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Revelation 21:6
And he said unto me, It is done. I am Alpha and Omega, the Beginning and the End. I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely.
And he said unto me, It is done. I am Alpha and Omega, the Beginning and the End. I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely.
Verse Revelation 21:6. _IT IS DONE._] All is determined, and shall be fulfilled in due time. The great drama is finished, and what was intended is now completed; referring to the period alluded to by...
AND HE SAID UNTO ME - That is, he that sat on the throne - the Messiah. IT IS DONE - It is finished, complete; or, still more expressively, “it is” - γέγοναν gegonan. An expression remarkably similar...
CHAPTER 21 Revelation 21:1 . And now the eternal state comes into view. “And I saw a new heaven and a new earth; for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away and the sea is no more.” Thi...
(_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 ca...
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 w...
And he who is seated upon the throne said: "Behold, I make all things new." And he said: "Write, for these are words that are trustworthy and true." And he said to me: "It is done. I am Alpha and Omeg...
THE NEW CREATION (Revelation 21:1) _ 21:1 And I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had gone; and the sea was no more._ John has seen the doom of the wicked, a...
UNTO. to. IT IS DONE. The texts read "They are come to pass". Compare Revelation 16:17. ALPHA, &C. See Revelation 1:8. BEGINNING. App-172. END. Compare App-125. LIFE. App-170. FREELY. See...
_It is done_ We should read the plural: the word therefore is not an _exact_repetition of that in Revelation 16:17. If we ask, what is the subject to this verb, "_They_are come into being," perhaps th...
A VOICE FROM HEAVEN OF BLESSING AND JUDGEMENT...
ΕἾΠΕΝ. א has λέγει, Primas[806] _dicit_. [806] Primasius, edited by Haussleiter. ΓΈΓΟΝΑΝ. With אcA, 38 γεγόνασιν. Iren[807]int. _facta sunt_. Text. Rec[808] has γέγονε with vg[809] _factum est_; א*B...
_WONDERFUL FELLOWSHIP WITH GOD REVELATION 21:1-7:_ God's faithful people do not die without hope. The sea that had prevented intimate fellowship in the presence of God is no more. (Revelation 21:1) Th...
ΕΊΠΕΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΛΈΓΩ (G3004) говорить. ΓΈΓΟΝΑΝ _perf. ind. act. от_ ΓΊΝΟΜΑΙ (G1096) становиться. "Это совершилось". Выоказывания, упомянутые в ст. 5, не просто истинны и достойны доверия, о...
DISCOURSE: 2529 THE HEAVENLY GLORY Revelation 21:1. 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 hol...
I SAW A NEW HEAVEN AND A NEW EARTH, &C.— _A new heaven and a new earth_ succeed in the room of the _first heaven and first earth,_ which passed away at the general judgment, ch. Revelation 20:11. In t...
Strauss-' Comments SECTION 69 Text Revelation 21:1-27 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. 2 And I saw the holy c...
_TOMLINSON'S COMMENTS_ CHAPTER XXI BEHOLD, I MAKE ALL THINGS NEW _Text (Revelation 21:1-27)_ INTRODUCTION 1 And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth are pass...
And he said unto me, It is done. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely. IT IS DONE - come to pass. The sa...
__ Second Temple Section-The Holy City 6 This is written from the standpoint of the time when John wrote, at Patmos, hence all is put in the future tense. _ This is vital to a true understanding of...
21:6 done. (b-8) Perhaps 'They are fulfilled.'...
THE HOLY CITY The enemies of the Lamb have been conquered. The Judgment is over. The old condition of things has passed away: cp. Revelation 20:11. Now St. John sees in a vision the blissful glory of...
FROM NOW TO THE END OF TIME REVELATION _IAN MACKERVOY_ CHAPTER 21 THE NEW HEAVEN AND THE NEW EARTH - REVELATION 21:1-22 THE NEW *CREATION - REVELATION 21:1-8...
AND HE SAID UNTO ME, IT IS DONE. — Or, rather, _They_ (the things promised) _have come to pass._ He spake, and it was done. The assurance is made trebly sure. “I am making all things new.” “These word...
CHAPTER XVII. THE NEW JERUSALEM. REV. Revelation 21:1; Revelation 22:1. THE first part of the final triumph of the Lamb has been accomplished, but the second has still to be unfolded. We are introdu...
“Tis done, all is over” (sc. οὗτοι οἱ λόγοι or πάντα). The perfecting of God's work is followed, as in Isaiah 54-56, by a liberal promise of satisfaction to all spiritual desire, and the three ideas o...
the prelude to the last vision....
“A NEW HEAVEN AND A NEW EARTH” Revelation 21:1 Here is a vision of the new creation. This is the “restitution of all things” to which Peter refers in Acts 3:21, and the deliverance of creation from t...
The endless end of evil has passed before the vision of the seer, and he now observes the resultant order. The holy city appears. Toward a city of God men had looked through long generations. Now it i...
Either God the Father or Christ now speaks from the throne. (Revelation 3:21) In the previous verse, some things were identified as having passed away. Now, in their place, we see all things made new....
And he said unto me, (5) It is done. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely. (5) The description of the Churc...
It is done. The state of Christ's Church on earth, and in this world, is now finished; and the time is come to reward the good, and to punish the wicked in the lake burning with fire and brimstone, in...
(5) 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. (6) And he said unto me, It is done. I am Alpha and Omega, t...
It is necessary that we should all bear in mind, if we have not observed it before, that Revelation 17:1-18 does not pursue the chronological course of the prophecy. It is a description, and not one o...
The Real New World Order I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell--you see, I have friends in both places. --Mark Twain I would rather go to heaven alone than go to hell in company --R.A....
But there was a new heaven and a new earth; but no more sea no separation, nor part of the world not brought into an ordered earth before God. Here we do not find any mediatorial kingdom. The Lamb is...
AND HE SAID UNTO ME, IT IS DONE,.... The end of all things is come; it is all over with the first heaven and earth; these are no more, and the new heaven and earth are finished: there seems to be an a...
And he said unto me, It is done. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely. Ver. 6. _It is done_] As the punish...
_And he_ “that sat upon the throne” _said to me, It is done_ All that the prophets have spoken is fulfilled. This is the consummation of all things: and now all the promises of God, and the desires of...
THE NEW HEAVEN AND NEW EARTH Revelation 20:11 has indicated that at the time of the Great White Throne the earth and the heaven flee away. Now John sees a new heaven and a new earth, and the earth had...
_ 5 Then He who sat on the throne said, “Behold, I make all things new.” And He said to me, “Write, for these words are true and faithful.” 6 And He said to me, “It is done! I am the Alpha and the Ome...
1-8 The new heaven and the new earth will not be separate from each other; the earth of the saints, their glorified, bodies, will be heavenly. The old world, with all its troubles and tumults, will h...
AND HE SAID UNTO ME, IT IS DONE; the world is at an end, and all my threatenings against my enemies, and promises to my people, are now fulfilled, in the eternal damnation of the one, and deliverance...
Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book VI The sensible types of these, then, are the sounds we pronounce. Thus the Lord Himself is called "Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end,"[270] Pseudo-Tertu...
Revelation 21:6 And G2532 said G2036 (G5627) me G3427 done G1096 (G5754) I G1473 am G1510 ...
‘And he says, “Write. For these words are faithful and true”. And he said to me, “They have come about. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end, and I will give freely to him who is th...
Revelation 21:6. The voice of God is continued, as He says, They, _i.e._ the words of Revelation 21:5, are come to pass. The future for which the saints of God have longed, and of which the prophets s...
THEY ARE COME TO PASS (Γεγοναν). Second perfect active indicative of γινομα with -αν for -ασ. See Revelation 16:17 for a like use of γεγονεν, "They have come to pass." Here again it is the voice of...
Revelation 21:6 The Idolatry of Novelty. The one text exhibits to us in a lively picture the working of a great idolatry; the other text shows us the abolition of that idolatry by the satisfaction of...
Revelation 21:6 This chapter speaks of the winding up of God's dealings with the world, and of the final outcome of that process of trial and discipline which has been going on throughout the long ag...
Revelation 21:1. _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._ Astronomers tell us that, within living memory, severa...
Contents: The seven new things of the Kingdom age earth, peoples, Jerusalem, temple, light, Paradise (Chap. 22). CONCLUSION: It will be the perfect happiness of the saints, when Christ re-turns to rei...
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...
AND NOW I MAKE ALL THINGS NEW. This is God's promise! We become _new_ when we are joined to Christ (2 Corinthians 5:17). Those who _win the victory_ will share in the _new heaven and new earth_ when G...
REVELATION—NOTE ON REVELATION 21:6 IT IS DONE! The destruction of God’s enemies (Revelation 16:17) and the salvation of his saints are both completed....
"And he (God) said unto me, it is done." This expression "it is done" has been used elsewhere in Revelation, where something has been brought to culmination. The meaning is that God has wrought out hi...
THE NEW JERUSALEM _CRITICAL 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 the...
EXPOSITION REVELATION 21:1 AND I SAW. The usual introduction to a new vision (cf. Revelation 20:11, etc.). Having described the origin and progress of evil in the world, the final overthrow of Satan...
_6 AND HE SAID UNTO ME, IT IS DONE. I AM ALPHA AND OMEGA, THE BEGINNING AND THE END. I WILL GIVE UNTO HIM THAT IS ATHIRST OF THE FOUNTAIN OF THE WATER OF LIFE FREELY._ From prior passages in this bo...
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...
1 Corinthians 2:12; 1 Corinthians 3:12; 1 Corinthians 3:21; 1 Corinthians 3:5;...
It is done [γ ε γ ο ν ε ν]. The correct reading is gegonan they are come to pass; i e., these words. Alpha and Omega. Both have the article, "the alpha," etc. See on ch. Revelation 1:8. Unto him that...
THE MARRIAGE OF THE LAMB Revelation 19:1; _Revelation 21:1 and Revelation 22:1_ INTRODUCTORY WORDS 1. Old Testament analogies of the coming Marriage in the skies. It is not diffi
THE ALPHA AND OMEGA OF CREATION Genesis 1:1; _Revelation 21:1_ INTRODUCTORY WORDS 1. Genesis and Revelation contrasted. The Book of Genesis is commonly known as the Book of beginnings. It is there t...
And he — That sat upon the throne. Said to me, It is done — All that the prophets had spoken; all that was spoken, Revelation 4:1. We read this expression twice in this prophecy: first, Revelation 16:...