REVELATION - 21 23 to 22 2

Apocalypse logic & riddles, weekly study, verses paraphrased [ ] references { } thots

BOOK OF REVELATION

(After the 7th and 8th millennium (aka, the second advent of Jesus) and after the “palin(again)genesis” another biG bang into the universe (as is) theN set in motion..) 

     23 - The New Jerusalem doesn’t need the sun or the moon, for the glory of God is its radiance, and its lamp is the Lamb. 24 And by its light the nations will walk. And {those who were} the kings of earth will bring [pheró - carried, to be conveyed] {turn over} their glory into it, 25 and its gates will not be shut by day. There will be no night in the city. 26 They will bring into it the glory and the honor of the nations. 27 Nothing impure will enter it, nor anyone who practices what is shameful or deceitful, but only those whose names are written in the Lamb’s book of life. [Jn.12:32, 1Tim.4:10]

     22:1 - Then the angel showed me the river of the water of Life, clear as crystal flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb. 2 And through the middle of the street of the city, and on either side of the river, is the tree of life bearing twelve kinds of fruit, each for its month. And the leaves of the tree are for the healing [therapeia - healing, service, care] of the nations.

     {Life, clear and pure as crystal.. How do you create genuinely able to think and reason beings, aNd, keep paradise/perfection intact? Total ant farm versus total ‘herd’ immunity.. the dis-ease as part of the cure?}

Next - 22:3-21

There’s one more week to this year’s study. The new study will begin in mid September.

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The Human Story

Revelation, or its Greek name, “Apocalypse”, is the story of the consummation of good and evil. Adam and Eve, placed in and of the GARDEN PARADISE had eaten of the forbidden tree of the KNOWLEDGE of both good and evil, which fruit we are still chewing on to this day. (Once thinking ability, thus choice, was endowed, a whole new world, or tree, of possibilities ‘came to be’.) In this final book of the Bible, the FRUIT OF THE EARTH is fully ripe, both goodness, and wickedness. John was a very old man, when Roman authorities banished him to an uninhabited island called “Patmos”.
     While he was there, the Lord Jesus showed him a great vision of how man’s world would end up. The visions of this book are especially poignant. Believers are urged to read, listen to, and hear, the words of this little book – after the mighty crash of all things false and the last great war of nations, Armageddon (with environmental woes as a precursor to these things) and after a 1,000 year Kingdom of our Lord's long second advent of rebuilding paradise upon Earth, the New Jerusalem (the new capital of the planet) comes down from heaven, onto the earth.
     It shines of jewels and gold, and the pure sparkling river of the water of life flows through it, to all the world, with trees of life on either side, which leaves and fruit will be for the total healing, and continued health of the nations. No eye will again cry from sorrow, there will be no sickness, suffering or death. The question of good and evil, right and wrong, what is life as opposed to what is death, has been answered for all time, and all citizens have it engraved deeply upon their very hearts and minds for all eternity and ages. To stray from Perfection/Life/God, is to stray away from the very “breath of life” and can only ever end in a self destructive puff of smoke... and dust and ashes.
     Elsewhere we are told "eye has not seen, nor ear conceived, nor heart ever been able to fully imagine, all the good things God has created for those who love Him."

Good News!

The gospel (good news) is in very large part, psychological, bottom line being, we are all miserable sinners and Jesus was executed in our place.
 (Good News Translation, GNT)
Isaiah 11:7

 ⁷Cows and bears will eat together,
      and their calves and cubs will lie down in peace.
   Lions will eat straw as cattle do.

Revelation 22:1,2  
¹The angel also showed me the river of the water of life, 
sparkling like crystal, and coming from the throne of God 
and of the Lamb and flowing down the middle of the city's street.  
 ²On each side of the river was the tree of life, 
which bears fruit twelve times a year, once each month; 
and its leaves are for the healing of the nations.