Heaven, the Land of the Living. God will live there and we will look on His Goodness, Glory, Beauty and ask questions in His Holy Temple. We will be His people, and He will be our God, our inheritance. There are mansions, many of them, and God is preparing them for us. The sun and the moon will no longer be the light by day and night, for God will be the Everlasting Light, there will be no more night. He will be seated on His throne, under His feet will look like a paved work of a sapphire stone, His throne will look as if it is sapphire, with a rainbow that looks like an emerald surrounding it. He will have the appearance of jasper and carnelian with the rainbow surrounding Him and His Glory. The Holy City Jerusalem has the Glory of God, its radiance like a rare jewel, like a jasper, clear as crystal. It has a great high wall, with twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels and on the gates the names of the twelve tribes of the sons of Israel inscribed on them. The wall is built of jasper, the city is pure gold, clear as glass. The foundations of the wall of the city are adorned with every kind of jewel. The first is jasper, the second sapphire, the third agate, the fourth emerald, the fifth onyx, the sixth carnelian, the seventh chrysolite, the eighth beryl, the ninth topaz, the tenth chrysoprase, the eleventh jacinth, the twelfth amethyst. The twelve gates are pearls, each gate one single pearl and the street of the city is pure gold, transparent as glass. There is no temple for The Lord God The Almighty and The Lamb are The Temple. The city has no need of sun or moon to shine on it, for the glory of God gives it light and its lamp is the Lamb. Nations will surround it and all the kings of the earth will bring their glory into it, but nothing unclean will ever enter it, nor anyone false, only those whose names are written in the Lamb’s Book of Life. Around the throne are twenty-four thrones, and seated on the thrones are twenty-four elders, clothed in white clothes, with golden crowns on their heads. From the throne can come flashes of lightning, and rumblings and peals of thunder, and in front of the throne there are seven torches of fire, which are the seven spirits of God, and in front of the throne there is a sea of glass, like crystal. And around the throne, on each side of the throne, are four living creatures, full of eyes in front and behind. And in front of His throne when we first get there will be a great multitude of people from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in white robes, with palm branches in our hands and loudly saying, “Salvation belongs to our God who sits on the throne and to the Lamb!” These are the ones coming out of the great tribulation. We have washed our robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. That is why we are before the throne of God and serve Him day and night in His temple. And He will shelter us with His presence. We shall never hunger or thirst or be sunburned or uncomfortable from the weather because the Lamb is our Shepherd and will lead us to springs of Living Water. Angels will be
everywhere and the River of the Water of Life, bright as a crystal will flow from the throne of God and of the Lamb. It flows through the middle of the street of the city. On each side of the River is The Tree of Life, with twelve kinds of fruit that it yields each month. The leaves of the tree were used for the healing of the nations. The Lord God Almighty will wipe away every tear from your eyes and no one will ever die, for death shall be no more. Neither is there any more mourning, or crying, or pain anymore, for the former things are all passed away. A loud voice from the throne announces to us that the dwelling place of God is with man. He will dwell with us and we will be His people. The animals there will be completely tame and have no fear. The wolf and the lamb will eat together of the beautiful garden of grass, the lion will eat straw like the ox, dust shall be the serpent’s food. The animals will never hurt or destroy anything in heaven. We are invited to the marriage supper of the Lamb, and these are the True Words of God. We are blessed and holy, sharing in the first resurrection! We are priests of God and of Christ and we will reign with Christ for a thousand years. We shall judge the world and angels. We are now immortal and bear the image of the heavenly. Death is swallowed up in victory. Then we will dwell with The Lord God forever and ever.