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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And they shall see his face: What a happy blending — service and communion — the hands busy, but the eves ravished with the wondrous sight of the face of God! Thou shalt see his face. If any of us could see the face of God on earth, no doubt we should die. The vision would be too bright for us. When one heard this. one of the greatest saints, he...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And they shall see his face; Oh, that is glorious service,—to serve the Lord and to see his face at the same time. Communion and service are ever best when they are blended. There can be no fellowship better than first which serves, and no service sweeter than that of those who continue to see the face of their Master while they are serving him,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And they shall see his face; Oh, to keep up communion with the Lord while you are at work for him, to serve him and to see his face! This is a double joy; this is to be like Martha and Mary in one person: “his servants shall serve him: and they shall see his face.” Rev_22:4. And his name shall be in their foreheads. They will acknowledge him, and...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And thy shall see his face; Not through a glass darkly, but face to face shall they behold their God. Surely that will be the very heaven of heaven. Rev_22:4. And his name shall be in their foreheads. Aaron was to wear upon his forehead a plate of pure gold, with HOLINESS TO THE LORD engraved upon it, that the children of Israel might be accepted...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And there shall be no night there,.... This is repeated from Revelation 21:25 to express the certainty of it, and to observe, that the happiness of this state will greatly lie in the light thereof; it will be one everlasting day, ημερααιωνος, "day of eternity", or eternal day, as in 2 Peter 3:18 and they need no candle, nor the light of the sun;...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And there shall be no night there; and they need no candle, neither light of the sun; for the Lord God giveth them light; and they shall reign for ever and They themselves shall be kings. They shall reign for ever and ever. This exposition consisted of readings from Rom_8:26-30; Rev_21:10-27; Revelation 22 :l-5.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And there shall be no night there; and they need no candle, neither light of the sun;— Even the sun is only worthy to be ranked with a candle in comparison with the light of God himself John puts the two things in one sentence: “they need no candle, neither light of the sun;”—
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For the Lord God giveth them light: and they shall reign for ever and ever and he said unto me, These sayings are faithful the true: and the LORD God of the holy prophets sent his angel to shew unto his servants the things which must shortly be done. Behold I come quickly-blessed is he that keepeth the sayings of the prophecy of this book. Even...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And there shall be no night there; Here, there are nights of ignorance, of sorrow, of sin, and of fear; but “there shall be no night there.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
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. Rev_22:5....
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And he said unto me,.... That is, the angel that talked with him, and showed him the above things: these sayings are faithful and true; not only what are delivered in particular concerning the new Jerusalem state, in which are many things new, and unheard of before, and which may seem strange, and even incredible, but all that are written in this...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And he said unto me, These sayings are faithful and true: and the Lord God of the holy prophets sent his angel to shew unto his servants the things which must shortly be done. Behold, I come quickly: blessed is he that keepeth the saying of the prophecy of this book. And I John saw these thing, and heard them. And when I had heard and seen, I fell...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And they need no candles, neither light of the sun; for the Lord God giveth them light: He puts aside the use of means. While we are here, we need candles and suns. It seems curious, does it not, to put candles and suns in the same sentence? “They need no candle, neither light of the sun.” But, after all, compared with God, candles and suns are...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And he said unto me, These sayings are faithful and true: and the Lord God of the holy prophets sent his angel to show unto his servants the things which must shortly be done. Behold, I come quickly: Or, “I am coming quickly.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And he said unto me, These sayings are faithful and true: and the Lord God of the holy prophets sent his angel to shew unto his servants the things which must shortly be done. Behold, I come quickly: blessed is he that keepeth the sayings of the prophecy of this book. You have the witness of God, you have the witness of the angel of God, you have...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Behold, I come quickly,.... These are the words not of the angel, but of Christ, as is manifest from Revelation 22:12 and which are to be understood not of Christ's coming in his power to destroy Jerusalem, for this was past when John had these visions, and wrote this book; but of the second and personal coming of Christ to judgment, as is clear...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Blessed is he that keepeth the sayings of the prophecy of this book. Our Lord is on the road; he may arrive tonight, while we are sitting here. Happy would be our communion service if, for the last time, we should be doing as he commanded us in expectation of his coming, and that he should come even while we were commemorating his death!
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And I John saw these things, and heard them,.... He was both an eye and an ear witness; some things he saw, and others he heard; and to render his testimony the more authentic, he puts his name to it; and he being an apostle of Christ, and a man of great sincerity and probity, is to be believed. And when I had heard and seen; the things related in...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And John saw these things, and heard them. And when I had heard and seen, I fell down to worship before the feet of the angel which shewed me these things. Then saith he unto me, See thou do it not: for I am thy fellowservant, and of thy brethren the prophet, and of them which keep the sayings of this book: worship God. John made a mistake; he...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And I John saw these things, and heard them. And when I had heard and seen, I fell down to worship before the feet of the angel which shewed me these things. And, according to the Church of Rome, he was quite right; but, according to the Word of God, he was quite wrong.