And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And he said unto me, Write: for these words are true and faithful.
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
And he that sat upon the throne said,.... By whom is meant, either God the Father, who is often represented in this book as sitting on the throne, and as distinguished from Christ the Lamb; see Rev 4:2 Rev 5:13 and who may seem the more to be intended, since he is by adopting grace the God and Father of his people, and they are...
Verse 5. And he that sat upon the throne said. Probably the Messiah, the dispenser of the rewards of heaven. . Behold, I make all things new. A new heaven and new earth, (,) and an order of things to correspond with that new creation. The former state of things when sin and death reigned will be changed, and the change consequent on this must extend to everything.