We looked at the first verses of Revelation 22 and looking at what God has planned for us for all of eternity. We have already seen that there is a river of life flowing from the river of God in Revelation 22:1 and a tree of life in Revelation 22:2, so life is predominant. We are going to have eternal life in the presence of the Lord forever if we know Christ as our Savior and that life is going to be a life where satisfaction is guaranteed by the river of life, and we are sustained by the tree of life.
In Revelation 22:3 we have some other depictions of our life in eternity and in the new Jerusalem. Much like earlier in Revelation 21, the glories of eternal life are so precious and wonderful that it is hard to even explain what it is like. So, we have some negatives here actually. It says, “There will no longer be any curse.” So, there is the picture of the curse. What he says here is that there is no longer any curse. What would the curse be? We will look a little later at Genesis and the cursing of humanity. If we go to Revelation 21:4, he has talked about this before, he says, “and He will wipe away every tear from their eyes; and there will no longer be any death; there will no longer be any mourning, or crying, or pain; the first things have passed away.” So, part of the curse is sadness, heartbreak, pain, suffering, and death. All these kinds of things are part of the life of humanity. It is how we live. It is the things we face because of the fallenness of ourselves because of sin. Those things are no longer going to be around. All those things are going to be removed in eternity. That is what he says in Revelation 21. He comes back to it here now in Revelation 22:3 and says once again there will no longer be any curse. So, I think that is what he is talking about at this point.
We want to go back to Genesis 3 now, and look at the original curse that we find here in Genesis 3:17-19 where we see a bit more of this curse, “Then to Adam He said, ‘Because you have listened to the voice of your wife, and have eaten from the tree about which I commanded you, saying, ‘You shall not eat from it’; Cursed is the ground because of you; In toil you will eat of it All the days of your life . . .
