21:01 .. then I saw a new heaven and a new earth .. for the first heaven and the first earth passed away .. and there is no longer any sea 21:02 .. and I saw the holy city .. new Jerusalem .. coming down out of heaven from God .. made ready as a bride adorned for her husband 21:03 .. and I heard a loud voice from the throne .. saying . . . behold .. the tabernacle of God is among men .. .......... and he will dwell among them .. and they shall be his people .. and God himself will be among them
21:04 .. and he will wipe away every tear from their eyes .. and there will no longer be any death .. there will no longer be any mourning .. .......... or crying .. or pain .. the first things have passed away 21:05 .. and he who sits on the throne said . . . behold .. I am making all things new .. and he said . . . write .. for these words are faithful and true 21:06 .. then he said to me . . . It is done .. I am the Alpha and the Omega .. the beginning and the end .. .......... I will give to the one who thirsts from the spring of the water of life without cost 21:07 .. he who overcomes will inherit these things .. and I will be his God and he will be my son 21:08 .. but for the cowardly and unbelieving and abominable and murderers and immoral persons and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars .. .......... their part will be in the lake that burns with fire and brimstone .. which is the second death
21:09 .. then one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls full of the seven last plagues came and spoke with me .. .......... saying . . . come here .. I will show you the bride .. the wife of the lamb
.................. the new Jerusalem
21:10 .. and he carried me away in the Spirit to a great and high mountain .. and showed me the holy city .. .......... Jerusalem .. coming down out of heaven from God 21:11 .. having the glory of God .. her brilliance was like a very costly stone .. as a stone of crystal clear jasper 21:12 .. It had a great and high wall .. with twelve gates .. and at the gates twelve angels .. and names were written on them .. .......... which are the names of the twelve tribes of the sons of Israel 21:13 .. there were three gates on the east and three gates on the north and three gates on the south and three gates on the west 21:14 .. and the wall of the city had twelve foundation stones .. and on them were the twelve names of the twelve apostles of the lamb 21:15 .. the one who spoke with me had a gold measuring rod to measure the city .. and its gates and its wall 21:16 .. the city is laid out as a square .. and its length is as great as the width .. and he measured the city with the rod .. fifteen hundred miles .. .......... its length and width and height are equal 21:17 .. and he measured its wall .. seventy two yards .. according to human measurements .. which are also angelic measurements 21:18 .. the material of the wall was jasper .. and the city was pure gold .. like clear glass 21:19 .. the foundation stones of the city wall were adorned with every kind of precious stone .. the first foundation stone was jasper .. .......... the second .. sapphire .. the third .. chalcedony .. the fourth .. emerald 21:20 .. the fifth .. sardonyx .. the sixth .. sardius .. the seventh .. chrysolite .. the eighth .. eryl .. the ninth .. topaz .. .......... the tenth .. chrysoprase .. the eleventh .. jacinth .. the twelfth .. amethyst 21:21 .. and the twelve gates were twelve pearls .. each one of the gates was a single pearl .. .......... and the street of the city was pure gold .. like transparent glass
21:22 .. I saw no temple in it .. for the Lord God the Almighty and the Lamb are its temple 21:23 .. and the city has no need of the sun or of the moon to shine on it .. for the glory of God has illumined it .. .......... and its lamp is the lamb 21:24 .. the nations will walk by its light .. and the kings of the earth will bring their glory into it 21:25 .. In the daytime (for there will be no night there) its gates will never be closed 21:26 .. and they will bring the glory and the honor of the nations into it 21:27 .. and nothing unclean .. and no one who practices abomination and lying .. .......... shall ever come into it .. but only those whose names are written in the lamb’s book of life
It will be the perfect happiness of the saints .. when Christ re-turns to reign .. to have God’s immediate presence with them .. his love fully manifested to them and his glory fully put upon them .. no remembrance of former sorrows shall remain and all causes for future sorrow shall be removed .. whatever is excellent and valuable in this world will be there enjoyed to a far greater degree .. and Christ will be the everlasting fountain of knowledge and joy to His people . . . . v 9 & 23 the peculiar glory of the Lord Jesus to all eternity is as the “Lamb” which will ever remind of his sacrificial act upon the cross .. this title is applied to him 27 times in Revelation .. In the presence of “the Lamb” .. there will be no need of sun nor moon .. any more than here we need to light candles at noon-day .. for “the Lamb is the light thereof”