"Heaven" with The Bible Reading: Revelation 21:9-21
Revelation 21:9 One of the seven angels having the seven bowls full of the seven last plagues approached me and said, “Come! I will show you the Bride, the Wife of the Lamb.” 10 He carried me off in the Spirit to the top of a great, high mountain and showed me the holy city, Yerushalayim, coming down out of heaven from God. 11 It had the Sh’khinah of God, so that its brilliance was like that of a priceless jewel, like a crystal-clear diamond. 12 It had a great, high wall with twelve gates; at the gates were twelve angels; and inscribed on the gates were the names of the twelve tribes of Isra’el. 13 There were three gates to the east, three gates to the north, three gates to the south and three gates to the west. 14 The wall of the city was built on twelve foundation-stones, and on these were the twelve names of the twelve emissaries of the Lamb.
15 The angel speaking with me had a gold measuring-rod with which to measure the city, its gates and its wall. 16 The city is laid out in a square, its length equal to its width. With his rod he measured the city at 1,500 miles, with length, width and height the same. 17 He measured its wall at 216 feet by human standards of measurement, which the angel was using. 18 The wall was made of diamond and the city of pure gold resembling pure glass. 19 The foundations of the city wall were decorated with all kinds of precious stones — the first foundation stone was diamond, the second sapphire, the third chalcedony, the fourth emerald, 20 the fifth sardonyx, the sixth carnelian, the seventh chrysolite, the eighth beryl, the ninth topaz, the tenth chrysoprase, the eleventh turquoise and the twelfth amethyst. 21 The twelve gates were twelve pearls, with each gate made of a single pearl. The city’s main street was pure gold, transparent as glass.
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I live in New Jersey. One day I was visiting a friend in the Midwest. On his wall I saw a picture of a lighthouse on the ocean. I told him, "You have a picture of the lighthouse that is not too far from where I live!"
My friend said that he had never seen the ocean. He had just bought the picture because he liked it. I asked my friend what he thought it would be like to visit that lighthouse. He tried to describe what he thought it would be like, but his description did not seem real.
That made me think about heaven. Our Bible verses for today tell us some exciting things about heaven. These things give us encouragement to look forward to heaven. But I don't think we can really understand what it will be like until we are actually living with God forever!
Someday my friend will visit me and we will go see that lighthouse. And someday I will be able to go to the home God has prepared for me![Bob LaForge]
"No one has ever seen, no one has ever heard, no one has ever imagined what God has prepared for those who love him."[1 Corinthians 2:9]
PRAYER: God, I am excited to imagine what heaven will be like! In Jesus' name. Amen.
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I live in New Jersey. One day I was visiting a friend in the Midwest. On his wall I saw a picture of a lighthouse on the ocean. I told him, "You have a picture of the lighthouse that is not too far from where I live!"
My friend said that he had never seen the ocean. He had just bought the picture because he liked it. I asked my friend what he thought it would be like to visit that lighthouse. He tried to describe what he thought it would be like, but his description did not seem real.
That made me think about heaven. Our Bible verses for today tell us some exciting things about heaven. These things give us encouragement to look forward to heaven. But I don't think we can really understand what it will be like until we are actually living with God forever!
Someday my friend will visit me and we will go see that lighthouse. And someday I will be able to go to the home God has prepared for me![Bob LaForge]
"No one has ever seen, no one has ever heard, no one has ever imagined what God has prepared for those who love him."[1 Corinthians 2:9]
PRAYER: God, I am excited to imagine what heaven will be like! In Jesus' name. Amen.
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