John the Revelator wrote: \u2018I 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, \u201cLook! God\u2019s dwelling place is\u2026 among the people, and He will dwell with them. They will be His people, and God Himself will be with them and 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 away.\u201d He who was seated on the throne said, \u201cI am making everything new!\u201d Then He said, \u201cWrite this down, for these words are trustworthy and true.\u201d\u2019<\/i> (Revelation\u00a021:2\u20135\u00a0NIV) <\/p>\n
When an atheist died and his friends filed by his casket, one of them remarked, \u2018How sad\u2014all dressed up and nowhere to go!\u2019 Not so for the believer! As a redeemed child of God, you\u2019re assured of a home in Heaven and citizenship in \u2018the new Jerusalem\u2019.<\/i> <\/p>\n
John continues, \u2018The angel who talked with me had a measuring rod of gold to measure the city.\u2019<\/i> (Revelation\u00a021:15\u00a0NIV) The city is an exact square of about 2200 km (Revelation\u00a021:16). It would stretch from Cairns to Melbourne or from Adelaide to Perth. It\u2019s approximately 63% of the size of Australia. And that\u2019s just the ground floor! It\u2019s as tall as it is wide; six hundred thousand storeys high\u2014more than enough room for billions of people to come and go. So here is the question: when you die, will you go to Heaven? To be sure, click here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
John the Revelator wrote: \u2018I 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, \u201cLook! God\u2019s dwelling place is\u2026 among the people, and He will dwell with them. They will be […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1845"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1845\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}