In this episode, Rob and Vinnie discuss Revelation's Epilogue (22:6-21). We consider: what does it mean that these things will "soon take place"?; The promises of Blessing; the exhortation to "come"; and the closing, "Come, Lord Jesus."
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Show Notes:
“Faithful and true” (3:14; 19:11; 21:5; 22:6).
What must take place soon (22:6)
- “in the latter days” (Dan 2:28) or “in the future” (Dan 2:29, 45), has become for John, “what must take place soon” (1:1; 22:6).
The promise of blessing for, “the one who keeps the words of the prophecy of this book”
22:8-9 John attempts to worship the angel
Do not seal up these words: “because the time is near” (22:10; 1:3; Dan 12:4).
“The one who does wrong let him still do wrong, the one who is unclean let him still be unclean, the one who is righteous let him still do righteousness, and let the one who is holy let him still be holy” (22:11; Dan 12:10)
- John is encouraging it to happen in that it represents a fulfillment of prophesy.?
Jesus declares that He is, “the Alpha and the Omega” (22:13). Father? Each time the title expands:
- 1:8 Alpha and Omega
- 21:6 Alpha and Omega, the Beginning and the End
- 22:13 Alpha and Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning & End
The “ones who wash their robes” are blessed and “they will have the right to the tree of life and may enter through the gates into the city” (22:14).
- “washed” only twice in the book of Revelation: the other is in 7:14
“outside” (22:15): What does it mean “outside”
- “outside” means in the least, “not in the Holy City.”
Jesus’ self-identification “I am the root and the descendant of David” (22:16).
Jesus also declares that He is “the bright morning star” (22:16).
Four commands/exhortations: which center on “Come”
- “The Spirit and the Bride” say, “Come.”
- “the one who hears” is exhorted to say, “Come.”
- “the one who is thirsty” to “come” (22:17; Isa 55:1)
- “let them take freely the gift of the water of life” (22:17).
The angel exhorts, “everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book” (22:18).
- First, “If anyone adds to them [the words of the book], God will add to them the plagues that are written in this book” (22:18).
- Second, “and if anyone takes away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God will take away their part in the Tree of Life and from the Holy City that are written in this book” (22:19)
“I am coming soon” (22:20).
“Amen. Come, Lord Jesus” (22:20).
It is framed as a letter
“grace” occurs only two times in the entire book of Revelation: here and in 1:4