Verse 11
11. I saw From what standpoint did the seer behold the throne? See note Revelation 21:5.
Great white throne ”Great,” says Bishop Newton, “to show the largeness and extent, and white to show the justice and equity, of the judgment.”
Him that sat on it ”None other,” says Newton, “than the Son of God, for (John 5:22) the Father hath committed all judgment unto the Son.” And this entire passage is to be identified with Matthew 25:31-46. The great white throne here, is the throne of his glory there. And each entire passage supplements the other. This excludes the great pre-millennial error of imagining Revelation 19:11-21, to be the judgment-advent.
From whose face Homer’s image of Jupiter sitting upon his throne, nodding with his ambrosial curls, and shaking all Olympus with his nod, has been admired for its sublimity. But how small its imagery compared with this enthroned One, from before whose face creation flees!
Earth… fled Hence, a new heaven and a new earth appears at Revelation 21:1.
No place for them The apparent meaning is, not that the face of the earth is changed and renewed; but that the very solid globe itself vacates its place and disappears. This implies not annihilation, but removal and departure of the old, and substitution of the new. And this seems to coincide with 2 Peter 3:10, “the heavens shall pass away with a great noise.” See note there.
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