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
!!!