Revelation 21:9-27
Holy City, Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God.
The angel measured the wall using human measurement, and it was 144 cubits thick.
The twelve gates were twelve pearls, each gate made of a single pearl. The great street of the city was of gold, as pure as transparent glass.
I did not see a temple in the city, because the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb is its temple. 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 nations will walk by its light, and the kings of the earth will bring their splendor into it. On no day will its gates ever be shut, for there will be no night there. The glory and honor of the nations will be brought into it. 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.
The bride of chapter 19 appears as a city: the new Jerusalem and its people. The finest cities of the world are nothing to the breathtaking splendor, the shining radiance, of this glowing, golden city, with its perfect dimensions. ITs Jewelled foundations, its glittering diamond walls, its perfect dimensions, its glittering diamond walls its gates of pearl. THose gates stand always open. And the city has no Temple, for God himself is present. There is peace here, and freedom and security.
Why?
John gave us the great Holy City, the new Jerusalem in Heaven. There is no temple, but God and the Lamb are there, and there is no sun or moon, God himself is the lamp, Jesus is the lamp.
Only the pure people, those whose names are written in the Lam's book of life can enter this New Jerusalem.
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最後神要賞賜給祂兒女的新天新地。海代表危險，死亡、惡，不確定，沒有海就是沒有惡！
聖城新耶路撒冷已經預備好了，好像新娘婚禮前的預備，完全美麗，沒有暇疵。會幕時，神透過雲柱火柱讓人看見，現在神自己在，所以沒有聖殿，沒有會幕。舊事已經過去，人也常常不讓舊事過去，以致不斷犯錯，犯罪。人可以白白的喝生命水，並且承受永恆的產業，這時候實現。
第二次的死：所有不信的人，沒有依靠神，曾經膽怯獸的能力卻不怕神的審判與能力，都要受到這個死的痛苦！新天新地，本身就是聖殿！約翰用人間最貴重的東西來形容新耶路撒冷的榮耀與光輝！城門也不用關，因為沒有惡！潔淨的人才能進入，提醒我們要追求聖潔！
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How?
Great is the Lord Praise to the Lord and the Lamb, who are worthy to worship!
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