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... [ Continue Reading ]
Revelation 21:4 God wiping away all Tears. The subject teaches I. A lesson of resignation. II. A lesson of gratitude. The same hand which chastises will one day wipe away our tears. It will not be long that we must wait before the faithfulness of God's word will be established. J. N. Norton, _G... [ Continue Reading ]
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 the want of which it is the expression. Together they present to us the two sides of our subject,... [ Continue Reading ]
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 ages of human history. Consider I. The promise: "He that overcometh shall inherit all things." Those w... [ Continue Reading ]
Revelation 21:10 The Heavenly Jerusalem. There is no subject dearer to the Christian heart than that of the heavenly city, the city of Christian poetry and of Christian hope. Let us take up two or three points in the inspired description of the city in this chapter, and consider what they really m... [ Continue Reading ]
Revelation 21:10 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 subdu... [ Continue Reading ]
Revelation 21:13 The Gates of the Church. I. The Church stands in a very definite and imperative relation to the Churches and the whole community about it. There can be no more thorough reversal of the idea of the Church than that its life, and work, and relations are within itself. It is indeed ri... [ Continue Reading ]
Revelation 21:16 "The length and the breadth and the height of it are equal." There are then three directions or dimensions of human life to which we may fitly give these three names: length, and breadth, and height. The length of a life, in this meaning of it, is, of course, not its duration. It is... [ Continue Reading ]
Revelation 21:23 Christ the Light of all Scripture. I. Consider how far the Christian conception of Christ accounts for the structure of Scripture prophecy. Deliverance from all evil, by means of the Son of man, who yet should suffer in delivering men this was the idea of the first prophecy and the... [ Continue Reading ]