![]() There will be a new heaven and a new earth. The pain and death, sorrow and tears, mourning and crying will come to an end with the rising of the Son. ![]() The darkness of the night will soon pass. 21:3-5}:Īnd I heard a loud voice from the throne, saying, “Behold, the tabernacle of God is among men, and He will dwell among them, and they shall be His people, and God Himself will be among them, 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.” 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.” We witness this dawning in the word about the coming of the new heaven and the new earth (Rev. The long night of suffering is about to end. When you see the morning star, you know the sun will rise soon. The morning star (Venus) is the brightest at the dawn. This prophecy ends with his self-identifying as the bright Morning Star. This is the opening verse of his prophecy of his return (vs. 22:16) as he speaks prophetically of his soon dawning: “Behold, I am coming soon!” (Rev. Jesus identifies himself as “the bright Morning Star” (Rev. He is the one who brought life from death, who turned the darkness of the tomb into the resurrection morning. The bright and morning star is no less than the person of Jesus Christ. It is in the east, at the womb of the dawn, that the morning star shines its brightest. John Calvin notes the French translation: “Des la matrice, comme de, l’estoille du matin,” “Out of the womb, as if from or out of the star of the morning.” In the dawn comes the resurrection of the dead. ![]() Wake up and shout for joy, you who dwell in the dustĬelebrate the dew of the morning.Here the reference is to the resurrection of the dead: The womb gives birth to a new day, the dew provides the vigor to sustain the youth.Ī similar image is found in Isaiah 26:19:īut your dead will live, LORD their bodies will rise– let those who dwell in the dust wake up and shout for joy– your dew is like the dew of the morning the earth will give birth to her dead. The womb of the dawn and the dew of your youth refer to the beginning of the day, the dawn surrenders to the rising sun and the dew provides the moisture that freshens the new day. And these phrases create parallel and complementary pictures. ![]() In his blog, El Shaddai Edwards reflects, “The womb of dawn is the unfolding of the day, the flowers that open and spread their petals to grasp the sun and the freshening dew.”īoth parts of the verse contain powerful and poetic images. This part of the Psalm is translated “from the east you receive your renewed vigor.” The womb of the dawn carries the idea of the place in the East where the sun is born it is the “day break” in the east. David, the shepherd king, spent nights with the sheep, waiting for the dawn and the beginning of a new day, David the poet and hymn writer who took images from life and creation and turned them into Psalms that generations have sung and read. The phrase is found in a psalm of David (110). If I were a poet, which I am not, I would write a poem with this as the title. There is something beautiful and clarion about these words. In my morning devotions recently I came across a beautiful phrase, the “womb of the dawn.”
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