The Father's City

The ultimate purpose of Christ's coming is to prepare the way for God's coming. The Father is coming to earth after the earth has been made absolutely pure. With God is coming the New Jerusalem:

"^21:1 And 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. ^21:2 And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. ^21:3 And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God. ^21:4 And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away." (Revelation 21:1-4 KJV)

"And the nations of them which are saved shall walk in the light of it: and the kings of the earth do bring their glory and honour into it"

When Christ's preparations have been completed, and the world has been purified with fire (see the Fact Finder question below), The Father and New Jerusalem are coming to earth. Note that the only Biblical reference to the famous "pearly gates" describes them on earth, in the New Jerusalem: "^21:21 And the twelve gates were twelve pearls: every several gate was of one pearl: and the street of the city was pure gold, as it were transparent glass. ^21:22 And I saw no temple therein: for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple of it. ^21:23 And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it: for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof. ^21:24 And the nations of them which are saved shall walk in the light of it: and the kings of the earth do bring their glory and honour into it" (Revelation 21:21-24 KJV).

"^21:1 And 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. ^21:2 And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. ^21:3 And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God [see The Throne Of God, From Heaven To Earth]. ^21:4 And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death [see Death's Obituary], neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.

^21:5 And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And he said unto me, Write: for these words are true and faithful.

^21:6 And he said unto me, It is done. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely [see Living Waters]. ^21:7 He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son [see Spiritual Conception and Children Of God]. ^21:8 But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars [see Grace Into Licentiousness], shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.

^21:9 And there came unto me one of the seven angels which had the seven vials full of the seven last plagues, and talked with me, saying, Come hither, I will show thee the bride, the Lamb's wife [listen to the Sermon The Divorce and Remarriage of Jesus Christ from our Sermons page]. ^21:10 And he carried me away in the spirit to a great and high mountain, and showed me that great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God, ^21:11 Having the glory of God: and her light was like unto a stone most precious, even like a jasper stone, clear as crystal; ^21:12 And had a wall great and high, and had twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels, and names written thereon, which are the names of the twelve tribes of the children of Israel: ^21:13 On the east three gates; on the north three gates; on the south three gates; and on the west three gates [see Physical and Spiritual Gates]. ^21:14 And the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and in them the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb [see Who Did Peter Have Authority Over?].

^21:15 And he that talked with me had a golden reed to measure the city, and the gates thereof, and the wall thereof. ^21:16 And the city lieth foursquare, and the length is as large as the breadth: and he measured the city with the reed, twelve thousand furlongs. The length and the breadth and the height of it are equal. ^21:17 And he measured the wall thereof, an hundred and forty and four Cubits, according to the measure of a man, that is, of the angel. ^21:18 And the building of the wall of it was of jasper: and the city was pure gold, like unto clear glass. ^21:19 And the foundations of the wall of the city were garnished with all manner of Precious Stones. The first foundation was jasper; the second, sapphire; the third, a chalcedony; the fourth, an emerald; ^21:20 The fifth, sardonyx; the sixth, sardius; the seventh, chrysolyte; the eighth, beryl; the ninth, a topaz; the tenth, a chrysoprasus; the eleventh, a jacinth; the twelfth, an amethyst. ^21:21 And the twelve gates were twelve pearls: every several gate was of one pearl: and the street of the city was pure gold, as it were transparent glass.

^21:22 And I saw no temple therein: for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple of it. ^21:23 And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it: for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof. ^21:24 And the nations of them which are saved shall walk in the light of it: and the kings of the earth do bring their glory and honour into it. ^21:25 And the gates of it shall not be shut at all by day: for there shall be no night there. ^21:26 And they shall bring the glory and honour of the nations into it. ^21:27 And there shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defileth, neither whatsoever worketh abomination, or maketh a lie: but they which are written in the Lamb's book of life [see Precious Stones]." (Revelation 21:1-27 KJV)

Fact Finder: The element hydrogen was used to purify the earth in the time of Noah. How will hydrogen again be used to flood the earth?
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This Day In History, September 2

31 BC: Caesar Augustus (Octavian) conquered Antony and Cleopatra (see The Ptolemies) at the Battle of Actium. Some historians consider this date to be the beginning of the Roman empire (see Ancient Empires - Rome).

1547: Spanish conquistador Hernan Cortes died at age 62. He battled equally-famous Aztec emperor Montezuma in Mexico.

1752: The last day that the Julian Calendar (named after Roman emperor Julius Caesar) was used in Britain and its colonies. The present Gregorian calendar (named after Roman Catholic Pope Gregory XIII) began in use the next day.

1807: The British began bombarding Copenhagen to stop Napoleon from using the Danish fleet against Britain.

1864: During the U.S. Civil War, Union General William T. Sherman captured Atlanta.

1930: The first non-stop flight from Europe to the United States, 37 hours flying time.

1944: Anne Frank, at age 15, was sent to the Auschwitz concentration camp. The Dutch-Jewish girl, famous for her Diary of Anne Frank died at the Belsen concentration camp the next year, shortly before it was liberated by Allied troops near the end of the Second World War.

1944: During the Second World War, U.S. pilot George Bush parachuted out of his burning fighter plane into the Pacific. He survived, and went on to become the U.S. President in 1989 and the father of the U.S. President in 2001.

1945: "VJ Day" at the end of the Second World War. Japanese officials signed the terms of surrender with U.S. General Douglas MacArthur and other Allied leaders aboard the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay.

1969: At the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), computer researchers made the first working connection between two huge, primitive computers. Some regard that event as the birth of the computer network that became the Internet.