John saw a place being made ready. At some future time, nations would stream in, and rulers would be laden with sumptuous gifts representing the best of their people, just as ambassadors of old streamed into the throne rooms of emperors. #Revelation21 #NewJerusalem #Isaiah60
Revelation 21: How Firm a Foundation
There are several clues in John’s vision of a voluminous golden city descending through the sky that lead the reader to believe it symbolizes spiritual truths. #Revelation21 #NewJerusalem #TwelveFoundations #PearlyGates
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Revelation 21: God’s Glorious City
For this city was made entirely of the purest gold and shimmered with every hue of gem and pearl. In fact, each of its portals was carved from one voluminous pearl a piece. The sentries were angels. Every part of the city was foursquare, infinitely stable and solid, and the grand colonnade down the center of the city was paved with blocks of gold so pure each shone crystal clear. #NewJerusalem #Revelation21
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Revelation 21: The New Jerusalem
The purity of this city, the Bride of the Lamb, the brilliancy, the transparency, put the tawdry gaudiness of Babylon to shame. #Revelation21 #NewJerusalem #AlphaandOmega
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Revelation 21: Template of Eternity
Many see John’s vision as a literal dissolving away of creation as we now know it and the creation of a new universe that is yet to be. #Revelation21 #AlphaandOmega #NewHeavens #NewEarth
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Revelation 21: Shades of Zoroastrianism
Understanding of heaven and hell came when the Hebrew people languished in exile, then returned to rebuild Judah. During this “intertestamental” time, a very interesting thing happened in Babylon. #Revelation21 #Heaven #Hell #Zoroastrianism
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Revelation 21-22: The New Creation
Is John's vision of a new heaven and a new earth to be taken literally? Or allegorically? or metaphorically? Or as all three? #Revelation21 #Revelation22 #NewHeavensandaNewEarth #NewCreation #Elysium
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The End of the World
John now enters a strange, liminal space where death has coughed up its captives who now stand before an immense and gleaming white throne, while numerous volumes are opened... #Revelation20 #BookfoLife #GreatWhiteThrone #LastJudgment #FinalJudgment
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Revelation 20: An Imperial Triumphal Procession
Satan had been conquered, Satan’s allies vanquished, even the beast and its false prophet had been summarily done away with. Christ was the clear victor, God’s beloved people finally safe. Why not just throw away the key? #Revelation20 #TriumphalMarch
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Revelation 20: Satan’s Last Stand
What do Ezekiel and Paul have to add to John's oracle about Satan and the Lake of Fire? #Revelation20 #LakeofFire #Ezekiel38 2Thessalonians2 #GogandMagog
