no more curse (revelation 22:3)

Exegetical Studies in Revelation

This message was preached at New Testament Christian Fellowship in Claremont, NC on July 31, 2022. Its focus is the detailed blueprint of the New Jerusalem, the Lamb’s wife, as unveiled in Revelation 21:10-22:5, particularly the city’s CIVIC AFFAIRS (22:1-5). In verses 3-5 of this final chapter of Revelation, we look at the INTERNAL affairs of the New Jerusalem, its municipal administrations that direct inward: IDYLLIC SOCIETY (22:3a); DIRECT ACCESS (22:3b); and GUARANTEED LIVELIHOOD (22:3c-5). Inside the city limits of the New Jerusalem during the Millennial Reign of the Lord Jesus Christ, there will be none of what befell the earth following man’s Fall in the Garden of Eden—a foretaste within the city walls of what will extend to all of creation in the new heavens and the new earth. There will be neither hurt nor destruction in God’s holy mountain (e.g. the New Jerusalem suspended above the earth), and the lion will lie down with the lamb—idyllic society inside a great big international park administered by the Bride of Christ (Isaiah 11; Micah 4). And, there will be direct face-to-face PHYSICAL ACCESS to God’s Throne, what born-again believers only enjoy now in the spiritual through prayer. May these patterns and visions of future blessings make us ashamed of our lukewarmness and thereby strengthen our hands in these dark times. Let us live as if to be a doorkeeper in the mountain of the Lord’s House, where there will be no more curse, is far better than to dwell in the great big circus tent of wickedness that is the United States of America (Psalm 84:10).