Chapter Forty-Three/The Resplendent City

 New Jerusalem is breathtaking in its beauty: "Its radiance was like most precious stone, as japer stone shining like crystal-clear. It had a great and lofty wall and had twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels, and names were inscribed which are of the twelve tribes of the sons of Israe. On the east were three gates, and on the north three gates, and on the south three gates, and on the west three gates. The gates of the city also had twelve foundation stones, and on them the twelve tribes of the twelve apostles of the lamb." (Revelation 21:11b-14) How fitting that the first impression John records is of glowing brightness! Radiant as new bride, New Jerusalem makes a fitting consort for Christ. It positively glows, as is proper for a creation of "the Father of the celestial lights. 

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