The document describes John's vision of the New Jerusalem, which is prepared as the eternal home for God's people. Key details include: the New Jerusalem descends from heaven after the first heaven and earth pass away; it resembles a bride adorned for her husband; God dwells among his people and wipes away every tear; the city has twelve gates guarded by angels representing the twelve tribes of Israel and twelve foundation stones representing the twelve apostles.

1. The New Jerusalem Part 1
Revelation 21:1-14

2. • (1) Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth; for
the first heaven and the first earth passed away,
and there is no longer any sea.

3. • (1) Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth; for
the first heaven and the first earth passed away,
and there is no longer any sea.
• Philippians 3:20 For our citizenship is in heaven,
from which also we eagerly wait for a Savior, the
Lord Jesus Christ;

4. • Matthew 24:35 "Heaven and earth will pass away,
but My words will not pass away.

5. • Matthew 24:35 "Heaven and earth will pass away,
but My words will not pass away.
• Revelation 22:1 Then he showed me a river of the
water of life, clear as crystal, coming from the
throne of God and of the Lamb,

6. • (2) And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming
down out of heaven from God, made ready as a
bride adorned for her husband.

7. • (2) And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming
down out of heaven from God, made ready as a
bride adorned for her husband.
• Hebrews 11:10 for he was looking for the city
which has foundations, whose architect and
builder is God.

8. • Hebrews 12:22-23 But you have come to Mount
Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly
Jerusalem, and to myriads of angels, (23) to the
general assembly and church of the firstborn who
are enrolled in heaven, and to God, the Judge of
all, and to the spirits of the righteous made
perfect,

9. • “The New Jerusalem is prepared during the church
age as a place for the bride and will be in existence
at the rapture, during the Tribulation, and the
Millennium. It will be the home of the church and
our eternal abode there begins right after Christ
comes for His bride.” Charles Ryrie

10. • John 14:2 "In My Father's house are many dwelling
places; if it were not so, I would have told you; for
I go to prepare a place for you.

11. • (3) And I heard a loud voice from the throne,
saying, "Behold, the tabernacle of God is among
men, and He will dwell among them, and they
shall be His people, and God Himself will be among
them, (4) and He will wipe away every tear from
their eyes; and there will no longer be any death;
there will no longer be any mourning, or crying, or
pain; the first things have passed away."

12. • Ezekiel 37:27 "My dwelling place also will be with
them; and I will be their God, and they will be My
people.

13. • (5) And He who sits on the throne said, "Behold, I
am making all things new." And He *said, "Write,
for these words are faithful and true." (6) Then
He said to me, "It is done. I am the Alpha and the
Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give to
the one who thirsts from the spring of the water of
life without cost.

14. • Revelation 1:8 "I am the Alpha and the Omega,"
says the Lord God, "who is and who was and who
is to come, the Almighty.“

15. • Revelation 1:8 "I am the Alpha and the Omega,"
says the Lord God, "who is and who was and who
is to come, the Almighty.“
• Revelation 22: 13 "I am the Alpha and the Omega,
the first and the last, the beginning and the end."

16. • John 4:13-14 Jesus answered and said to her,
"Everyone who drinks of this water will thirst
again; (14) but whoever drinks of the water that I
will give him shall never thirst; but the water that I
will give him will become in him a well of water
springing up to eternal life."

17. • (7) "He who overcomes will inherit these things,
and I will be his God and he will be My son. (8)
"But for the cowardly and unbelieving and
abominable and murderers and immoral persons
and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, their part
will be in the lake that burns with fire and
brimstone, which is the second death."

18. • 1 John 5:4-5 For whatever is born of God
overcomes the world; and this is the victory that
has overcome the world--our faith. (5) Who is the
one who overcomes the world, but he who
believes that Jesus is the Son of God?

19. • 1 John 5:4-5 For whatever is born of God
overcomes the world; and this is the victory that
has overcome the world--our faith. (5) Who is the
one who overcomes the world, but he who
believes that Jesus is the Son of God?
• 1 Peter 1:4 to obtain an inheritance which is
imperishable and undefiled and will not fade away,
reserved in heaven for you,

20. • 1 Corinthians 6:11 Such were some of you; but you
were washed, but you were sanctified, but you
were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ
and in the Spirit of our God.

21. • (9) Then one of the seven angels who had the
seven bowls full of the seven last plagues came
and spoke with me, saying, "Come here, I will
show you the bride, the wife of the Lamb." (10)
And he carried me away in the Spirit to a great and
high mountain, and showed me the holy city,
Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God,
(11) having the glory of God. Her brilliance was
like a very costly stone, as a stone of crystal-clear
jasper.

22. • Ephesians 5:25-27 Husbands, love your wives, just
as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself up
for her, (26) so that He might sanctify her, having
cleansed her by the washing of water with the
word, (27) that He might present to Himself the
church in all her glory, having no spot or wrinkle or
any such thing; but that she would be holy and
blameless.

23. • (12) It had a great and high wall, with twelve
gates, and at the gates twelve angels; and names
were written on them, which are the names of the
twelve tribes of the sons of Israel. (13) There
were three gates on the east and three gates on
the north and three gates on the south and three
gates on the west. (14) And the wall of the city
had twelve foundation stones, and on them were
the twelve names of the twelve apostles of the
Lamb.

24. • Hebrews 12:22-24 But you have come to Mount
Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly
Jerusalem, and to myriads of angels, (23) to the
general assembly and church of the firstborn who
are enrolled in heaven, and to God, the Judge of
all, and to the spirits of the righteous made
perfect, (24) and to Jesus, the mediator of a new
covenant, and to the sprinkled blood, which
speaks better than the blood of Abel.