Synthetic Bible Studies by James Gray

• Title Page
• Pentateuch
• History
• Poetry
• Prophets
• Post Captivity Prophets
• Gospels, Acts
• Pauline Epistles
• General Epistles
  • Lesson 56: Hebrews
  • Lesson 57: James
  • Lesson 58: I Peter
  • Lesson 59: II Peter
  • Lesson 60: I John
  • Lesson 61: II and III John
  • Lesson 62: Jude
  • Lesson 63: The Revelation

The student will be struck by the comparison evidently intended to be drawn between the picture in Revelation 22:1-4, and the story of the garden of Eden and the expulsion of our first parents.

9. Conclusion or postscript to the book (Revelation 21:6-21). In this conclusion there is nothing more solemn than that stated in Revelation 21:11, which emphasizes the thought that “the punishment of sin is sin, just as the reward of holiness is holiness” “Eternal punishment is not so much an arbitrary law as a result necessarily following in the very nature of things as the fruit results from the bud.” In this same connection notice the allusion to the eternity of sin in Revelation 21:15.

May God quicken us who know these things to do our duty in bearing witness to them, that some by all means may be saved. This duty is set before us in Revelation 21:17: “He which testifieth these things saith, surely, I come, quickly. Amen. Even so, come, Lord Jesus!”