Peter Barnes | Revelation 22:1-6
SERMON NOTES
The River of Life
(Revelation 22:1-6)
– re-creation language, Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained (John Milton)
1. The divine throne.
– 22:1, 3
– like Rev.1:8, 17; 21:6; 22:13 from Isa.41:4; 44:6; John 10:30
2. The river of life.
– 22:1-2; see Gen.2:6; 10-14
– Ezek.47:1-9; Zech.14:8; John 7:37-39
– unlike the Bagmati river in Kathmandu
3. The healing of the nations.
– 22:1-2 (trees in Ezek.47:7) but note Gen.2:9; 3:22-24
– Acts 5:30; 10:39; 13:29; 1 Pet.2:24
– no more curse (Gal.3:13), believers will serve Christ and reign with Him (Rev.22:3, 5), and there will be close communion with Christ (cf. Ex.28:36-38)
See! the streams of living waters, Springing from eternal love (John Newton)