REV.21 9And one of the 7 Angels who held the 7 Bowls filled with the 7 last plagues came to me and said, “Come with me and I’ll show you the Bride, the Lamb’s Wife.”
TRIPPY-PEARLS !
10And he took me away 'in the Spirit' to a massive, high mountain, and showed me the great city, the New Divine Jerusalem, coming out of the Heaven from Alahim. 11having His esteem, and her light was like a most precious stone, like a jasper stone, clear as crystal ...
12and having a great, high wall, with 12 gates, and at the gates are 12 Angels/Messengers, and names inscribed on them, which are of the 12 Tribes of the sons of Israel:
133 gates on the East, 3 gates on the North,
3 gates on the South, and 3 gates on the West.
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BLIND-STUPIDITY
WITHOUT THE SPIRIT!
The first and most important thing in a structure is the FOUNDATION, upon which the whole structure stands or falls. The foundation site of Solomon's Temple was chosen by Yahuah: Jerusalem (My Moriah) (A SHADOW OF THE NEW JERUSALEM) and the significance of the materials chosen to be the foundation of Yahuah's house are great, costly and hewn stones.
"If the foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do?" (PS 1 1:3).
"Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation, a stone, a tried stone, a precious cornerstone, a sure foundation . . ." (IS 28).
"His foundation is in the Holy/Set-Apart mountains . ." (PS 87).
"Other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Yahusha Messiah" (1 COR 3).
For the Temple to be built according to the pattern, a solid foundation, foundation stones, had to be laid. There are several aspects that may be considered when looking at the truth of the foundation stones of the Temple :
YAHUSHA-FOUNDATION - There is absolutely no mistake in the fact that Yahusha Messiah is THE FOUNDATION of His Bride, His New Covenant Temple. He is the Rock and the Foundation-Stone in all He is, all He said, and all He did. Paul says that no other foundation can be laid than what's already been laid by Yahusha Messiah, for it is the person of Yahusha — Who He is as Alahim!
The prophet Isaiah said, "I lay in Zion for a foundation stone, a tried and tested stone, a precious cornerstone" (IS 28:16). Yahusha is this tried and tested stone, tried by the Roman Rulers, the Priests and Scribes of the Sanhedrin of the Jews. He is the proven stone. He is the sure foundation. The theme of the Rock/Stone is evident throughout the Scripture, for it is the history of Yahusha Messiah :
* Yahusha is the Anointed Stone of Jacob's ladder (GEN 28).
* Yahusha is the Shepherd-Stone of Israel in Joseph (GEN 49).
* Yahusha is the Smitten Rock providing the waters of the Spirit for the people of Alahim (EX 17, IS 53, PS 78, 1 COR 10).
* Yahusha is the Rock of our Deliverance (PS 18, 62, 40).
* Yahusha is the Rock of redemption and revelation (EX 33).
* Yahusha is the Rock into which we enter and find safety (IS 2, DEUT 32).
* Yahusha is the Rock that begets lively stones (DEUT 32).
* Yahusha is the Smiting Rock that becomes the Stone Kingdom (DAN 2, LUKE 20, MATT 21).
* Yahusha is the Rock upon which His Assembly/Bride is built (MATT 16).
* Yahusha is the foundation for the wise man who built His house upon a Rock. Solomon was a 'wise man" who built the house of Alahim on the rock foundation.
* Yahusha is the living stone by reason of His resurrection (1 PET 2).
* Yahusha is the white Stone with the new delivering Name in it (ACTS 4).
* Yahusha the rejected Stone becomes the headstone and cornerstone (PS 118; MATT 21).
When we look at Scripture, Yahusha is seen in all His esteem as the Rock of Ages, the Rock of our deliverance, THE FOUNDATION STONE UPON WHICH HIS BRIDE WILL BE BUILT. When all around is sinking sand, on Yahusha the solid Rock we stand! He who laid and is the foundation of this house will complete it (ZECH 4 & 6).
While the Tabernacle of Moses had its foundation in the silver sockets of redemption and the Temple of Solomon had its foundation in Moriah and the foundation stones, the Assembly/Bride of Yahusha Alahim has its foundation in HIM, His PERSON, His WORD, His WORK and His LOVE. To those who rejected Him, He is the stone of stumbling and a rock of offence (ROM 9, I PET 2). To those who believe, He is the stone with the seven eyes of Alahim (perfect insight) in it (ZECH 4). To Him we sing (PS 95).
The final aspect of foundation and building stones is Yahusha's Bride.
In Solomon's Temple, the stones had to be blasted and shaken out of the quarries of King Solomon by his quarry-men. They were removed from their natural surroundings. They were originally rough, jagged, hideously unattractive stones, unhewn, unshapen stones, useless and without purpose. The Scripture says that these stones for the Temple were made ready before they were brought to the Temple site to be placed. "There was no sound of hammer, or axe, or any tool of iron in the house while it was in building." (1 KINGS 6)
We note some things about the stones, not only for the house of Yahuah, but also for Solomon's house, which was also made of stones. The spiritual truths evident here may be applied to believers who are now the "LIVING STONES" for a spiritual house. Undoubtedly Peter had these things in mind when he wrote this to the believers (1 PET 2).
The stones for Yahuah's Temple were:
* Costly stones
* Great stones
* Hewn stones
* White stones
* Prepared stones
* Foundation stones
* Covered stones, covered with cedar wood
* Wrought stones, sawed within and without
* Garnished stones, with precious gems for beauty
* Measured stones ... 8 by 10 cubits
After being quarried, these stones were hewn, sawn, squared, measured and shapen in order to find their place in the house of Yahuah. Everything was to fit perfectly in His house by the builders. Israel had been "hewn by the word of the prophets." The stone-squarers had to work on these stones, chiselling, shaping and polishing them to fit into Yahuah's House.
The stone-masons knew what they were doing to the various stones, and all of this preparation speaks of Yahusha training and disciplining and flogging and perfecting His Bride. There, it was material stones, worked on EXTERNALLY. Here, it is spiritual stones, worked on INTERNALLY, being built up (through the incorruptible, implanted seed) into a spiritual House.
There was much noise in the quarries and forests but when the Temple came together there was not the sound of a hammer or tool. Yahusha has set in the Assembly/Bride spiritual stone-squarers, stone-masons, these being qualified believers who's behaviour has been tested and tried in fire. Yahusha is in control of the shaping to bring His Bride into His maturity pattern.
Likewise, Yahusha wants to use His Bride as quarry-men, to obtain stones from out of the quarries of sin, the quarries of this world. Then Yahusha can shape, hew, saw, square, fashion and polish with hammer and saw and chisel off the worldly wicked behaviour from the lively stones brought to Him. Through the indwelling power of His Spirit & Fire Baptism and continual portal exposure, Yahusha works on these stones, to see that they measure up to Alahim's standard and pattern of behaviour in order to find their place in His Body, His Bride, His Temple.
Judas became a "rejected stone", cast away, refusing to be measured within and without by the Master-builder, Yahusha Messiah Himself. He rejected THE Stone and became a rejected stone himself. But Peter allowed the Master-builder to work on him, and so Peter, "a stone", found his place and name in the Foundations of the City.
Yahusha is the "wise master-builder", who positions the stones in their appointed places in the Temple of Alahim, knowing where all the stones are to be placed. How sad it must be when the Master-builder finds stones who are "misfits", and refuse to fit into His Perfect House, but want to be individual stones, their own personality, alone and they find no placement or blessing in Yahusha.
As the Master Himself was a tried stone, a tested stone, so will all stones be that find their place in the House of Alahim. He calls us to be like Him. The work of repentance, transformation & deliverance are all part of the process to make us the lively stones He wants us to be. The Bride is a Spiritual House, a Holy Temple, a habitation of Yahusha through His Spirit.
The walls of the house, as also the foundation, were made of white marble stone, or simply "white stones." Walls speak of safety, protection, enclosure and security. The city of Alahim in John's vision has its walls and keeps out those who are unclean and unfit to enter the presence of Yahusha. It also protects those who are within, the priests of Yahusha. Isaiah also speaks of "the walls of deliverance" (IS 60). Yahuah promised to be a "wall of fire" around His people in time of trouble. Yahusha has a place for all in His Temple. Not everyone in the Bride is a foundational stone. Many are stones prepared to fit into the walls of Yahusha's house. However, the walls are still dependant upon the foundation stones (S.SOL 8).
... even as He uses heat and frictions between others to polish and shape His Bride. Yahusha is the Great Architect and the wise Master-builder. Each stone must submit to the workings of Yahusha. It is the favour of Yahusha that shapes the rough and unhewn stones, the unlovely stones, and thereby making us beautiful for His House, His Dwelling Place. There will be no unhewn, unsquared or unpolished stones in His house. All must measure up to His Divine standard of BEHAVIOUR, having followed in His footsteps of death and resurrection, in order to be prepared for Eternity.
All the stones fitted together when brought in from the quarries. Today, Yahusha has believers scattered across the globe in various "quarries", being shapen, hewn, chiselled and polished, being measured and prepared to fit together on the ultimate day of His building. Today is the day of Deliverance. Now is the accepted time to get ready and prepared for the ultimate coming together of Yahusha's Temple, the New Jerusalem, at His return. Yahusha often uses other stones to rub up against, and polish other stones ...
The process of preparing a human to pass from mortality to immortality involves immense pressure and fire, and is the most agonising transition the human body can experience and endure. It is complete rebirth and transformation - it is loud, it is violent, it is unrelenting, but it will be done out in the restless noise of the world, prior to the construction and appearance of the New Jerusalem. At that point there will be no violent reactions, no testing, no shaping, no pressing or burning, for all the lively stones will be prepared, mature and ready to undergo that final step, being transformed in the twinkling of an eye (an instantaneous blip from flesh to a new immortal specie like Yahusha). No noise or conflict or pain will be involved with this final step, for all of that has already been performed on the willing stones. Those not willing to endure the hard-pressing and fire will not reach the measure of the Divine Standard in the required time remaining and will not experience the First Resurrection in order to form the New City !
FLESHLY or SPIRITUAL ?
THE TWELVE TRIBES OF ISRAEL — ARE THESE NOT THE COMPONENTS THAT MAKE A HUMAN BEING?
REUBEN
EYES
SIMEON
EARS
LEVI
NERVOUS SYSTEM,
SKELETAL STRUCTURE,
MUSCLES, EPIDERMIS,
TISSUES, SKIN, HAIR.
JUDAH
LIVER, SPLEEN, KIDNEY
ISSACHAR
PROSTATE, ADRENALS,
ZEBULUN
INTESTINE, LIVER & BOWEL
DAN
LUNGS
ASHER
STOMACH
NAPHTALI
HEART
GAD
TONGUE
JOSEPH
REPRODUCTIVE SYSTEM
EPHRAIM
PENILE FUNNEL
MENASSAH
TESTES, SACK OF STONES
BENJAMIN
REPRODUCTIVE CELL,
EGGS, SPERM
The 12 Tribes have a meaning that combines to make a man, as they are the stones that make a human being!
Did you know each gate to the New Jerusalem has a meaning? Each door is part of a man … building blocks:
1 PETER 2:4-11
"As you come to Yahusha, the living Stone—rejected by humans but chosen by Alahim and precious to Him— you also, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood, offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable to Alahim through Yahusha. For in Scripture it says: 'See, I lay a stone in Zion, a chosen and precious cornerstone, and the one who trusts in him will never be put to shame.' Now to you who believe, this stone is precious. But to those who do not believe, 'The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone,' and 'A stone that causes people to stumble and a rock that makes them fall.' They stumble because they disobey the message—which is also what they were destined for. But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, Alahim’s special possession, that you may declare the praises of Him who called you out of darkness into His wonderful light".
WE ARE LIVELY STONES ALL FITTED TOGETHER… THE MAN HAD TO BE PUT TOGETHER. 12 TRIBES ARE 12 GATES ... EACH PART REPRESENTS THE INWARD WORKINGS OF A MAN ... ARE WE BEING FORMED?
STONES = BUILDING BLOCKS AND "LIVELY STONES" REFERRING TO THE BRIDE OF YAHUSHA, WHO ARE ALIVE WITH THE SPIRIT BAPTISM AND ARE PART OF ALAHIM'S SPIRITUAL DWELLING. THE IDEA IS THAT THESE DIVERSE INDIVIDUALS, WITH THEIR UNIQUE STRENGTHS AND EXPERIENCES, ARE BROUGHT TOGETHER BY YAHUSHA TO FORM A COHESIVE WHOLE.
THE VEIN PROCESS:
THE SPIRITUAL BUILDING PROCESS INVOLVES THE INDIVIDUAL EFFORTS OF BELIEVERS, THE PROCESS OF DELIVERANCE AS WE GROW IN BELIEF AND LOVE INTO THE RIGHTEOUS FRUITS.
EACH BELIEVER IS A UNIQUE "LIVING STONE," GIVING THEIR UNIQUE TALENTS AND PERSPECTIVES TO THE SPIRITUAL BUILDING.
THE STRENGTH OF THE SPIRITUAL HOUSE IS DERIVED FROM THE DIVERSITY AND UNITY OF THESE INDIVIDUAL "LIVING STONES". TO BECOME A LIVELY STONE YOU HAVE TO BECOME A NEW CREATION BEING AND BE MADE ALIVE SPIRITUALLY THROUGH THE PROCESS OF THE SPIRIT AND FIRE BAPTISM IN THE VEIN OF DELIVERANCE.
YAHUSHA'S FIRST BRIDE FAILED AND WERE DIVORCED, HOWEVER THEY FULFILLED THEIR ULTIMATE PURPOSE OF BRINGING FORTH OUR DELIVERER YAHUSHA. THE NAMES ON THESE GATES ARE NOT ABOUT THE LITERAL PEOPLE/TRIBES OF OLD BUT ABOUT WHO THEY REPRESENTED THROUGH THE EXODUS, SINAI, WILDERNESS, ALL CAMPED AROUND THE TABERNACLE. IT'S A BEAUTIFUL PICTURE OF YAHUSHA'S HEART IN REDEEMING HIS PEOPLE AND WANTING TO BE SO CLOSE TO THEM. THEY ARE NOT FORGOTTEN, BUT TRANSFORMED THROUGH HIS BLOOD, SHOWING THE ELECT TODAY HOW SHE MUST BEHAVE IN ORDER TO ENTER THIS ROYAL CITY.
WHAT BEHAVIOUR IS SHADOWED?
WHENEVER YOU SEE 'ISRAEL' OR `COVENANT YISHARAL/YASHARAL' IN SCRIPTURE JUST KNOW THAT THEY WERE A SHADOW OF BEHAVIOUR FOR THE TRUE ELECT BRIDE TO FOLLOW. AS WE SAW THEY THEMSELVES FAILED IN THE FLESH BUT THE PROMISE OF THEIR FORGIVENESS AND DELIVERANCE IS FOUND IN YAHUSHA'S VEIN WHERE ALL MEN AND WOMEN OF ANY TRIBE, LANGUAGE, CULTURE OR CREED MAY BE JOINED TO THE VINE: YAHUSHA ALAHIM !
ENTER IN AT THE NARROW GATE
( DOOR - PORTAL - VEIN )
FOR THIS IS WHERE THE VEIN OF
DELIVERANCE WILL LEAD US !
Can you see that without the Spirit of Yahusha Alahim within to abstractly discern all the Scripture patterns and prophesies spiritually, all that a corrupt mankind has is the earthly hebrew types and shadows of culture and language puzzles, to convince themselves of their supposed importance and assume an identity and inheritance that is not theirs to share (claiming that 2sticks/houses must become one again - which Yahusha achieved when He sent out Disciples to not only jews but gentile nations also). Of course Yahusha fulfilled everything in Scripture, yet dull, uninspired men and women still searches the pages, declaring earthly shadows and lineage.
Israel is a prime example of what happens when assumptions are made and behavioural liberties are taken against Alahim's Word. Therefore the only people who will ever step foot in the New Jerusalem will be those who have been purified, cleansed, anointed and delivered through Yahusha's Spirit and Fire.
FOUNDATIONS OF THE NEW COVENANT ORDER
( 12 DISCIPLES OF THE LAMB )
9And one of the 7 Angels who held the 7 Bowls filled with the 7 last plagues came to me and said, “Come with me and I’ll show you the Bride, the Lamb’s Wife.” 10And he took me away 'in the Spirit' to a massive, high mountain, and showed me the great city, the New Divine Jerusalem, coming out of the Heaven from Alahim ... (YAHUSHA)
11having His esteem, and her light was like a most precious stone, like a jasper stone, clear as crystal, 12and having a great, high wall, with 12 gates, and at the gates are 12 Angels/Messengers, and names inscribed on them,which are of the 12 Tribes of the sons of Israel:
133 gates on the East, 3 gates on the North,
3 gates on the South, and 3 gates on the West.
14And the wall of the city had 12 foundations, and on them were the names of the 12 first followers of the Lamb. NEW COVENANT DISCIPLES 15And He who spoke with me had a gold measuring rod, to measure the city, and its gates, and its wall.
THE SIZE AND SHAPE IS CLEARLY IMPORTANT BECAUSE IN SCRIPTURE, TO MEASURE SOMETHING MEANS TO FIND OUT THE TRUTH. SO (FOR EXAMPLE) TO MEASURE A PERSON IS TO DETERMINE THE TRUTH OF WHO THAT PERSON REALLY IS. THE NEW JERUSALEM IS BEING MEASURED SO THAT THE TRUTH OF ITS UNDERLYING NATURE CAN BE ESTABLISHED. AND YET THE CITY DOES HAVE DEFINITE DIMENSIONS, EVEN THOUGH THE ENGLISH MASKS ALOT OF IT.
MEASURE THE TEMPLE
MEASURE THE NEW CITY
16And the city lies 4-cornered, and its length is as great as its breadth. And he measured the city with the rod: 2,200 kilometres in length, and the breadth, and height of it are equal (12,000 MEASURES / FURLONGS / STADIA OF DISTANCE). 17And the Angel measured its wall: 65 metres (144 CUBITS) using the standard everyday measurement.
THE MEASUREMENTS OF THE CITY ARE FASCINATING WHEN YOU SEE THE NUMBER 12 :
12,000 MEASURES,
12 GATES NAMED FOR
12 TRIBES,
12 FOUNDATIONS FOR THE
12 FIRST FOLLOWERS FOLLOWERS.
THE HEIGHT OF THE WALL IS 144 CUBITS: 12 TIMES 12. SO THE MEASUREMENTS OF THE CITY ITSELF (ALTHOUGH REAL AND NOT MERELY A FIGURATIVE CITY) ARE MEANT TO SYMBOLISE AND REPRESENT THE NUMBER OF PERFECT REIGN/RULE & GOVERNMENT, AND THAT IS ALWAYS 12.
SOLOMON'S PRIVATE CUBE!
THE FIRST THING TO NOTICE IS THE ENORMITY OF THE CITY: A 2200km CUBE. SOLOMON ALSO BUILT THE HOLY ORACLE IN HIS TEMPLE, AS A CUBE WHICH ACTED AS A BARRIER SO THAT MANKIND COULD NOT COME NEAR AND DEFILE HIM AND BE FRACKLED BY DIVINE RADIATION.
THE BLUEPRINTS FOR SOLOMON'S TEMPLE WERE GIVEN TO KING DAVID BY YAHUAH HIMSELF (A GRANDER UPGRADE TO THE BLUEPRINT MOSES SAW WHILE UP ON THE MOUNT). OBVIOUSLY THIS WAS A MERE SHADOW OF THE NEW JERUSALEM BUILT IN HEAVEN (IN THE SHAPE OF A CUBE) REFLECTING THE SAME CHARACTER AND CONCEPT. FOR ALL OF NEW JERUSALEM IS AS HOLY AND UNDEFILED BY SIN AS WAS THE MOST SET-APART PLACE. BUT EVEN MORE IMPORTANT IS THAT THE LACK OF A TEMPLE IN THE NEW JERUSALEM INDICATES THAT ALL BARRIERS BETWEEN YAHUSHA AND MANKIND ARE UNECESSARY. A DELIVERED AND NEW BRIDE, LIVING ON A NEW EARTH, IS AS FREE FROM SIN AND CORRUPTION AS THE ANGELS ARE. EVEN MORE, SINCE SATAN AND SIN ITSELF HAVE BEEN DONE AWAY WITH, THERE IS NO POSSIBILITY FOR THE BRIDE TO SIN AND BRING UNCLEANNESS. SO JUST AS YAHUSHA WAS SAFE IN HEAVEN FROM HAVING HIS HOLY/SET-APARTNESS DEFILED BECAUSE OF THE BARRIER OF BEING NOT ONLY APART FROM PLANET EARTH BUT ALSO OF EXISTING IN ANOTHER DIMENSION (THE SPIRITUAL DIMENSION) SO UPON THE NEW EARTH YAHUSHA WILL ALSO BE SAFE FROM DEFILEMENT, JUST LIKE WHEN HE AND ADAM AND EVE WALKED AMONG THE GARDEN
OF EDEN TOGETHER, WITH NO BARRIERS, FOR HIS BRIDE HAS TRANSITIONED INTO PERFECT.
ALL FOURSQUARE SHADOWS THROUGHOUT THE SCRIPTURE (AND THERE'S LOTS) ARE ETERNALLY FULFILLED IN THIS CITY OF YAHUSHA WHICH MEASURES FOURSQUARE IN ULTIMATE PERFECTION AND RADIANCE!
JUST AS SOLOMON'S TEMPLE IN EARTHLY JERUSALEM (WHERE THE PRIESTS WALKED ON THE 'GOLD FLOOR', AND THE WALLS WERE OVERLAID WITH GOLD, AND STUDDED WITH ALL MANNER OF PRECIOUS STONES) SO IT IS IN HERE IN THE NEW DIVINE JERUSALEM. SOLOMON'S TEMPLE SHADOWED FORTH THE CITY OF YAHUSHA IN FINALITY. A GOLDEN CITY WITH A GOLDEN STREET, THE HOME OF ALL WHO HAVE PARTAKEN OF THE DIVINE INCORRUPTIBLE SEED OF ETERNITY. THIS IS IN GREAT CONTRAST TO THE TABERNACLE OF MOSES, WHERE THE PRIESTS MINISTERED IN THE SAME SHEKINAH PORTAL ESTEEM, BUT IT WAS ON AN 'EARTH FLOOR', IN THE WILDERNESS, SPEAKING OF THE TEMPORALNESS OF LIFE.
18And the structure of its wall was Jasper and the city was clean gold, like clear glass. 19And the foundations of the wall of the city were adorned with all kinds of precious stones: the first foundation: Jasper, the 2nd Sapphire, the 3rd Agate, the 4th Emerald, 20the 5th Sardonyx, the 6th Ruby, the 7th Krysolite, the 8th Beryl, the 9th Topaz, the 10th rysoprase, the 11th Jacinth, and the 12th Amethyst.
REV 21:14 And the wall of the city had (12) foundations and on them were the names of the (12) first followers of the Lamb.
REV 21:19 And the foundations of the wall of the city were adorned with all kinds of precious stones. (12)
EVEN THOUGH THE 12 STONES FROM THE HIGH-PRIEST'S EPHOD & THE 12 STONES IN THE NEW JERUSALEM FOUNDATION AREN'T IDENTICAL, IT'S STILL OBVIOUS THAT EVERYTHING REPRESENTING THE OLD BLOOD-COVENANT WIFE OF ISRAEL (12 TRIBES WITH 12 STONES) IS NOW TRANSITIONED OVER TO THE 12 NEW BLOOD-COVENANT DISCIPLES OF THE LAMB ... HIS NEW BRIDE GIVEN 12 NEW STONES WHICH MAKE UP THE GOVERNMENTAL FOUNDATION OF THE NEW JERUSALEM CITY.
WHENEVER YOU SEE 'ISRAEL' OR `COVENANT YISHARAL/YASHARAL' IN SCRIPTURE JUST KNOW THAT THEY WERE A SHADOW OF BEHAVIOUR FOR THE TRUE ELECT BRIDE TO FOLLOW. AS WE SAW THEY THEMSELVES FAILED IN THE FLESH BUT THE PROMISE OF THEIR FORGIVENESS AND DELIVERANCE IS FOUND IN YAHUSHA'S VEIN WHERE ALL MEN AND WOMEN OF ANY TRIBE, LANGUAGE, CULTURE OR CREED MAY BE JOINED TO THE VINE: YAHUSHA ALAHIM !
ENTER IN AT THE NARROW GATE
( DOOR - PORTAL - VEIN )
FOR THIS IS WHERE THE VEIN OF
DELIVERANCE WILL LEAD US !
ISAIAH 60: 19
19The sun will no longer be your light during the day and the light from the moon will no longer be your light at night, for Yahuah will be your light and esteem forever. 20Your sun will never go down again. Your moon will never again be dark. That’s because Yahuah will be your light forever, and the dark days of mourning will end. 21All your people will be good. They will get the land forever. They are the young plant in My garden that will grow to be a wonderful tree. I made them with My own hands. 22The smallest family will become a large family group and the smallest tribe will become a powerful nation. When the time is right, I, Yahuah will come quickly and make this happen.”
SO THERE ARE SOME DESCRIPTIONS OF THE MATERIALS USED TO CONSTRUCT THE CITY. THEY ARE THE RICHEST, MOST VALUABLE ITEMS IN USE AT THE TIME OF JOHN. MATERIALS LIKE GOLD AND DIAMOND MESMERISED PEOPLE WITH THEIR DAZZLING SHININESS. SO THE IDEA IS TO SHOW THAT THE NEW JERUSALEM IS SO
STAGGERING IN ITS ESTEEM AND SPLENDOUR: NOTHING LIKE IT HAS EVER EXISTED. THE MENTION OF EACH CITY GATE MADE FROM A SINGLE PEARL IS TO EMPHASISE THEIR EXTREME VALUE. IN THE 1ST CENTURY, PEARLS WERE AS VALUABLE AS GOLD AND LARGE PEARLS WERE EVEN MORE VALUABLE THAN GOLD, BY WEIGHT (REMEMBER THE PARABLE YAHUSHA TOLD ABOUT THE MAN WHO SOLD EVERYTHING HE OWNED TO BUY THE PRECIOUS PEARL? ...AND ALSO NOT TO THROW OUR PEARLS TO SWINE WHO WILL TRAMPLE ON US ?)
THE 12 FOUNDATION STONES ARE EACH A PRECIOUS GEM. AND EVEN THOUGH WE'VE BEEN TOLD THAT THE CITY'S 12 FOUNDATION STONES ARE NAMED AFTER YAHUSHA'S 12 FIRST FOLLOWERS , ANOTHER CONNECTION COULDN'T BE MORE OBVIOUS: IT IS TO THE HIGH PRIEST'S BREASTPLATE THAT WAS ORGANISED IN A SQUARE AND HAD ON IT 12 GEMSTONES, EACH REPRESENTING ONE OF THE 12 TRIBES.
22And I saw no Temple in this city, for Yahuah Alahim Al Shaddai and the Lamb is its Temple. 23And the city had no need of the sun, or of the moon to shine in it, for the esteem of Alahim and the Lamb illuminated it.
24And the nations, of those who are delivered, will walk in its light, and the Kings of the earth bring their esteem into it. THESE ARE ALL THE BRIDE 25And its gates will not be shut at all by day, for night will not be there. 26And they will bring the esteem and the appreciation of the nations into it. 27And there will by no means enter into it whatever is unclean, neither anyone doing abomination and false-hood, but only those who are written in the Lamb’s Scroll of Life.
THIS IS A FURTHER INDICATOR THAT THE UNDERLYING GOVERNING DYNAMICS OF THE EARTH AND UNIVERSE HAVE CHANGED. THE EXISTENCE OF DAY DOES NOT MEAN NIGHT MUST ALSO BE PRESENT. IN FACT WE'RE DIRECTLY TOLD THAT NIGHTTIME WILL NOT EXIST.
AND SINCE EVERYTHING SINFUL WILL BE DEALT WITH AT THE GREAT WHITE THRONE JUDGMENT, SO THIS LAST SECTION IS A HARD-HITTING WARNING TO JOHN'S LISTENERS AND READERS THAT ALL OF THESE WONDERFUL AND AMAZING THINGS THAT JOHN HAS LEARNED ABOUT IN HIS DIVINE VISIONS THAT WILL CONSTITUTE ETERNAL LIFE IN THE NEW HEAVENS AND EARTH OF THE FUTURE ARE ONLY AVAILABLE TO THOSE WHO CURRENTLY (DURING THIS PRESENT LIFE ON THIS PRESENT EARTH) DO NOT LIVE SHAMEFUL LIVES AND ARE NOT LIARS.
A DETESTABLE OR ABOMINABLE THING IS SOMETHING OR SOMEONE EXCEPTIONALLY SINFUL AND UNCLEAN BEFORE YAHUSHA. DECEIT IS THE PRIMARY ESSENCE OF EVIL, AND SATAN'S OVERRIDING AND UNDERLYING ATTRIBUTE IS THAT HE IS A DECEIVER. SO THE DECEIVER NOR THE BLATANT AND UNREPENTANT SINNER WILL BE IN THE LAMB'S BOOK OF LIFE, AND THEREFORE HE WILL NEVER EXPERIENCE THE ESTEEM AND PERFECTION OF THE NEW EARTH, NEW UNIVERSE, AND NEW JERUSALEM.
