Revelation Chapter 22 Commentary
Expanded Yeshuan Apostolic Record Commentary on the Book of Revelation
This 22-volume collection offers a chapter by chapter expanded commentary on the book "Revelations on Revelation" by Shawn McCraney. This collection is a part of the Yeshuan Apostolic Record Commentary Collection, offering extended insights and clarifications on the entire purpose and place of the Apostolic Record (typically referred to as the New Testament) from a fulfilled perspective. It includes significant facts from various translations, commentaries, and historical contexts, as it expands on the footnotes in Revelations on Revelation. Volume 22 concludes the collection with Revelation chapter 22: the river and tree of life, the final warnings, and the closing words of the book. It explains how chapters 21 and 22 fit into the timeline of the whole Revelation, compares preterist views of these chapters, and closes with final considerations.
Sample: A Quick Explanation
John is still in the last vision which he received at the beginning of Chapter 21 where he said:
Revelation 21:1 And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea. 2 And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. 3 And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God.
I want to reiterate that all that John saw (and all that we have covered from Revelation 21 and what we will continue to cover in chapter 22 through verse 5) occurs after the second coming of Christ with reward for His saints and the destruction of Israel.
Again, from chapter 21 verse 1 through Revelation chapter 22 verse 5, John sees, in vision, what will be the case after Jesus has come, Jerusalem has been sacked, and the former covenant age has been wrapped up once and for all. I emphasize this because there are those who believe that what John is describing there is only to those who are of the Church in that day and age and they say this because after verse 5 (in Revelation 22) John continues to receive warnings from the angel and from Jesus about the approaching hour.
Let me explain this quickly.
My View
Chapters 1-20 Chapter 21-22:5 Chapter 22:6-end
All describe what Chapter 21 and Chapter 22:6-end is a return of Jesus and
was coming and what 22 through verses the angel warning John that everything was
led up to His return. 5 describe what came now ready to happen quickly which is a
after His return summary of the very first chapters message.
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Hyper-Preterist View or Israel Only View
Chapter 1-20 Chapter 21-22:5 Chapter 22:6-end
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All describe what The end described occurs This chapter and verses are simply to
was coming and what after all of Revelation tell the reader that everything that John
led up to His return. is over and applies only to writes is “ABOUT” to happen to THEM
those of that age and day.
Because John sees the New Jerusalem coming down from heaven and says that there is a NEW HEAVEN and a NEW earth and that in the New Jerusalem there is NO temple, I have to believe that what he was seeing was after Jesus had taken His bride. I say this because of the following:
- The New Age could NOT begin until all the things of the former age were gone – especially the temple. Hebrews makes this plain.
- The temple fell at the end of the siege, after all the murders, bloodshed and the city was overcome. The Bride was taken (saved) by this time by Christ who upon His return rescued the Saints from that certain destruction.
- Revelation 22:14, where it says: “Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city,” refers back to the description in Revelation 21! So, we know that at the end of Revelation 20, we COULD have had Revelation 22:6-end been added there, and then Revelation 21:1 through Revelation 22:1-5 end it up. But because God wanted to end the Revelation with a specific reminder to the Seven Churches that He was coming quickly, the book was written in the manner that it was.
- In other words, what John describes in Revelation has to have happened after EVERYTHING else in Revelation happened, including His coming quickly – otherwise the Bride was not ready to be presented and shown to John, neither was the New Jerusalem in place, and neither was the earth ready to be a new heaven and new earth that could bear the New Jerusalem which is central to the Kingdom eternally increasing with believers forevermore.
For these reasons I adamantly reject the hyper preterist fulfillment view which says nothing matters at all anymore and embrace a reasonable full preterist view that says, all that God needed to do for the salvation of man relative to the Nation of Israel, its Messiah and Bride are finished, and now the eternally increasing Kingdom rolls forward uninterrupted forevermore.