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All Things Made New

1 Now aI saw a new heaven and a new earth, bfor the first heaven and the first earth had passed away. Also there was no more sea.  
2 Then I,1 John, saw athe holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared bas a bride adorned for her husband.  
3 And I heard a loud voice from heaven saying, “Behold, athe tabernacle of God is with men, and He will dwell with them, and they shall be His people. God Himself will be with them and be their God.  
4 aAnd God will wipe away every tear from their eyes; bthere shall be no more death, cnor sorrow, nor crying. There shall be no more pain, for the former things have passed away.”  
5 Then aHe who sat on the throne said, b“Behold, I make all things new.” And He said1 to me, “Write, for cthese words are true and faithful.”  
6 And He said to me, a“It is done! bI am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. cI will give of the fountain of the water of life freely to him who thirsts.  
7 He who overcomes shall inherit all things, and aI will be his God and he shall be My son.  
8 aBut the cowardly, unbelieving, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars shall have their part in bthe lake which burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.”  

The New Jerusalem

9 Then one of athe seven angels who had the seven bowls filled with the seven last plagues came1 to me and talked with me, saying, “Come, I will show you bthe bride, the Lamb’s wife.”  
Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
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Revelation 21:3

out of heaven—so ANDREAS. But A and Vulgate read, "out of the throne."

the tabernacle—alluding to the tabernacle of God in the wilderness (wherein many signs of His presence were given): of which this is the antitype, having previously been in heaven: Revelation 11:19; Revelation 15:5, "the temple of the tabernacle of the testimony in heaven"; also Revelation 13:6. Compare the contrast in Hebrews 9:23, Hebrews 9:14, between "the patterns" and "the heavenly things themselves," between "the figures" and "the true." The earnest of the true and heavenly tabernacle was afforded in the Jerusalem temple described in Eze. 40:1-42:20, as about to be, namely, during the millennium.

dwell with them—literally, "tabernacle with them"; the same Greek word as is used of the divine Son "tabernacling among us." Then He was in the weakness of the flesh: but at the new creation of heaven and earth He shall tabernacle among us in the glory of His manifested Godhead (Revelation 22:4).

they—in Greek emphatic, "they" (in particular).

his people—Greek, "His peoples": "the nations of the saved" being all peculiarly His, as Israel was designed to be. So A reads. But B, Vulgate, Syriac, and Coptic read, "His people": singular.

God himself . . . with them—realizing fully His name Immanuel.




Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Revelation 21:3:

Song of Solomon 2:16
Song of Solomon 7:5
Isaiah 7:14
Isaiah 12:2
Isaiah 66:1
Jeremiah 31:1
Ezekiel 37:27
Ezekiel 43:9
Ezekiel 48:35
Daniel 2:35
Joel 2:27
Amos 9:11
Zechariah 14:16
John 1:14
2 Corinthians 6:18
Hebrews 8:10
Hebrews 9:8
Revelation 2:7
Revelation 3:12
Revelation 4:8
Revelation 7:15
Revelation 19:7

 

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