size & makeup (revelation 21:15-21)

This message was preached at New Testament Christian Fellowship in Claremont, NC on April 24, 2022. Its focus is the detailed blueprint of the New Jerusalem, the Lamb’s wife, as unveiled in Revelation 21:10-22:5, particularly the city’s DIMENSIONS (21:15-17), and its CONSTRUCTION (21:18-21). People go to war, fight, connive, betray, deceive, flatter, steal, worry about, lose sleep over, hoard, destroy, and wreck their lives over a cankered version of what will one day be pavement under the feet of the saints. This glimpse of the future inheritance of the Church for us HERE & NOW ought to effect the same response purposed for the detailed blueprint once given to Ezekiel to show unto the people of Israel: “Thou son of man, shew the house to the house of Israel, that they may be ashamed of their iniquities: and let them measure the pattern.” Moreover, the trial of our faith and the pursuit of true wisdom in this life is of far more value than than all these riches and valued materials in their earthly forms (I Peter 1:3-7, Job 28). For trials and wisdom now prepare us for eternal treasure later, “where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal” (Matthew 6:20).