Chapter Forty-Three/The Resplendent City - A City of Light - Conclusion

 When Jehovah's glory passed by Moses on Mount Sinai, it caused Moses' face to shine so brightly that he had to cover it from his fellow Israelites. (Exodus 34:4-7, 29, 30, 33) Can you imagine, then, the brightness of a city that is permanently lighted up with Jehovah's glory? Such a city could have no nighttime. It would have no need of a literal sun or moon. It would be eternally shedding light. (Compare 1 Timothy 6:16) New Jerusalem is bathed in that kind of radiant brilliance. Indeed, this bride and its Bridegroom King become the capital of Jehovah's universal organization-his "woman," The Jerusalem above"-concerning which Isaiah prophesied: "For you the sun will no more prove to be a light by day, and for brightness the moon itself will no more give you light. And Jehovah must become to you an indefinitely lasting light, and your God your beauty. No more will your sun set, nor will your moon go on the wane, for Jehovah himself will become for you an indefinitely lasting light, and the days of your mourning will have come to completion." - ISAIAH 60:1, 19, 20; GALATIONS 4:26.

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