VW-Edition Bible (2010)

1And he showed me a pure river of Water of Life, clear as crystal, going forth out of the throne of God and of the Lamb. 2In the middle of its street, and on either side of the river, was the Tree of Life, which bore twelve fruits, each tree yielding its fruit every month. The leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations. 3And there shall be no more curse, but the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it, and His servants shall serve Him. 4And they shall see His face, and His name shall be on their foreheads. 5And there shall be no night there: They need no lamp nor light of the sun, for the Lord God gives them light. And they shall reign forever and ever. 6And he said to me, These Words are faithful and true. And the Lord God of the holy prophets sent His angel to show His servants the things which must quickly come to pass. 7Behold, I am coming quickly. Blessed is he who keeps the Words of the Prophecy of this Book. 8Now I, John, saw and heard these things. And when I heard and saw, I fell down to do homage before the feet of the angel who showed me these things. 9And he said to me, Now see here! No! For I am your fellow servant, and of your brethren the prophets, and of those who keep the Words of this Book. Do homage to God. 10And he said to me, Do not seal the Words of the Prophecy of this Book, for the time is at hand. 11He who is unjust, let him be unjust still; he who is filthy, let him be filthy still; he who is righteous, let him be righteous still; he who is holy, let him be holy still. 12And behold, I am coming quickly, and My reward is with Me, to give to every one according to what his work shall be. 13I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the Ending, the First and the Last. 14Blessed are those who do His commandments, that they may have the right to the Tree of Life, and may enter through the gates into the city. 15But outside are dogs and sorcerers and prostitutes and murderers and idolaters, and whoever loves and produces a lie. 16I, Jesus, have sent My angel to testify these things to you, to the churches. I am the Root and the Offspring of David, the Bright and Morning Star.  17And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him who hears say, Come. And let him who thirsts come. Whoever desires, let him take of the Water of Life freely. 18For I testify to everyone who hears the Words of the Prophecy of this Book: If anyone adds to these things, God will add upon him the plagues that are written in this Book; 19and if anyone takes away from the Words of the Book of this Prophecy, God shall take away his part from the Book of Life, from the holy city, and from the things which are written in this Book. 20He who testifies to these things says, Surely I am coming quickly. Amen. Even so, come, Lord Jesus. 21The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.


Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
 1   Zjv 22:1 The river of the water of life.
Zjv 22:2 The tree of life.
Zjv 22:5 The light of the city of God is himself.
Zjv 22:9 The angel will not be worshipped.
Zjv 22:18 Nothing may be added to the word of God, nor taken therefrom.
A pure.
Ž 36:8 Ž 46:4 Iz 41:18 Iz 48:18 Iz 66:12 Ez 47:1 - Ez 47:9 Zach 14:8 Jn 7:38 Jn 7:39
water.
Zjv 7:17 Zjv 21:6 Ž 36:9 Jer 2:13 Jer 17:13 Jn 4:10 Jn 4:11 Jn 4:14
clear.
Zjv 21:11
proceeding.
Zjv 3:21 Zjv 4:5 Zjv 5:6 Zjv 5:13 Zjv 7:10 Zjv 7:11 Zjv 7:17 Jn 14:16 - Jn 14:18 Jn 15:26 Jn 16:7 - Jn 16:15 Sk 1:4 Sk 1:5 Sk 2:33

 2   the midst.
Zjv 22:1 Zjv 21:21 Ez 47:1 Ez 47:12
the tree of life. Rather, the definite article not being in the original, "a tree of life;" for there were three trees; one in the street, and one on each side of the river.
Zjv 22:14 Zjv 2:7 Gn 2:9 Gn 3:22 - Gn 3:24 Prís 3:18
healing.
Zjv 21:24 Ž 147:3 Iz 6:10 Iz 57:18 Iz 57:19 Jer 17:14 Ez 47:8 - Ez 47:11 Oz 14:4 Mal 4:2 Lk 4:18 1Pt 2:24

 3   there.
Zjv 21:4 Dt 27:26 Zach 14:11 Mt 25:41 Gn 3:10 - Gn 3:13 Ez 37:27
but.
Zjv 7:15 - Zjv 7:17 Zjv 21:22 Zjv 21:23 Ž 16:11 Ž 17:15 Iz 12:6 Ez 48:35 Mt 25:21 Jn 14:3 Jn 17:24
his.
Zjv 7:15 Jn 12:26

 4   they.
Ez 33:18 - Ez 33:20 Ez 33:23 Jób 33:26 Ž 4:6 Iz 33:17 Iz 35:2 Iz 40:5 Mt 5:8 Jn 12:26 Jn 17:24 1Kor 13:12 Hebr 12:14 1Jn 3:2 1Jn 3:3
and his.
Zjv 3:12 Zjv 14:1

 5   no night.
Zjv 18:23 Zjv 21:22 - Zjv 21:25 Ž 36:9 Ž 84:11 Prís 4:18 Prís 4:19 Iz 60:19 Iz 60:20
and they.
Zjv 3:21 Zjv 11:15 Dan 7:18 Dan 7:27 Mt 25:34 Mt 25:46 Rim 5:17 2Tim 2:12 1Pt 1:3 1Pt 1:4

 6   These.
Zjv 19:9 Zjv 21:5
the holy.
Zjv 18:20 Lk 1:70 Lk 16:16 Sk 3:18 Rim 1:2 1Pt 1:11 1Pt 1:12 2Pt 1:21 2Pt 3:2
sent.
Zjv 1:1 Dan 3:28 Dan 6:22 Mt 13:41 Sk 12:11 2Sol 1:7
which.
Zjv 22:7 Gn 41:32 1Kor 7:29 2Pt 3:8 2Pt 3:9

 7   I come.
Zjv 22:10 Zjv 22:12 Zjv 22:20 Zjv 3:11
blessed.
Zjv 22:9 Zjv 1:3

 8   I fell.
Zjv 19:10 Zjv 19:19

 9   See.
Zjv 19:10 Dt 4:19 Kol 2:18 Kol 2:19 1Jn 5:20
worship God.
Zjv 4:10 Zjv 9:20 Zjv 14:7 Zjv 15:4 Ex 34:14 2Kr 17:36 Ž 45:11 Mt 4:9 Lk 4:7 Jn 4:22 Jn 4:23

 10   he saith.
Zjv 22:12 Zjv 22:13 Zjv 22:16 Zjv 22:20
Seal.
Zjv 5:1 Zjv 10:4 Iz 8:16 Dan 8:26 Dan 12:4 Dan 12:9 Mt 10:27
for.
Zjv 1:3 Iz 13:6 Ez 12:23 Rim 13:12 2Sol 2:3 1Pt 4:7

 11   that is unjust.
Zjv 16:8 - Zjv 16:11 Zjv 16:21 Ž 81:12 Prís 1:24 - Prís 1:33 Prís 14:32 Kaz 11:3 Ez 3:27 Dan 12:10 Mt 15:14 Mt 21:19 Mt 25:10 Jn 8:21 2Tim 3:13
and he that.
Zjv 22:3 Zjv 7:13 - Zjv 7:15 Jób 17:9 Prís 4:18 Mt 5:6 Ef 5:27 Kol 1:22 Júd 1:24

 12   I come.
Zjv 22:7 Sof 1:14
and my.
Zjv 11:18 Iz 3:10 Iz 3:11 Iz 40:10 Iz 62:11 1Kor 3:8 1Kor 3:14 1Kor 9:17 1Kor 9:18
to give.
Zjv 20:12 Mt 16:27 Rim 2:6 - Rim 2:11 Rim 14:12

 13   Zjv 1:8 Zjv 1:11 Zjv 21:6 Iz 41:4 Iz 44:6 Iz 48:12

 14   Blessed.
Zjv 22:7 Ž 106:3 - Ž 106:5 Ž 112:1 Ž 119:1 - Ž 119:6 Iz 56:1 Iz 56:2 Dan 12:12 Mt 7:21 - Mt 7:27 Lk 12:37 Lk 12:38 Jn 14:15 Jn 14:21 - Jn 14:23 Jn 15:10 - Jn 15:14 1Kor 7:19 Gal 5:6 1Jn 3:3 1Jn 3:23 1Jn 3:24 1Jn 5:3
may have.
Jn 4:12 1Kor 8:9 1Kor 9:5
*Gr:
Zjv 22:14
to the.
Zjv 22:2 Zjv 2:7
and may.
Zjv 21:27 Jn 10:7 Jn 10:9 Jn 14:6

 15   without.
Zjv 9:20 Zjv 9:21 Zjv 21:8 Zjv 21:27 1Kor 6:9 1Kor 6:10 Gal 5:19 - Gal 5:21 Ef 5:3 - Ef 5:6 Kol 3:6
dogs.
Flp 3:2
sorcerers.
Zjv 9:21 Zjv 18:23 Iz 47:9 Iz 47:12 Iz 57:3 Mal 3:5 Sk 8:11 Sk 13:6 - Sk 13:11
whoremongers.
Zjv 17:1 - Zjv 17:6
whosoever.
Zjv 21:8 Zjv 21:27 1Kr 22:8 1Kr 22:21 - 1Kr 22:23 Iz 9:15 Iz 9:16 Jer 5:31 Jn 3:18 - Jn 3:21 Jn 8:46 2Sol 2:10 - 2Sol 2:12

 16   I Jesus.
Zjv 22:6 Zjv 1:1
to testify.
Zjv 22:20
See on ver.
Zjv 22:1 Zjv 22:11 Zjv 2:7 Zjv 2:11 Zjv 2:17 Zjv 2:29 Zjv 3:6 Zjv 3:13 Zjv 3:22
I am.
Zjv 5:5 Iz 11:1 Zach 6:12 Mt 22:42 Mt 22:45 Rim 1:3 Rim 1:4 Rim 9:5
the bright.
Zjv 2:28 Nm 24:17 Mt 2:2 Mt 2:7 - Mt 2:10 Lk 1:78 2Pt 1:19

 17   the Spirit.
Zjv 22:16 Iz 55:1 - Iz 55:3 Jn 16:7 - Jn 16:15
the bride.
Zjv 21:2 Zjv 21:9
Come.
Iz 2:5
let him that heareth.
Ž 34:8 Iz 2:3 Iz 2:5 Iz 48:16 - Iz 48:18 Jer 50:5 Mich 4:2 Zach 8:21 - Zach 8:23 Jn 1:39 - Jn 1:46 Jn 4:29 1Sol 1:5 - 1Sol 1:8
let him that is athirst.
Zjv 21:6 Iz 55:1 Jn 7:37
let him take.
Iz 12:3 Jn 4:10 Jn 4:14
freely.
Rim 3:24 1Kor 2:12

 18   testify.
Zjv 22:16 Zjv 3:14 Ef 4:17 1Sol 4:6
heareth.
Zjv 1:3
If.
Dt 4:2 Dt 12:32 Prís 30:6 Mt 15:6 - Mt 15:9 Mt 15:13
God.
Zjv 14:10 Zjv 14:11 Zjv 15:1 Zjv 16:1 Zjv 19:20 Zjv 20:10 Zjv 20:15 Lv 26:18 Lv 26:24 Lv 26:25 Lv 26:28 Lv 26:37

 19   take.
Zjv 2:18 Lk 11:52
God.
Zjv 3:5 Zjv 13:8 Ex 32:33 Ž 69:28
out of the book of life. or, from the tree of life.
Zjv 22:2
and out.
Zjv 21:2 Zjv 21:22 - Zjv 21:27
and from.
Zjv 22:12 Zjv 1:3 Zjv 2:7 Zjv 2:11 Zjv 2:17 Zjv 2:26 Zjv 3:4 Zjv 3:5 Zjv 3:12 Zjv 3:21 Zjv 7:9 - Zjv 7:17 Zjv 14:13

 20   which.
Zjv 22:18
Surely.
Zjv 22:7 Zjv 22:10 Zjv 22:12


 21   Amen.
Zjv 1:18 Pies 8:14 Iz 25:9 Jn 21:25 2Tim 4:8 Hebr 9:28 2Pt 3:12 - 2Pt 3:14
Zjv 1:4; Rim 1:7, Rim 16:20,Rim 16:24; 2Kor 13:14; Ef 6:23, Ef 6:24; 2Sol 3:18 CONCLUDING REMARKS ON THE BOOK OF REVELATION. The obscurity of this prophecy, which has been urged against its genuineness, necessarily results from the highly figurative and symbolical language in which it is delivered, and is, in fact, a strong internal proof of its authenticity and divine original. "For it is a part of this prophecy," as Sir Isaac Newton justly remarks, "that it should not be understood before the last age of the world; and therefore it makes for the credit of the prophecy that it is not yet understood. The folly of interpreters has been to foretell times and things by this prophecy, as if God designed to make them prophets. By this rashness they have not only exposed themselves, but brought the prophecy also into contempt. The design of God was much otherwise. He gave this, and the prophecies of the Old Testament, not to gratify men's curiosities by enabling them to foreknow things, but that, after that they were fulfilled, they might be interpreted by the event; and his own providence, not the interpreter's, be then manifested thereby to the world. For the event of things, predicted many ages before, will then be a convincing argument that the world is governed by Providence. For, as the few and obscure prophecies concerning Christ's first coming were for setting up the Christian religion, which all nations have since corrupted, so the many and clear prophecies concerning the things to be done at Christ's second coming, are not only for predicting, but also for effecting a recovery and re-establishment of the long-lost truth, and setting up a kingdom wherein dwells righteousness. The event will prove the Apocalypse; and this prophecy, thus proved and understood, will open the old prophets; and all together will make known the true religion, and establish it. There is already so much of the prophecy fulfilled, that as many as will take pains in this study may see sufficient instances of God's promise; but then, the signal revolutions predicted by all the holy prophets, will at once both turn men's eyes upon considering the predictions, and plainly interpret them. Till then we must content ourselves with interpreting what hath already been fulfilled." And, as Mr. Weston observes, "if we were in possession of a complete and particular history of Asia, not only of great events, without person or place, names or dates, but of the exactest biography, geography, topography, and chronology, we might, perhaps, still be able to explain and appropriate more circumstances recorded in the Revelation, under the emperors of the East and the West, and in Arabia, Persia, Tartary, and Asia, the seat of the most important revolutions with which the history of Christianity has ever been interwoven and closely connected." History is the great interpreter of prophecy. "Prophecy is, as I may say," observes Bp. Newton, "history anticipated and contracted; history is prophecy accomplished and dilated; and the prophecies of Scripture contain the fate of the most considerable nations, and the substance of the most memorable transactions in the world, from the earliest to the latest times. Daniel and St. John, with regard to those latter times, are more copious and particular than the other prophets. They exhibit a series and succession of the most important events from the first of the four great empires to the consummation of all things. Their prophecies may really be said to be a summary of the history of the world; and the history of the world is the best comment upon their prophecies....and the more you know of ancient and modern times, and the farther you search into the truth of history, the more you will be satisfied of the truth of prophecy." The Revelation was designed to supply the place of that continued succession of prophets, which demonstrated the continued providence of God to the patriarchal and Jewish churches. "The majority of commentators on the Apocalypse," says Mr. Townsend, "generally acted on these principles of interpretation. They discover in this Book certain predictions of events which were fulfilled soon after they were announced; they trace in the history of later years various coincidences, which so fully agree with the various parts of the Apocalypse, that they are justly entitled to consider them as the fulfilment of its prophecies; and, by thus tracing the one God of revelation through the clouds of the dark ages, through the storms of revolutions and wars, through the mighty convulsions which at various periods have agitated the world, their interpretations, even when they are most contradictory, when they venture to speculate concerning the future, are founded on so much undoubted truth that they have materially confirmed the wavering faith of thousands. Clouds and darkness must cover the brightness of the throne of God, till it shall please him to enable us to bear the brighter beams of his glory. In the mean time, we trace his footsteps in the sea of the Gentile world, his path in the mighty waters of the ambitions and clashing passions of man. We rejoice to anticipate the day when the bondage of Rome, which would perpetuate the intellectual and spiritual slavery of man, shall be overthrown, and day-spring of united knowledge and holiness bless the world."