Contributed by Garrett Tyson on Nov 21, 2023
The new Jerusalem is both a place we enter, and the church itself. The new Jerusalem=the bride=the church. The focus is on living faithfully-- conquering-- so that we are allowed in.
I'd like to start this morning by simply rereading our verses from last week, Revelation 21:1-8. They start, with what John "sees":
(1) and I saw a new heaven and a new earth.
For the first heaven and the first earth departed,
and the sea wasn't in it any longer,
(2) and the
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