A Brighter Day Begins with His Word.

Alfred Plummer [1841-1926] • SECTION 485

The Pulpit Commentary — Revelation — Section 485

← The Pulpit Commentary — Revelation

·::t,).'8'..~.;.s,.~ n,w.mor'4,pr~. "~nd he.SIP.id unt.o me/Write.for theee~orda a.reJ~alJ4.JaitWul,r etc, §ollle,reroarks,on -the new meral ereation were offered in ow Ja.11t; hoinily:, and. w•re -aµg~, by the l&11t: .c>,&use of the fiftll verse-. 'l'he sub• i~t ·119w js,thti OMffl'I~ Q,:~wr. •. Who is, he that itings into iixiatence on cillr E}~~t a new ~rder .of; spiritual t)iinga, that creates a. new lllQtal. heavens and earth? ;I'M- ;repre)iep~tion Jie,:e gives us: to understand th,at he is One. who is o.ll-truthful, P~r¥icig,c infinitely benllii~t, ..&Urpassiiigly condescending, and essentially .11in- re&.1~1ng,_, ,·., . . .. , . . , -,:, f,, . .., . - · . _-J.. 1!-F: IB. I~JUJTA.BLY TBUTJUmL., ''. For ~e.se; words are true .and faithful" ( ver. 5). What words? The words that ba.d reference to the things ;bat had alniady oome to,, ·P¥.a,.,.-Wpat _hti:l1ad pr9mq;ed ~ml, wkat.-he h&d threatened, had. come ,to pass. Wtm,f,411,,lws ~ppken .Jj\Ot only _l.ias, been.done, but-is being dolle, and ·must be done. ll~,i~ ~:P,e T.n.ith,; ~-una.lteral!le, &ality, the,1;1ne lwck that stands hnmovable amidst ll,li ,t,b,1tfliJ.c~~ti!)lll of,qeatui:e thought and speclilatiou. Whatever in oreature-.,pmion is CP,_µfo,P.lll~ to,b,im i4 IIJ~tiv;ely true and: beneficent, _and whatever disagrees ia false ~~w:~~A.,Wl'ING. _: "I am Alpha and Qmega,(th• .Alph~ and th~ Omega]. t,he::&egipping and, $e ~nd" (ver. 6); Be is witho.at a beginning, without a. sueceseion, without a.n end; the Ca1188, the Means, the End.of all things but sin. AU that exist ~ql)gb.oit,~mmensity a.re but, evoll\tions of him; ever multiplying and growing pr~}l~ from him, the eiern~ ROQ\. The c11,pability of forming :iuch a *ru>t1Jht ia the ilorlf:of Ollt lllltu~e:f_ffifftf(l)"!tU~ ~~ly ~'te~ms, it ts _th~· ~ly ni~ ~-~~ mg•tr~tnetttal.t1t.·8lld'p~relill!•~-· :· ·:;. . "" . , . . .,. ,., . ,.. ,1 , , "' ,. ' 41Jl'.,.H» U''norn:i1Tl!ll'.l'' llib!Rl'romti+. " l will,g1y1 unt.h 'hitn tbat ilJ)Atli.lii1h)f.' tlie foun'llalll"uf 'the wat!l"'ot Jl.ferfffl!lj'"'(\ier; 6)i· ·~1\liitil?el;~:r tliiri!lting~·.f·-O:f1.tl •filmal IKl!llJ&tlonv; none• ia':mdile'~tli.Ei~ •tblll!. a bumittgj-'uffqtt:enc'iied. tltit$ti a· &t-1!001'1thirat utiqbenoled iitcfaid1Me ILMdnizin~K:na dtlstmctl~. ,rfAinh!<fut.:thihllt sreietiis~ bndnUlit ih1nnimi:sprlng ~f ,a}lrhu~n aondrls;-,,· liWhO'~ -aih,ow'11S •1!1·goocl,1\l~1~,~ to, be, tbrbrJ :ar•alk•; Tkm 'thhist' tiiere ,fa One anddonly Oiie wh«>"c&rl qulincll, an:d:\ftlr thtili·tJtc iii cever11torkingI • ,ne:·wur~ fotth in aIJ 'dirootio~· tlle-~eshfug-1\mit-ery~ streaQl.s/ ·-AM all, thls·••fre-tly,v, without any oooroibn; li~t.&tto!I, 'JIBftiaUty~or-~; frile)y: .:as he gives' the beam1fof .otiay and the wa~ of. ;~iUI. air:· Frutn thlf,'be&Ye~~ 1

abo:¥11;•1'bd· t~ eatth beneath ,and- 1 the·watm-s ull!tk!lr tJweareb, toore ~ f@t1ll· !Ma hlm, mr t\'oM' ·an e\'ez;-aotitlg, fathoml&a'f 3'd i.BekhatsliiiWEi"_~n\i\t:u; tbat'".itbich'· 'de.a quemik thi, 1J'.hirBU1f.li.l.11tum.lin s1~s, ·· . • •: :, . ,. ,- u .1; . ,, ,:! ! •:.· . .'; 11 ,•,,1: ·n, ,., '.i! 1 ·,

,•IV.;::H,: m suRPA!jfflfooy OO!fnscmm:r&-G; · ••eHe, that• ovemometn shall' iolilltit till ['thesej,tklll'g9; a➔ l'rwil.l 'b& ~"!s God;_a~d'he eHall_b~'i#y sbn>I are-h~te stared wfilr1b:auggesttb1s atnazlng·oon~scertBlon, t. M:hcog'll,1~ q f ~ (~~J.'.-''i).·:.''.1'.,d tip.~s md!vidual man w1t<?, does ~is duty.. '4• Hif' that ovel'e,inn~h t11li~ inil.~ri~ ~ ''i¥i11~ 1

f1W be• shoultl ~•oe man· m the nughty ajtgrega.te :may 'wel~ Jm~ss tte ·\t1ffiJ~1s oon- desoensi6n:,1 hut that·he should notice md1viduill mm, hownnich ~ f ' •Hare 'we- hai'e the· '1nh-6nle_ won b:t' ~if-'clm<Jtlesl._ N~: 1 (1) Se14i-'conqueat a&_tlJe grand ~k '&f mlm. What lis: :it;' overeomee aelf~ 1''A tnlit't tnayl ovel:l!bme· .-ether& 'bf'yioll!riffl!~··ov~ji 1 1

dHllWltil!!:l in, bis ~ r ptm11its,. ovetoomti the ·rorces of ·natute •11o: u· to' tmtke thilnl snbser,~,hls will, 11i1d_yet not ovetoom8 himself. ·•SeU-t;ongu~ti. i~~iudes•·aW I ~ 1i\¥o thmp'llfie 1111bordlnli.tlen·~ the bddy to 'lhe :sooi,-aM therettliordmation"e:tl;iti\;:,MH,1 to 1

11!/fflpatli!f :wifli ll'!f!: ''l'~ «oul may tule "tilt oody~ bid i4. !h'ay' riile/Ul fo{·Bijlfie11~ onoe{>ihral, oil· hin'bitfoml ~uds. Su!)h Ii rul~· would u1M· •be-·t1elt1conqu~t. "fl'!i&' eblif ~"t>e. rulM ·b)" ,sy-m-pathy :'ititli G6d, sympatliy Wit_h ·hitJ: 'tha~!i t hik !G{iei~ti.bn, bill platts.:, In theiie two thi'DltS tselkonqu&it eon~ists, 'a'!ili-'l!bclinoon:9.ill'l!tsf'rilqft'ire hi.~l~-friisoruw_,·, 'braVil, tu,tsistent;>-irivineib~e i:iattling;"'' (El lf-tlOp~dest iil'wfn,tiitig Se_

Public domain historical Pulpit Commentary. Source page identifies the volume as Public Domain; text extracted from its historical PDF.

Project Gutenberg source record →