Revelation 22

Ver. 1, 2. The Holy Ghost, proceeding from, and sent by, Christ and his Father, in his graces and comforts, and abundantly enjoyed, is the river of life. Jesus Christ, in his person, offices, relations, and manifold blessings, sufficient for the full satisfaction of all the Israel of God, according the twelve apostles, and whose very words, ordinances, and himself have a sovereign virtue to remove all evil, and render it, is the tree of life

Revelation 22:3-5

The fixed presence of God in their familiar and immediate fellowship with him, will remain in holiness and happiness

Revelation 22:6

All these things which have been shall be faithfully and infallibly accomplished in their hands and the Lord Jesus, who inspired and authorised his ancient servants, hath sent me your conducting angel, to inform you, servants, under the New Testament, of the glories, which will be the short period of time, be all fulfilled

Revelation 22:9

Pay me no more, I, though an angel, am but your fellow servant, and a great preachers and those who fear God, employed by Christ to communicate these revelations to you

Revelation 22:10

Christ charged me to publish to the church the revelations I had received, as their accomplishment was immediately to begin

Revelation 22:11

They who, from a principle of faith and love, sincerely obey all God’s commandments, and thus prove their union to Christ, shall, by his free grant, have all authority, warrant, dignity, and meethess, to partake of the immediate enjoyment of him in all his heavenly blessings, and have a free, open, abundant, and honourable, admission into the heavenly state

Revelation 22:16

As God, Christ is the Root, Lord, and Source, of David’s family and kingdom; and, as man, he is his Son, descended from his loins. He is the bright and morning star; as he is infinitely glorious, and his rising up in his incarnation introduced the gospel-day; his rising in power introduces the Millennial day; his rising in the saving influences of his Spirit introduces the spiritual day of grace and comfort; and his appearance to judge the world will introduce the eternal day of light, purity, and joy

Revelation 22:17

The first part of this verse is the church’s request, that Christ would come quickly to fulfil all his gracious promises; and the last part is an invitation to sinful men, to come and freely receive his promised blessings

Revelation 22:19

God, by withholding all saving blessings from him, shall manifest that he never was elected, and shall cut him off from all THE 1 the interest he professed, hoped, or seemed, to have in his gracious purpose, true church, or inspired promises

REFLECTIONS UPON CHAP. XXII.—Happy are they who enjoy the Millennial, and especially the heavenly blessedness! their freedom from curses, sorrows, and maladies is complete. Ravishing and abundant is their enjoyment of Jesus Christ and his Spirit, and all his purchased salvation,—all the consolations, all the fulness, of God in him. Divinely acknowledged and immediately illuminated, they reign with him for evermore! And with uninterrupted delight and fervour they serve, worship, and glorify, him!—But none must expect this celestial happiness without being justified and sanctified on earth. Holiness in heart or life, though it does not merit the heavenly glory, must prepare us or it, and manifest our new covenant claim to it. And if men persevere in their sin, they must at last be excluded from the fellowship of God, and be for ever fixed in their sin as a principal part of their punishment. Important and infallible are the declarations of Christ in the scripture. According to them as our rule we must now walk; and according to them at the last day we shall be judged. Infinite is the danger of adding to, taking from, perverting, or denying, these sacred records. And great is the mercy that they are so full of the most encouraging promises and endearing invitations to receive an undoubted, a free, a full, an everlasting, salvation in Christ. In the exercise of an assured faith let me always receive his fulness, and look, long, and wait, for his second coming!—O when shall time give place to eternity! When shall the transient glimmerings of his glory issue in my being for ever with the Lord! When shall my beloved ordinances of his grace, and this precious, precious, precious book of God be exchanged for seeing him as he is, and knowing him, even as I am known in the face of Jesus Christ! When shall I bid adieu to human explications of divine oracles, and the Lord God and the Lamb be the light thereof,—my everlasting light, and my God my glory! END