One of the seven angels who had the seven bowls full of the seven last plagues comes and says to John 'Come, I'll show you the bride, the wife of the Lamb.' He carries John away in the Spirit to a great, high mountain and shows him the holy city, Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God.
It shines with the glory of God, and its brilliance is like that of a very precious jewel, like a jasper, clear as crystal. It has a great, high wall with twelve gates, and with twelve angels at the gates. On the gates are written the names of the twelve tribes of Israel. There are three gates on each side.
The wall of the city has twelve foundations, and on them are the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb. The city doesn't need the sun or the moon to shine on it, for the glory of God gives it light, and the Lamb is its lamp. The nations will walk by its light, and the kings of the earth will bring their splendor into it.
On no day will its gates ever be shut, for there's no night there. The glory and honor of the nations will be brought into it. 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's book of life.
The new Jerusalem is the culmination. God dwells with his people. The city is beautiful, ordered, and complete.
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