Hymns Based on Revelation 22:5

Beams of Heaven as I Go is Charles Albert Tindley's gospel hymn of pilgrimage, struggle, and durable hope.

Beyond the Sunset is a twentieth-century gospel song of Christian hope in the face of death.

Canticle of Hope is not a conventional stanza hymn but a responsorial setting of the closing vision of Revelation.

Christ Is Risen is Brian Wren’s 1984 Easter hymn, more fully known by its opening phrase “Christ is risen! Shout hosanna!” The text proclaims the resurrection as an event that changes the whole creation, not merely as a private source of comfort.

Day Is Dying in the West turns sunset into a summons to worship.

Carrie Ellis Breck's 1898 gospel hymn is a meditation on the Christian hope of seeing Christ without the limitations that characterize present life.

Kathleen Armstrong Thomerson's 1966 hymn is a first-person prayer of discipleship shaped by the biblical contrast between light and darkness.

Jerusalem the Golden gives Christian hope a city-shaped imagination.

Joys Are Flowing Like a River, widely known by its refrain title Blessed Quietness, is a Holiness-era hymn about the abiding presence of the Holy Spirit.

O Holy City, Seen of John is Walter Russell Bowie's 1909 hymn on the New Jerusalem of Revelation 21–22.

“Sunlight,” beginning “I wandered in the shades of night,” is a late nineteenth-century gospel song of Christian testimony by Judson W.

“The God of Abraham Praise” occupies an unusual place in English hymnody: an eighteenth-century Methodist preacher fashioned a Christian hymn from a medieval Jewish liturgical poem and retained the synagogue melody through which he had encountered it.

“When They Ring the Golden Bells” gives musical form to the Christian longing for life with God beyond death.

“When They Ring Those Golden Bells” is a nineteenth-century gospel song that gives musical form to longing for life with God beyond death.