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December 19th Evening
“And there was no more sea.” — Revelation 21:1
Scarcely could we rejoice at the thought of losing the glorious old ocean: the new heavens and the new earth are none the fairer to our imagination, if, indeed, literally there is to be no great and wide sea, with its gleaming waves and shelly shores. Is not the text to be read as a metaphor, tinged with the prejudice with which the Oriental mind universally regarded the sea in the olden times? A real physical world without a sea it is mournful to imagine, it would be an iron ring without the sapphire which made it precious. There must be a spiritual meaning here. In the new dispensation there will be no division — the sea separates nations and sunders peoples from each other. To John in Patmos the deep waters were like prison walls, shutting him out from his brethren and his work: there shall be no…
such barriers in the world to come. Leagues of rolling billows lie between
us and many a kinsman whom to-night we prayerfully remember, but in
the bright world to which we go there shall be unbroken fellowship for all
the redeemed family. In this sense there shall be no more sea. The sea is
the emblem of change; with its ebbs and flows, its glassy smoothness and
its mountainous billows, its gentle murmurs and its tumultuous roarings, it
is never long the same. Slave of the fickle winds and the changeful moon,
its instability is proverbial. In this mortal state we have too much of this;
earth is constant only in her inconstancy, but in the heavenly state all
mournful change shall be unknown, and with it all fear of storm to wreck
our hopes and drown our joys. The sea of glass glows with a glory
unbroken by a wave. No tempest howls along the peaceful shores of
paradise. Soon shall we reach that happy land where partings, and changes,
and storms shall be ended! Jesus will waft us there. Are we in Him or not?
This is the grand question.
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Voice Artist: Ian Cullen
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“And there was no more sea.” — Revelation 21:1
Scarcely could we rejoice at the thought of losing the glorious old ocean: the new heavens and the new earth are none the fairer to our imagination, if, indeed, literally there is to be no great and wide sea, with its gleaming waves and shelly shores. Is not the text to be read as a metaphor, tinged with the prejudice with which the Oriental mind universally regarded the sea in the olden times? A real physical world without a sea it is mournful to imagine, it would be an iron ring without the sapphire which made it precious. There must be a spiritual meaning here. In the new dispensation there will be no division — the sea separates nations and sunders peoples from each other. To John in Patmos the deep waters were like prison walls, shutting him out from his brethren and his work: there shall be no…
such barriers in the world to come. Leagues of rolling billows lie between
us and many a kinsman whom to-night we prayerfully remember, but in
the bright world to which we go there shall be unbroken fellowship for all
the redeemed family. In this sense there shall be no more sea. The sea is
the emblem of change; with its ebbs and flows, its glassy smoothness and
its mountainous billows, its gentle murmurs and its tumultuous roarings, it
is never long the same. Slave of the fickle winds and the changeful moon,
its instability is proverbial. In this mortal state we have too much of this;
earth is constant only in her inconstancy, but in the heavenly state all
mournful change shall be unknown, and with it all fear of storm to wreck
our hopes and drown our joys. The sea of glass glows with a glory
unbroken by a wave. No tempest howls along the peaceful shores of
paradise. Soon shall we reach that happy land where partings, and changes,
and storms shall be ended! Jesus will waft us there. Are we in Him or not?
This is the grand question.
To make sure you never miss an episode, please subscribe today wherever you listen to podcasts.
Producer: Todd Adkins
Voice Artist: Ian Cullen
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