A wonderful Evening to all.. will try to make some amends for not writing/ posting this morning...hope that you all had a wonderful day. HEAVEN... WHAT A PLACE IT MUST BE.... When Marco Polo returned home from China after 21 years, he had such incredible tales to tell, his friends thought he had gone mad. He said he’d travelled to a city full of silver and gold; he’d seen black stones that burned (they hadn’t heard of coal); he’d seen cloth that refused to catch fire even when thrown into the flames (they hadn’t heard of asbestos). He talked of huge serpents 10 paces long with jaws wide enough to swallow a man (no one had ever seen a crocodile). He told of nuts the size of a man’s head (they’d never seen coconuts). People just laughed at such stories. Years later, when Marco was dying, a devout man at his bedside urged Marco to recant all the tall tales he’d told . Marco refused: “It’s all true— every bit of it. In fact, the half has not been told.” Words are not adequate to express the beauties of the New Earth and the Holy City, either. In that regard, too, “The half has not been told While John the Revelator was exiled on the little Island of Patmos off Turkey’s coast, God showed him His city in vision. Then John wrote his eye-witness testimony in Revelation 21:1-2: “I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea. And I John saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.” Few illustrations present such happiness and beauty as that of a bride preparing for her wedding day! Revelation 21:14, 19 continues: “The wall of the city had twelve foundations, and on them were the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb. . . . The foundations of the wall of the city were adorned with all kinds of PRECIOUS STONES.” Verse 16 specifies the MAGNIFICENT size of the New Jerusalem: There’ll be plenty of room for every person who wants to be a citizen. Jesus promised in John 14:2 that in his Father’s house there are indeed MANY mansions! And He’s prepared a place there for us. Revelation 21:21 says, “The twelve gates were twelve PEARLS. . . . And the street of the city was pure gold, like transparent glass.” The description of that Holy City is breathtaking! .. SOME CALL IT HEAVEN...BUT... I CALL IT HOME... WHAT ABOUT YOU?
Posted on: Mon, 15 Sep 2014 20:50:47 +0000
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