelation 7:13-14

Let us now unite the two ideas of which we have been thinking. The blessed ones have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. Let us try to express as simply as possible what that means. The white robes always stand for two things. They stand for purity, for the life cleansed from the taint of past sin, the infection of present sin and the attack of future sin. They stand for victory, for the life which has found the secret of victorious living. Put at its very... read more

William Barclay

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - Revelation 7:13-14

One thing in this passage remains to be noted, and it is of the first importance. It is said of the blessed ones that "they washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb." Here is symbolically laid down man's part in his own salvation; the blessed ones washed their own robes. That is to say, the act of man's redemption is Christ's, but the effect is not passive and man has to appropriate it. There might be available to a man all the apparatus to cleanse his garments, but it... read more

William Barclay

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - Revelation 7:15

7:15 That is why they are before the throne of God, and serve him day and night in his temple; and he who sits upon the throne will spread the covering of his glory over them. Those who have been faithful will have the entry into the very presence of God. Jesus said: "Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God" ( Matthew 5:8 ). There is a very significant fact hidden here. Serving God day and night was part of the task of the Levites and the priests ( 1 Chronicles 9:33 ).... read more

William Barclay

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - Revelation 7:16-17

7:16,17 They will not hunger any more, nor will they thirst any more; the sun will not fall on them, nor any heat; because the Lamb who is in the midst of the throne will be their shepherd, and will lead them to springs of living water; and God will wipe away every tear from their eyes. It would be impossible to number the people who have found comfort in this passage in the house of mourning and in the hour of death. There is spiritual promise here, the promise of the ultimate... read more

William Barclay

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - Revelation 7:16-17

Here is the promise of the loving care of the Divine Shepherd for his flock. The picture of the shepherd is something in which both the Old and New Testament delight. "The Lord is my shepherd," begins the best loved of all the psalms ( Psalms 23:1 ). "O Shepherd of Israel," begins another ( Psalms 80:1 ). Isaiah pictures God feeding his flock like a shepherd, holding the lambs in his arms and carrying them in his bosom ( Isaiah 40:11 ). The greatest title that the prophet can give to... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Revelation 7

INTRODUCTION TO REVELATION 7 This chapter contains a vision seen at the end of the sixth, and at the opening of the seventh seal, which expresses the security of the saints in all ages following, the praises of angels and men on that account, and the happiness of all the people of God in the millennium state. First, a vision of four angels is seen restraining the winds from blowing on the earth, sea, and trees, Revelation 7:1 ; then of another angel, described by the place from whence he... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Revelation 7:1

And after these things ,.... After the opening of six of the seals of the sealed book, and after the demolition of Heathen deities, and of Heathen worship, and of Heathen magistrates, in the Roman empire, and the representation of these to John, he had the following vision; and which therefore does not refer to the preservation of the Christians, before and at the destruction of Jerusalem, which was under the first seal; nor to the security of the saints from the wrath of the Lamb, when it... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Revelation 7:2

And I saw another angel ,.... Not Constantine, who came from the eastern parts to the empire, with the true knowledge of God, and the authority of God to propagate it; and who repressed the four angels, or evil spirits, contention, ambition, heresy, and war, from doing the mischief they otherwise would; and sealed the saints, by giving them a platform of doctrine at the council of Nice, as Brightman and others think. But the uncreated angel, the angel of the covenant, the Lord Jesus Christ;... read more

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - Revelation 7:13-14

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - Revelation 7:13-14

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - Revelation 7:13-14

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - Revelation 7:13-14

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - Revelation 7:15

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - Revelation 7:16-17

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - Revelation 7:16-17

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Revelation 7

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Revelation 7:1

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Revelation 7:2

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