Revelation Chapter 22
2022 - We are still in the vision, still symbolic, still outside the timeline.
Description of the New City continues. Geography rather than architecture this time. This verse:
1 Then the angel showed me the river of the water of life, bright as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb [Rev 22:1 ESV]
Worded as if there is only one throne, that of God AND the Lamb. Having completed their separate work, and with only pure, uncorrupt man and matter remaining, there is no longer a need for a go between. God Himself will be present with mankind, and angels, and earth. The God that operated in three persons to this point, does no longer. They are now the same. (This also is just me. Didn't see this in MSB. MSB makes no note of it at all. I suspect that the Greek makes it clear there are still two thrones, and it is only the translation that causes me to see it this way.)
Same sort of phrase is repeated in vs 3. "...the throne of God and of the Lamb". Not "the thrones of God and the Lamb". vs 23 of Chapter 21 is the last place that seems to separate the Father and the Son.
2022 - From the above, it looks like I picked up on the disappearing distinction between the Father and the Son previously. But this time through, I am seeing it repeated over and over, as if to make sure we don't miss it. In vs. 1, the words are theos and arnion. Both have genitive case, and both are singular. Throne is also singular. Furthermore, all are genitive case, so we know they all belong together. One throne, two occupants, Father and Son. Two Covenants, Abrahamic and New.
2024 - Or...maybe just how this is constructed in Greek. Couldn't it mean the throne of God and the throne of Lamb. Singular throne because there is only one for each of them? No...in Greek it looks like the Granville Sharp rule applies. There is a definite article in front of both theos and arnion. They are connected by kai. Throne also has a definite article. I think the Greek is making a clear point that this one throne - one only - is the same for the Father and the Son. Why does nothing else address this?
Ahh...Because it is NOT Granville Sharp and I think I have been "over-applying" it also. Here is the rule:
"When the copulative και connects two nouns of the same case, [viz. nouns (either substantive or adjective, or participles) of personal description, respecting office, dignity, affinity, or connection, and attributes, properties, or qualities, good or ill], if the article ὁ, or any of its cases, precedes the first of the said nouns or participles, and is not repeated before the second noun or participle, the latter always relates to the same person that is expressed or described by the first noun or participle: i.e. it denotes a farther description of the first-named person."
So here, there indeed ARE definite articles before BOTH nouns connected by kai. So on that basis alone, this is not a G-S instance. Further, the part in the [ ]'s seems to limit the "kind" of nouns in view - those of personal description. This is about a throne, not a person. Do I have that right? If so, then "pastors and teachers" most certainly IS G-S, but I'm not sure the others I have identified as G-S really are.
I found a whole long discussion of his rule here: https://www.logos.com/media/blog/PDF/Granville%20Sharp%20Rule.pdf
I downloaded this to peppe/documents/Bible Studies in pdf format to study later. For now, G-S does NOT apply, and definitely does not connect Father and Son as co-owners of the same throne. That is probably heresy.
2024 - But it continues in these verses:
3 No longer will there be anything accursed, but the throne of God and of the Lamb will be in it, and his servants will worship him. 4 They will see his face, and his name will be on their foreheads. [Rev 22:3-4 ESV].
Still looks like a single throne. HIS servants will worship Him, not THEIR servants will worship THEM. His and Him are GSM and DSM, but both definitely singular. What does this mean? Shouldn't this be important?
2022 - Vs 6
Here we seem to exit the vision of the future, and go all the way back to Chapter one, with one like the Son of Man talking directly to John.
And again this verse:
17 The Spirit and the Bride say, "Come." And let the one who hears say, "Come." And let the one who is thirsty come; let the one who desires take the water of life without price. [Rev 22:17 ESV]
The Spirit and the Bride, still together, unseparated, just as they were during the church age on earth. The earnest does not get returned to the one who paid it. It becomes incorporated into the final payment. So while Jesus and God are now one again, the Spirit still indwells each believer, each resident of the new heaven and the new earth.
2022 - I have not added much this year to the Chapter 22 notes. I don't think that's because there is little here, but because I have burned up all my gas over the last several days. That's just all I have for now.