Chapter summary
Revelation 21 Summary
Revelation 21 unveils the new heaven and new earth, where God dwells with his people and wipes away every tear in the New Jerusalem.
John sees ‘a new heaven and a new earth’ and the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down from God. A loud voice announces that God will dwell with humanity as their God.
He will ‘wipe every tear from their eyes,’ and death, mourning, and pain will be no more—‘the old order of things has passed away.’ The story of the Bible ends in restored paradise.
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Revelation 21:4 “‘He will wipe away every tear from their eyes,’ and there will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain, for the former things have passed away.”” Revelation 21:1 “Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and earth had passed away, and the sea was no more.”
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