This today is very much a wonderful day in the Lord! We begin to get a picture of what life will be like for all of eternity for those that know Christ as Lord and Savior starting in Revelation 21:5. It’s a wonderful picture beyond our comprehension, but we do get glimmers and peeks of what it will be like.
Look at Revelation 21:5, “And He who sits on the throne said, ‘Behold, I am making all things new.” And He said, “Write, for these words are faithful and true.’” All things are going to be new. There are not going to be any leftovers or any old taints of sin. It is all new. It is all different and as a matter of fact, in Revelation 21:6 it says, “Then He said to me, ‘It is done.’” All this destruction and all that has tried to disrupt the Lord and His people, and all these years is now over. What was lost at the Garden of Eden has now been regained. It is done! The battles are over. Sin has been destroyed. Satan is in the lake of fire and all those who have rejected Christ are also separated from Him. So, it is done!
Revelation 21:6 continues, “I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give to the one who thirsts from the spring of the water of life without cost.” Christ describes Himself as the “Alpha and Omega,” the first and last letters of the Greek alphabet. The beginning and the end. That leads to His offer. The offer of quenching the spiritual thirst of all who come to Him for the waters of life without cost. This is a metaphor that goes back into the Old Testament. Think of Isaiah 55 that uses the same picture of Jesus with the woman at the well. In John 4, we also see very similar things in some of Jesus’ pictures. This is not brand new. It brings the threads all together, and He is going to give to those who thirst the water of life so they can have eternal life. It costs nothing! It cost Christ the cross, but it doesn’t cost us anything except to receive it. It says in Revelation 21:7, “He who overcomes will inherit these things, and I will be his God and he will be My son.” We are going to receive these things as an inheritance because we know Him. Because we are in Him, we will receive all these things and He will be our God and we will be His son . . .
