REVELATION ITS GRAND CLIMAX AT HAND!/Chapter Forty Three - Measuring the City - Conclusion

The 144-cubit high walls remind us that the city is made up of 144,000 spiritually adopted sons of God.  The figure 12 that appears in the 12,000-furlong measurement of the city-with the length, the breadth, and height being equal-is figuratively in organizational settings in Bible prophecy. Hence, New Jerusalem is a superbly designed organizational arrangement for accomplish God's eternal purpose.  New Jerusalem, together with the King Jesus Christ, is Jehovah's Kingdom organization.  Then there is  the shape of the city; a perfect cube. In Solomon's temple, the Most Holy, containign a symbolic representation of Jehovah's presence, was a perfect cube. (1 Kings 6:19, 20)  How fittingly, then, that New Jerusalem, illuminated by the glory of Jehovah himself, is seen as a perfect, large-scale cube!  All its measurements are perfectly balanced. It is a city without irregularities  or defects. - REVELATION  21:22. 

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