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Sermon Outline The City of Heaven Heaven is described in the Bible as a Place, as a City: "the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, the New Jerusalem" (Heb.12: 22, Rev.21: 1-2, 10, Is.66: 1-22). We will never be able to understand and comprehend it, because the whole universe compared with Heaven is like a drop of water compared with the ocean... However, the Bible makes a description of it for our imagination: 1. It is a gigantic, enormous city: (Rev.21:2, 15-17) As big as the whole world known at that time, the whole Europe!... and tri-dimensional!: 12,000 stadia are about 1,400 miles, 2,2000 kilometers...The length of the whole world known at that time!. and the same length in high!. and it is not plane, but tri-dimensional. going up another 1,400 miles! 2. The Walls: (Rev.21:17-20) Huge... and beautiful!: Its thickness and high was about 200 feet (about 65 meters) you have never even heard about a foundation of a Wall made with all kind of precious stones!. not just cement or plain stones, but chalcedonies, emeralds. The most beautiful precious stones known at that time. and millions of them! 3. Twelve Gates: (Rev.21:12-14, 21) Incredible!... each gate is a pearl of about 150 feet diameter! The 12 gates are the symbol of the 12 tribes of Israel, and the 12 apostles... it is a universal City, with people coming from the north, south, east and west... 4. The City itself is gorgeous: (Rev.21:10-11, 21) Not only great and high, but shining with the glory of God... brilliant like a most precious diamond... and the street made of pure gold... like the most pure, transparent, diamond glass... and the 1,400 miles of it!... in length, wide, and high!... 5. The Lamb is its light... the splendor... the judge: (Rev.21:23-27) Use your imagination!.... no night... the most splendor light!... the inhabitants are only those written in the Lamb's book of life (Rev.20:11-15, Matt.25:31-46). 6. It is eternal: (Rev.22:1-5).The Tree of Life, beside the River of Water of Life, first pictured in Eden (Gen.2:9-10)... Paradise restored!... Fullness of life flows from the Father through the son, the Lamb, by the power of the spirit... later in Ezequiel 47:1-12, appears in his vision of Healing Waters... every desire is met in the kind of fruit available ... and Eternity!... this glorious term is so huge we will never can even imagine it, until we get into the City of God, into Heaven!... and in all of this the Lamb is focal!, praise the Lord!... 7. This is how John saw Heaven through an open door: In Rev.4 |
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