It is so easy to fall into literalism, like the little girl who heard this read and exclaimed, "God certainly must have a big handkerchief!" CHRIST ALONE DOES THIS. and on occasion we even find the Savior shedding tears. Often in this life the Christian sheds tears of indignation. They became subject to pain, and weariness, and disease, in every organ and limb. https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/vnt/revelation-21.html. One is that we here touch the characteristic difference between the Christian and any other form of religion known in the world. What is it that corrodes and destroys the simplicity of childhood? When Christ began his pilgrimage, he met her and she met him, and they looked one another in the face; and she never left him. 1. The threefold army and horsemen of the woes had been banished, defeated by the conquering Rider of the white horse; and in the same metaphors employed by the prophets to represent Israel's deliverance from exile, the Seer of Revelation adapted that imagery to signify the deliverance of the spiritual Israel, the church, from the period of tribulation. Think next of the connection existing between sufferers and sympathy. Revelation 1:18); and it can no longer disturb with its terrors, or its separations between the loving and the loved. These are tears caused by life in the old creation, not tears of repentance. There it referred to the heavenly section of the church. The future state of the believer is one in which there shall be no tears. II. 3. Former things are passed away will be true at that period beyond the resurrection of the righteous. Article Images Copyright © 2020 Getty Images unless otherwise indicated. More tears are shed from the pain that cuts the soul than those that I. It is not said, God does, but "God shall wipe away all tears from your eyes." Our natural tendency is to think to ourselves, oh, sin is not right--it cannot be justified, it is bad no doubt,--but it is not such a very great matter after all. II. But there will be no faithless friends in heaven. This is the fruit, and effect of Jesus's love. 4. 1966. 3. If He wipes away every tear, then He removes every cause and occasion of sorrow. God shall once more delight in it and set His throne in it. II. See the notes on 1 Corinthians 15:55. Here heaven is depicted as a city, with life, activity, interest, and people, as opposed to the Hindu ideal of heaven as a sea into which human life returns like a raindrop to the ocean. 6:16), © 2020 Way of Grace Church: Buckeye, AZ All Rights Reserved, Keep What is Written (Revelation 1:1-22:21)(overview), A Tour of Our Future Glory (Revelation 21:9-22:5), Way of Grace Church | P.O. Holiness shall revisit earth. 1832. "Commentary on Revelation 21:4". The value and worth of the Word of God, and the sweetness of a promise which can give the kindest relief to a painful hour, and soothe the anguish of nature. Defective friendships are a prolific source of tears. He shall wipe away every tear from their eyes. 4. Such suffering develops character; and by it we become partakers of God’s holiness--of His exquisite compassion and sensibility. Jay.). 14:72, 4. Messiah — even He who died for us and who rose again — is on the throne, and no usurper can assail it. 3. You never would bare had a headache if it had not been for sin. This is the true effect of sorrow: it detaches us from the earth, lifts us up to heaven, and unites us to God. She had been walking up and down the earth for thousands of years. Baca shall be turned into Berachah, sighing into singing, misery into majesty; as Queen Elizabeth was exalted from a prisoner to a princess; and as our Henry IV was crowned the very same day that, the year before, he had been banished the realm. 2. From our own experience we can reason that pain in its manifold shapes works for our good. 35:10), Do not love the world or the things in the world. “The sad minor of the poet’s song will cease, for—. “God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes.” He alone can do it; He is the Father of mercies, the God of all grace, the God of all comfort. John Trapp Complete Commentary. 4. Renewal 1960. I am not promoting empty emotionalism, but I believe that we need to spend Those which arise from moral imperfections — to a Christian the most painful of all. Rowland. Think of the increase in knowledge and skill which has followed on the sufferings of the race. 4. Cooper. 1. What's interesting is that the verb in God's declaration in verse 6 is a third-person plural verb. Prophet Isaiah that he was sick and would soon die. . 2. As a curse, death is inseparable from sorrow. 4. For just as he went down amongst the "multitude of impotent folk" that lay in the porches of Bethesda, so still he comes down amongst our poor suffering humanity, himself a "Man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief." On the whole passage, comp. 4. https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/pmc/revelation-21.html. When we feel acute pains we may learn something of the exceeding greatness of the love of Christ, even the Son of God, that glorious Being who took upon Him flesh and blood for our sakes, that He might be capable of pain and death, though He had never sinned. The time will come with death itself shall die; not by the power of man, not by mortal skill or earthly medicines, but by the great redemption of God.2, And the ransomed of the Lord shall return, and come to Zion with singing, with everlasting joy on their heads. There is a sense in which we may use the word, in which its meaning is wider than it is as it stands in this text. 1. Tears make us willing to leave this world. Is that what you desperately desire? So join with him in his merciful work, and there shall come on you the blessing, "Inasmuch as ye have done it unto my brethren, ye have done it unto me." Yes, every sufferer may grasp his hand, and be assured that, though unseen and unfelt by the bodily senses, he grasps theirs. Pain is not needed there to stimulate scientific research. my wanderings; put thou my tears into thy bottle; are they not in thy book?" But the stone does not see the end in view, it only feels the rough treatment which it querulously resents. Death comes because nature has been outraged, because the heart of man has revolted against his God; and the rebel must therefore encounter all that is terrific, since he supposed there was a more excellent way than living in amity and walking in love with his Maker. If there were no trouble or sorrow and no tears in this world we Think about what God is telling us here. In this feeling there is a strong impulse to action. The first is stoicism, the second anodynes. Will THEN be better than NOW? This is the cause, the other is the effect. It not merely precedes, but produces, is the mother, the progenitor, of glory." St. Paul, "Our light affliction which is," etc. “The mourning is that grief which so takes possession of the whole being that it cannot be hid” (Abp. 5. Have we not seen or heard oftentimes how, in the paroxysms of agony with which poor pain stricken ones are now and again seized, they love, when the dread dark hour comes upon them, to have by them some one dear to them, the dearest they possess, and to clasp his or her hand and to feel the clasp of theirs; to pour out to them their cries and tears, and to be soothed and strengthened by the loving sympathy on which they lean? It is the introduction of Christianity into such sluggish, stagnant and unaspiring empires as those of China or of Japan, as they were only a single century ago, which gives for them hope and promise as concerning the future. The final part of verse 6 simply reminds us how any of this is possible. Depend upon it, there is more of Jesus, even in the least of our common blessings, than we are aware of. IV. The smile will often wreath into a sneer, and the eulogy change into a scoff. Pain has a natural tendency to make the mind sorrowful as well as the body uneasy. To the eye of a sculptor in every block of stone there is a statue; but to make it visible to every eye it must be cut out of the block with mallet and chisel. How different, therefore, will heaven be when we shall have the assurance that henceforward grief shall be at an end!Nor crying - κραυγὴ kraugēThis word properly denotes a cry, an outcry, as in giving a public notice; a cry in a tumult - a clamor, Acts 23:9; and then a cry of sorrow, or wailing. 5. Yet not more strange than true--wherever the way appointed by the Lord of Life is followed, death is abolished, and the body and soul will both live for ever. And now the Marah-like waters - the bitter wells of human life - he has forever made sweet and wholesome by the healing influence of that cross - that tree so accursed for him, so precious for us - upon which, for us all, he suffered and died. BibliographyConstable, Thomas. [13] R. C. H. Lenski, The Interpretation of St. John's Revelation (Minneapolis, Minn.: Augsburg Publishing House, 1943), p. 620. https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/sbc/revelation-21.html. The sense of pain is gone, but the light of the soul is also extinguished. The "first things" are passed away indeed! But such blessed aid, and more than that, our Lord wills that every sufferer should have by reason of his sympathy, his presence, and his own dear love. Compare also Isaiah 25:7-8 where death is swallowed up for ever and the Lord God will wipe away all tears from all faces, and remove the veil of mourning. Are you sick-bereaved? Let us pass from the tears to consider THE REMOVAL OF THEM. We know pain by the best means of knowing: we know it by having felt it. Box 1671, Buckeye, Arizona. "Commentary on Revelation 21:4". That means the literal translation of the opening words of verse 6 is: And he said to me, “They are done!” Could this be referring to “these words” from the end of verse 5? What is expressed has been called the tripartite or three-part promise of Scripture. "Nor cry," the voice of hopeless misery (Isaiah 65:19). Tears of gratitude to the Savior who had lifted her from the miry Used by Permission. “There shall be no more pain.” In the better world above, then, pain shall be unknown. No tears shall fall over the treachery of lover, brother, friend. Neither shall sorrow, or crying, or pain, be any more: for the former things are gone away — Under the former heaven, and upon the former earth, there was death and sorrow, crying and pain; all which occasioned many tears: but now pain and sorrow are fled away, and the saints have everlasting life and joy.
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