THE BOOK OF REVELATION
Part 46
The New Jerusalem
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And I John saw the Holy City, New Jerusalem, coming down from
God out of Heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.
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.
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.
And He that sat upon the Throne said, Behold, I make all things
new. And He said unto me, Write: for these Words are true and faithful.
And He said unto me, It is done. I am Alpha and Omega, the
Beginning and the End. I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of
the Water of Life freely.
He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be His God,
and He shall be My son.
But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and
murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall
have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the
second death.
And there came unto me one of the seven angels which had the
seven vials full of the seven last plagues, and talked with me, saying, Come
hither, I will shew thee the Bride, the Lamb's wife.
And he carried me away in the spirit to a great and high mountain,
and shewed me that great City, the Holy Jerusalem, descending out of Heaven from
God,
Having the Glory of God: and her light was like unto a stone
most precious, even like a jasper stone, clear as crystal;
And had a wall great and high, and had twelve gates, and at the
gates twelve angels, and names written thereon, which are the names of the
twelve tribes of the children of Israel:
On the east three gates; on the north three gates; on the south
three gates; and on the west three gates.
And the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and in them the
names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.
And he that talked with me had a golden reed to measure the
city, and the gates thereof, and the wall thereof.
And the city lieth foursquare, and the length is as large as the
breadth: and he measured the city with the reed, twelve thousand furlongs. The
length and the breadth and the height of it are equal.
And he measured the wall thereof, an hundred and forty and four
cubits, according to the measure of a man, that is, of the angel.
And the building of the wall of it was of jasper: and the city
was pure gold, like unto clear glass.
And the foundations of the wall of the city were garnished with
all manner of precious stones. The first foundation was jasper; the second,
sapphire; the third, a chalcedony; the fourth, an emerald;
The fifth, sardonyx; the sixth, sardius; the seventh,
chrysolite; the eighth, beryl; the ninth, a topaz; the tenth, a chrysoprasus;
the eleventh, a jacinth; the twelfth, an amethyst.
And the twelve gates were twelve pearls; every several gate was
of one pearl: and the street of the city was pure gold, as it were transparent
glass.
And I saw no temple therein: for the Lord God Almighty and the
Lamb are the temple of it.
And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to
shine in it: for the Glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the Light
thereof.
And the nations of them which are saved shall walk in the light
of it: and the kings of the Earth do bring their glory and honour into it.
And the gates of it shall not be shut at all by day: for there
shall be no night there.
And they shall bring the glory and honour of the nations into
it.
And there shall in no wise enter into it any thing that
defileth, neither whatsoever worketh abomination, or maketh a lie: but they which
are written in the Lamb's Book of Life.
Rev 21:2-27 KJV
The New Jerusalem has a length of 12,000 stadia
[furlongs], or 1,500 miles. Since the city is square, it will be both 1,500
miles wide and 1,500 miles high. That means it’s three times wider than Texas.
But the stunning characteristic is that this city is
as high as it is wide. That means it stretches upward for 1,500 miles—three
times as high as Texas is wide. Using current laws of physics, a structure that
large could not stand on the Earth. The structure couldn’t even exist outside
our planet in space—any cube that large would collapse on itself because of its
own gravity.
But never to worry—the Bible said that before God
sends down The New Jerusalem, He is making a ‘New Heaven’ and a ‘New Earth.’ In
a New Heaven (new universe and firmament) and a New Earth, the laws of physics
we now live under would not apply. Everything would be new.
At ‘the end of time’—and time will indeed end when
this universe is done away with—we will live in God’s celestial City, where
there is no sun and no moon. He Himself will provide the Light we need to see,
and there will be no darkness or night there.