“Behold, I am coming soon, bringing my recompense with me, to repay each one for what he has done.
God's character seals this book: He is faithful and true, and He would never send His holy angels to deceive His saints with mere dreams. That the angel refused John's worship, reproved him for it, and the apostle confesses his own relapse into folly shows a sincerity no deceiver would display. The book stands open for all to study, compare, and test against what comes to pass.
AI summary
Commenting on Revelation 22:6-19
And, behold, I come quickly,..... This is repeated, to confirm the truth of Christ's second coming, and the speediness of it, and to point at the time when the above shall be, and to add what follows. And my reward is with me: which words are taken out of Isa 40:10 and which being compared together, furnish out a clear proof of Christ being the true Jehovah, the eternal God.
Verse 12. And behold, I come quickly. . These are undoubtedly the words of the Redeemer; and the meaning is, that the period when the unchanging sentence would be passed on each individual--on the unjust, the filthy, the righteous, and the holy--would not be remote.