Revelation 21 - Heaven Is For Real (notes)

Revelation 21 - Heaven Is For Real

Events In The Last Part of Revelation:

1. Praise for the victory over the whore (world wide religion).
2. The Wedding Supper of the Lamb.
3. The end of the Tribulation.
4. The devil is bound & the Millennium.
5. The renovated earth & the arrival of the New Jerusalem.

Something Happens Between Revelation 20 & 21:

• There are prophecies that talk about new heavens and a new earth.
• Isaiah 66:22 and 2 Peter 3:10-13 talks about God creating new heavens and a new earth.
• God renovates the earth through fire and a new planet emerges for the coming of the New Jerusalem.

God Will Make

• All things new. The first Heaven and the first earth had passed away and there will be no more sea.
• For behold, I create new heavens and a new earth. Is. 65:17
• Revelation 21:1 Then I saw a new Heaven and a new earth, for the first Heaven and the first earth had disappeared and the sea was no more.

Renovation

2 Peter 3:10-13

(NASB)10 But the day of the Lord will come like a thief, in which the heavens will pass away with a roar and the elements will be destroyed with intense heat, and the earth and its works will be burned up. 11 Since all these things are to be destroyed in this way, what sort of people ought you to be in holy conduct and godliness, 12 looking for and hastening the coming of the day of God, because of which the heavens will be destroyed by burning, and the elements will melt with intense heat! 13 But according to His promise we are looking for new heavens and a new earth, in which righteousness dwells.

John Sees

• The tabernacle of God (God’s presence) actually living with us in person.
• God wipes away every tear from our eyes.
• Death is no more, nor sorrow, nor crying and no more pain.
• The holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down out of Heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.

John Hears A Loud Voice Saying…

• Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men.
• Behold. I make all things new.
• Write, for these words are true and faithful.
• I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End.
• I will give of the fountain of the water of life freely to him who thirsts.

Jesus Said

John 7:37 Now on the last day, the great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, saying, If anyone is thirsty, let him come to Me and drink. 38 He who believes in Me, as the Scripture said, from his innermost being will flow rivers of living water. 39 But this He spoke of the Spirit, Whom those who believed in Him were to receive; for the Spirit was not yet given, because Jesus was not yet glorified.

He who overcomes I will be his God and He shall be my son.

Look at what the Lord says about:

1. The cowardly.
2. The unbelieving.
3. The abominable.
4. The murderers (those who believe abortion is not murder and you sanction it, you will give an account to God some day).
5. The sexually immoral, adulterers, fornicators, homosexuals, any sexual sinners will not be welcomed into the New Jerusalem.
6. The sorcerers (drug abuse and incantations).
7. The idolaters.
8. The liars will have their part in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone.

John is carried away in the spirit to a great and high mountain:

1. John sees the great city descending out of Heaven from God.
2. It was full of the glory of God and her light was like a most precious stone, like jasper stone as clear as crystal. Jasper is a golden orange color stone. I would say that the city looks like transparent gold.
3. The walls were great and high with 12 gates and an angel at each gate.
4. The name of each tribe of Israel was written on each gate. The city is a cube of 1500 miles-wide, length, height with three gates on each side of the cube.

Description

1. The city had twelve foundations and on each of them are the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.
2. The angel had a measuring stick or a gold measuring tape.
3. The city is 1500 miles, not 15 miles, (Babylon was 14 miles in each direction and that was a big wall) imagine a cube city as long as it is from Dallas to New York.
4. The wall is 216 feet thick of pure transparent gold-like golden glass but gold. The color is jasper or like a golden opal like color.

The foundations of the city are twelve gems:

1. The first, jasper gold, like a diamond.
2. The second, sapphire blue, hard like a diamond.
3. The third, agate a deep golden red color.
4. The fourth, emerald bright green.
5. The fifth, onyx a reddish color.
6. The sixth, sardius or carnelian a blood color stone.
7. The seventh, goldstone is a transparent golden yellow stone.
8. The eight, a sea green emerald brighter than the fourth stone.
9. The ninth, topaz transparent greenish yellow.
10. The tenth, green goldstone, a yellow pale green like aquamarine.
11. The eleventh, zircon a violet colored gem.
12. The twelfth, amethyst a purple transparent stone.

The Twelve Gates

• Were made of twelve pearls, each gate was of one pearl. The street of the city was pure gold, like transparent glass.
• The Lord God and the Lamb-Jesus Christ are the temple. There is no need of sun or moon to shine in it, for the glory of God illuminates it. Its gates shall not be shut, there is no night there.
• The nations bring their glory and honor into it.

Who Is Not Welcome In The City:

1. But there shall by no means enter it anything that defiles, or causes an abomination or a lie.
2. Only those whose names are written in the Lamb’s Book of Life.

Heaven Is For Real

• God’s Word is God’s promise to us. God can not lie. His Word is truth and He has a great inheritance for His children.
• He is coming. Jesus prayed, Your Kingdom come, Your will be done on earth as it is in Heaven.
• Is not some fantasy but a real place that will come down to earth in the future.
• Heaven is not for sinners but for the Godly, the pure in heart and those He has sanctified.
• The most beautiful part of Heaven is the Lamb of God, Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior.