Jesus said, “Blessed are those who hear the Word of God and obey it.” –Luke11:28 (NRSVCE)
TweetThe New Heaven and the New Earth
Then I saw a New Heaven and a New Earth; For the first Heaven and the first Earth had passed
away and the sea was no more and I saw The Holy City, the New Jerusalem coming down out
of Heaven from God,prepared as a bride adorned for her husband and I heard a loud voice
from the Throne saying: “See the Home of God is among mortals.
He will dwell with them; They will be His peoples and God Himself will be with them;
He will wipe every tear from their eyes.
Death will be no more;
Mourning and crying and pain will be no more, for the first things have passed away.”
The One who is seated on the throne said, “See, I am making all things new.”
Also He said, “Write this, for these Words are trustworthy and true.”
Then He said to me, “It is done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. To
the thirsty I will give water as a gift from the spring of the water of life. Those who conquer will
inherit these things and I will be their God and they will be My children but as for the cowardly,
the faithless, the polluted, the murderers, the fornicators, the sorcerers, the idolaters and all
liars, their place will be in the Lake that burns (Hell) with fire and sulfur, which is the second
death.
Vision of the New Jerusalem
Then one of the seven Angels who had the seven bowls full of the seven last plagues came and
said to me, ‘Come, I will show you the bride, the wife of the Lamb.’
In the Spirit he carried me away to a great, high mountain and showed me the Holy City
Jerusalem coming down out of Heaven from God. It has the Glory of God and a radiance like a
very rare jewel, like jasper, clear as crystal. It has a great, high wall with twelve gates and at the
gates twelve Angels and on the gates are inscribed the names of the twelve tribes of the
Israelites; 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 has twelve foundations and on them are the twelve
names of the twelve Apostles of the Lamb.
The Angel who talked to me had a measuring rod of gold to measure the city and its gates and
walls. The city lies foursquare, its length the same as its width and he (the Angel) measured the
city with his rod, fifteen hundred miles, it’s length and width and height are equal. He also
measured its wall, one hundred forty-four cubits by human measurement, which the Angel was
using. The wall is built of jasper, while the city is pure gold, clear as glass. The foundations of
the wall of the city are adorned with every jewel; the first was jasper, the second sapphire, the
third agate, the fourth emerald, the fifth onyx, the sixth carnelian, the seventh chrysolite, the
eighth beryl, the ninth topaz, the tenth chrysoprase, the eleventh jacinth, the twelfth amethyst
and the twelve gates are twelve pearls, each of the gates is a single pearl and the street of the
city is pure gold, transparent as glass.
I saw no Temple in the city, for its Temple is the Lord God, the Almighty and the Lamb and the
city has no need of sun or moon to shine on it, for the Glory of God is its light and its lamp is
the Lamb. The nations will walk by its light and the kings of the earth will bring their glory into
it. Its gates will never be shut by day — and there will be no night there. People will bring into it
the glory and the honor of the nations but nothing unclean will enter it, nor anyone who
practices abomination or falsehood but only those who are written in the Lamb’s Book of Life.