Revelation 22:1

proceeding from the throne of God and of the Lamb
The river proceeds from the throne because the source of all life is ultimately God (Job Job 33:4; Eze. Eze. 37:9; John John 1:4; John 14:6; Acts Acts 3:15; Rev. Rev. 11:11+).

There is no sea from which waters are raised by the sun, as in the present hydrologic cycle (Rev. Rev. 21:1+) and thus no rainfall to supply the river with its flow. Rather, it proceeds “out of the throne of God and of the Lamb,” high at the central pinnacle of the holy city. Evidently the mighty Creator is continually creating the waters, then sending them forth to give perpetual life and cleansing and beauty to the city and its inhabitants, and then on out into the uttermost parts of the new earth.¹

See commentary on Revelation 3:21 and Revelation 20:14.

On Jesus as the Lamb, see commentary on Revelation 5:6.

Notes

¹ Henry Morris, The Revelation Record (Wheaton, IL: Tyndale House Publishers, 1983), Rev. 22:1.