What Does Revelation 22:21 Mean?
The favor of the Lord Jesus, the Anointed One, be with the set-apart ones. Amen.
Key words are shown with the Hebrew or Greek and what each word meant.
Selah Decoded Version The Selah Decoded Version renders what the Hebrew and Greek words meant to the people who first heard them.
King James wording
King James Version
The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.THE KEY
Revelation closes with favor spoken as a shared presence, extending to “you all” before the final Amen.
THE MEANING
The Lord Jesus Christ’s favor is spoken over you and the whole community now; “all” leaves no one outside its address. Amen gives that shared blessing its closing assent.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The belief that the Lord’s favor is reserved for a select few is undone by the blessing’s direct address to “you all.”
THE ROOT
χάρις
charis
GROWS FROM
χάρ-
favor; gracious giving
This word-family holds favor together with gift and free granting: favor is not only named but shown as something given. The verse places that given favor with the whole community.
ALSO GROWS
charisma: gift; a gracious gift
χάρισμα
It names what favor gives, showing that the verse’s favor can be received as an actual gift.
charizomai: to grant freely, show favor; in some contexts, forgive
χαρίζομαι
This verb expresses favor as generous granting or release; here, favor is spoken as a freely given presence.
THE PATTERN
Divine favor is spoken as a presence that rests with people and is shared across the whole community.
The LORD make his face shine upon you, and bend toward you.And with great power the sent ones rendered their witness to the standing up of the Lord Jesus, and great favor was upon them all.The favor of the Lord Jesus, the Anointed One, and the love of God, and the sharing in common of the Set-Apart Breath, be with you all. Amen.THE THREAD
Let us therefore draw near, with open speech, to the throne of favor, that we may receive compassion, and find favor to help in the right moment.Hebrews describes this same favor as help found in time of need, giving Revelation’s closing blessing a concrete shape. Favor accompanies the reader into need as accessible aid.
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