Chapter 21

“And the Kings of the Earth bring their glory and honor into it”.

“And he that spake with me, had a Golden Reed, that he might measure the city, and its gates, and its wall”.

“And the wall of the city had Twelve Foundations,- and on them the Names of The Twelve Apostles of the Lamb”.

“And the Wall hath Twelve Gates: each one of the gates sever­ally was one pearl”.

As many pearls as Gates — twelve; and at each gate an angel; upon each pearl, a name inscribed of one of the tribes of the Commonwealth of Israel: and three of the twelve gates on each side of the city, situated foursquare.

“And the Holy Jerusalem had a great and high wall”.

“The Holy Jerusalem descending from the Deity having the Glory of the Deity”.

“And I John saw the Holy City, New Jerusalem, descending from the Deity out of the heaven, having been prepared as a Bride who had been adorned for her husband”.

The sea referred to in this oracle is that Apocalyptic confluence of “many waters,” or “peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and ton­gues,” a restless, troubled sea, whose waters cast up mire and dirt (Isa.

‘And I saw a New Heaven and a New Earth, and the Sea is no

more

EXPOSITION

1. The Former Heaven and Earth

“The Former Heaven and the Former Earth had passed

away