Revelation 7

They shall have the heavenly nectar and ambrosia, the spiced wine, and juice of the pomegranate (Song of Solomon 8:2). This royal supper of the Lamb will not only satisfy hunger, but prevent it (Revelation 7:16). They shall hunger no more.

Sorrow is the evil spirit that haunts us; the world is a Bochim: Rachel wept for her children; some grieve that they have no children, and others grieve that their children are undutiful. Thus we spend our years with sighing; 'tis a valley of tears: but death is the funeral of a…

Indeed they shall be made like Christ's glorious body (Philippians 3:21). 2. The bodies of the saints, when they arise, shall be free from the necessities of nature, as hunger and thirst (Revelation 7:16). They shall hunger no more.

This crown is not lined with thorns, but hung with jewels; it is a never-fading crown (1 Peter 5:4). 2. The saints in Heaven have their robes; they exchange their sackcloth for white robes (Revelation 7:9). I beheld a great multitude which no man could number, clothed in white r…

So when we speak of the kingdom of heaven, we must draw a veil, we cannot set it forth in all its brilliant beauty and magnificence; gold and pearl do but faintly shadow it out (Revelation 21); the glory of this kingdom is better felt than expressed. 1. They who inherit this kin…

It was prophesied of such as were brought home to Christ (Psalm 18:44), As soon as they hear of me they shall obey me. 7. We do God's Will as the Angels in Heaven, when we do it constantly; the Angels are never weary of doing God's Will, they serve God day and night (Revelation…

Matthew 8:11. I say to you, that many shall come from the East, and West, and shall sit down with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven. Revelation 7:9. I beheld and lo a great multitude, which no man could number of all nations, kindreds, people and tongues, stood…

For herein we see him by faith yet vested with the office of the priesthood, and continuing in the discharge of it. This makes heaven a temple, as was said, and the seat of instituted worship (Revelation 7:15). Hence in his appearance to John, he was clothed with a garment down…

But I must not too far digress. The command of God, the love and care of Christ towards his Church, the ends of God's patience and long-suffering, the future manifestation of his glory in the salvation of believers and the condemnation of those that are disobedient, the necessit…

And Solomon says (Proverbs 29:18), "Where there is no vision, there the people are made naked," that is, their sins lie open before God; and by reason thereof they themselves are subject to his wrath and indignation. Now Christ was crucified naked, that he might take away from u…

7. From that [with ten thousand of Saints] At Christ's appearance his train shall consist of multitudes of Saints and holy Angels. Now they are but as two or three berries upon the top of the uppermost bough, scattered here and there, as God has work and service for them to do,…

And as a host they are said to pitch their tents round about them that fear him; and are in a continual conflict with the evil angels to prevent their designs in the behalf of Christ, whom they acknowledge as their head by their worship of him. Christ orders them to take care to…

If Sutcliffe's rule hold, we may not read it so, but thus, To know them labouring among you. So (Revelation 7:14) [in non-Latin alphabet], These are they who come out of great tribulation. Many places of this kind there are, which I need not cite.

For the things that are said of one and the other, and their issue, are in no wise consistent. In that battle (Revelation 11), the Church of God conflicts with her enemies in sorrow, sackcloth, and blood: but in the other the matter is represented exceedingly otherwise; the Chur…

We will lend an ear to a practical point of doctrine, and will some way aim to mind it; if we be bidden pray, we will pray; if we be commanded to mortify sin, we will endeavor it, and so in other duties; but who minds this as a duty, when we are called of God, to admire, and pra…

Consider, and compare them with the multitude of reprobates that are even in the visible Church, they are few, yet if you will consider them in themselves, they are many. And it's most true that is spoken, Revelation 7:9, I saw a number which no man could number. If we look sinc…

3. It's a difficulty to the Church and people of God, to think on such great confusions as are in the world; there are but few judicatories that are for Christ; but few governors higher or lower that do consult his honor or regard him; It's others that have the throne and court,…

Since then this is his design in all the chastisements inflicted on his own people, and since he only by his grace can make it infrustrably take effect, let him have our hearty allowance and approbation to carry it on vigorously and successfully, and let us pray more frequently…

But 1. Christ has strewn the way to heaven with blood and wars, and forbids us to censure his sad patrimony, in that the servants are no worse than the Lord, and flower of all the martyrs; though blood has been, and must be the rent and income of the crown of the noble King of K…

And I beheld, and I heard the voice of many Angels round about the Throne, and the beasts, and the Elders, and the number of them was ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands (Revelation 5:12), saying worthy is the Lamb. (Revelation 7:9) After this, I beheld,…

Indeed I grant, if those of the family of faith, be considered by themselves, they are many (Matthew 8:11): I say to you, that MANY shall come from the East and from the West, and shall sit down with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven. Nay they are innumerable (R…

But some childishly descant here upon the sign of the Cross: others refer it to the preaching of the Gospel: and both of them, as I take it, are wide from the mark. For he rather seems to allude to that which was done at the going forth and deliverance of the people: as Moses de…

The Seals of Princes were the distinguishing Marks of Princes: And thus God's Seal is spoken of as God's Mark. Revelation 7. 3. Hurt not the Earth, neither the Sea, or the Trees, 'till we have sealed the Servants of our God in their Foreheads; together with Ezekiel 9. 4. Set a M…

But after this harvest and its gleanings were over, the rest were blinded and hardened; the gospel had little success among them, and the nation was given up, and cast off from being God's people, and their city and land was destroyed by the Romans in a terrible manner. And we r…

Though the man Christ Jesus is the highest of all creatures in heaven, yet he as much excels them all in humility, as he does in glory and dignity; for none sees so much of the distance between God and himself, as he does. And though he now appears in such glorious majesty and d…

But yet this is not so precisely respected neither, but that the Apostle withal intimates the necessity of the sufferings of Christ, as to the whole effect of it towards the Elect. Now these sons thus to be brought to glory are said to be many; not all absolutely, not a few, or…

And though there be other uses of sealing, yet we conceive that which is aimed at here is, 1. To show the church is not common, but well kept and sealed, so that none can trouble believers' peace without Christ's leave, who has sealed them by his Spirit to the day of redemption…

3. It is a tree of long continuance, and keeps long green; hence (Psalm 92:12, 14) it is said of the righteous, they shall flourish like the palm tree; therefore (Joel 1:12) it is an evidence of great drought, when the palm tree withers. 4. They were looked on as most fit to be…

1. This is a spiritual life: it is opposite to that animal life which we live now. Here we hunger and thirst; but there we shall hunger no more (Revelation 7:16). There is the marriage supper of the Lamb, which will not only satisfy hunger, but prevent it.

For the first three hundred years after Christ, the church was for the most part in a state of great affliction, the object of reproach and persecution, first by the Jews, and then by the Heathen. After this, from the beginning of Constantine's time, the church had rest and pros…

S. 63. [reconstructed: 37]. Revelation 7:3. In the forehead nothing more plain to be seen than the fear of contumely and disgrace. For which cause the scripture (as with great probability it may be thought) describes them marked of God in the forehead, whom his mercy has underta…

Heaven's glory upon the soul is so transparent, that bread and hunger had no influence upon Moses for forty days, when he was in the mount with God, and then rays and influences of glory could not but be sweetly received on the soul. It's clear in such as stand and live before t…

2. Our righteousness from the time forward shall not only be inherent; for the righteousness of God is an everlasting righteousness (Daniel 9:24), and how that robe of Christ's surety-righteousness shall in the state of glory, be laid by as an old useless garment, and the robe o…

And what influences must be there, when each having six wings, they cease not night nor day to cry one to another, Holy, holy, holy, Lord God of hosts, Almighty, which was, and which is to come, the whole earth is filled with his glory (Revelation 4:8; Isaiah 6:3). The glorified…

9. It cannot be denied but this very way which the Lord has taken in denying of his influences to the eternal standing of Adam, and to law-doing and law-living is the most excellent course, and that flesh and blood dare not to appear to countermand herein either infinite wisdom,…

We put not off the Humane, when we put on the Divine Nature; nor are we then freed from the sense, though we be delivered from the sting and curse of them. Grace does not presently pluck out all those Arrows that sin has shot into the sides of Nature, 2 Corinthians 7:5. When we…

This is the end of sealing — men set their seals on what they appropriate and desire to keep safe for themselves. So evidently in this sense the servants of God are said to be sealed, Revelation 7:4 — marked with God's mark as his peculiar ones. This sealing answers to the setti…

He hid an hundred Prophets in a Cave, 1 Kin. 18:4. The Angel is commanded before he poured his Vial of curses on the earth, to seal the Saints of God on their fore-heads, Revelation 7:3. Which was signum salutare a mark of safety: however God will look to the Spiritual safety of…

They fly to God's grace in Christ for daily pardon (1 John 1:9). They are ever washing their garments in the Lamb's blood (Revelation 7), and every day are cleansing themselves from the filthiness and defilement they contract by sin (John 13:10). He that is washed, needs not sav…

Thus we read of our Lord Christ, that he spent whole nights in prayer (Luke 16:12). It is said of the glorified saints in heaven, that they praise God continually (Revelation 7:15): "They are before the throne of God and serve him day and night in his temple, and he that sits on…

3. Another object of comfort is our happy estate in heaven which puts an end to all our miseries. God shall wipe away all tears from our eyes (Revelation 7:19). There shall be no more death nor sorrow, nor crying nor any pain (Revelation 21:4).

Hunger is a sharp sauce. The Lamb's supper shall not only satisfy hunger, but prevent it (Revelation 7:16): They shall hunger no more! Third, it will be a great supper in regard of the company invited.

The king of Israel and the king of Judah sat clothed in their robes (2 Chronicles 18:19); the robe was of scarlet, or velvet lined with ermine, sometimes of a purple color, sometimes of an azure brightness. Thus the saints shall have their robes (Revelation 7:9): I beheld a grea…

After a few showers that fall from our eyes we shall have a perpetual sunshine. In heaven the bottle of tears is stopped (Revelation 7, last verse): God shall wipe away all tears. When sin shall cease, tears shall cease.

We must be wayfarers before we are those who have arrived; heaven is a place of rest (Hebrews 4:9): there remains a rest for the people of God. No more wrestling there, for then we have overcome the enemy; the saints in glory are set forth with palms in their hands (Revelation 7…

Jesus Christ has provided a sponge to wipe off the tears of the saints. Here the Spouse is in sable, it being a time of absence from her husband: But in heaven Christ will take away the spouse's mourning; he will pull off all her black and bloody robes, and will clothe her in wh…

Answer: The Law and Covenant of Works is a rule of everlasting righteousness, and so may be called an everlasting righteousness containing precepts of the Law of nature intrinsically good, such as to know, love, fear, and trust in him as the only true God: and in this sense it i…

The Beasts and the Elders stand round about the Throne — saying, Worthy is the Lamb that was slain, to receive power and riches and wisdom, etc. (Revelation 7:15) Therefore are they before the Throne, and serve him night and day in his Temple, and he that sits on the Throne shal…

Now this must be given to Christ by promise (Galatians 3:16). Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made, he says not, and to seeds, as of many, but as of one, and to your seed, which is Christ: He cannot well mean mystical Christ, that is, Christ and all his, for they a…

If the seed were taken for Christ Mystical, the Apostle must say, The Law was added because of transgression, until the seed should come: that is, until Christ Mystical, his Church should come in the flesh, which is nonsense. 3. Whether the promise be of Canaan, and of life eter…