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SOME EXCELLENT ARTICLES THAT GO IN DEPTH
About Eternal Human Reproduction
in the Millennium and the Eternal State
The City Of Perpetual Blessing:
Outside the City the “nations” and “kings” reside, but since only the redeemed survive the Great White Throne Judgment at the end of the Millennium, the question is who are these people? (Commentary on Revelation By Dr. Paul Fedena - CLICK)
Outside the City the “nations” and “kings” reside, but since only the redeemed survive the Great White Throne Judgment at the end of the Millennium, the question is who are these people? (Commentary on Revelation By Dr. Paul Fedena - CLICK)
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Robert Govett put it this way,
“Thus also among mankind as settled in the new earth, there are two great classes: the risen, and those still in the flesh.”
(Robert Govett, - Govett on Revelation)
“Thus also among mankind as settled in the new earth, there are two great classes: the risen, and those still in the flesh.”
(Robert Govett, - Govett on Revelation)
WHEN THE DUST HAS SETTLED
(Life In Eternity)
TEXT:
Revelation 21
Revelation 22
1 And he shewed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb.
2 In the midst of the street of it, and on either side of the river, was there the tree of life, which bare twelve manner of fruits, and yielded her fruit every month: and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.
3 And there shall be no more curse: but the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it; and his servants shall serve him:
4 And they shall see his face; and his name shall be in their foreheads.
5 And there shall be no night there; and they need no candle, neither light of the sun; for the Lord God giveth them light: and they shall reign for ever and ever.
INTRO: The Bible makes it clear that when all the dust is settled, there’s only going to be three places of existence:
✔ Every soul created will reside in one of these places!
✔ What you believe will not change this truth!
✔ Throughout eternity you will either live in....
💥misery and pain, or 😊glory and bliss!
At the end of the millennium:
Then eternity will begin for the saved of all the ages.
Thus, we find ourselves (the bride of Christ) in the New Jerusalem, hovering above the New Earth, probably over the enlarged and rebuilt Jerusalem, along with expanded Temple. (Ezek. 40-48) Which, no doubt is on an enlarged Earth to accommodate all those who received Christ during the 1,000-year millennium.
Yes, that will possibly put the population into the quadrillions! So, all of those, who have never been resurrected, will continue to reproduce as eternity rolls on. Nowhere in Scripture is there a Resurrection for Millennial Saints - Matthew 25:31-46
This continues God’s original plan of perpetual generations of humans.
Note in Rev. 22:5 – “and they shall reign for ever and ever.” We the bride of Christ, O.T., Church Age, & Martyred Trib. Saints, will be Kings, Priests, and Rulers in the Eternal Kingdom. As God’s Kingdom expands for all eternity, our jobs will become massive! Therefore, we will be in glorified bodies, like unto Christ’s and the Angels. Our power, responsibilities will be limitless. We will rule and reign over a new earth of eternal peoples.
Look at these O.T. verses that support this biblical truth…
Daniel 7:13-14, 18, 27
Ezekiel 37:25
Isaiah 59:21
Isaiah 66:22-24
Exodus 32:13; Psalm 25:13; 37:9-11
Isaiah 9:6-7 – One of the clearest and best verses on perpetual and eternal generations of peoples!
👉Genesis 9:12; 13:15; 17:7-8 and verse 19; Exodus 3:15; 12:14 and verse 42; 27:21; 30:8 and 21; 31:16; 40:15; Leviticus 3:17; 6:18; 10:9; 17:7; 23:14, 21, 31 and 41; 24:3; 25:30; Numbers 10:8; 15:15; 18:23; Deuteronomy 5;29; 12:28; 28:46; 29:29; 2 Samuel 7:24-29; 1 Chronicles 23:25; Psalm 12:7; 45:17; 72;5; 79:13; 89:4; 100:5; 102:12 and 24; 106:31; 119:90; 135:13; 145:13; 146:10; Isaiah 9:6-7; 51:8; 59:21; Jeremiah 31:35-36; 32:38-40; Ezekiel 37:24-28; Lamentations 5:19; Daniel 2:44-45; 4::3; and 34; 7:13-18; Joel 3:20; Luke 1:32-25; and 54-55; Revelation 11:15.👈
Plus, many verses in the N.T.
Luke 1:32-33
Acts 3:21
Rev 22:3-5, Hebrews 11:10, 12:22, Galatians 4:26; 2 Pet 3:13
Here is an illustration of the magnitude of the saint’s responsibility by the end of the Millennium –
Revelation 21
Revelation 22
1 And he shewed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb.
2 In the midst of the street of it, and on either side of the river, was there the tree of life, which bare twelve manner of fruits, and yielded her fruit every month: and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.
3 And there shall be no more curse: but the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it; and his servants shall serve him:
4 And they shall see his face; and his name shall be in their foreheads.
5 And there shall be no night there; and they need no candle, neither light of the sun; for the Lord God giveth them light: and they shall reign for ever and ever.
INTRO: The Bible makes it clear that when all the dust is settled, there’s only going to be three places of existence:
- A New Heaven – Rev. 21:1 (Better than original heaven) – Gen. 1:31
- A New Earth – Rev. 21:2 (Better than the original and millennial earth) – 1:31
- The Lake of Fire – Rev. 20:14-15 (Worse than hell and death)
✔ Every soul created will reside in one of these places!
✔ What you believe will not change this truth!
✔ Throughout eternity you will either live in....
💥misery and pain, or 😊glory and bliss!
At the end of the millennium:
- Satan will be released…
- Gather the wicked against God and the saints…
- The devil and all Christ rejectors will be judged (Great White Throne) and cast into the lake of fire, to suffer and burn for eternity!
Then eternity will begin for the saved of all the ages.
Thus, we find ourselves (the bride of Christ) in the New Jerusalem, hovering above the New Earth, probably over the enlarged and rebuilt Jerusalem, along with expanded Temple. (Ezek. 40-48) Which, no doubt is on an enlarged Earth to accommodate all those who received Christ during the 1,000-year millennium.
Yes, that will possibly put the population into the quadrillions! So, all of those, who have never been resurrected, will continue to reproduce as eternity rolls on. Nowhere in Scripture is there a Resurrection for Millennial Saints - Matthew 25:31-46
This continues God’s original plan of perpetual generations of humans.
Note in Rev. 22:5 – “and they shall reign for ever and ever.” We the bride of Christ, O.T., Church Age, & Martyred Trib. Saints, will be Kings, Priests, and Rulers in the Eternal Kingdom. As God’s Kingdom expands for all eternity, our jobs will become massive! Therefore, we will be in glorified bodies, like unto Christ’s and the Angels. Our power, responsibilities will be limitless. We will rule and reign over a new earth of eternal peoples.
Look at these O.T. verses that support this biblical truth…
Daniel 7:13-14, 18, 27
Ezekiel 37:25
Isaiah 59:21
Isaiah 66:22-24
Exodus 32:13; Psalm 25:13; 37:9-11
Isaiah 9:6-7 – One of the clearest and best verses on perpetual and eternal generations of peoples!
👉Genesis 9:12; 13:15; 17:7-8 and verse 19; Exodus 3:15; 12:14 and verse 42; 27:21; 30:8 and 21; 31:16; 40:15; Leviticus 3:17; 6:18; 10:9; 17:7; 23:14, 21, 31 and 41; 24:3; 25:30; Numbers 10:8; 15:15; 18:23; Deuteronomy 5;29; 12:28; 28:46; 29:29; 2 Samuel 7:24-29; 1 Chronicles 23:25; Psalm 12:7; 45:17; 72;5; 79:13; 89:4; 100:5; 102:12 and 24; 106:31; 119:90; 135:13; 145:13; 146:10; Isaiah 9:6-7; 51:8; 59:21; Jeremiah 31:35-36; 32:38-40; Ezekiel 37:24-28; Lamentations 5:19; Daniel 2:44-45; 4::3; and 34; 7:13-18; Joel 3:20; Luke 1:32-25; and 54-55; Revelation 11:15.👈
Plus, many verses in the N.T.
Luke 1:32-33
Acts 3:21
Rev 22:3-5, Hebrews 11:10, 12:22, Galatians 4:26; 2 Pet 3:13
Here is an illustration of the magnitude of the saint’s responsibility by the end of the Millennium –
If a married couple are saved and survive the Tribulation period, and have a minimum of 10 children every hundred years...
Here's the amount by the end of the millennial kingdom:
Wow, that's a minimum of 10 billion+ offspring, from just one couple. Imagine the population if all the other couples have the same amount? The population would be in the quadrillions at the end of the millennium.
Then eternity begins, and we will be quite busy. 😊 - Rev. 22:5
Here's the amount by the end of the millennial kingdom:
- 100 Years = 10 ppl.
- 200 Years = 100 ppl.
- 300 Years = 1,000 ppl.
- 400 Years = 10,000 ppl.
- 500 Years = 100,000 ppl.
- 600 Years = 1,000,000 ppl.
- 700 Years = 10,000,000 ppl.
- 800 Years = 100,000,000 ppl.
- 900 Years = 1,000,000,000 ppl.
- 1,000 Years = 10,000,000,000 ppl.
Wow, that's a minimum of 10 billion+ offspring, from just one couple. Imagine the population if all the other couples have the same amount? The population would be in the quadrillions at the end of the millennium.
Then eternity begins, and we will be quite busy. 😊 - Rev. 22:5
➖ SO WHEN THE DUST HAS SETTLED ➖
✨ We are going to reign with Him for eternity in the Holy City there must be people to reign over. This should make it clear that not all alive in eternity will live in the Holy City.
✨ The mystery we need to solve is whom do the people in the Holy City reign over?
💥It cannot be those cast into the Lake of Fire, because scripture says that they will not even come to mind anymore.
💥It cannot be Israel because the whole commonwealth of Israel are those that reign with Jesus.
✨ This allows for only one possibility: We reign over the children of God born after the bride of Christ marries Jesus.
✨ The mystery we need to solve is whom do the people in the Holy City reign over?
💥It cannot be those cast into the Lake of Fire, because scripture says that they will not even come to mind anymore.
💥It cannot be Israel because the whole commonwealth of Israel are those that reign with Jesus.
✨ This allows for only one possibility: We reign over the children of God born after the bride of Christ marries Jesus.
✨The nations are clearly distinguished from the resurrected saints for they dwell in the New Jerusalem - Rev 22:3-5 Hebrews 11:10; Hebrews 12:22, Galatians 4:26. It is the great truth of Classic Dispensationalism that the Church is an heavenly not an earthly people. Of the nations we are told in Rev 21:24
✨Remember, nowhere in Scripture is there a Resurrection for Millennial Saints - Matthew 25:31-46
✨Remember, nowhere in Scripture is there a Resurrection for Millennial Saints - Matthew 25:31-46
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VERSES on 'Eternal Reproduction of Humans'
(Compiled by Rob Madden)
Is. 9:6-7
6 For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.
7 Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will perform this.
Dan. 4:34-35
34 And at the end of the days I Nebuchadnezzar lifted up mine eyes unto heaven, and mine under-standing returned unto me, and I blessed the most High, and I praised and honoured him that liveth for ever, whose dominion is an everlasting dominion, and his kingdom is from generation to generation:
35 And all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing: and he doeth according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth: and none can stay his hand, or say unto him, What doest thou?
Dan 7:14 - And there was given him dominion, and glory, and a kingdom, that all people, nations, and languages, should serve him: his dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and his kingdom that which shall not be destroyed.
II Sam. 7:16
And thine house and thy kingdom shall be established for ever before thee: thy throne shall be established for ever.
Psalms 89
1 I will sing of the mercies of the LORD for ever: with my mouth will I make known thy faithfulness to all generations.
2 For I have said, Mercy shall be built up for ever: thy faithfulness shalt thou establish in the very heavens.
3 I have made a covenant with my chosen, I have sworn unto David my servant,
4 Thy seed will I establish for ever, and build up thy throne to all generations. Selah.
28 My mercy will I keep for him for evermore, and my covenant shall stand fast with him.
29 His seed also will I make to endure for ever, and his throne as the days of heaven.
35 Once have I sworn by my holiness that I will not lie unto David.
36 His seed shall endure for ever, and his throne as the sun before me.
37 It shall be established for ever as the moon, and as a faithful witness in heaven. Selah.
II Sam. 7:16
And thine house and thy kingdom shall be established for ever before thee: thy throne shall be established for ever.
Luke 1:32 He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the Highest: and the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of his father David:
33 And he shall reign over the house of Jacob for ever; and of his kingdom there shall be no end.
Genesis 9:12
And God said, This is the token of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations:
(Here we have reference to a 'perpetual' number of generations.) See also Psalm 100:5, 45:17, 119:90
Genesis 15:5
And he brought him forth abroard, and said, Look now toward heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able to number them: and he said unto him, So shall thy seed be.
Gen 9:12 - And God said, This is the token of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations:
Deut. 7:9 - Know therefore that the LORD thy God, he is God, the faithful God, which keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations; (1,000 x 70 = 70,000)
Psa 105:6 - O ye seed of Abraham his servant, ye children of Jacob his chosen.
Psa 105:7 - He is the LORD our God: his judgments are in all the earth.
Psa 105:8 - He hath remembered his covenant for ever, the word which he commanded to a thousand generations.
Isaiah 60:19-22
VERSES on 'Eternal Reproduction of Humans'
(Compiled by Rob Madden)
Is. 9:6-7
6 For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.
7 Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will perform this.
Dan. 4:34-35
34 And at the end of the days I Nebuchadnezzar lifted up mine eyes unto heaven, and mine under-standing returned unto me, and I blessed the most High, and I praised and honoured him that liveth for ever, whose dominion is an everlasting dominion, and his kingdom is from generation to generation:
35 And all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing: and he doeth according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth: and none can stay his hand, or say unto him, What doest thou?
Dan 7:14 - And there was given him dominion, and glory, and a kingdom, that all people, nations, and languages, should serve him: his dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and his kingdom that which shall not be destroyed.
II Sam. 7:16
And thine house and thy kingdom shall be established for ever before thee: thy throne shall be established for ever.
Psalms 89
1 I will sing of the mercies of the LORD for ever: with my mouth will I make known thy faithfulness to all generations.
2 For I have said, Mercy shall be built up for ever: thy faithfulness shalt thou establish in the very heavens.
3 I have made a covenant with my chosen, I have sworn unto David my servant,
4 Thy seed will I establish for ever, and build up thy throne to all generations. Selah.
28 My mercy will I keep for him for evermore, and my covenant shall stand fast with him.
29 His seed also will I make to endure for ever, and his throne as the days of heaven.
35 Once have I sworn by my holiness that I will not lie unto David.
36 His seed shall endure for ever, and his throne as the sun before me.
37 It shall be established for ever as the moon, and as a faithful witness in heaven. Selah.
II Sam. 7:16
And thine house and thy kingdom shall be established for ever before thee: thy throne shall be established for ever.
Luke 1:32 He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the Highest: and the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of his father David:
33 And he shall reign over the house of Jacob for ever; and of his kingdom there shall be no end.
Genesis 9:12
And God said, This is the token of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations:
(Here we have reference to a 'perpetual' number of generations.) See also Psalm 100:5, 45:17, 119:90
Genesis 15:5
And he brought him forth abroard, and said, Look now toward heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able to number them: and he said unto him, So shall thy seed be.
Gen 9:12 - And God said, This is the token of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations:
Deut. 7:9 - Know therefore that the LORD thy God, he is God, the faithful God, which keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations; (1,000 x 70 = 70,000)
Psa 105:6 - O ye seed of Abraham his servant, ye children of Jacob his chosen.
Psa 105:7 - He is the LORD our God: his judgments are in all the earth.
Psa 105:8 - He hath remembered his covenant for ever, the word which he commanded to a thousand generations.
Isaiah 60:19-22
Special Note - Some Men of God who Taught This Biblical Truth:
✨THE APOCALYPSE
Lectures on the Book of Revelation
by J.A. Seiss
LECTURE FIFTIETH
Rev: 22:1-5
Two classes of people are thus distinctly recognized in the new heaven and earth; — a class in glory who get the fruits of the Tree of Life, and a class in the estate of “nations” who get the leaves; but, whether fruits or leaves, a great and glorious blessing. As there will always be need for the ministrations of these celestial king-priests to those dwelling on the earth so will those ministrations also bring them the healing leaves from the Tree of Life. As the Life-waters are not wholly shut up in the city, but descend in a form to men on the earth; so the Life-tree, in a form, yields its benefits to them too. The meaning is not that the nations are full of sicknesses and ailments; for these remains of the curse are gone then, though it may be from the virtue of these leaves. The meaning rather is the preservation of health and comfort, and not that maladies then exist to be removed. The Life-leaves are for the conservation and augmentation of Life-blessedness of men on earth, as the Life-fruits are for the joy of the saints in heaven. “And they shall reign to the ages of the ages.” Not for the thousand years only, but forever shall their glory and dominion last. This tells at once their eternal dignity, and the eternal perpetuity of men in the flesh. If they are to be kings forever, they must have subjects forever; and their subjects, whom they shepardize, over whom they rule, and for whom they hold the dominion, are everywhere described as “the nations “— “all people, languages, and nations under the whole heaven.” (Revelation 2:26; 12:5; 22:1; 24:26; Daniel 7:14, 27; Matthew 19:28, 29; 1 Corinthians 6:2.) Either, then, their kingdom must come to an end for want of subjects, or nations, peoples, and men on the earth must continue in the flesh, as Adam and Eve before the fall. But these glorified ones are to “reign to the ages of the ages,” and their “kingdom is an everlasting kingdom;” and as they cannot reign without subjects, so nations on earth must last coequally with their regency. Both their office, and the activities in which their sublimest happiness is located, must fail them, if the nations over whom their rule is, ever cease to be. They neither marry, nor are given in marriage; for they are as the angels of God; but their subjects are of a different order, and their dominion and glory shall grow forever, by the ceaseless augmentation of the number of their subjects throughout unending generations.
✨William R Newell Commentary on Revelation 21:3
We know positively that at least one nation and one seed, ISRAEL, will belong upon the new earth. In Isaiah 66:22 we read, “As the new heavens and the new earth, which I will make, shall remain before me, saith Jehovah, so shall your seed and your name remain.” This is eternity for national Israel, and no escaping it! Because Isaiah 65:17, 18, which belongs to the new creation, has been confused with the millennial verses (20-25) men have rushed to the conclusion that all that Isaiah says concerning the new creation is millennial. But God says Israel’s “seed and name” shall remain, in the new heavens and earth, that is, in that new order beginning in Revelation 21:1. But in this new order, we are distinctly told “death shall be no more,” whereas, in Isaiah 65:20, “the child shall die a hundred years old.”
Now, Israel is God’s elect nation—elect not for the past, or even through the millennial age, but forever. Yet, if Israel be the elect nation, the existence of other nations is presupposed!
✨The Saints Reign Charles L Feinberg
Revelation 22:5 and they shall reign forever and ever.
The millennial reign and the Eternal reign are United. Saints will never cease to rreign as long as there will be subjects. (Romans 5:17) Why do earthly reigns come to an end? They are terminated either by injustices, fraud, ineptitude, or by death. None of these will be present when Christ the King reigns with his bride. Why then should not the millennial phase of his reign merge into the eternal phase? Verily it will!
✨Dr. W. A. Criswell - What I Believe About Heaven: The Pageantry - June 17th, 1990 @ 10:50 AM
I speak now of the Biblical revelation of the continuity of life, that it continues. When the shadow of this life is over, the real life begins there, over yonder. There is progress in the pursuit of the purpose of God for us in the rich meaning of life on a higher level. What we have begun on earth, we shall consummate in heaven.
✨Tony Garland Comm. on Revelation
Rev. 21:24
the kings of the earth shall bring their glory and honor into it
This had already been the experience of the earthly Jerusalem during the Millennial Kingdom (Isa. 60:3-12; 66:12). Here is evidence that “heaven” will be much different than is commonly conceived. These kings are of the earth: having their primary place of activity upon the earth rather than within the city. They bring their glory from outside the city into (εἰς [eis]) it. The glory and honor of the kings probably describes gifts of value and beauty which are brought as presents of worship to God and the Lamb in the midst of the city.
Some have seen this as evidence of two categories of the faithful: those who reside within the city (glorified saints) and those who reside outside the city on the earth (those left living at the end of the Millennial Kingdom). Those nations, during the Millennium, that walk in the Divine light of the earthly Jerusalem, are transferred to the new earth, to walk in the Heavenly light of the New Jerusalem.
Is there any way, however, that these could be nations of people still in a natural state (say, like Adam and Eve before the fall) continuing over from the millennium? . . . Admittedly, however, the Scriptures do not deal with this particular subject directly . . . one must certainly be tentative on this point, that this particular group of saints, some from each millennial nation, may have been (like Enoch and Elijah long before) translated to the heavenly Jerusalem still in the flesh. In such a hypothetical situation, they would then be in that state in the city when it descended to the earth. . . . This interpretation of this text, doubtful and fraught with difficulties though it may be, would help in answering certain other questions.
I . . . hold it to be a necessary and integral part of the Scriptural doctrine of human redemption, that our race, as a self-multiplying order of beings, will never cease either to exist or to possess the earth. . . . Ransomed nations in the flesh are therefore among the occupants of the new earth, and the blessed and happy dwellers in it, as Adam and Eve dwelt in Paradise.
This is an issue on which the text of Revelation is silent, but there is one . . . theory which seems to satisfy the available criteria best. . . . This opinion holds that “the nations” are composed of saved people who survive the millennial kingdom without dying and without joining Satan’s rebellion and who undergo some sort of transformation that suits them for life in the eternal state. They will be like Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden prior to the Fall (cf. Govett, Seiss). They will be un-resurrected human beings who will inhabit the new earth, Paradise restored (Rev. 22:1-5), throughout eternity.
Shall not God then during the “Renovation of the Earth by Fire,” in some manner, not as yet revealed, take off righteous representatives of the Millennial nations that he purposes to save, and when the earth is again fit to be the abode of men, place them back on the New Earth, that they may increase and multiply and replenish it, as Adam (Gen. 1:27-28), and Noah (Gen. 9:1), were told to multiply and replenish the present earth.
✨The City Of Perpetual Blessing:
(Commentary on Revelation By Dr. Paul Fedena - CLICK)
1. Outside the City the “nations” and “kings” reside, but since only the redeemed survive the Great White Throne Judgment at the end of the Millennium, the question is who are these people?
2. Perhaps they are those who have mansions in the city, but have estates and governments and activities outside the city.
3. Perhaps they are humans in an innocent state like Adam before the fall continuing on the earth after the Millennium (if so they would have had to have been “raptured” off the planet before it was purged by fire, and glorified ).
4. This would place a very literal interpretation on the Abrahamic Covenant which promised that his seed would be as the sand upon the seashore and the stars in the heavens.
5. It would also help us envision the fulfillment of the Messianic promise in Isaiah 9:7 that “of the increase of His government and peace there shall be no end.”
6. Also, if the nations of the saved were to continue to multiply, as would Adam and Eve, if they had not fallen, God’s command to “fill the earth” and “subdue it” would be finally accomplished.
7. Think of the productivity and promise of the planet where sin has been banished forever and where the nations can develop and expand infinitely.
8. Neither the kings of the earth nor the nations will seek their own glory, but “bring their glory and honor” into the city to the Lord of Glory!
9. ILLUS: Food for thought: the indication is that the only people who get glorified bodies like Christ are Church age saints. Those surviving the Tribulation and entering the Millennium have natural bodies. The eternal state is a continuation of the Mill. state and the health of those with natural bodies who will be born will require the leaves of the trees for their health and longevity or perhaps if their parents partake the children will have eternal life, health and perfection automatically. There may be 12 nations as “…the Most High divided the nations…when He separated the sons of Adam, He set the bounds of the people according to the number of the children of Israel (12).” (Deut.32:7-9) There are 12 gates, 12 foundations, 12 fruits, in 12 months for 12 nations in 12 geographical locations or continents on the New Earth. (?)
(This is one of the Greatest Mysteries of Bible Prophecy)
✨Robert Thomas’ “Who are the ‘nations’ and ‘kings’ of Rev. 21:24, 26?”)
There is one further theory which seems to satisfy the available criteria best. This opinion holds that ‘the nations’ are composed of saved people who survive the millennial kingdom without dying and without joining Satan’s rebellion and who undergo some sort of transformation that suits them for life in the eternal state. They will be like Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden prior to the Fall (cf. Govett, Seiss). They will be unresurrected human beings who will inhabit the new earth, Paradise restored (22:1-5), throughout eternity. These will be the ones over whom God’s resurrected saints will reign (22:5). Nations, peoples, and men on earth must continue in the flesh as Adam and Eve did before the Fall (Seiss).” Robert L. Thomas, Revelation 8-22, pg. 476-78
Some proponents of the eternal kingdom view suggest the “nations” and “kings” of Rev. 21:24-26 are people who survive the Millennium without dying and were transformed and given immortal, but not glorified, bodies to inhabit the earth throughout eternity.
✨Alva McClain, The Greatness of the Kingdom, pg. 216
“The reconciliation of the ‘many days’ with the idea of ‘everlasting’ will be found in the fact that, at the close of human history, the Mediatorial Kingdom of our Lord will be merged into the Universal Kingdom and thus perpetuated forever (1 Corinthians 15:24-28).”
✨Alford's Greek Testament Critical Exegetical Commentary - Revelation 21Among the mysteries of this new heaven and new earth this is set forth to us: that, besides the glorified church, there shall still be dwelling on the renewed earth nations, organized under kings, and (ch. Rev 22:2 ) saved by means of the influences of the heavenly city). And there shall never enter into her, every thing unclean, and working abomination and falsehood, but only (lit. except) they that are written in the book of life of the Lamb (if then the kings of the earth, and the nations, bring their glory and their treasures into her, and if none shall ever enter into her that is not written in the book of life, it follows, that these kings, and these nations, are written in the book of life. And so perhaps some light may be thrown on one of the darkest mysteries of redemption. There may be, I say it with all diffidence, those who have been saved by Christ without ever forming a part of his visible organized Church).
Bible Scholars Who Believe and/or Lean Toward This Belief:
1. Lewis Sperry Chafer
2. PHILIPPE R. STERLING Pastor
3. Robert Vacendak
4. E. R. Craven
5. Bob Bryant, pastor
6. Clarence Larkin
7. Herman Hoyt
8. J. A. Seiss
9. George N. H. Peters
10. Alexander Patterson
11. Bob Wilkin
12. Paul Fedena, Pastor and writer
13. William R Newell
14. Charles L Feinberg
15. Dr. W. A. Criswell - Sermon on Revelation 22:1-7
16. Robert L. Thomas - REVELATION 8-22 EXEGETICAL COMMENTARY
17. Alva McClain
18. Alford's Greek Testament Critical Exegetical Commentary
19. F. M. Riley, Pastor and writer
20. David Reagan, Author and evangelist
21. Robert Govett - "THE APOCALYPSE" - CHAPTER XXI THE FINAL STATE
22. Tony Garland
23. John MacArthur - “Another possible interpretation is that this phrase [nations on the New Earth] refers to the believers living at the end of the Millennium. According to that view, the statement…refers to the translation of those believers before the uncreation of the present planet.”
24. Henry Morris (1918–2006), the renowned creation scientist, speculates that the nations on the New Earth could very well be those saved during the Tribulation and Millennium who will be transferred to the New Earth in natural bodies.
25. David Hocking writes: “Probably those who come out of the Tribulation period, those described as ‘sheep’ in Matthew 25:31–26, and those born during the Millennium who do not rebel against the Messiah, are all a part of the ‘nations’ on earth in the eternal state.
27. Keith Krell, associate professor of biblical exposition at Moody Bible Institute in Spokane, explains his position in the following way:
🔹It is clear from the context that John is talking about a group of people who have access to the New Jerusalem but who don’t live there.
🔹There is only one group of people left on earth to go into eternity in their physical bodies — believers that served Christ during His millennium kingdom. They go into eternity in their physical, glorified bodies, not spiritual glorified bodies like we [Church Age saints] will have because they did not experience death and resurrection. These people will go into eternity with bodies like Adam and Eve had at their creation before they were flawed by sin.
28. Darrel Mitchell - God's Plan For The Ages
29. David L Cooper - Rev. 21:24 - https://www.biblicalresearch.info › Revelation.pdf
...plus many more!
✨THE APOCALYPSE
Lectures on the Book of Revelation
by J.A. Seiss
LECTURE FIFTIETH
Rev: 22:1-5
Two classes of people are thus distinctly recognized in the new heaven and earth; — a class in glory who get the fruits of the Tree of Life, and a class in the estate of “nations” who get the leaves; but, whether fruits or leaves, a great and glorious blessing. As there will always be need for the ministrations of these celestial king-priests to those dwelling on the earth so will those ministrations also bring them the healing leaves from the Tree of Life. As the Life-waters are not wholly shut up in the city, but descend in a form to men on the earth; so the Life-tree, in a form, yields its benefits to them too. The meaning is not that the nations are full of sicknesses and ailments; for these remains of the curse are gone then, though it may be from the virtue of these leaves. The meaning rather is the preservation of health and comfort, and not that maladies then exist to be removed. The Life-leaves are for the conservation and augmentation of Life-blessedness of men on earth, as the Life-fruits are for the joy of the saints in heaven. “And they shall reign to the ages of the ages.” Not for the thousand years only, but forever shall their glory and dominion last. This tells at once their eternal dignity, and the eternal perpetuity of men in the flesh. If they are to be kings forever, they must have subjects forever; and their subjects, whom they shepardize, over whom they rule, and for whom they hold the dominion, are everywhere described as “the nations “— “all people, languages, and nations under the whole heaven.” (Revelation 2:26; 12:5; 22:1; 24:26; Daniel 7:14, 27; Matthew 19:28, 29; 1 Corinthians 6:2.) Either, then, their kingdom must come to an end for want of subjects, or nations, peoples, and men on the earth must continue in the flesh, as Adam and Eve before the fall. But these glorified ones are to “reign to the ages of the ages,” and their “kingdom is an everlasting kingdom;” and as they cannot reign without subjects, so nations on earth must last coequally with their regency. Both their office, and the activities in which their sublimest happiness is located, must fail them, if the nations over whom their rule is, ever cease to be. They neither marry, nor are given in marriage; for they are as the angels of God; but their subjects are of a different order, and their dominion and glory shall grow forever, by the ceaseless augmentation of the number of their subjects throughout unending generations.
✨William R Newell Commentary on Revelation 21:3
We know positively that at least one nation and one seed, ISRAEL, will belong upon the new earth. In Isaiah 66:22 we read, “As the new heavens and the new earth, which I will make, shall remain before me, saith Jehovah, so shall your seed and your name remain.” This is eternity for national Israel, and no escaping it! Because Isaiah 65:17, 18, which belongs to the new creation, has been confused with the millennial verses (20-25) men have rushed to the conclusion that all that Isaiah says concerning the new creation is millennial. But God says Israel’s “seed and name” shall remain, in the new heavens and earth, that is, in that new order beginning in Revelation 21:1. But in this new order, we are distinctly told “death shall be no more,” whereas, in Isaiah 65:20, “the child shall die a hundred years old.”
Now, Israel is God’s elect nation—elect not for the past, or even through the millennial age, but forever. Yet, if Israel be the elect nation, the existence of other nations is presupposed!
✨The Saints Reign Charles L Feinberg
Revelation 22:5 and they shall reign forever and ever.
The millennial reign and the Eternal reign are United. Saints will never cease to rreign as long as there will be subjects. (Romans 5:17) Why do earthly reigns come to an end? They are terminated either by injustices, fraud, ineptitude, or by death. None of these will be present when Christ the King reigns with his bride. Why then should not the millennial phase of his reign merge into the eternal phase? Verily it will!
✨Dr. W. A. Criswell - What I Believe About Heaven: The Pageantry - June 17th, 1990 @ 10:50 AM
I speak now of the Biblical revelation of the continuity of life, that it continues. When the shadow of this life is over, the real life begins there, over yonder. There is progress in the pursuit of the purpose of God for us in the rich meaning of life on a higher level. What we have begun on earth, we shall consummate in heaven.
✨Tony Garland Comm. on Revelation
Rev. 21:24
the kings of the earth shall bring their glory and honor into it
This had already been the experience of the earthly Jerusalem during the Millennial Kingdom (Isa. 60:3-12; 66:12). Here is evidence that “heaven” will be much different than is commonly conceived. These kings are of the earth: having their primary place of activity upon the earth rather than within the city. They bring their glory from outside the city into (εἰς [eis]) it. The glory and honor of the kings probably describes gifts of value and beauty which are brought as presents of worship to God and the Lamb in the midst of the city.
Some have seen this as evidence of two categories of the faithful: those who reside within the city (glorified saints) and those who reside outside the city on the earth (those left living at the end of the Millennial Kingdom). Those nations, during the Millennium, that walk in the Divine light of the earthly Jerusalem, are transferred to the new earth, to walk in the Heavenly light of the New Jerusalem.
Is there any way, however, that these could be nations of people still in a natural state (say, like Adam and Eve before the fall) continuing over from the millennium? . . . Admittedly, however, the Scriptures do not deal with this particular subject directly . . . one must certainly be tentative on this point, that this particular group of saints, some from each millennial nation, may have been (like Enoch and Elijah long before) translated to the heavenly Jerusalem still in the flesh. In such a hypothetical situation, they would then be in that state in the city when it descended to the earth. . . . This interpretation of this text, doubtful and fraught with difficulties though it may be, would help in answering certain other questions.
I . . . hold it to be a necessary and integral part of the Scriptural doctrine of human redemption, that our race, as a self-multiplying order of beings, will never cease either to exist or to possess the earth. . . . Ransomed nations in the flesh are therefore among the occupants of the new earth, and the blessed and happy dwellers in it, as Adam and Eve dwelt in Paradise.
This is an issue on which the text of Revelation is silent, but there is one . . . theory which seems to satisfy the available criteria best. . . . This opinion holds that “the nations” are composed of saved people who survive the millennial kingdom without dying and without joining Satan’s rebellion and who undergo some sort of transformation that suits them for life in the eternal state. They will be like Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden prior to the Fall (cf. Govett, Seiss). They will be un-resurrected human beings who will inhabit the new earth, Paradise restored (Rev. 22:1-5), throughout eternity.
Shall not God then during the “Renovation of the Earth by Fire,” in some manner, not as yet revealed, take off righteous representatives of the Millennial nations that he purposes to save, and when the earth is again fit to be the abode of men, place them back on the New Earth, that they may increase and multiply and replenish it, as Adam (Gen. 1:27-28), and Noah (Gen. 9:1), were told to multiply and replenish the present earth.
✨The City Of Perpetual Blessing:
(Commentary on Revelation By Dr. Paul Fedena - CLICK)
1. Outside the City the “nations” and “kings” reside, but since only the redeemed survive the Great White Throne Judgment at the end of the Millennium, the question is who are these people?
2. Perhaps they are those who have mansions in the city, but have estates and governments and activities outside the city.
3. Perhaps they are humans in an innocent state like Adam before the fall continuing on the earth after the Millennium (if so they would have had to have been “raptured” off the planet before it was purged by fire, and glorified ).
4. This would place a very literal interpretation on the Abrahamic Covenant which promised that his seed would be as the sand upon the seashore and the stars in the heavens.
5. It would also help us envision the fulfillment of the Messianic promise in Isaiah 9:7 that “of the increase of His government and peace there shall be no end.”
6. Also, if the nations of the saved were to continue to multiply, as would Adam and Eve, if they had not fallen, God’s command to “fill the earth” and “subdue it” would be finally accomplished.
7. Think of the productivity and promise of the planet where sin has been banished forever and where the nations can develop and expand infinitely.
8. Neither the kings of the earth nor the nations will seek their own glory, but “bring their glory and honor” into the city to the Lord of Glory!
9. ILLUS: Food for thought: the indication is that the only people who get glorified bodies like Christ are Church age saints. Those surviving the Tribulation and entering the Millennium have natural bodies. The eternal state is a continuation of the Mill. state and the health of those with natural bodies who will be born will require the leaves of the trees for their health and longevity or perhaps if their parents partake the children will have eternal life, health and perfection automatically. There may be 12 nations as “…the Most High divided the nations…when He separated the sons of Adam, He set the bounds of the people according to the number of the children of Israel (12).” (Deut.32:7-9) There are 12 gates, 12 foundations, 12 fruits, in 12 months for 12 nations in 12 geographical locations or continents on the New Earth. (?)
(This is one of the Greatest Mysteries of Bible Prophecy)
✨Robert Thomas’ “Who are the ‘nations’ and ‘kings’ of Rev. 21:24, 26?”)
There is one further theory which seems to satisfy the available criteria best. This opinion holds that ‘the nations’ are composed of saved people who survive the millennial kingdom without dying and without joining Satan’s rebellion and who undergo some sort of transformation that suits them for life in the eternal state. They will be like Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden prior to the Fall (cf. Govett, Seiss). They will be unresurrected human beings who will inhabit the new earth, Paradise restored (22:1-5), throughout eternity. These will be the ones over whom God’s resurrected saints will reign (22:5). Nations, peoples, and men on earth must continue in the flesh as Adam and Eve did before the Fall (Seiss).” Robert L. Thomas, Revelation 8-22, pg. 476-78
Some proponents of the eternal kingdom view suggest the “nations” and “kings” of Rev. 21:24-26 are people who survive the Millennium without dying and were transformed and given immortal, but not glorified, bodies to inhabit the earth throughout eternity.
✨Alva McClain, The Greatness of the Kingdom, pg. 216
“The reconciliation of the ‘many days’ with the idea of ‘everlasting’ will be found in the fact that, at the close of human history, the Mediatorial Kingdom of our Lord will be merged into the Universal Kingdom and thus perpetuated forever (1 Corinthians 15:24-28).”
✨Alford's Greek Testament Critical Exegetical Commentary - Revelation 21Among the mysteries of this new heaven and new earth this is set forth to us: that, besides the glorified church, there shall still be dwelling on the renewed earth nations, organized under kings, and (ch. Rev 22:2 ) saved by means of the influences of the heavenly city). And there shall never enter into her, every thing unclean, and working abomination and falsehood, but only (lit. except) they that are written in the book of life of the Lamb (if then the kings of the earth, and the nations, bring their glory and their treasures into her, and if none shall ever enter into her that is not written in the book of life, it follows, that these kings, and these nations, are written in the book of life. And so perhaps some light may be thrown on one of the darkest mysteries of redemption. There may be, I say it with all diffidence, those who have been saved by Christ without ever forming a part of his visible organized Church).
Bible Scholars Who Believe and/or Lean Toward This Belief:
1. Lewis Sperry Chafer
2. PHILIPPE R. STERLING Pastor
3. Robert Vacendak
4. E. R. Craven
5. Bob Bryant, pastor
6. Clarence Larkin
7. Herman Hoyt
8. J. A. Seiss
9. George N. H. Peters
10. Alexander Patterson
11. Bob Wilkin
12. Paul Fedena, Pastor and writer
13. William R Newell
14. Charles L Feinberg
15. Dr. W. A. Criswell - Sermon on Revelation 22:1-7
16. Robert L. Thomas - REVELATION 8-22 EXEGETICAL COMMENTARY
17. Alva McClain
18. Alford's Greek Testament Critical Exegetical Commentary
19. F. M. Riley, Pastor and writer
20. David Reagan, Author and evangelist
21. Robert Govett - "THE APOCALYPSE" - CHAPTER XXI THE FINAL STATE
22. Tony Garland
23. John MacArthur - “Another possible interpretation is that this phrase [nations on the New Earth] refers to the believers living at the end of the Millennium. According to that view, the statement…refers to the translation of those believers before the uncreation of the present planet.”
24. Henry Morris (1918–2006), the renowned creation scientist, speculates that the nations on the New Earth could very well be those saved during the Tribulation and Millennium who will be transferred to the New Earth in natural bodies.
25. David Hocking writes: “Probably those who come out of the Tribulation period, those described as ‘sheep’ in Matthew 25:31–26, and those born during the Millennium who do not rebel against the Messiah, are all a part of the ‘nations’ on earth in the eternal state.
27. Keith Krell, associate professor of biblical exposition at Moody Bible Institute in Spokane, explains his position in the following way:
🔹It is clear from the context that John is talking about a group of people who have access to the New Jerusalem but who don’t live there.
🔹There is only one group of people left on earth to go into eternity in their physical bodies — believers that served Christ during His millennium kingdom. They go into eternity in their physical, glorified bodies, not spiritual glorified bodies like we [Church Age saints] will have because they did not experience death and resurrection. These people will go into eternity with bodies like Adam and Eve had at their creation before they were flawed by sin.
28. Darrel Mitchell - God's Plan For The Ages
29. David L Cooper - Rev. 21:24 - https://www.biblicalresearch.info › Revelation.pdf
...plus many more!
Addendum To Study:
Three Groups of Ppl. After the GWT and Creation of New Heaven and Earth:
1.The Resurrected Tribulation Saints – (Revelation 20:4-6)
2.The ‘Bride’ of Christ – “The Church” - “New Jerusalem” – (Revelation 21:2; 9-10)
3.The people (humans) who came out of the Millennium – (Revelation 21:3-4; 7, 24, 26; Rev. 22:2)
a. Never resurrected, just transferred to New Earth!
b. Obviously protected during creation of new heaven and earth!
c. God’s original plan goes on throughout eternity!
d. All God’s Promises Fulfilled! (Isaiah 9:6-7)
Three Groups of Ppl. After the GWT and Creation of New Heaven and Earth:
1.The Resurrected Tribulation Saints – (Revelation 20:4-6)
2.The ‘Bride’ of Christ – “The Church” - “New Jerusalem” – (Revelation 21:2; 9-10)
3.The people (humans) who came out of the Millennium – (Revelation 21:3-4; 7, 24, 26; Rev. 22:2)
a. Never resurrected, just transferred to New Earth!
b. Obviously protected during creation of new heaven and earth!
c. God’s original plan goes on throughout eternity!
d. All God’s Promises Fulfilled! (Isaiah 9:6-7)
Message Outline on Revelation 22:1-5
I. The Personages of Eternity
A. Angels! (v.1) "he"
B. God and the Lamb! (v.1, 3, 5)
C. Servants (v.3-5) - NT. & O.T. Saints & Millennial Saints
II. The Place of Eternity
A. NEW JERUSALEM -
1. Home For The Saints (v.1)
2. Holiday For The Nations (v.2; Rev. 21:24)
B. NEW EARTH - Healing For The Nations (v.2; Rev. 21:24)
C. NEW HEAVENS - Holiness W/O Sin (v.3)
III. The Purpose of Eternity
A. To Restore Eden (1-2)
B. To Reconcile Mankind (3)
C. To Rank and Resettle His People (4-5)
D. To Reign With Christ Forever (5)
I. The Personages of Eternity
A. Angels! (v.1) "he"
B. God and the Lamb! (v.1, 3, 5)
C. Servants (v.3-5) - NT. & O.T. Saints & Millennial Saints
II. The Place of Eternity
A. NEW JERUSALEM -
1. Home For The Saints (v.1)
2. Holiday For The Nations (v.2; Rev. 21:24)
B. NEW EARTH - Healing For The Nations (v.2; Rev. 21:24)
C. NEW HEAVENS - Holiness W/O Sin (v.3)
III. The Purpose of Eternity
A. To Restore Eden (1-2)
B. To Reconcile Mankind (3)
C. To Rank and Resettle His People (4-5)
D. To Reign With Christ Forever (5)
Some Thoughts On the Size & Layout of the New Jerusalem
By John MacArthur
Now some have suggested because it says length and width and height it could be a pyramid. And it is conceivable that that is possible. But it is best seen as a cube, a perfect cube, and I’ll tell you why. Because the closest earthly counterpart we have to this was when God gave orders for the building of the holy place in the tabernacle in the temple, which was a cube.
Henry Morris writes some interesting things about this. “The pyramid, whether in Egypt, Mexico, or the stepped towers of practically all ancient nations, seems always to have been associated with paganism, with the pyramid’s apex being dedicated to the worship of the sun. The first such structure was the Tower of Babel; and the Bible always later condemns worship carried out in high places, whether these were simply natural high hills or artificially constructed hills in the form of a pyramid or ziggurat. The cube, on the other hand, was the shape specified by God for the holy place, such as in Solomon’s temple, 1 Kings 6:20.”
And I think that there’s another reason for this that has to be a cube, and that is because the walls have to be at least as high as the city. And what would be the point of having three gates on each side if it was a pyramid. And I’ll show you why I say that. Because if it is a cube you have to get access to all the layers, so the gate has to run from the bottom to what? To the top. And if it’s a cube, then it’s sort of pointless. No, it’s not pointless, but it’s pointless, you understand.
It also needs to be remembered that we will in that city apparently travel vertically as well as horizontally, and so streets will not just be going this way, they’ll be going up and down as well. They will not only be going horizontal, they will be going vertical. The blocks will be cubical blocks instead of square areas like they are in our present life. And that makes it understandable that we could all live there.
You say, “It’s only fifteen hundred miles cubed? Is that enough to get us all in?” Listen to what Henry Morris says: “This kind of geometry makes it easier to understand how all the redeemed of all the ages could be living in a single city. Although there’s no way to know precisely how many people will be there, one can make at least a somewhat accurate guess. It can be calculated,” – he says – “that the total number of people who have lived between Adam’s time and our time is about 40 billion. Then assuming that a similar number will be born during the millennium, because of the conditions, and allowing another 20 billion who died before or soon after death and never really populated the earth, it is reasonable that about 100 billion men, women and children could have been members of the human race, past, present and future.
“Assume, for the sake of argument, that twenty percent of these will be saved, including all of those who die in infancy. It’s obviously only a guess, but the Lord Jesus did make it plain that the large majority will never be saved, right? If this figure is used, then the new Jerusalem would have to accommodate 20 billion residents. Also assume that twenty-five percent of the city is used for the dwelling places of the inhabitants, with the rest allocated to streets, parks, public buildings, et cetera.”
Then he figures out in some exotic calculation – and he’s a scientist – that the average space assigned to each person would be one over thirty cubic miles. This would correspond to a cubicle block with about seventy-five acres on each face. Obviously there’s adequate room in the holy city for all who will be there.
Another way to calculate this immense city is shared by an F. W. Boreham, and he shares this, quite interesting, in quite interesting terms. He says, “Now if you work it out, fifteen hundred cubed, you have an area of two million, two hundred and fifty thousand square miles. The only city foursquare,” – he says – “that I ever saw is Adelaide in South Australia. The ship that brought me out from the old country called in there for a couple of days, and I thought it was a fine city. But as you know very well, the city of Adelaide covers only one-square mile. Each of the four sides is a mile long. London covers an area of a hundred and forty square miles. But this city, the city foursquare, it is two million, two hundred and fifty thousand times as big as Adelaide, fifteen thousand times as big as London.” And he goes on to make some other comparatives.
Well, you get the picture. It’s big enough.
By John MacArthur
Now some have suggested because it says length and width and height it could be a pyramid. And it is conceivable that that is possible. But it is best seen as a cube, a perfect cube, and I’ll tell you why. Because the closest earthly counterpart we have to this was when God gave orders for the building of the holy place in the tabernacle in the temple, which was a cube.
Henry Morris writes some interesting things about this. “The pyramid, whether in Egypt, Mexico, or the stepped towers of practically all ancient nations, seems always to have been associated with paganism, with the pyramid’s apex being dedicated to the worship of the sun. The first such structure was the Tower of Babel; and the Bible always later condemns worship carried out in high places, whether these were simply natural high hills or artificially constructed hills in the form of a pyramid or ziggurat. The cube, on the other hand, was the shape specified by God for the holy place, such as in Solomon’s temple, 1 Kings 6:20.”
And I think that there’s another reason for this that has to be a cube, and that is because the walls have to be at least as high as the city. And what would be the point of having three gates on each side if it was a pyramid. And I’ll show you why I say that. Because if it is a cube you have to get access to all the layers, so the gate has to run from the bottom to what? To the top. And if it’s a cube, then it’s sort of pointless. No, it’s not pointless, but it’s pointless, you understand.
It also needs to be remembered that we will in that city apparently travel vertically as well as horizontally, and so streets will not just be going this way, they’ll be going up and down as well. They will not only be going horizontal, they will be going vertical. The blocks will be cubical blocks instead of square areas like they are in our present life. And that makes it understandable that we could all live there.
You say, “It’s only fifteen hundred miles cubed? Is that enough to get us all in?” Listen to what Henry Morris says: “This kind of geometry makes it easier to understand how all the redeemed of all the ages could be living in a single city. Although there’s no way to know precisely how many people will be there, one can make at least a somewhat accurate guess. It can be calculated,” – he says – “that the total number of people who have lived between Adam’s time and our time is about 40 billion. Then assuming that a similar number will be born during the millennium, because of the conditions, and allowing another 20 billion who died before or soon after death and never really populated the earth, it is reasonable that about 100 billion men, women and children could have been members of the human race, past, present and future.
“Assume, for the sake of argument, that twenty percent of these will be saved, including all of those who die in infancy. It’s obviously only a guess, but the Lord Jesus did make it plain that the large majority will never be saved, right? If this figure is used, then the new Jerusalem would have to accommodate 20 billion residents. Also assume that twenty-five percent of the city is used for the dwelling places of the inhabitants, with the rest allocated to streets, parks, public buildings, et cetera.”
Then he figures out in some exotic calculation – and he’s a scientist – that the average space assigned to each person would be one over thirty cubic miles. This would correspond to a cubicle block with about seventy-five acres on each face. Obviously there’s adequate room in the holy city for all who will be there.
Another way to calculate this immense city is shared by an F. W. Boreham, and he shares this, quite interesting, in quite interesting terms. He says, “Now if you work it out, fifteen hundred cubed, you have an area of two million, two hundred and fifty thousand square miles. The only city foursquare,” – he says – “that I ever saw is Adelaide in South Australia. The ship that brought me out from the old country called in there for a couple of days, and I thought it was a fine city. But as you know very well, the city of Adelaide covers only one-square mile. Each of the four sides is a mile long. London covers an area of a hundred and forty square miles. But this city, the city foursquare, it is two million, two hundred and fifty thousand times as big as Adelaide, fifteen thousand times as big as London.” And he goes on to make some other comparatives.
Well, you get the picture. It’s big enough.
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City Of Perpetual Blessing - Human Reproduction in Eternity
A Thousand Generations - By Pastor F. M. Riley
Will There Be Procreation in The New Heaven and New Earth?
Will there be “natural” life on earth for all eternity, as God originally intended?
Perpetual Generations in Eternity - Compiled by Rob Madden
THE ETERNAL STATE: The Millennium is the First Thousand Years of The Eternal Kingdom
WHAT IS MISSING IN HEAVEN? - Dr. Paul Fedena
New Heaven and Earth and The Eternal State
How Large is the New Jerusalem? - How many ppl. can fit in the New Jerusalem?
Can Angels Reproduce? - Matthew 22:30
Eternal Affairs in the Holy City by Don Koenig
New Heaven and Earth and The Eternal State Dr. Paul Fedena and Others
THE GREATEST MYSTERY OF BIBLE PROPHECY
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