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Revelation 7:17
Revelation 7:9–17 answers the terror of the sixth seal with an innumerable multitude standing before God and the Lamb. They have come through great tribulation, washed their robes in the Lamb’s blood, and now serve before God’s throne. The closing promises—no more hunger, thirst, scorching heat, or tears—anticipate the final new-creation comfort of Revelation 21.
Revelation's Lamb who shepherds God's people reaches back to Ezekiel 34's promise of God's Davidic shepherd.
God wiping away tears in Revelation 7:17 reuses Isaiah 25:8's promise bound to the defeat of death.
The Good Shepherd who lays down his life is climactically portrayed in Revelation as the Lamb who shepherds the redeemed. Revelation fuses John’s Good Shepherd and Lamb images.
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