You should be making fresh discoveries about Jesus Christ which you had never known before--Is your experience ankle deep--or, "a river to swim in? But whatever subsisted then, that which the Spirit here presents as a whole cannot be found realized at any point of time in the past. Babylon is the parent of the "abominations of the earth." And they said Alleluia a second time; and her smoke goeth up unto the ages of the ages." It does not mean persons merely, but the souls of beheaded persons. If there was any Gentile power since John's day, which did not sustain but persecute and suppress Jerusalem, it was Rome, instead of being a gaudy harlot mounted on that vast empire. They were judged every man according to their works. How he brought them and said, "Lord you gave me five and I increased them and I now have ten." But that idea is wholly insufficient to cover or meet the word of God, which gives clear and strong reasons that prove the mistake of applying this to the pope as its complete fulfilment. It is because they don't attempt to or they attempted to spiritualize the meanings, and if you do that it becomes meaningless. . Lights, whether natural or artificial, are unnecessary, because God's glory fills every place (22-23). for the notion of healing, Apoc. 5 And there shall be no night there; and they need no candle, neither light of the sun; for the Lord God giveth them light: and they shall reign for ever and ever. It is God's gift to me by faith in Jesus Christ, faith alone. "He that testifieth these things saith, Surely I come quickly. In the millennium described in Eze 47:1-23 and Re 20:1-15, the Church shall give the Gospel-tree to the nations outside Israel and the Church, and so shall heal their spiritual malady; but in the final and perfect new Jerusalem here described, the state of all is eternally fixed, and no saving process goes on any longer (compare Re 22:11). See: https://biblehub.com/hebrew/7495.htm. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.. He who is not circumcised." Things are just going to go on and on and on. * Idolatry is the awful stamp that she bears, and this too both in what she gives to man, and in what is written on her forehead before God. "Alive the two were cast into the lake of fire burning with brimstone." yielded her fruit every monthGreek, "according to each month"; each month had its own proper fruit, just as different seasons are now marked by their own productions; only that then, unlike now, there shall be no season without its fruit, and there shall be an endless variety, answering to twelve, the number symbolical of the world-wide Church (compare Note, see on [2748]Re 12:1; [2749]Re 21:14). My rewards are with Me and I'm going to reward every man according to his work. But in the final and heavenly city on earth, sin and death shall utterly cease. So, read Revelation 22:1-21 verses 1 and 2 with understanding. It falls into three sections. But here there is none; a temple is for the earth. 19 Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. Have you ever linked Revelation 22:1-21 verses 1 and 2 with Ezekiels vision in chapter 47 of his prophecy? It is only God and man now. The church is heavenly; and in heaven there are no times nor seasons. Hence He must have come back previously to both. It was not like a tree that bears but once a year, or in one season only, but it constantly bore fruit - it bore every month. And now you can buy some trees that have peaches and nectarines on them. Bearing twelve manner of fruits every month Leaves for the healing of the nations Norris' Commentary on the Book of Revelation. I do not doubt that there was a corrupt form in connection with Israel in times past.