The Resplendent City

 Vision 16 - REVELATION 21:9-22:5

Subject: A description of New Jerusalem

Time of fulfillment: After the great tribulation adn the abyssing of Satan

AN ANGEL had taken John into a wilderness to show him Babylon the Great.  Now one of the same angelic group  conducts John to a lofty mountain.  What a contrast he sees!  Here is no unclean, immoral city like the Babylonish harlot,  but  New Jerusalem -pure, spiritual, holy-and it is descending from heaven itself . - REVELATION 17:1, 5. 

Even earthly Jerusalem never had a glory such as this.  John tells us:  "And there came one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls which were full of the seven last plaguess, and he spoke with me and said: 'Come here, I will show the bride, the Lamb's wife.'  So he carried me away in the power of the spirit to the great and lofty mountain, and he showed me the holy city Jerusalem coming down out of heaven from God and having the glory of God. " (Revelation 21:9-11a)  From the vantage point of that towering mountain,  John surveys the beauteous city  in all its lovely detail.  Men of faith  have been in eager expectation of its coming ever since mankind's fall into sin and death. At last it is here!  (Romans 8:19; 1 Corinthians 15:22, 23; Hebrews 11:39, 40)  It is the magnificent spiritual city, compossed of  144,000 loyal integrity keepers, resplendent in it holiness and reflecting the very glory of Jehovah. Here is the grand Revelation climax! 

Next time: The Resplendent City - Conclusion

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