Revelation 7:16

16 "They will never again be hungry, they will never again be thirsty, the sun will not beat down on them, nor will any burning heat.

Revelation 7:16 Meaning and Commentary

Revelation 7:16

They shall hunger no more, nor thirst any more
The words are taken out of ( Isaiah 49:10 ) , and will be true in a literal and corporeal sense. Now the saints are often in hunger and thirst, then they shall be so no more; and in a mystical and spiritual sense, there will be no famine of the word; for though there will not be the outward ministration of the word, as now, the substance of it will be enjoyed, to full satisfaction; nor will there be any uneasy desires after spiritual things, and much less any hungerings and thirstings, or lusting after carnal, sensual, and earthly things.

Neither shall the sun light on them, nor any heat;
not the sun of persecution, see ( Matthew 13:6 Matthew 13:22 ) ; nor the heat of Satan's temptations, or his fiery darts; nor of any fiery trial, or sore affliction; nor of the divine displeasure, or any fearful sense and apprehension of it; nor of toil and labour, called the burden and heat of the day, from all which they will be now free.

Revelation 7:16 In-Context

14 "Sir," I answered, "you know." Then he told me, "These are the people who have come out of the Great Persecution. They have washed their robes and made them white with the blood of the Lamb.

15 That is why they are before God's throne. "Day and night they serve him in his Temple; and the One who sits on the throne will put his Sh'khinah upon them.

16 "They will never again be hungry, they will never again be thirsty, the sun will not beat down on them, nor will any burning heat.

17 "For the Lamb at the center of the throne will shepherd them, will lead them to springs of living water, and God will wipe every tear from their eyes."