Revelation 22:3-5 And there shall be no more curse: but the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it; and his servants shall serve him: And they shall see his face; and his name shall be in their foreheads. And there shall be no night there; and they need no candle, neither light of the sun; for the Lord God gives them light: and they shall reign for ever and ever.
‘No more curse’ there will be no more of the curse that came as a result of Lucifer and Adam’s rebellion. Conditions as before will prevail eternally and things will continue as if the curse had never been. All rebels will be confined to the lake of fire as an eternal monument of God’s wrath on sin and as a warning to coming generations in all eternity that sin does not pay. The New Heaven and New Earth and the new peoples will be the same ones we have today only in a new state. All things will be made new, not new things will be made to take the place of the old (21:5; 22:3). The curse is defined as follows:
The serpent was cursed because he was the first to yield to satan to cause the fall of man. The devil was too wise to begin with the very head of creation. He began instead with the highest of animal creation, whom Josephus says lived with Adam and Eve before the fall. Whether this is true or not, it is clear that he was capable of such subtle work. He made a league with Lucifer and started opposition to God’s Word, which has been satan’s sphere of activity ever since. The serpent was cursed above all creatures and was to go upon his belly and eat dust all his days (Isa. 65:25). He was deprived of walking upright and of his speech and became a poisonous, loathsome creature, despised by man whom he had betrayed and deceived (2 Cor. 11:3; 1 Tim. 2:14). The serpent was not the personal devil, but merely a tool of the devil and a creature of the field which God had made as clearly stated from Genesis 3:1.
The woman was the second of the Earth-creatures to be cursed because she was the second to yield to sin and the devil. After getting the serpent to yield to him the devil was determined to get the woman to sin and through her to get the man to rebel against God. Eve listened to the serpent and began to doubt God’s Word, and this doubt led to open transgression of the law. The curse upon the woman was, “I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shall bring forth children, and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.” Before the fall she was equal with the man in marriage, and childbirth was to be a pleasure without pain, but now she must be ruled by the man and have multiplied sorrow and conception. Now man is the recognized head of the woman in a marriage and should be her provider as well as for the whole household (1 Cor. 11:1-16; 14:34; Eph. 5:21-33; Col. 3:18; 1 Tim. 2:11-15; 1 Pet. 3:1-6).
The man was the third of the Earth-creatures to be cursed because he was the third to yield to sin and the devil. Both the serpent and the woman were factors in causing the head of creation to sin. God began His conversation with the rightful ruler of the Earth and worked down, tracing the guilt, while the devil began with the beast of the field and worked up in causing rebellion. Adam implied blame on the Creator, as well as his wife, when he said, “The woman whom thou gave to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat” (Gen. 3:12), and, we may add, man has been placing the blame on women ever since. In other words, he says, “God, if you had not given me the woman, I would not have sinned.” The woman laid the blame upon the serpent (Gen. 3:13), but the serpent did not lay the blame upon anybody. In this respect, beasts have higher principles than fallen man, who is always placing the blame of any wrongdoing upon someone else. When it comes to taking credit for some good deed, man generally wants the credit. Very few will be meek enough to give credit to the other fellow when he is due the praise.
The curse upon the man was: “Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shall not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shall thou eat of it all the days of thy life; thorns and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shall eat the herb of the field; In the sweat of thy face shall thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it was thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shall thou return” (Gen. 3:17-19). Man was driven out of paradise and kept from the Tree of Life. He was doomed to die and to pay the full penalty for the broken law.
The curse upon the ground was the final curse pronounced. It was to produce thorns, thistles, weeds, briars, and be more or less a wilderness, making it hard for man to make a living. It was to receive again the bodies of the new rebels which were to go back to dust again (Gen. 3:19; Eccl. 3:19-20; 12:7) until the resurrection and the judgment (1 Cor. 15:21-23; Rev. 20:4-15; Dan. 12:2; John 5:28-29). Thus the Earth enters its second curse and its second sinful career. It will remain cursed until the Millennium, when the desert shall again blossom like a rose (Isa.35). At the end of the Millennium, the Earth will be purified by fire and made new, wherein dwell righteousness (2 Pet. 3:10-13; Rev. 21-22).
Thus the whole creation is cursed and is under bondage until the final restitution of all things and until the Earth is rid of all sin and rebels (1 Cor. 15:24-28; Rom. 8:19-23; Heb. 12:25-28; Rev. 19:11 – 20:15; 21:1 – 22:5). The whole curse affected all Earth creations and even angels. The curse on satan affected the fallen angels and evil spirits; the curse on the serpent, the animal kingdom; the curse on man and woman, the whole of their posterity; and the curse on the Earth, the material creation.
‘His servants shall serve him’ the servants will be the faithful angels, redeemed people, and all other creatures that have not rebelled or that have been redeemed from all possibility of rebellion in all eternity (Eph. 1:10; 1Cor. 15:24-28).
‘They shall see his face; and his name shall be in their foreheads’ all creatures of the eternal state will actually look upon God’s face and His name shall be in their foreheads, as in Revelation 3:12; 7:1-8; 9:4 and 14:1. They shall reign and help God administer the affairs of the universe forever (1:6; 5:10; 22:5; Dan. 7:18, 27; Zech. 14:5; 1Cor. 6:1-2; 2Tim. 2:12; etc.).
End times: Prophetic Scriptures 