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Then the devotional contact today. Today' s abbreviated biblical reading is from Revelation.

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Chapter twenty- one. I saw
a new heaven and a new earth

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and I, John VI the Holy
City, the new Jerusalem, coming down

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from the heaven of God ready as
a bride adorned for her husband and I

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heard a great voice from heaven saying, behold, the tabernacle of God with

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men and he will dwell with them
and they will be his people and God

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himself will be with them as his
god will wipe out every tear from their

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eyes and there will be no more
death, no more weeping, no more

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crying, no pain, for the
first things happened and he who was seated

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on the throne said, behold,
I make all things new and he says

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to me because these faithful and true
words and he told me done is.

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I am alpha and omega, the
beginning and the end. To him that

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thirsteth, I will give freely of
the fountain, of the water of life.

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He who overcomes will inherit all things
and I will be his god and

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he will be my son. Then
one of the seven angels came to me

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and took me in the spirit to
a great and high mountain and showed me

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the great Holy City of Jerusalem,
descending from the heaven of God. Having

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the glory of God and his radiance
was like a precious stone like a jasper

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stone like crystal. It had a
large and high wall with twelve gates and

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twelve angels and names inscribed in the
gates, which are those of the twelve

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tribes of the children of Israel,
and the wall of the city had twelve

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foundations, and on them the twelve
names of the two twelve apostles of the

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lamb. He who spoke to me
had a golden measuring rod to measure the

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city, its gates, and its
wall. The material of his wall was

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of jasper, but the city was
of pure gold like clean glass, and

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the foundations of the wall of the
city were adorned with every precious stone,

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and the twelve gates were twelve pearls. Each of the doors was a pearl

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and the street of the city was
pure gold, transparent as glass. And

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she is not coming a temple,
for the Lord God almighty is the temple

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of her and the lamb. The
city has no need of sun or moon

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to shine for it, for the
glory of God illuminates it and the lamb

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is its light. Their doors will
never be closed by day, for there

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will be no night there, no
unclean thing will enter into it, or

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that does abomination and falsehood, but
only those who are inscribed in the book

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of the life of the lamb.
Heaven is the future home of the believer

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and we have all wondered what it
is like but the Bible gives us only

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a glimpse. Even if God revealed
more in the sacred scriptures, we would

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not be able to understand Him as
earthly creatures. We lack the experience and

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frame of reference necessary to understand the
eternal realities of that dimension. Desiring to

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know more about heaven, some people
have sought information outside the Bible, often

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in books written by people claiming to
have gone there. But the only legitimate

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source about the reality of heaven is
the word of God. You can'

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t rely on anything else to have
a sure foundation of truth. When the

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apostle Paul was taken to the third
heaven, he heard ineffable words that he

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did not give to man to express. None of your letters include details of

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your experience. God also entrusted the
apostle John with a vision of heaven,

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but human language is inadequate to communicate
the realities of that kingdom. Although we

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cannot visualize everything John describes, we
can all identify with what he says.

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As for matters that are absent from
heaven, crying, death, mourning or

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pain more, we will still never
suffer from anxiety exhaustion, frustration, anger

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or sickness, because our new bodies
will be imperishable, sinless and powerful.

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Heaven is a perfect environment, sinless
and sinful. And the best of all

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is that God will dwell with us