Revelation 22:5. And there shall be no night there;
The saints in glory will have no need of sleep, so "there shall be no night there," but one perpetual day of holy, unwearying service. There shall be no night of ignorance, of sorrow, of sin, of death; there shall be no powers of darkness there, and no darkness in which they might work their evil deeds.
Revelation 22:5. And they need no candle, neither light of the sun; for the Lord God giveth them light:
Directly and distinctly, without using any means, by his own immediate presence, "the Lord God giveth them light:"-
Revelation 22:5. And they shall reign for ever and ever.
Earthly kings die, or their empires on earth are taken from them; but as for us whom God hath chosen by his grace, our kingdom is like that of our Lord and Saviour, it is an everlasting kingdom.
"They shall reign for ever and ever." I wonder that some wise man does not try to prove that this means that the saints shall reign only for a short time they have whittled "everlasting punishment" down to next to nothing, why do they not try to reduce the duration of heaven, bliss in the same way. The same words are used concerning the one as concerning the other, so we shall always hold to the eternity both of the one and the other, the bliss and the woe are equally "for ever and ever."
Revelation 22:5. And there shall be no night there;
The saints in glory will have no need of sleep, so "there shall be no night there," but one perpetual day of holy, unwearying service. There shall be no night of ignorance, of sorrow, of sin, of death; there shall be no powers of darkness there, and no darkness in which they might work their evil deeds.
Revelation 22:5. And they need no candle, neither light of the sun; for the Lord God giveth them light:
Directly and distinctly, without using any means, by his own immediate presence, "the Lord God giveth them light:"-
Revelation 22:5. And they shall reign for ever and ever.
Earthly kings die, or their empires on earth are taken from them; but as for us whom God hath chosen by his grace, our kingdom is like that of our Lord and Saviour, it is an everlasting kingdom.
"They shall reign for ever and ever." I wonder that some wise man does not try to prove that this means that the saints shall reign only for a short time they have whittled "everlasting punishment" down to next to nothing, why do they not try to reduce the duration of heaven, bliss in the same way. The same words are used concerning the one as concerning the other, so we shall always hold to the eternity both of the one and the other, the bliss and the woe are equally "for ever and ever."