The Holy City Revelation and End Times

The Holy City Revelation and End Times

When times end in Revelation, the Holy City comes down. John sees this phenomenon in chapter 21 of his book. As john describes the city, its beauty is absolutely magnificent. The colors radiating from the street, the walls, the gates and foundations capture ones imagination.

As the Holy City comes down and time on earth ends, John’s revelation is nearly complete. Although there’s another chapter left in his book, that chapter deals primarily with God’s final judgment.

The Holy City is presented as a bride, pure, holy, undefiled. The glory of God lights up the world because the sun, moon and stars have disappeared. Here, God presents all new things.

The construction of the city, its dimensions, is such that it can easily house billions of people. Although Jesus says in the Gospels, “Many are called but few are chosen.” The many represents the myriads of peoples who have inhabited the earth since the beginning of time. Therefore, compared to the billions of people called, the numbers who have accepted His call are few, indeed.

In addition to the brilliance of God’s glory shinning on the Holy City, the walls of clear jasper and the city’s street of Gold along with the varied colors of the foundation stones, reflect the glorious light everywhere. Not only is light reflected by all the brilliant colors, the translucent stones refract or bend the rays of light creating, if possible, ever greater beauty as well.

Revelation can be understood literally. More and more of the events of John's book are being made clearer as the planet earth spins ever closer and closer to the end times. Some of the items John describes that seemed figurative a few years back are suddenly being revealed by modern science. Events from his book that could never happen are possible today because of modern warfare.

Yes, John gives you a glimpse of the Holy City as times end in Revelation. What an awe inspiring sight. Can this be real? Is John merely hallucinating? Or is John actually given his vision from God? I believe all this to be real not fabricated. I believe that I will be there to witness this fantastic beauty when it finally occurs.