Revelation 21:1-8
THE SEVENTH VISION: OF THE HEAVENLY JERUSALEM. The prelude:... [ Continue Reading ]
THE SEVENTH VISION: OF THE HEAVENLY JERUSALEM. The prelude:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND I SAW ANEW HEAVEN AND ANEW EARTH; FOR THE FIRST HEAVEN AND THE FIRST EARTH WERE PASSED AWAY; AND THERE WAS NO MORE SEA.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND I, JOHN, SAW THE HOLY CITY, NEW JERUSALEM, COMING DOWN FROM GOD OUT OF HEAVEN, PREPARED AS A BRIDE ADORNED FOR HER HUSBAND.... [ Continue Reading ]
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.... [ Continue Reading ]
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.... [ Continue Reading ]
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.... [ Continue Reading ]
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.... [ Continue Reading ]
HE THAT OVERCOMES SHALL INHERIT ALL THINGS; AND I WILL BE HIS GOD, AND HE SHALL BE MY SON.... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT THE FEARFUL AND UNBELIEVING AND THE ABOMINABLE AND MURDERERS AND WHOREMONGERS AND SORCERERS AND IDOLATERS AND ALL LIARS SHALL HAVE THEIR PARTS IN THE LAKE WHICH BURNETH WITH FIRE AND BRIMSTONE; WHICH IS THE SECOND DEATH. The eyes of the believers are here turned to the coming, complete salvation... [ Continue Reading ]
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 SHOW THEE THE BRIDE, THE LAMB'S WIFE.... [ Continue Reading ]
The vision of the heavenly Jerusalem:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HE CARRIED ME AWAY IN THE SPIRIT TO A GREAT AND HIGH MOUNTAIN, AND SHOWED ME THAT GREAT CITY, THE HOLY JERUSALEM, DESCENDING OUT OF HEAVEN FROM GOD,... [ Continue Reading ]
HAVING THE GLORY OF GOD; AND HER LIGHT WAS LIKE UNTO A STONE MOST PRECIOUS, EVEN LIKE A JASPER STONE, CLEAR AS CRYSTAL;... [ Continue Reading ]
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;... [ Continue Reading ]
ON THE EAST THREE GATES, ON THE NORTH THREE GATES, ON THE SOUTH THREE GATES, AND ON THE WEST THREE GATES.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THE WALL OF THE CITY HAD TWELVE FOUNDATIONS AND IN THEM THE NAMES OF THE TWELVE APOSTLES OF THE LAMB. Although the entire description is given in figures, in type and allegory, yet we are able to form conclusions as to the glory of the marriage in heaven from the glory of the bride, the Church... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HE THAT TALKED WITH ME HAD A GOLDEN REED TO MEASURE THE CITY AND THE GATES THEREOF AND THE WALL THEREOF.... [ Continue Reading ]
The measurements and the ornaments of the city:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THE CITY LIETH FOUR-SQUARE 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.... [ Continue Reading ]
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.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THE BUILDING OF THE WALL OF IT WAS OF JASPER; AND THE CITY WAS PURE GOLD, LIKE UNTO CLEAR GLASS.... [ Continue Reading ]
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;... [ Continue Reading ]
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.... [ Continue Reading ]
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. This is a picture which, both as a whole, by the impression which it makes in its entirety and in all its various traits and parts, transcends all ima... [ Continue Reading ]
AND I SAW NO TEMPLE THEREIN; FOR THE LORD GOD ALMIGHTY AND THE LAMB ARE THE TEMPLE OF IT.... [ Continue Reading ]
The wonderful glory of the city:... [ Continue Reading ]
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.... [ Continue Reading ]
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 HONOR INTO IT.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THE GATES OF IT SHALL NOT BE SHUT AT ALL BY DAY; FOR THERE SHALL BE NO NIGHT THERE.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THEY SHALL BRING THE GLORY AND HONOR OF THE NATIONS INTO IT.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THERE SHALL IN NO WISE ENTER INTO IT ANYTHING THAT DEFILETH, NEITHER WHATSOEVER WORKETH ABOMINATION OR MAKETH A LIE, BUT THEY WHICH ARE WRITTEN IN THE LAMB'S BOOK OF LIFE. A few features of the picture, at least, give us an inkling of the ineffable bliss that awaits us in our heavenly home: And... [ Continue Reading ]