Teaching | Understanding Revelation:The New Jerusalem (Revelation 21)

The Bible begins with creation, a husband and wife, and a garden surrounded by rivers and precious stones and ends the same way: new creation, Christ and his bride, and a garden-turned-city built with precious stones and flowing with living water. God fulfills his plan in Christ by the Spirit to reconcile his people to himself. He will be their God and they will be his people. Communion with God is the goal of eternal life which is why Revelation ends with a wedding. The church, adorned like as a bride on her wedding day, prepares to feast with Christ her groom in the new creation with death defeated and every tear wiped away. In the second-to-last chapter of the Bible, God provides the church with a blueprint for the present and a hope for the future. This is Understanding Revelation.