Jesus promised to go and prepare a place
Large enough so that it would hold them all;
No one that e'er lived of the human race
Would be homeless, of those who heard His call!
As wide and as long as it was in height,
A perfect cube, made of the purest gold;
It was translucent, so that all was light;
Fifteen hundred miles was each side, all told!
Each of the whole race had a suite, it seemed;
From Adam and Eve and Methusalem,
To aborted and all who lived between;
And it was named the New Jerusalem!
The throne room was so wide, so long and tall,
Redeemed souls and angels: It could hold them all!
"Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God; trust also in me. In my Father's house are many rooms. If it were not so, I would have told you. I am going there to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am." (John 14:1-3)
Notice Jesus promises that He will return for the apostles and, by extension, for all Christians. Remember, too, Jesus is God. There are so many names for God used in the Bible that it is difficult to keep in mind that God is all those beings. Jesus is coming back to earth, and according to the book of Revelation, it will be soon.
"I saw the Holy City, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven, from God, prepared as a bride beautifully dressed for her husband. And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, 'Now the dwelling of God is with men, and he will live with them. They will be his people, and God himself will be their God. He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed forever.'" (Revelation 21:2-4)
Revelation 21 describes the destruction of the present earth and heaven and the creation of a new earth and heaven. Heaven will be on earth, but it will be very different from the earth on which we now dwell. The curse of Adam's sin will be removed, and the earth will be more beautiful and lush than the Garden of Eden. The Holy City described in scripture above is the "place" promised by Jesus for believers to dwell in with Him. It is described as a "bride", because all His followers comprise the church, which is figuratively prophesied to be the Bride of Christ. Please read the entire chapter to get a detailed description of the New Jerusalem and some of the things we will enjoy in heaven. I do not know if this huge building is to be real or allegorical, but 1500 miles wide, long, and tall is hard to imagine. We must remember, Anything is possible with God.
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Tuesday, June 2, 2009
Christian Martyrs Of The Tribulation
A multitude in white before the throne,
Waving olive branches to praise the King;
How many there were to none could be known,
Save only by Him that knows ev'rything!
An elder said to John, "Do you know these?"
"No." answered the apostle, "but you know!"
"They are Christians beheaded to appease
The Beast; to Islam's Allah they'd not go!
Never again will they hunger or thirst;
God will shelter them forever on high;
The Lamb leads them to living waters first,
And He will wipe all the tears from each eye!
Christians of every language and land
Gave their lives for Jesus in heroic stand!
The Great Tribulation is soon to begin. Of more than 6 billion people living on earth today, only about 1.5 billion will survive the 7-year upheaval, a combination of the Wrath of God and the subsequent rule of earth by the Antichrist (Beast). He will make Christianity illegal; every person will have to submit to Allah and reject Jesus Christ, or to be beheaded. About 2 billion nominal Christians will enter the Tribulation; only an estimated 150,000 will survive to greet Jesus on His return to earth 7 years later. Those who receive God's seal of protection from the natural disasters of His wrath will have a better chance of survival. In fact, one of His reasons for the wrath is to force lukewarm Christians to become sincere and committed, or to be pressured into falling away from Christ and joining the condemned.
During the Tribulation, God will send two Witnesses to proclaim the gospel especially to the Jews of Israel, and it is possible that the 78% Jewish citizens of that nation will accept Jesus as the Messiah, something they refused to do when He first came to earth. It is possible that God will lift the judgment of spiritual dullness that He placed on the Jews in the time of Isaiah (See Isaiah 6:9-10). If so, many of them will be martyred by refusing to worship the Beast or to take his mark signifying their rejection of Christianity.
Many present-day Christians have been misled by those who believe there is to be an event called the Rapture before the beginning of the Tribulation. Suposedly Jesus is to come down in the clouds near the earth and call for the resurrection of bodies of dead Christians, as well as all living ones, to join Him and return to heaven. In this way, there will not be a single Christian left on the earth to enter the destructive time of Tribulation. A false euphoria has spread over large numbers of believers. The huge popularity of the "Left Behind" movies and books by Tim LaHaye and others has multiplied this false belief. The reader can decide for himself. First read Revelation 7:9-17. Ask yourself where did this "multitude" of Christians slain DURING the Tribulation have come from if they did not enter it?
Waving olive branches to praise the King;
How many there were to none could be known,
Save only by Him that knows ev'rything!
An elder said to John, "Do you know these?"
"No." answered the apostle, "but you know!"
"They are Christians beheaded to appease
The Beast; to Islam's Allah they'd not go!
Never again will they hunger or thirst;
God will shelter them forever on high;
The Lamb leads them to living waters first,
And He will wipe all the tears from each eye!
Christians of every language and land
Gave their lives for Jesus in heroic stand!
The Great Tribulation is soon to begin. Of more than 6 billion people living on earth today, only about 1.5 billion will survive the 7-year upheaval, a combination of the Wrath of God and the subsequent rule of earth by the Antichrist (Beast). He will make Christianity illegal; every person will have to submit to Allah and reject Jesus Christ, or to be beheaded. About 2 billion nominal Christians will enter the Tribulation; only an estimated 150,000 will survive to greet Jesus on His return to earth 7 years later. Those who receive God's seal of protection from the natural disasters of His wrath will have a better chance of survival. In fact, one of His reasons for the wrath is to force lukewarm Christians to become sincere and committed, or to be pressured into falling away from Christ and joining the condemned.
During the Tribulation, God will send two Witnesses to proclaim the gospel especially to the Jews of Israel, and it is possible that the 78% Jewish citizens of that nation will accept Jesus as the Messiah, something they refused to do when He first came to earth. It is possible that God will lift the judgment of spiritual dullness that He placed on the Jews in the time of Isaiah (See Isaiah 6:9-10). If so, many of them will be martyred by refusing to worship the Beast or to take his mark signifying their rejection of Christianity.
Many present-day Christians have been misled by those who believe there is to be an event called the Rapture before the beginning of the Tribulation. Suposedly Jesus is to come down in the clouds near the earth and call for the resurrection of bodies of dead Christians, as well as all living ones, to join Him and return to heaven. In this way, there will not be a single Christian left on the earth to enter the destructive time of Tribulation. A false euphoria has spread over large numbers of believers. The huge popularity of the "Left Behind" movies and books by Tim LaHaye and others has multiplied this false belief. The reader can decide for himself. First read Revelation 7:9-17. Ask yourself where did this "multitude" of Christians slain DURING the Tribulation have come from if they did not enter it?
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