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Wells of Living Water Commentary - Revelation 21:1-27

The Marriage of the Lamb Revelation 19:1-10 ; Revelation 21:1-27 and Revelation 22:1-21 INTRODUCTORY WORDS 1. Old Testament analogies of the coming Marriage in the skies. It is not difficult to find, in both the Old and the New Testaments, delightful foreshadowings of the coming Heavenly nuptials. (1) There is the first marriage in Eden. Eve was the bride typical of the Bride of Christ. Observe the following: Adam was put to sleep; Christ was put to sleep. Adam's side was opened; Christ's... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Revelation 21:21

‘And the twelve gates were twelve pearls, each one of the several gates was one pearl, and the street of the city was pure gold, as it were transparent glass.’ In Matthew 7:6 pearls represented what was holy and precious, compare the pearl of great price (Matthew 13:46). Gold again is symbolic of the holy sanctuary, where all is made of gold. The transparency may well denote total openness and honesty. The city contains all that is most splendid. We can compare many of these splendours with... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Revelation 21:1-27

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 was so corrupt that it could not possibly be the seat of the Messianic kingdom, at any rate in its present condition. The idea was developed in the apocalyptic literature, especially in Ethiopic Enoch, the Apocalypse of Baruch , , 4 Ezra. Some expositors hold that the New Jerusalem was... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Revelation 21:18-27

Revelation 21:18-Daniel : . ( 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 Tyre ( Ezekiel 28:13 ff.). There is considerable difficulty in identifying these stones, but probably, as C. A. Scott (Cent.B) says, the sapphire is our lapis-lazuli, the chalcedony is our onyx, the emerald our emerald, the sardonyx our onyx, the sardius our... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Revelation 21:21

I am not willing to descant further in particulars, conjecturing (for it is no more) what each metaphorical term signifies in this unusual description of a city. I do think the scope of the whole is no more, than to let us know that the mansions of heaven will be most glorious places, giving the souls of those to whom God shall give to enter into them, an infinite satisfaction, beyond what the most rich and glorious things in the world can give our outward senses. read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Revelation 21:1-27

THE NEW JERUSALEMCRITICAL 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 their hearts or the action of their lives. Nothing remains but to exhibit the glorious reward of the righteous, in the eternal world, as contrasted with the awful punishment of the wicked.”Revelation 21:1. New heavens and new earth.—Isaiah 65:17; compare Ezekiel 40-48 and Matthew 19:28. “Heavens “here refer... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Revelation 21:10-23

Revelation 21:10-23 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 and shall once more have her Lord reigning peaceably and triumphantly in her midst, all enemies subdued, all hindrances surmounted, all stains cleansed and purged away. For it is the purpose of her great Head, as St. Paul witnesses in his epistle to the Ephesians, to make His Church a glorious... read more

C.I. Scofield

Scofield's Reference Notes - Revelation 21:21

street Revelation 22:2; Revelation 22:2 cf: Revelation 3:4. read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Revelation 21:1-27

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 it passes away with a great noise with a fervent heat as the elements are dissolved.Now, God spoke the universe into existence. And in speaking it into existence, He spoke into existence a scientific puzzle. For in speaking matter into existence, He brought the protons and electrons and assembled... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Revelation 21:1-27

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 lime, and iron, and sulpher. Geologists have counted two hundred craters which ventilate the earth, and send their fires to the skies. The animal kingdom is gradually becoming extinct. When we survey the organic remains of a former world, we ask, where do their successors live, the terrific... read more