16 I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches. I am the root and the offspring of David, and the bright and morning star.
Jesus is the one who sent the angel to John to tell the Church about these things. He says he came from the lineage of David and that He is the bright and morning star (the light of the world the first light to shine that indicates that the night is over).
Verse Revelation 22:16. _I JESUS_] The Maker, the Redeemer, and Judge of all men. _HAVE SENT MINE ANGEL_] An especial messenger from heaven. _I AM THE ROOT AND THE OFFSPRING OF DAVID_] Christ is th...
I JESUS - Here the Saviour appears expressly as the speaker - ratifying and confirming all that had been communicated by the instrumentality of the angel. HAVE SENT MINE ANGEL - See the notes on Reve...
CHAPTER 22:6-21 The Final Messages __ 1. The angel's message (Revelation 22:6) 2. The message of the Lord (Revelation 22:12) 3. The two classes (Revelation 22:14)...
THE EPILOGUE. The Epilogue consists of the last words, warnings, and exhortations of the angel and the seer. Revelation 22:6. these words: the contents of the book. SHORTLY COME TO PASS: the author t...
AM THE ROOT AND OFFSPRING OF DAVID. He is of the root from whence David sprung as well as the offspring of David. THE BRIGHT AND MORNING STAR. The morning star is the harbinger of the day. When it a...
THE RIVER OF LIFE (Revelation 22:1-2)...
I. The Lord Himself speaks. JESUS. App-98. HAVE SENT. sent. App-174. TESTIFY. See p. 1611. IN. Greek. _epi._ App-104. CHURCHES. See Revelation 1:4 and App-186. The "assemblies" of Revelation 6 and...
_I Jesus_ Here only does our Lord reveal His Name, though from Revelation 1:13; Revelation 1:18 onwards, it has been obvious that He is the revealer; as was expressed in the title, Revelation 1:1. Whe...
ἘΠῚ ΤΑΙ͂Σ. 1 Primas[887] (_vobis septem_) omit ἐπί. Lach[888] reads ἐν with A. [887] Primasius, edited by Haussleiter. [888] Lachmann’s larger edition. ΓΈΝΟΣ. Text. Rec[889] adds τοῦ with 1, which c...
THE WITNESS OF THE LORD...
_THE BLESSEDNESS OF OBEDIENCE REVELATION 22:14-16:_ Observe the great promise of God: "Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through...
ΈΠΕΜΨΑ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΠΈΜΠΩ (G3992) посылать, ΜΑΡΤΥΡΉΣΑΙ _aor. act. inf. от_ ΜΑΡΤΥΡΈΩ (G3140) свидетельствовать, удостоверять (NTCW). _Inf._ выражает цель, ΡΊΖΑ (G4491) корень (_см._ Revelation...
DISCOURSE: 2533 CHRIST THE MORNING STAR Revelation 22:16. _I am the root and the offspring of David, and the bright and morning star_. THE Revelation which had been made to John, contained prediction...
JOHN SAW THESE THINGS, AND HEARD, &C.— St. John testifies himself to have been the person who _saw and heard these things;_ and in his extasy falling into the same mistake which he had committed, ch....
_TOMLINSON'S COMMENTS_ CHAPTER XXII THE NEW JERUSALEM AND ITS LIFE _Text (Revelation 22:1-21)_ 1 And he showed me a river of water of life, bright as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and...
Strauss-' Comments SECTION 73 Text Revelation 22:10-16 10 And he saith unto me, Seal not up the words of the prophecy of this book; for the time is at hand. 11 He that is unrighteous, let him do unri...
I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches. I am the root and the offspring of David, and the bright and morning star. MINE ANGEL - Jesus is Lord of the angels....
SECOND THRONE SECTION 24 The vision has ended. John now is back again in Patmos and tells what _ will be _ in the days of the vision. It is not that the common and abominable will be outside the city...
THE VISION ENDED. THE LORD IS AT HAND The inner life of the heavenly Jerusalem is described. Then the 'Revelation' closes with the repeated assurance that Christ is at hand, and with the yearnings of...
THE ROOT, etc.] The reference is to the Messiahship of our Lord, as son of David, and as the 'star' of Balaam's prophecy: cp. Revelation 2:28; Revelation 5:5; Numbers 24:17;...
(6-21) These verses contain the concluding words. It is the Epilogue of the Book; it deals with practical exhortations, warnings, and blessings....
I JESUS HAVE SENT MINE ANGEL... — The warning is followed by the voice of our Lord Himself testifying to the truth of the revelation made, _I Jesus sent_ (not “have sent,” as in the English version) _...
CHAPTER XVIII. THE EPILOGUE. Revelation 22:6. THE visions of the Seer have closed, and closed with a picture of the final and complete triumph of the Church over all her enemies. No more glorious re...
Jesus in person now speaks in the colloquy (Revelation 22:16; Revelation 22:13; Revelation 22:12) to ratify what has just been said. This apocalypse is not an individual fantasy ...
“COME, LORD JESUS” Revelation 22:10 _ Still_, four times repeated, implies the crystallization and permanence of character. The rewards mentioned here are for the faithful service of Christ's steward...
Still gazing at the city, the seer beheld the great river of water of life. On its banks is the tree of life, yielding fruit, and leaves for the healing of nations. And once more the apostle declares...
In verse 6, we had God's testimony and now Christ adds his to confirm by two witnesses the truthfulness of this message. He had it sent ot all the churches of Asia mentioned in Chapter s 2 and 3. In R...
(8) I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches. I am the root and the offspring of David, [and] the bright and morning star. (8) The second passage of confirmation ...
I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches. I am the root and the offspring of David, and the bright and morning star. As we are here drawing nigh to a close, the Lo...
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 End and Beginning? I. INTRODUCTION A. In our last study we saw a "new heaven" and a "new earth" created by the Lord as He wiped away the curse of sin and started over. 1. We also saw a new city...
The connection of the holy city with the earth, though not on it, is everywhere seen. The river of God refreshed the city, and the tree of life, whose fruits ever ripe were food for the celestial inha...
I JESUS HAVE SENT MINE ANGEL,.... As John, the writer of this book, sets down his own name, who was an eye and ear witness of the things contained in it, that they might be more surely believed, Reve...
I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches. I am the root and the offspring of David, _and_ the bright and morning star. Ver. 16. _Have sent mine angel_] With weari...
_I Jesus have sent mine angel_ It was not thought sufficient to represent the angel as speaking in the person of Christ, but Christ himself also is here introduced speaking in his own person, and conf...
THE ROOT AND THE OFFSPRING OF DAVID; these words are commonly interpreted to mean that Christ is the root of David-the ground of his being-in respect to his divine nature; and his offspring in respect...
A final call to come:...
I, JESUS, HAVE SENT MINE ANGEL TO TESTIFY UNTO YOU THESE THINGS IN THE CHURCHES. I AM THE ROOT AND THE OFFSPRING OF DAVID AND THE BRIGHT AND MORNING STAR....
THE RIVER OF WATER OF LIFE AND THE TREE OF LIFE The description of the city continues to the end of verse 5 of this chapter. The city is blessed with a river of the water of life proceeding from the t...
_ 16 “I, Jesus, have sent My angel to testify to you these things in the churches. I am the Root and the Offspring of David, the Bright and Morning Star.”_ A. Jesus explain that he sent his angel to...
6-19 The Lord Jesus spake by the angel, solemnly confirming the contents of this book, particularly of this last vision. He is the Lord God faithful and true. Also by his messengers; the holy angels...
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‘I Jesus have sent my angel to testify these things to you for the churches.' Compare Revelation 1:1; Revelation 22:6. This statement stresses that the churches are directly involved in all that is wr...
Revelation 22:16. I JESUS HAVE SENT MINE ANGEL TO TESTIFY UNTO YOU THESE THINGS FOR THE CHURCHES. The closing message of the Book begins with these words, and it comes from Him who only here, and in H...
The Apocalypse began with a Prologue. As in the case of the Fourth Gospel, it now ends with a corresponding Epilogue, in which the great importance of all the revelations it had contained is again set...
I JESUS (Εγω Ιησους). The last and most solemn attestation to the book that from Jesus (the historic Jesus known to the churches), in harmony with Revelation 1:1.HAVE SENT (επεμψα). First aorist a...
Revelation 22:16 Two important lessons may be learned from this subject: I. All Christians should seek to be sons of the morning. As lamps do not talk, but shine, so should religion shine forth in b...
Revelation 22:16 I. Man is so constituted by his Maker as to have the power, when any course of action is proposed to him, to determine and decide whether he will accept the advice and act on it or no...
Revelation 22:1. _And he shewed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb._ Rivers partake of the character of the source from which they...
Revelation 22:1. _And he shewed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the lamb._ There is no other «water of life» except that which springs f...
Revelation 22:1. _And he shewed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb._ Here again we have God and the Lamb uniting in giving that «w...
CONTENTS: The New Paradise and its river of the water of life. The last exhortation of Christ to be ready for His second coming. CONCLUSION: The Paradise lost by the first Adam shall be restored by th...
Revelation 22:1. _He shewed me a pure river of water of life._ From the city we go to the palace, where the vision opens on the rock of ages, the Elohim, seated on his throne. Thence flows the crystal...
REVELATION—NOTE ON REVELATION 22:6 Epilogue. John reaffirms the truthfulness of the revelation he received. He pronounces blessing on those who keep its words, and promises that Jesus will soon return...
REVELATION—NOTE ON REVELATION 22:12 Christ will come to REPAY EACH ONE FOR WHAT HE HAS DONE. He will reward each faithful servant and punish each unbeliever. RECOMPENSE (“wages,” “reward”) indicates d...
REVELATION—NOTE ON REVELATION 22:16 As promised in Revelation 1:1, Jesus has given his revelation through his angel and through John to his churches for their comfort and warning....
"He that is unjust, let him be unjust still." If the wicked persists in his wickedness, refuses all warnings, and resists all the exhortations that are so plentifully scattered through this book, and...
THE RESTORED PARADISE, AND THE EPILOGUE _CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES_ THE first five verses complete the description of the new heavens and new earth. There is evident reference in the figures of t...
EXPOSITION REVELATION 22:1 AND HE SHOWED ME A PURE RIVER. Omit "pure." "And" connects this part of the vision with what precedes (Revelation 21:9). It would have been better, perhaps, if the twenty-...
And he shewed me a pure river (Revelation 22:1) You know it is going to be new, because these don't exist anymore here. of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of...
2 Peter 1:19; Isaiah 11:1; Luke 1:78; Matthew 2:2; Matthew 2:7;...
The root. Compare Isaiah 11:1; Isaiah 11:10. See on Nazarene, Matthew 2:23. The morning - star. See on ch. Revelation 2:28....
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
I Jesus have sent my angel to testify these things — Primarily. To you — The seven angels of the churches; then to those churches — and afterwards to all other churches in succeeding ages. I — as God....
Observe here, 1. That the Lord Jesus Christ is the author of this Revelation, and owneth it to be his; the angel did but declare it, St. John did but write it, Christ himself was the inditer of it; th...