ROBERT’S OPEN DECLARATION!”
My position in presenting these postings is done not as a pastor, minister, or teacher of God’s words. They are brought forward as messages to be discerned by those receiving them and choosing personally how to react. Scriptural foundation for their delivery Ezekiel 33:9
Nevertheless, if thou warn the wicked of his way to turn from it; if he do not turn from his way, he shall die in his iniquity; but thou hast delivered thy soul.
It is with great love for all given to me by Yeshua that you are receiving them. Luke 10:16
[16]He that heareth you heareth me; and he that despiseth you despiseth me; and he that despiseth me despiseth him that sent me.  And all of God’s children say Amen and Amen.

PRELUDE: It is my desire to bring forward this information. Please note that the Commentary offered are quotes by Matthew Henry (1662-1714).

The OBSERVATION offered are from Robert (1945 – current), offering his commentary as Yeshua’s Watchman (Ezekiel 33:9).

SPIRITUAL FOUNDATION!

Revelation 22:11-12
[11]He that is unjust, let him be unjust still: and he which is filthy, let him be filthy still: and he that is righteous, let him be righteous still: and he that is holy, let him be holy still.
[12]And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be.

OBSERVATION!

THE first part of the final triumph of the Lamb has been accomplished, but the second has still to be unfolded. We are introduced to it by one of those preparatory or transition passages which have already frequently met us in the Apocalypse, and which connect themselves both with what precedes and with what follows.

COMMENTARY!

A new world now opens to our view (Revelation 21:1): I saw a new heaven and a new earth that is, a new universe for we suppose the world to be made up of heaven and earth. By the new earth, we may understand a new state for the bodies of men, as well as a heaven for their souls.

This world is not now newly created, but newly opened, and filled with all those who were the heirs of it. The new heaven and the new earth will not then be distinct the very earth of the saints, their glorified bodies will now be spiritual and heavenly, and suited to those pure and bright mansions.

To make way for the commencement of this new world, the old world, with all its troubles and commotions, passed away.

In this new world the apostle saw the holy city, the new Jerusalem, coming down from heaven, not locally, but as to its original: this new Jerusalem is the church of God in its new and perfect state, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband, beautified with all perfection of wisdom and holiness, meet for the full fruition of the Lord Jesus Christ in glory.

The blessed presence of God with his people is here proclaimed and admired: I heard a great voice out of heaven, saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, &c, Revelation 21:3.

Observe, 1. The presence of God with his church is the glory of the church.

2. It is matter of wonder that a holy God should ever dwell with any of the children of men.

3. The presence of God with his people in heaven will not be interrupted as it is on earth, but he will dwell with them continually.

4. The covenant, interest, and relation, that there are now between God and his people, will be filled up and perfected in heaven.

They shall be his people their souls shall be assimilated to him, filled with all the love, honour, and delight in God which their relation to him requires, and this will constitute their perfect holiness and he will be their God: God himself will be their God his immediate presence with them, his love fully manifested to them, and his glory put upon them, will be their perfect happiness then he will fully answer the character of the relation on his part, as they shall do on their part.

OBSERVATION!

These words, like many others that have already met us, throw light upon the principles on which the Apocalypse is composed.

They show in the clearest possible manner that down to the very end of the book chronological considerations must be put out of view. Chronology cannot be thought of when we find, on the one hand, allusions to the new Jerusalem which are only amplified and extended in the next vision of the chapter, or when we find, on the other hand, a description of the exclusion from the new Jerusalem of certain classes that have already been consigned to “the second death” By the first-mentioned allusions the passage connects itself with what is yet to come, by the second with what has gone before. For the same reason, it is unnecessary to dwell upon the passage at any length.

It contains either nothing new or nothing that will not again meet us in greater fullness of detail One or two brief remarks alone seem called for.

OBSERVATION!