He will wipe away every tear from their eyes.
The Bible's last picture of how the story ends.
The episode in a glance.
- 01A new heaven and a new earth — not escape from creation, but its renewal.
- 02God will dwell with his people — the original design restored.
- 03He himself wipes the tears — personal, intimate.
- 04Death, mourning, crying, pain — all gone, for good.
Read along.
Revelation 21 paints the Bible's final picture: a new heaven and a new earth, the holy city coming down from God. And then this line: 'He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away.'
Notice it's not escape from creation. It's creation renewed. God didn't make a mistake the first time. He's finishing what he started.
'God himself will be with them.' The original design from Eden — God with his people — fully and finally restored.
'He will wipe away every tear.' Not an angel. Not an automated system. He himself. Personal. Intimate. The hand of God meeting the face of his child.
'Death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain.' Every category of suffering, named and abolished. That's how the story ends — and how the new story, with no ending, begins.