‘He will wipe away every tear from their eyes,’ and there will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain, for the former things have passed away.”
all tears--Greek, "every tear." no more death--Greek, "death shall be no more." Therefore it is not the millennium, for in the latter there is death (Isa 65:20; Co1 15:26, Co1 15:54, "the last enemy . . . destroyed is death," Rev 20:14, after the millennium). sorrow--Greek, "mourning." passed away--Greek, "departed," as in Rev 21:1.
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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