{"id":1154,"date":"2026-06-08T02:29:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T06:29:14","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2026-06-08T02:29:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T06:29:14","slug":"revelation:-21-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/c2creset.ondigit.us\/?p=1154","title":{"rendered":"Revelation: 21-22"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 102, 136);\"><strong>Revelation: 21-22<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/userfiles\/image\/Icosa-Dodecahedron.gif\" width=\"333\" height=\"327\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><strong><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 255);\">A New Heaven and a New Earth: 21:<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">1: Then I saw &ldquo;a new heaven and a new earth,&rdquo;[a] for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and there was no longer any sea.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">2: I saw the Holy City, the <a href=\"?p=725\"><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 255);\">New Jerusalem<\/span><\/a>, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride beautifully dressed for her husband.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">3: And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, &ldquo;Look! God&rsquo;s dwelling place is now among the people, and he will dwell with them. They will be his people, and God himself will be with them and be their God.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">4: He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death&rsquo;[b] or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">5: He who was seated on the throne said, &ldquo;I am making everything new!&rdquo; Then he said, &ldquo;Write this down, for these words are trustworthy and true.&rdquo;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">6: He said to me: &ldquo;It is done. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. To the thirsty I will give water without cost from the spring of the water of life.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">7: Those who are victorious will inherit all this, and I will be their God and they will be my children.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">8: But the cowardly, the unbelieving, the vile, the murderers, the sexually immoral, those who practice magic arts, the idolaters and all liars&mdash;they will be consigned to the fiery lake of burning sulfur. This is the second death.&rdquo;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/userfiles\/image\/dodecahedron-lopx.jpg\" width=\"333\" height=\"304\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><strong><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 255);\">The New Jerusalem, the Bride of the Lamb<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">9: One of the seven angels who had the seven bowls full of the seven last plagues came and said to me, &ldquo;Come, I will show you the bride, the wife of the Lamb.&rdquo;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">10: And he carried me away in the Spirit to a mountain great and high, and showed me the Holy City, Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">11: It shone with the glory of God, and its brilliance was like that of a very precious jewel, like a jasper, clear as crystal.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">12: It had a great, high wall with <span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 255);\">12 gates<\/span>, and with <span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 255);\">12 angels<\/span> at the gates. On the gates were written the names of the 12 tribes of Israel.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">13: There were three gates on the east, three on the north, three on the south and three on the west.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">14: The wall of the city had <span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 255);\">12 foundations<\/span>, and on them were the names of the <span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 255);\">12 apostles<\/span> of the Lamb.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">15: The angel who talked with me had a measuring rod of gold to measure the city, its gates and its walls.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">16 The city was laid out like a square, as long as it was wide. He measured the city with the rod and found it to be <a href=\"?p=801\"><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 255);\">12,000 stadia[c] in length, and as wide and high as it is long<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">17 The angel measured the wall using human measurement, and it was 144 cubits[d] thick.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">18 The wall was made of jasper, and the city of pure gold, as pure as glass.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">19 The foundations of the city walls were decorated with every kind of precious stone. The first foundation was jasper, the second sapphire, the third agate, the fourth emerald,<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">20 the fifth onyx, the sixth ruby, the seventh chrysolite, the eighth beryl, the ninth topaz, the tenth turquoise, the eleventh jacinth, and the twelfth amethyst.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">21 The 12 gates were <span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 255);\">12 pearls<\/span>, each gate made of a single pearl. The great street of the city was of gold, as pure as <span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 255);\">transparent glass<\/span>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">22 I did not see a temple in the city, because the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are its temple.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">23 The city does not need the sun or the moon to shine on it, for the glory of God gives it light, and the Lamb is its lamp.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">24 The nations will walk by its light, and the kings of the earth will bring their splendor into it.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">25 On no day will its gates ever be shut, for there will be no night there.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">26 The glory and honor of the nations will be brought into it.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">27 Nothing impure will ever enter it, nor will anyone who does what is shameful or deceitful, but only those whose names are written in the Lamb&rsquo;s book of life.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/userfiles\/image\/Dodeca+Pearl-lopx.jpg\" width=\"333\" height=\"350\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 255);\"><strong>Eden Restored: 22:<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">1:Then the angel showed me the river of the water of life, as clear as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">2: Down the middle of the great street of the city. On each side of the river stood the <a href=\"?p=1153\"><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 255);\">tree of life<\/span><\/a>, bearing <span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 255);\">12 crops of fruit<\/span>, yielding its fruit every month. And the leaves of the tree are for the healing of the nations:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/userfiles\/image\/2025-pics\/12%20fruits%20of%20life.jpg\" width=\"111\" height=\"150\" alt=\"\" \/><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">3 No longer will there be any curse. The throne of God and of the Lamb will be in the city, and his servants will serve him.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">4 They will see his face, and his name will be on their foreheads.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">5 There will be no more night. They will not need the light of a lamp or the light of the sun, for the Lord God will give them light. And they will reign for ever and ever.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 255);\"><strong>John and the Angel<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">6 The angel said to me, &ldquo;These words are trustworthy and true. The Lord, the God who inspires the prophets, sent his angel to show his servants the things that must soon take place.&rdquo;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">7 &ldquo;Look, I am coming soon! Blessed is the one who keeps the words of the prophecy written in this scroll.&rdquo;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">8 I, John, am the one who heard and saw these things. And when I had heard and seen them, I fell down to worship at the feet of the angel who had been showing them to me.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">9 But he said to me, &ldquo;Don&rsquo;t do that! I am a fellow servant with you and with your fellow prophets and with all who keep the words of this scroll. Worship God!&rdquo;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">10 Then he told me, &ldquo;Do not seal up the words of the prophecy of this scroll, because the time is near.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">11 Let the one who does wrong continue to do wrong; let the vile person continue to be vile; let the one who does right continue to do right; and let the holy person continue to be holy.&rdquo;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 255);\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Epilogue: Invitation and Warning<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">12 &ldquo;Look, I am coming soon! My reward is with me, and I will give to each person according to what they have done.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">13&nbsp; I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">14 &ldquo;Blessed are those who wash their robes, that they may have the right to the <a href=\"?p=1153\"><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 255);\">tree of life<\/span><\/a> and may go through the gates into the city.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">15 Outside are the dogs, those who practice magic arts, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">16 &ldquo;I, Jesus, have sent my angel to give you[g] this testimony for the churches. I am the Root and the Offspring of David, and the bright Morning Star.&rdquo;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">17 The Spirit and the bride say, &ldquo;Come!&rdquo; And let the one who hears say, &ldquo;Come!&rdquo; Let the one who is thirsty come; and let the one who wishes take the free gift of the water of life.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">18 I warn everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this scroll: If anyone adds anything to them, God will add to that person the plagues described in this scroll.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">19 And if anyone takes words away from this scroll of prophecy, God will take away from that person any share in the tree of life and in the Holy City, which are described in this scroll.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">20 He who testifies to these things says, &ldquo;Yes, I am coming soon.&rdquo;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 255);\"><strong>Amen. Come, Lord Jesus.<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">21 The grace of the Lord Jesus be with God&rsquo;s people. Amen.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/userfiles\/image\/2025-pics\/Christ-C-233.jpg\" width=\"333\" height=\"329\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 255);\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Christ-Grid-242 nodes<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Revelation: 21-22 A New Heaven and a New Earth: 21: 1: Then I saw &ldquo;a new heaven and a new earth,&rdquo;[a] for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and there was no longer any sea. 2: I saw the Holy City, the New Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/c2creset.ondigit.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/c2creset.ondigit.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/c2creset.ondigit.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c2creset.ondigit.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c2creset.ondigit.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/c2creset.ondigit.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1154\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/c2creset.ondigit.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c2creset.ondigit.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c2creset.ondigit.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}