Revelation 8

Revelation 8:1

I have not written unto you, etc. John writes to them as those who know the truth, and know how to discern between the truth and lies.

Revelation 8:2

Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? Hence they will know how to reject these antichrists who lyingly deny Jesus Christ.

Revelation 8:3

Whosoever denieth the Son, the same hath not the Father. All who deny the Father and the Son are antichrist; so also those who reject the Son cannot have the Father.

Revelation 8:4

Let that therefore abide in you. The truth concerning the Father and the Son which Anti-Christ denies. Ye also shall continue. He who remains steadfast in this faith will “continue in the Son, and in the Father”.

Revelation 8:5

And this is the promise. This promise, “[even] eternal life”, is made to all who abide in the Son and in the Father.

Revelation 8:6

These [things] have I written unto you concerning them that seduce you. All these words about Anti-Christ; all in 1 John 2:18-29 is to put them on their guard against false teachers.

Revelation 8:7

But the anointing which ye have received, abideth in you. See 1 John 2:20. This anointing is spoken of because it furnishes them a means of guarding against the false teachers and seducers. The passage does not teach a continuous revelation, or that we are to be led by the inner light, but that God has given us means of knowing whether men speak the truth. Ye need not that any man should teach you. There is another fountain of knowledge so that ye need not the aid of these opposing teachers. As the same anointing teacheth of you all things. The Holy Spirit bestowed upon you. It was the promise of Christ that the Spirit should “guide you into all the truth” (John 16:13). The Holy Spirit was thus imparted to the apostles and through them spiritual gifts were imparted everywhere in the early church. Among these gifts were wisdom, knowledge, prophecy, and discerning of spirits. These extraordinary gifts continued until the Holy Spirit had prepared the New Testament to guide the church (1 Corinthians 13:8). Now we have the Word of God, which the Holy Spirit has given us, and the presence of the Spirit with us to fit us for understanding. The word and the unction still teach us all things.

Revelation 8:8

Abide in him. By continuing in the truth taught of God.

Revelation 8:9

If ye know that he is righteous. A life of righteousness shows that we have the life of Christ, and hence is proof that we have been “born of him”.

Revelation 8:11

Children Born of God SUMMARY OF I JOHN 3: The Marvellous Love of the Father. Sons of God Should Be Sinless. Christ Manifested to Remove Sin. Love the Proof That We Abide in God. The Spirit a Proof That We Abide in God. Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us. 1 John 2:29 speaks of the saints as born of God. That thought suggests the wonderful love in allowing us to be born again and thus to become God’s children. That we should be called the sons of God. What greater glory than to be acknowledged as sons of the King of Kings! Therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not. If the world does not know the Father it will not know his children.

Revelation 8:12

Now are we the sons of God. Already we have the great privilege of being sons, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be. Our future glory is not yet manifest. Even we ourselves cannot understand it. But we know that, when he shall appear. One glorious revelation has been made. At the coming of Christ we shall be like him. Then we shall be like him in body. See Philippians 3:21. We shall also be found morally in his image. For we shall see him as he is. To look upon him has power to change us into his glory. See 2 Corinthians 3:18.

Revelation 8:13

Every man that hath this hope. To have a hope of being like Christ leads us to try to be like Christ; hence, to be pure “as he is pure”.