I couldn't disagree more. There is no basis whatsoever for applying what Jesus said in Luke 21:22, which only applies to what happened in 70 AD as prophesied in the OT, to the entire book of Revelation. That is complete nonsense.
Revelation 21:1 And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea. 2 And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. 3 And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God. 4 And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.
There is still death, sorrow, crying and pain. This passage has not been fulfilled. Jesus has not yet come again as Revelation 19:11-21 indicates. You are sadly mistaken and deceived.
The basis for what I am writing here is found in John's own language in Revelation 1:3 and 22:10 and elsewhere in the book. John announced that "
the time is AT HAND" in his own days for the fulfillment of those prophecies of future events. Just because you cannot see HOW those events were fulfilled back in the first century does not mean that they had NOT been fulfilled back then in John's days.
If a writer (CHRIST through John) tells you how to interpret His own book in both the introduction (Rev. 1:3) and the conclusion (Rev. 22:10) of His work, you are obliged to go by that directive - regardless of what you think may or may not have happened back then.
Revelations' fulfilled predictions for the New Heavens and the New Earth are in place today, and have been since AD 70 and the end of that AGE. If you paid careful attention to Isaiah 65's conditions predicted for this NHNE, you would see that
physical death is still taking place there for both the righteous and the wicked, and that childbirth and prayers are still occurring (which are not part of the eternal state).
The NHNE conditions with the "healing of the nations" is still an ongoing process on earth (as in Revelation 22:2) , because the evangelistic commission is still ours to perform, even during the New Covenant conditions of a NHNE existence. That is because sinners are still outside the gates of the New Jerusalem (Rev. 22:15), in need of "healing" by the gospel so that they can enter the "gates" of this New Jerusalem reality as a believer.
If you are a believer, then God's own Holy Spirit dwells within you and "tabernacles" with you and all who belong to Him in this world, as an ongoing fulfillment of Revelation 21:3.
The
end of "sorrows" in Rev. 21:4 referred to Christ's prediction concerning "
the beginning of sorrows" in Matthew 24:8. Christ's own disciples would experience this "
beginning of sorrows" in their own generation before the Great Tribulation years arrived in AD 66-70 for Judea and Jerusalem in particular. Those particular "sorrows" as cause for crying and distress ceased with the AD 70 conclusion of the Great Tribulation period.
As for there being "no more death" in this New Jerusalem reality, if one is in Christ as a believer, we have Christ's promise that "He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me,
hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation;
but has passed from death unto life." (John 5:24). And "whosoever liveth and believeth in me
in no wise shall die forever." (John 11:26).
Of course we are awaiting a
final conclusion to fallen mankind's existence on this planet in a final judgment when all human evil is purged from this planet with an end to disease, tribulations, and physical death occurring. But that is not what Revelation was describing for times that were then "AT HAND" for the first-century audience.