Revelation 21:1, Revelation 21:4

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 21:1

The New Heavens and the New Earth (Revelation 21:1-8 ). ‘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.’ We read about the passing away of the first heaven and the first earth in Revelation 20:11. But all is now light. For all things are new and full of righteousness and purity. This is the new heaven and the new earth in which righteousness dwells (2 Peter 3:13), where former things will not be remembered or come to... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Revelation 21:1-8

Revelation 21:1-Ruth : . ( 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 cause of destruction and death, this divider of nations and churches, there could be no place in a world of social intercourse, deathless life, and unbroken peace” (Swete). [Ultimately this probably goes back to the conception of the sea as God’ s turbulent... 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

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Revelation 21:1

A new heaven and a new earth; a new and glorious state of things relating to the church. For the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea; for now there was an end to the world, and all the troubles that the people of God had met with in it, as well as the material earth, heaven, and sea, were passed away. This new heaven was prophesied of of old by Isaiah, and more lately by Peter, 2 Peter 3:13. 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 21:1

Revelation 21:1 With this verse begins the closing passage of the book of God: the revelation of the things beyond the end. Now the veil lifts for the last time, and we behold the new universe. He who in the beginning created the heaven and the earth now reveals to the gaze of faith His second and final world. It would be idle to say that there cannot be a literal meaning to our text. Assuredly it may please the Creator to order His new universe so that there shall be there scenes which answer... read more

Charles Simeon

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae - Revelation 21:1-6

DISCOURSE: 2529THE HEAVENLY GLORYRevelation 21:1-6. 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 holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. 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... 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

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