The Heavenly City

"The Street of the city was pure gold, as it were transparent glass ." (Revelations 21:21)

That´s the kind of Gold we don´t know anything about here on Earth! The gold of this Earth is not transparent and it does not look like glass, it´s very heavy and solid. But the gold of the City will be transparent glass-like golden crystal.  It´s going to be an everlasting eternal gold, crystal gold! More beautiful than any gold in this world! In the eternal crystal Golden City that will be forever!

And it is not only the streets that are made of this pure crystal clear gold, but the entire "City was pure gold, like unto clear glass! " (Revelations 21:18). The whole City is like crystal gold! So you will be able to see out of the City through those transparent walls, out onto a beautiful, fully-restored and recreated New Earth! You are going to be able to look out there and see and enjoy the view of that beautiful creation!

"And I saw no temple therein: for the lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple of it" (Revelations 21:22)

This gigantic, huge, amazing, marvellous, astonishing City has no temple, no church, no cathedral, no synagogue, no mosque! How about that? God Himself and His Son Jesus are the only Temple of it! The place of worship is none but Jesus! Everyone is going to worship in the Lord without buildings, temples, synagogues,  mosques, cathedrals or churches, all of which have been such a great waste of man´s time, wealth and resources.

"And the City had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it: For the Glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the Light thereof" . (Revelations 21:23) It doesn´t say that there will be no moon and no sun, it just says that in the City, they won´t need the moon and the sun, because it will have its own light; the Light of God and His Son Jesus! The Sun and Moon will  continue in the world --outside the City-- on the planet Earth, which will still exist with its new Garden of Eden-like surface.

But inside this heavenly city we won´t need these earthly lights, because the Lord is the Light thereof and it will be light all the time, all day and all night, and we will never have to go to bed, or have to sleep, because we will never get tired or weary.

And even for those on the outside, it will be a blessing just to live anywhere within view, within sight of that City, just to be able to see it at night and thrill to its gorgeous splendour, a city resplendent with the golden, supernatural, miraculous Light of God! God´s Word says that even the sun and the moon shall be ashamed in comparison with the glory and the beauty and the light of that Holy City here on the surface of the Earth! (Isaiah 24:23)

Just imagine what that gorgeous golden city is going to look like at night from the world outside! The inhabitants of the Earth will be able to look up and view that beautiful City and know that God is there, that God now lives on Earth with man! He´s come down out of Heaven to make His dwelling place with man, and that is His beautiful City, His Capital City. And even if you are not one of its citizens living inside the City, you will be able to look up from the surface of the Earth and be thankful that you are even there at all!

"And the nations of them which are saved shall walk in the Light of It " --in the City--"and the kings of the Earth do bring their glory and honour into it " (Revelations 21:24) There will still be nations ordained by God and kings appointed by Him --righteous kings, good kings, teaching the people to love and serve the Lord!-- A beautiful, wonderful, Heavenly World and a Heavenly Earth! Heaven on Earth, for sure! And they will be bringing glory and honour into the City!

"And the Gates of It shall not be shut at all by day: for there shall be no night there. And they shall bring the glory and honour of the nations into it. And there sall in no wise enter into it anything that defileth, neither whatsoever worketh abomination, or maketh a lie: but they which are written in the Lamb´s Book of Life ." (Revelations 21:25)

The City is going to be open day and night, 24-7! And only the Saved, only those who are written in the Lamb´s Book of Life, shall enter through its pearly portals.

How beautiful! Nothing unclean there! No dirty streets, no vile vice, no crime, no sin. Not Sin City--as most are today--, but the Sacred City of God! The Holy City! Everything absolutely spotless,  clean, sinless and beautiful! What a city!

God´s City is going to be perfect, pure and governed by God himself! Jesus has been working on it ever since He left the Earth 2000 years ago! It will be the peak and ultimate of Heaven on Earth, inhabited only by Saints in a perfect atmosphere, a Heavenly environment, with the most excellent housing the World has ever know, the best and most expensive Real Estate there is! Full of precious stones and jewels, and best of all, full of precious souls! inmortal souls, saved souls that love Jesus. Billions who will be there because there were millions of faithful witnesses down through 6000 years of man´s history.

Will you make sure to bring others with you?

"And He shewed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb. And in the midst of the street of it" --or, in other words, in the midst of the course of it--"and on either side of the river, was there the tree of life, which bare twelve manner of fruits, and yelded her fruit every month: and the leaves of the Tree were for the healing of the nations." (Revelations 22:1.2)

We are actually seeing inside the Holy City now, the New Jerusalem, Space City come down from God out of Heaven to a New Earth, the Capital City of the World to Come, Kingdom Come! And here we see a beautiful river that flows right out of the Throne of God right through the center of the City, which is like a beautiful park.

This City is going to be so very ,very beautiful! in some places is going to be like a beautiful park and the wonderful River of Life is going to flow right through it! "There is a River, the streams whereof shall make glad the City of God, the holy place of the tabernacles of the Most Gigh! God is in the midst of her; she shall not be moved!" (Psalm 46:4,5) And there will be breautiful trees growing in the middle of it and on both sides of it! So maybe there are some little islands in the midst of this beautiful river!

The prophet Ezekiel also caught a glimpse of this wonderful river and these heavenly trees and described them thus: "And by the river upon the bank thereof, on this side and on that side, shall grow all trees for meat, whose leaf shall not fade, neither shall the fruit thereof be consumed: it shall bring forth new fruit according to his months, because their waters they issued out of the sanctuary: and the fruit thereof shall be for meat, and the leaf thereof for medicine" (Ezekiel 47:12)

"And the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations" (Revelations 22:2). What nations? If there is not going to be any more pain or death or sickness or sorrow or crying, then what in the world are the leaves of the trees for and why do they have to be used for the healing of the nations? Why is healing needed for anybody when there is not supposed to be any more pain, death, sickness, sorrow and so on?

Well, the answer seems apparent, The kings and nations outside the City who "bring their glory and honour" to the City, are obviously a class of people who still need some kind of healing. They are not in Hell, not in the Lake of Fire in the center of the Earth, nor are they the born again, the Briude, who enter and enjoy the Heavenly City.

Remember, obnly the saved will be allowed to walk in the City. "And the nations of them which are saved shall walk in the light of it" The only ones who can enter it are those "Written in the Lamb´s Book of Life¨. But it also says that "the kings of the Earth do bring their glory and honour into it". So it is clear that there sill be whole "nations" outside the Heavenly City of the saved, whose "kings" will pay their respects to the City. In a sense, they will be like subjects.

Now some preachers would have you believe that it is all going to be one great lake of fire of the damned outside the Holy City. But thank God, this is obviously not the case, nor the picture given us from God´s Word! Outside the Heavenly City, the New Earth with its new atmospheric heavens is going to be like the Garden of Eden, like man was in his original state before he fell. But there will be no more sea, it will all be land, so there will be plenty of room for everybody! And things will be as God originally intended them to be, in a completely restored condition.   (Thanks to David Berg)