And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.
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.
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Commenting on Revelation 21:1-8
God wipes away tears born of sin, Satan's assaults, and affliction's weight; these causes vanish entirely. The redeemed will be like the angels, immortal, free from every sickness and spiritual deadness, beyond the reach of the second death and all that once made us grieve.
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Not one tear shed there, not one grave dug in all that endless glory, how it strikes us who live where death spares no one, where fathers and mothers and the dearest go down into darkness. The redeemed will never follow a friend to the tomb or fear that an absent friend is gone. That is heaven.
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