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Revelation 21:5 All Things New (Heaven pt 4) 11~/21~/2004
"Behold I make all things new" (Rev.
21:5).
Have you ever tried to picture what it will be like the instant after you die?
After your heart beats the last beat?
There are lots of stories of near-death experiences and out-of-body experiences.
I don’t doubt all of these, but
Satan will use lots of ways to deceive us about what life after this life is like.
Heaven will be a real place (speaking of the eternal heaven which is the New Jerusalem located on the New
Earth)
1.
Why would God resurrect our bodies if we were going to live in some spiritual existence
2.
Why would God prepare a New Heavens and New Earth is we were not going to live in material bodies
3.
Heaven will be the fulfillment of our part in the Lord’s Prayer “Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth
as it is in heaven
God Himself prepared man’s first home on Earth.
1.
Genesis 2:8-9 says God had planted a garden in Eden and there He put the man He had formed.
a.
“planted a garden” shows God’s personal touch, He had prepared it
b.
In same way, He prepared the New Jerusalem
2.
Eden was not just a garden.
It was a land of natural wonders
a.
God planted a “garden in Eden”
The eternal purpose of God for creation and for his people will not be complete until all things are made new
and the glory of the Lord fills them all.
1.
In verse 5 God says, "Behold, I make all things new."
2.What does God mean “I make all things new”
a.
“all things” means “all things”
There will be new heavens and a New Earth and a New Jerusalem
1.
The New Jerusalem is the capital city of the New Earth
a.
John sees it coming down from the present Heaven, it comes down to earth
2.
It is called a city.
a.
A city has streets, people, activities
b.
A city has architecture, culture
c.
This city will have no crime
3.
The wall and city gates (21:12-14)
a.
The city will be surrounded by a wall with 12 gates, three on each side
b The wall itself will be one of the wonders of the city
(1) The wall is 216 feet in width
(2) The wall is not to help defend the city for there will be no enemies, no enemies
(3) It is a constant reminder of the eternal security of inhabitants
c.
The gates will never be closed
(1) You will not be locked in, there will be total freedom to come and go as you please.
(2) We will have an infinite universe to travel through
4.
Dimensions Revelation 21:15-16
a.
1,400 to 1,500 miles in length, width, and height
b.
Shape of the city (21:16) is “foursquare”
c..
The ground level of the city will be nearly two million square miles
(1) 40 times bigger than England, ten times as big as France or Germany and that is just the ground level
(2) It would be roughly the distance from Maine to Florida and from the Atlantic Ocean to Colorado.
d.
If you allow fifteen feet a story, the New Jerusalem would be 5,028 stories high,
(1) Each story would contain 2,250,000 square miles
5.
All this is just the New Jerusalem.
There is still the New Earth
6.
v. 21 The streets are of pure gold, so pure, they appear to be transparent as glass
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7.
The city will be of pure gold, clear as glass (21:18)
8.
Inside the city we will walk on streets of gold
9.
21:25 There shall be no more night there
a.
That doesn’t mean much to us because we have electricity, flashlights
b.
To those in the First Century the only source of light was a small wick in a bowl of oil.
c.
Darkness brought fear and danger
All things new means God is going to make us spiritually and morally new
1.
The greatest frustration of this age is that we still sin.
a.
We want to be holy and we fall short of the holiness we long for.
We want to love and we say hurtful things.
b.
We want to worship and we feel cold.
We want to walk in peace and we feel anxiety.
We want to be pure in
thought and impurity bombards our minds.
2.
Revelation 21: 27 Nothing unclean will ever come into it."
a.
Nobody who has any stain on them at all will ever come into the heavenly city, to the abode of God, the
heaven of heavens.
b.
Chapter 22 :14 says same thing
3.
We must be perfect to get into God’s heaven and that is one reason we are not sure of our salvation
The whole idea of God's redemption is to make us perfect.
1.The whole idea is to fit us to dwell forever in the presence of God.
2.
Salvation is a process.
You accepted Jesus as Lord and Savior and were born again, but that was only the
beginning
a.
Salvation is past, present, and future.
You were saved, you are saved, but you are being saved.
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