Gary Rich (30 Dec 2006)
"The New Jerusalem"


The Book of Revelation could be entitled " The Book of HomeComing" , for in it we are given a picture of our Heavenly Home. John's descriptions of the future steal your breath. His depiction of the final battle is graphic. Good clashes with evil. The sacred encounters the sinful. The pages howl with the shrieks of dragons and smolder with the coals of fiery pits. But in the midst of the battlefield there is a rose. John describes it in chapter 21
 
"Then i saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and there was no longer any sea. I saw the Holy City, the New Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride beautifully dressed for her husband"
 
In this final mountaintop encounter, God pulls back the curtain and allows the warrior to peek into the homeland. When given the task of writing down what he sees, John chooses the most beautiful comparison earth has to offer. The Holy City, John says, is like " a bride beautifully dressed for her husband"
 
And as the Bride of Christ, very soon you will be leaving this planet for another world. God's Kingdom in heaven. Soon you will hear the Lord's trumpet calling you up-wards at what Christians refer to as the " rapture" . Listen closely, He will be blowing that trumpet very soon !!!