REVELATION - 21 4-9

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BOOK OF REVELATION

     [A voice from the midst of the throne continues, makes proclaimation] - 4 - “He will wipe away every tear from their eyes. Death is no more, nor mourning, nor crying, nor pain. For the former has passed away.”

     5 And he who was seated on the throne said, “Behold, I make all new.” [All - pas - every, all, the whole]. And he said to me (John), “Write for these words are faithful, and they are true.

     6 It is done. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning — and the end. To the one thirsting, I will give from the spring of the water of life freely. {Now.} 7 The one overcoming will inherit all and I will be present with them and they will be my sons and daughters. [Eimi - to be, to exist, to happen, to be present.]

     8 But” {I think of this as narrative spoken outside of the vision} “as for the cowardly, the faithless” {now, and still at Jesus’ appearing} “the having become abominable, the murderers, and sexually immoral, and sorcerers [pharmakos], idolaters, and the liars - their portion is in the {armageddon} lake burning [kaió - kindled, set fire to] with fire and sulfur which {ultimately} is the second death.” {First death is the one through Adam, second, is the death of death? And of imperfection/entropy. The armageddon lake is the death of empire.. half done.. Or one third done, as there are the three mentions of lake of fire - At Armageddon; At the adversary’s fiery final defeat; And at the fiery Regeneration/Regenesis, Greek word, palin(again)genesis. ..Interesting, death of empire, death of the adversary, which both belong to death, so all wound up in the death of death. All of it the second (and final) death. Per God’s plan who saw all possibilities from the beginning.} {Armageddon, and the entire apocalypse is man done - made up largely of carbon which has 6 protons, 6 neutrons and 6 electrons - not God done except he created a cause and effect universe (as opposed to an ant farm?) Total Ant Farm versus Total ‘Herd’ Immunity.}

     9 Then came to me (John) one of the seven angels, the one who had been holding the seven bowls full of the seven last plagues [plégé - a blow, stripe, wound; an affliction, plague] {imo, thermonuclear effects, Isaiah 24:20/Rev.10:4}. And now he said to me, “Come, I will show you the Bride, the wife of the Lamb.”

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