He that overcometh shall inherit these things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son.
He that overcometh--another aspect of the believer's life: a conflict with sin, Satan, and the world is needed. Thirsting for salvation is the first beginning of, and continues for ever (in the sense of an appetite and relish for divine joys) a characteristic of the believer.
Observe here, 1. That our design of happiness must be accompanied with endeavours after it, or they will be ineffectual; to thirsting in the former verse, he joins overcoming in this verse: we must not barely wish, but work; not only talk, but fight; and not only fight but overcome our spiritual enemies in fighting, or we are miserable; how strong soever our desires after...
A new universe opens before us: not newly fashioned, but newly revealed and filled with heirs at last claiming their own. The glorified bodies of the saints will themselves be spiritual and heavenly, fitted for those bright mansions. All the old world's tumult and sorrow passes away to make room for this perfection.
AI summary
Commenting on Revelation 21:1-8