Rev. 22:3-5
3 And there shall be no more curse: but the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it; and his servants shall serve him:
4 And they shall see his face; and his name shall be in their foreheads.
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.
KJV
These are wonderful verses! We are promised that there won’t be any more curse! After seven thousand years, more or less, the curses will finally be over. And, the Throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in the city!
Verses 3b and 4 say that His servants shall serve him and shall be able to see His face with His authority upon (Greek: epi) their foreheads.
This is somewhat different than it was during the Millennium:
Ezek. 44:4-18
4 Then brought he me the way of the north gate before the house: and I looked, and, behold, the glory of the Lord filled the house of the Lord: and I fell upon my face.
5 And the Lord said unto me, Son of man, mark well, and behold with thine eyes, and hear with thine ears all that I say unto thee concerning all the ordinances of the house of the Lord, and all the laws thereof; and mark well the entering in of the house, with every going forth of the sanctuary.
6 And thou shalt say to the rebellious, even to the house of
7 In that ye have brought into my sanctuary strangers, uncircumcised in heart, and uncircumcised in flesh, to be in my sanctuary, to pollute it, even my house, when ye offer my bread, the fat and the blood, and they have broken my covenant because of all your abominations.
8 And ye have not kept the charge of mine holy things: but ye have set keepers of my charge in my sanctuary for yourselves.
9 Thus saith the Lord God; No stranger, uncircumcised in heart, nor uncircumcised in flesh, shall enter into my sanctuary, of any stranger that is among the children of
10 And the Levites that are gone away far from me, when Israel went astray, which went astray away from me after their idols; they shall even bear their iniquity.
11 Yet they shall be ministers in my sanctuary, having charge at the gates of the house, and ministering to the house: they shall slay the burnt offering and the sacrifice for the people, and they shall stand before them to minister unto them.
12 Because they ministered unto them before their idols, and caused the house of
13 And they shall not come near unto me, to do the office of a priest unto me, nor to come near to any of my holy things, in the most holy place: but they shall bear their shame, and their abominations which they have committed.
14 But I will make them keepers of the charge of the house, for all the service thereof, and for all that shall be done therein.
15 But the priests the Levites, the sons of Zadok, that kept the charge of my sanctuary when the children of Israel went astray from me, they shall come near to me to minister unto me, and they shall stand before me to offer unto me the fat and the blood, saith the Lord God:
16 They shall enter into my sanctuary, and they shall come near to my table, to minister unto me, and they shall keep my charge.
17 And it shall come to pass, that when they enter in at the gates of the inner court, they shall be clothed with linen garments; and no wool shall come upon them, whiles they minister in the gates of the inner court, and within.
18 They shall have linen bonnets upon their heads, and shall have linen breeches upon their loins; they shall not gird themselves with any thing that causeth sweat.
KJV
It won’t be just the priests of the house of Tsaadowq (“Zadok”) who will minister before God but ALL of His servants or slaves (Greek: douloi)!
Verse 5 again tells us there won’t be any night there (within the city, particularly before the Throne). It also says that His servants won’t need any artificial source of light like a “candle,” a lamp, a torch, a lantern, a flashlight, or anything else that people use to provide light. They won’t even need the light from the sun. NOTE though: He did NOT say that the light of the sun won’t be there, too; it’s just that there won’t be any need for the sun’s light within the city.
Sometimes, in our haste, we will miss an important point: Yochanan’s words for the last phrases are interesting: “for the Lord God giveth them light: and they shall reign for ever and ever.” The Greek wording is this:
hoti Kurios ho Theos footisei ep’ autous kai basileusousin eis tous aioonas toon aioonoon.
hoti = because
Kurios = Lord
ho = the
Theos = God
footisei = shines
ep’ = upon
autous = them
kai = and
basileusousin = they-shall-reign-(as-kings)
eis = into
tous = the
aioonas = ages
toon = of-the
aioonoon. = ages.
…because LORD (YHVH, ADONAI) the God shines upon them and they-shall-reign-(as-kings) into the ages of-the ages.
Just as Moshe (Moses) saw the LORD and his face literally shone, so anyone who serves before the LORD shall likewise shine as they reign as kings “into the ages of the ages.”
In the Messiah’s love,
Retrobyter
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