The Book of Signs: 31 Undeniable Prophecies of the Apocalypse

by David Jeremiah

(2 Peter 3:10, 12).

Revelation 21).

Out of this purged mass of God’s creative work, He will reshape, He will

remake, He will re-create all of the heavens ...

(Revelation 21:1–5).

Revelation 21:5,

The word new is significant. The apostle John originally wrote the book of Revelation in the prevailing Greek language of his day, and there are two Greek words

for “new.” One of those words (neos) contained the idea of creating something from nothing—new in terms of time. The other word (kainos) ...

Revelation 21:1:

“It is the same heaven and earth, but gloriously rejuvenated, with

no weeds, thorns, or thistles, and so on.”

(Matt. 22:32).

Remember what he wrote in 2 Peter 3:5–7?

Well, it was cleansed. It was purified by the waters of the Flood.

When Jesus died and rose again, His old body wasn’t obliterated and recreated from scratch. The body that rose again was the same that had died on the cross; but in that wondrous flash of resurrection power, it was glorified, transformed, and fitted for eternity.

Genesis 1:31

Revelation 21

Revelation 21:1 says, “Now I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away. Also there was no more sea.”

The composition of the planet will be so different—and the nature of our glorified bodies will be so superior—that the very ecology of the new creation will be altered.

Revelation 22:3:

Genesis 3,

Genesis 3:17–19,

Revelation 22:3:

Revelation 21:4–5

Heaven is God’s home. Earth is our home. Jesus Christ, as the God-man, forever links God and mankind, and thereby forever links Heaven and Earth.

As Ephesians 1:10 demonstrates, this idea of Earth and Heaven becoming one is explicitly biblical. Christ will make Earth into Heaven and Heaven into Earth. Just as the wall that separates God and mankind is torn down in Jesus, so too the wall that separates Heaven and Earth will be forever demolished. There will be one universe, with all things in Heaven and on Earth together under one head, Jesus Christ.

Revelation 21:3

Genesis 2:15,

Revelation 21 and 22

Since our resurrected bodies will be physical bodies, real and tangible, they will need a real place and an actual home—a physical city.

Revelation 3:12: “He who overcomes, I will make him a pillar in the temple of My God, and he shall go out no more. I will write on him the name of My God and the name of the city of My God, the New Jerusalem, which comes down out of heaven from My God. And I will write on him My new name.” The apostle John tells us of the creation of the new heaven and the new earth, and then, we’re told, the great city of New Jerusalem will descend from the sky and become the capital city of God’s eternal kingdom.

(21:1–5)

Revelation 21:1-5

Revelation 3:12

Revelation 21,

Revelation 21:15–16

In today’s terms, that means New Jerusalem will be about 1,500 miles wide, 1,500 miles long, and 1,500 miles high. That’s more than 2 million square miles on the first “floor” alone! And given that this city is cubical and rises far beyond the stratosphere (the stratosphere starts about eleven miles above the surface of the earth; New Jerusalem ascends to 1,500 miles), we can assume that in some way it will have more than one level. There will be vertical elements to it.

Revelation 21:16,

Revelation 21:3

Revelation 21 and 22,

Revelation 21: • “Then I, John, saw the holy city, New Jerusalem” (v. 2).

• “And he carried me away in the Spirit to a great and high mountain, and showed me the great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God” (v. 10).

Revelation 21:17–21

Hebrews 11:10,

Revelation 21:19–20

Revelation 21

(v. 21).

Revelation 21:21

Revelation 21 and 22

(Rev. 21:11).

(Rev. 21:23).

(Rev. 21:24).