You Are My People

There is a chiastic structure in verses a, as follows:. God dwells with his people vv.

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The adornment of the bride is a clear antithesis to the adornment of the whore Babylon The new Jerusalem is not so much a place, but primarily a people. It is a symbol of the bride, the Church — the precious community of individuals who have fellowship with God. It is a real encounter with the living Christ. The marriage of Christ to the church illustrates the complete and perfect fulfillment of the covenant promise found throughout Scripture cf.

The marriage of the Lamb and the new Jerusalem provides intimate and abiding fellowship with God. Fully realized redemption and salvation presupposes not only the deliverance of individual persons, but also of the whole world.

Jeremiah And you will be My people, and I will be your God."

What God brings into being is so radically new that the old heaven and the old earth cannot contain it. That newness is nothing less than the presence of God as announced from the throne Here, however, this presence is consummated. What the city is, the saints will be — and what they will be is the opposite of what they suffer under the beast.

There are four ways in which this city will be the opposite, as presented in this pericope: The city will also be new — the saints will belong to the new heaven and the new earth cf. The city will be heavenly — it will descend out of heaven from God Finally, the city will be joyous — sheer happiness will characterize it, a happiness unadulterated by tears, pain, or death cf. When the New Jerusalem descends, in a real sense, heaven will be on earth. God declares the adventing church to be homemaker for God with men in intimate relationship, with tangible evidence that all alienation is over.

The book has a comforting message to its audience — not only the original audience that was experiencing persecution, but also the persecuted church throughout the ages.

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There is a comforting newness in the coming heaven and earth, contrasting with the suffering and pain of the present experience of heaven and earth. All the preceding chapters of Revelation complete that contrast. This is the hope of the saints. Fortress Press, , How do these questions help reveal the uniqueness of Jesus?

Is Jesus just one God among many gods? While people may assume that all religions are fundamentally the same and only have minor differences, this is not the case. God is greater than any temple, church, or religious experience, and so many of us miss this major point about spirituality.

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