The New Jerusalem

 Greetings to you all in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ,

     Revelation 21:10 says, “And he carried me away in the spirit to a great and high mountain, and shewed me that great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God,”

     I have recently been texting complete strangers who put up a picture and I am to assume that the picture is of them.  Actually anyone can do that.  There are millions of pictures on the internet and all you have to do is download a series of one person and assume their identity.  In other words, you have no idea to whom you are talking and unless it is a live video session, you never will know if what you are seeing is actually that person or someone quite the opposite.  The internet is probably one of the worst places to determine what someone looks like and much of the other information that is on it.  People can say they are from another country even and just be down the road a few miles.

     The above passage is a source of the description of the “holy Jerusalem” descending out of heaven.  Now, normally, I would doubt the validity of such a statement, as one can think, “How can a city descend from heaven?”  One could also say, “How can a human body ascend into heaven as the Lord Jesus Christ dis in Acts 1:9-11?”  There are many things that occur in the Bible that are unbelievable in many ways, from floating ax heads to water coming from a rock, the parting of the Red Sea, Elijah going up in a whirlwind and water being turned into wine and Lazarus coming forth out of the tomb, still bound in grave clothes.   What makes it believable is the fact that it is in the Bible and the Bible, is the Word of God, fully inspired by Him and every prophecy has been fulfilled exactly as it was stated years ago.  Extreme odds were obvious, yet the prophecies were fulfilled.  Then, we come to the book of Revelation and because it is inspired by God, we can have complete confidence in the description of things we do not understand.  Now, there is a lot from the Bible that I do not understand, but I accept it is being one hundred percent true,because it is in the Bible.  The prophecies that are left are few in number but they will be fulfilled as God’s Word says it will be fulfilled.  When I want to know what heaven is like, I go to the Bible and not to someone who had an out of body experience or who makes false claims about what they think they saw.  I may not understand how it is possible but I will believe it and the New Jerusalem is going to be something unbelievable to our minds but not with God.  Praise God for the trustworthiness of His Word.