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The Seven New Things
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The new Jerusalem, verse 2.
Revelation 21:1-2
The new heaven and the new earth, verse 1.
Revelation 21:1-8
1. This chapter describes, not a new social order in this present world,
but the Eternal Home of the Redeemed, the "Father's House of Many
Mansions". One of the most precious chapters in all the Bible. How
we love to read it!
2. The First Heaven and Earth had passed away, as said in
2 Peter 3:10,
the Heavens with a great noise (explosion?), and the Earth and its
works burned up. What amount of change in the physical universe, we
do not know. Or, whether it will be this earth made over and renewed
by fire, or an entirely different earth.
3. Nor can we now comprehend to what extent, with our glorified, incorruptible,
spiritual bodies, we may be confined to any material planet
or star, or be free to roam in the limitless spheres of space. How we
would love to know. Some day we" shall.
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Revelation 21:1
1. But there is a "River", Revelation 22:1. So we wonder if it is to be understood literally.
Perhaps the "Fire" by which the Earth will have been consumed left no Sea. Or, perhaps the
"River of the Water of Life" is not literal earthly water; but rather a beautiful symbol of the Life
which is in Christ, as He said to the Samaritan woman. "Whosoever drinks of the Water that
I shall give him shall Never Thirst", John 4: and, "Whosoever will, let him take of the Water
of Life freely", Revelation 22:17.
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1. God dwells with men; the happy state of his followers, verses 3-7.
2. In the Garden of Eden man was driven from the actual, immediate,
conscious presence of God- Here it is restored. In this world we walk
by Faith. Up there we shall actually See God, and be With Him in
loving fellowship through ceaseless cycles of never-ending ages.
3. No more Death, no Tears, no Pain, no Heart-Aches or Sorrow. A new
universe ccme into being. How wonderful it will be to be there!
Especially for those who have known little else but Suffering here: the
greater the Suffering here, the greater the Glory up there.
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Revelation 21:8
1. The wretched state of the ungodly, verse 8.
2. Many Christians are guilty of some of the things here mentioned.
To us, it seems that there are gradations of character, and we would
not know where to draw the line. But God knows. To God there are
only two classes: those who are His, and those who are Not His.
The New Jerusalem
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Revelation 21:9-27
1. An angel shows John the holy city, the New Jerusalem, verses 9, 10.
2. The Bible begins with a Garden, and ends with a City. The Holy City,
New Jerusalem, Bride of Christ, Wife of the Lamb, Revelation 21:2, 9, 10,
trodden under foot in Revelation 11:2, here shines forth in all its Glory.
"Holy City" is the antithesis of "Babylon". Babylon, the Adulterous Church.
Holy City, the True Church, Bride of Christ. The Adulteress has disappeared. The True Wife, Glorified.
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Revelation 21:18-21
1. Shown to John by one of the same angels who had showed him Babylon, Revelation 21:9;
Revelation 17:1. Ancient Babylon, which had given its name to the Adulterous Church, was
known as a "City of Gold", Isaiah 14:4, wonder city of the ancient world.
See Note Page, Daniel 1
2. Now the Real City of Gold appears in its Infinite Splendor and Magnificence.
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3. God and the Lamb are the temple and light of it, verses 22, 23.
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Revelation 21:16
1. 12,000 furlongs (1500 miles) : the length of each side, or the entire
distance around. Foursquare. A Cube, of which the Holy of Holies in
the Tabernacle, a cube 15 ft each way, and the Holy of Holies in Solomon's
Temple, a cube 30 ft each way, were types.
2. The Wall, 144 cubits (216 ft). Its height? Or thickness? If its height,
then the Golden City within would tower far above the Wall.
3. The measurements are in multiples of 12, which seems to be a symbol
and signature of God's People. 1000 times 12 representing the Glorified
Capital of God's Redeemed Universe. 12 times 12, 144, its Wall. 12
Gates inscribed with names of the 12 Tribes. 12 Foundations inscribed
with names of the 12 Apostles. As if to say, the Glory of the City is
the result of Foundation Work done by Israel and the Apostles in by-gone ages.
The Tree of Life had 12 kinds of fruit for 12 months.
4.
The general pattern of the City, Foursquare, with its Walls, and River
of Life, may have been suggested by the pattern of Ancient Babylon,
which was Foursquare, its Walls 60 miles around, 300 ft high, its 100
Gates of brass, and Divided in the midst by the Euphrates River.
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Its Precious Stones
Revelation 21:19-21
1. Each Gate was a Pearl, The 12 Foundations were each built of a
Precious Stone: Jasper, Sapphire, Chalcedony, Emerald, Sardonyx, Sardius, Chrysolite, Beryl, Topaz, Chrysoprase, Jacinth, Amethyst.
2. They are similar to the names of the 12 Stones on the Breastplate of
the High Priest with the names of the 12 Tribes, Exodus 28:15-30, which
must have been intended as a sort of dim photograph, given in the distant past, of what God was working toward.
3. Some of these stones may not have been the same as those that now
bear their names. Here are the colors they are thought to represent.
Jasper, diamond. Sapphire, blue. Chalcedony, sky blue. Emerald, green.
Sardonyx, red and white, Sardius, fiery red. Chrysolite, golden. Beryl,
sea green. Topaz, transparent green. Chrysoprase, purple. Jacinth, red.
Amethyst, violet.
4. City of Gold. Walls of Diamond. Gates of Pearl. Foundation of Precious
Stones. Whether literal, or symbolic of something more glorious, Resplendent Beyond Imagination.
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Revelation 21:23-27
1. The light--Greek, "the lamp" (Isaiah 60:19, 20). The direct light of God and the Lamb shall make the saints independent of God's creatures, the sun and moon, for light.
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2. The nations and kings of the earth bring their glory and honour
to it; the gates shall never be shut, nor shall any defilement enter into it, verses 24-27.
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Reference Notes on Revelation 21". "Scofield Reference Notes (1917
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<http://www.studylight.org/com/srn/view.cgi?book=re&chapter=021>.
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