God Himself, in the excellent glory of His person, and His exalted glorified Son will dwell in the midst of this city. It will become a temple or a sanctuary of His sovereign presence, and worship will fill every beautiful inch. I cannot explain the presence of the Heavenly Father, but I can assure you that there are no human words to fully describe Him. He is awesome in holiness, and that characteristic will be the overarching expression of Him. No sin can live or even approach Him. His holiness is not acquired but issues forth from Him. He is the one and only source of all holiness, and it absolutely fills His person to overflowing. All that come near to Him will take on His holiness in them and reflect it throughout this matchless city.

The Son of God in all His glorified manhood will, along with His Father, be the Light of the city and of the New Heaven and New Earth. The brilliance of that light will create a lighted world without shadows. Everywhere you look will be this brilliance of Light so remarkable that it will appear to reflect off and out of everything. It will be Light that forever and totally eliminates the presence of darkness so that the entire universe has a God-like splendor. The Son of God Himself is the source of this Light. When He said, “I am the light of the world.” (John 9:5), it was a divine statement. When we see Him, there will be a satisfaction in us that forever fulfills the greatest hunger known to man. Every pain, sadness, or sorrow known to the human family is but the deep need to be filled with Him. In His literal presence is fullness of life, and we will never have emptiness again. “For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.” (I Corinthians 13:12).

The massive walls of this city are fifteen hundred miles high and are created with jewels of great value and beauty. The city will be foursquare, equal on each side to its height. There will be three identical gates on each side of the city of the same height as the twelve levels of city walls. They will add splendor because they will be solid pearls polished to their highest perfection. There is nowhere in God’s universe that this city will not be visible. The Bible does not tell us how it will be set in conjunction to the new earth, but it must be seen because within it is the source of all light and there is no darkness. The gates will bear the names of the twelve tribes of Israel, and the twelve foundations will bear the names of the twelve apostles. These twenty-four representations reflect the same complete type as seen in chapter four when the Rapture occurred. They are His raptured saints from the Old and New Testament. The number twenty-four is but a type of a multitude.

The “New Heaven” assures us that the heavenly bodies, the weather patterns, and the very atmosphere will be purified unto perfection. The great planets, stars, and other celestial bodies will be the source of beauty and heavenly splendor that will make the sky above to glisten in perfect clarity. It will be picture perfect, and the weather will never be anything but the source of life. When it rains, it will be like drinking water bathing His created world. Snow and ice flakes will fill His world with a carpet that delights His entire creation. The birds, earth animals, and the sea creatures will spend their lives in playful delight, and God’s family will love every moment of it.

The earth will bring forth nothing but that which delights our appetites. Fruit trees will never bear imperfect fruit. The vineyards will provide its vintage flavors to man. The entire earth will be a garden and flowers will explode in their beauty. There will be nothing on the earth or produced by the earth but those things that man enjoys. The earth will be so pure that God Himself will find delight in a renewed fellowship with His family. He will walk among us as He visited Adam in the garden. Labor will be sweet, and we will tend our gardens with delight. Every moment on God’s earth will be like Heaven.

This great chapter (Revelation 21) is the single place in God’s World that the Book of Life is called by its full title. John wrote as the Spirit gave witness, “And there shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defileth, neither whatsoever worketh abomination, or maketh a lie: but they which are written in the LAMB’S BOOK OF LIFE.” (Revelation 21:27). Nothing on His earth, in His Heaven, nor in New Jerusalem will be unclean. Nothing that defiles can enter His eternity. The total culture and population will be His redeemed saints. Holiness will be the lifestyle and love will be the emotion that fills this universe and His holy city forever. Sinners that refused to repent and surrender only to Christ will already have been cast into the Lake of Fire.

“And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea. And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God. And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.” Revelation 21:1-4

There has been a long, continuing debate over the New Heaven and New Earth. Some say that everything passes completely out of existence and a New Heaven and a New Earth replaces it all. That is not Biblical, but it does no harm if you want to believe it. It will be so new that to call it anything less would be untrue. Everything that has defiled this earth shall be cleansed so that its newness will be just as real as if it really did pass totally from existence and will then be recreated. But, the language of the Scripture in its perfect context teaches that it is made new by the Blood of the Lamb and is redeemed as all else is redeemed. “... The earth abideth for ever.” (Ecclesiastes 1:4). “For the earth is the Lord's, and the fulness thereof.” (I Corinthians 10:26). Sin never changed the fact that the earth belonged to God from the beginning.


As His judgment comes to bear on this earth, every change wrought by sin and its consequences will be cleansed and reversed to its original glory and perfection. “And there was no more sea” is the perfect rendering of the ending of the effects of the flood of judgment in Noah’s day. To a great degree the earth was turned upside down and it will return to its perfect topographical expanse. The stormy developments on the earth will cease. The ice caps in the North and South Pole will vanish and the earth’s relationship to the sun will return to its original perfection. It is well-known that the great oceans were caused by God’s flood so their elimination is a natural result of the earth returning to its original created likeness.


When He was about to be crucified, Jesus promised that He would go back to Heaven and prepare mansions for all His saints. “Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me. In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.” (John 14:1-3.) When He ascended, He did not wait to do that hundreds of years into the church age. At the very least, He did it before John wrote this Revelation. John saw this New Jerusalem with it indisputable glory. Here is the description of the city found in this chapter and the next and last chapter of this book. The Son of God is the Creator of this city and its glory. John gives us a little taste of that glory for this is only a little glimpse. John’s description of the city said that it was “prepared as a Bride adorned for Her Husband.” Our Lord made certain that this city would exceed our expectations and be His prize for His overcomers.


Dwelling in the midst of this city and of His own family will be the Father Himself. The Son of God loves His Father with a love that can only be called divine. Yet, this divine love has a component of manhood because He was begotten of the Father in His earthly pilgrimage. This city is the Son’s gift to His Bride. After He brings His Bride into the city, He proceeds to exalt His Father to be with Him and His Bride and to be their God. One of the greatest mysteries that we shall soon discover is voiced in words that show this future honor that the Son gives His Father. “Then cometh the end, when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father; when he shall have put down all rule and all authority and power. For he must reign, till he hath put all enemies under his feet. The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. For he hath put all things under his feet. But when he saith all things are put under him, it is manifest that he is excepted, which did put all things under him. And when all things shall be subdued unto him, then shall the Son also himself be subject unto him that put all things under him, that God may be all in all.” (I Corinthians 24-28). New Jerusalem will be the location of this grand moment.


Then, the Father shall proceed to “wipe away all tears from their eyes.” Every memory of pain and loss must be forever eliminated. Memories of loved ones that refused to surrender to Christ, although we sacrificed much pain to win them must be forgotten. That will be possible only because the Father removes them from our minds. The human soul and spirit is eternal and all our experiences are stored in both our mind and in our emotions. This is why our world carries so much pain from the abuse, unfair and unkind experiences, and a world filled with sin and its consequences. Our God has a plan and the authority to execute. “... The former things are passed away.”

“And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And he said unto me, Write: for these words are true and faithful. And he said unto me, It is done. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely. He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son. But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.”  Revelation 21:5-8

When the Father is speaking, the entire world must listen. He starts with, “Behold, I make all things new.” That settles the entire debate about a New Heaven and a New Earth. The Father created everything that exists except His own self and His Divine Godhead. He does not replace heaven and earth, but makes them new. That could not be more exact. He commanded John to write, because these are His words and they cannot be altered. After at least six thousand years of putting up with the devil and his destruction of everything beautiful, the Father lets us know that it is over. Everything is going to be beautiful beyond measure again. Hallelujah!

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