Meditation

Reader,

This week's passage concludes with a final description of the New Jerusalem and the discovery that the glory of God will be the source of light and that there will be no night.

It will be a place of unblemished purity, security, and direct communion with God. Whereas the previous passages expressed these qualities by describing the dimensions, embellishments, and construction of the New Jerusalem, this passage states them in terms of absences.

No temple, No sun, no moon, no night, no one shameful or deceitful.

Literally, another world than the earth we live in today.

Today's text is Revelation 21: 22-27

Revelation 21

The New Jerusalem, the Bride of the Lamb

22 I did not see a temple in the city, because the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are its temple. 23 The city does not need the sun or the moon to shine on it, for the glory of God gives it light, and the Lamb is its lamp.

24 The nations will walk by its light, and the kings of the earth will bring their splendor into it. 25 On no day will its gates ever be shut, for there will be no night there.

26 The glory and honor of the nations will be brought into it. 27 Nothing impure will ever enter it, nor will anyone who does what is shameful or deceitful, but only those whose names are written in the Lamb’s book of life.

Encouragement

Recalling the prophecy in Isaiah 60:19-20, we end this week with the promise of an end to earthly sorrows and an everlasting communion with God.

The sun will no more be your light by day,
nor will the brightness of the moon shine on you,
for the Lord will be your everlasting light,
and your God will be your glory.

Your sun will never set again,
and your moon will wane no more;
the Lord will be your everlasting light,
and your days of sorrow will end.

Andy

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