The New Jerusalem 2-5

Hello Everyone,
There is one thing that we can be sure of as we are looking at all that is in Heaven and that is Heaven is a Place of Righteousness.

Revelation 21:15-17 The angel who talked with me had a measuring rod of gold to measure the city, its gates and its walls. 16The city was laid out like a square, as long as it was wide. He measured the city with the rod and found it to be 12,000 stadia in length, and as wide and high as it is long. 17He measured its wall and it was 144 cubits thick, by man's measurement, which the angel was using.

1,500 miles squared…that’s huge! From the tip of Maine to the tip of Florida, over to Colorado…and then, it’s that high too!

I’m not even sure what that means, so, Lord, surprise me! Either way, this will make New York City look like a little village! A perfect cube stands for balance and order…perfect in its materials, majesty, and even its measurements!It will be filled with the righteousness of God, and with the “righteous” of God, us!The last thing that we should know about Heaven is that Heaven is a Place of Refuge.

There are four things that won’t be there:

A. No SanctuaryRevelation 21:22 I did not see a temple in the city, because the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are its temple.

Why no temple? Because the sanctuary localizes and confines God to 1 location…but all Heaven will be filled with His glory!

B. No Shadows

Revelation 21:23 The city does not need the sun or the moon to shine on it, for the glory of God gives it light, and the Lamb is its lamp.
The light will be everywhere, the night will be vanquished!

C. No Secrets

Revelation 21:24 The nations will walk by its light, and the kings of the earth will bring their splendor into it.

We live in a war-torn time where people meet behind closed doors and there’s top secret things! But there will be no secrecy there; all will be out in the open and peaceful.

A survey of 6th graders 50 years ago asked what they were most afraid of. The most common answers were “the dark”, and “mean dogs.” They repeated that survey recently, and the top 2 was “mom and dad getting a divorce” and “nuclear war” was the top one.

D. No sinners

Revelation 21:27 Nothing impure will ever enter it, nor will anyone who does what is shameful or deceitful, but only those whose names are written in the Lamb's book of life.

How do you get your name written there? By grace alone, thru faith alone, in Christ alone put your faith and trust in Him alone as your only hope for heaven!If there was a place like we’ve have described here on earth, wouldn’t you do anything you could to go there?

It’s real, it’s the New Jerusalem. And Jesus said, “I am the way, the truth, and the life…no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.”

All for Jesus
Phil