And he said unto me, It is done. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely.
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 said unto me, it is done,.... The end of all things is come; it is all over with the first heaven and earth; these are no more, and the new heaven and earth are finished: there seems to be an allusion to the old creation, he spake, and it was done, Psa 33:9.
Verse 6. And he said unto me. That is, he that sat on the throne--the Messiah. It is done. It is finished, complete; or, still more expressively, it is--γεγονε. An expression remarkably similar to this occurs. in , when the Saviour on the cross said, "It is finished." The meaning in the passage before us evidently is, "the great work is accomplished; the arrangement of human affairs is complete.