Thinking the New Jerusalem of the book of Revelation has anything to do with the present-day city of Jerusalem leads people into disastrous error -- including the error of believing there are two covenants, one for Jews and one for gentiles, and that Jews don't need to believe in Christ to be saved.
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“ Great Questions Florin ” Isaiah 1:21 How is the faithful city become an harlot…
The faithful city which became a Harlot in Gods eyes was Jerusalem. The context supports this with a quick glance back to Isa. 1:1 as Judah and Jerusalem being the subject spoken of. So we can conclude from the text that Jerusalem is Not the real estate which most apply Jerusalem to but is to be understood as an assembly of souls who once did love God but then forsook Him with their own inventions which is also spoken of in The Revelation.
Rev 17:18 And the woman which thou sawest is that great city, which reigneth over the kings of the earth.
The woman is equated with that great city in the above verse. Just as New Jerusalem is the bride of Christ, not a literal city but an assembly of souls who love God, so was the first Jerusalem.
New Jerusalem is the bride of Christ - An assembly of souls who love God.
The first Jerusalem - An assembly of souls who did love God but forsook Him for their own inventions. They changed the ordinance of Faith alone(Deut. 6:5).....(See Colossians 2:14 on what Jesus nailed to His cross)
What ordinance? See Isa. 24:5
Anonymous Name (2/11/2023)
“ New Jerusalem: Eternal Utopia ” Based on reading Revelation 21 and Revelation 22, we realize that The New Jerusalem will be an eternal utopia. As we know, a utopia refers to a location of 100% harmony and perfection. Originally, the Garden of Eden denoted in The Book of Genesis was a physical paradise on Earth, but when Adam and Eva introduced sin into the world in Genesis 3, that physical paradise on Earth was tragically lost. One day, we will have Eternal Paradise in The New Jerusalem, but it will only be for born again believers. As The Lord created everything as good back in Genesis, so He will make everything good again in The New Heaven and The New Earth, including The New Jerusalem.
Florin Motiu (2/5/2018)
from Oradea, Romania
“ Questions. ” I listened to this message. I think some questions wound arise normally, after listening to it:
1) If today’s Jerusalem have nothing to do with the New Jerusalem, what will we do with all the prophesies in the OT, spoken to Jerusalem, about its future glory?
2) It is clear that the New Jerusalem will not occupy all the new earth. Will those other parts of the new earth be habited?
3) The new earth will be the same in measure as this old earth? Is not Rev. 21 and Ezekiel 40-48 suggesting that it will be bigger?
4) If I understood well, the speaker tends to interpret the descriptions of the New Jerusalem in a metaphoric sense. But what if the is more literal description in Rev. 21? What if?
It is not my purpose here to be highly critical, but my impression, after listening to this message, was a grievous one: everything in Rev. 21’s descriptions in symbolic, and nobody really know how to interpret them. We are left to the interpretations of commentators, which all disagree, so who can know for sure how will be the New Jerusalem? I do not agree at all with this view. I believe that God gave us revelation in order to know, not to guess. I do not believe that everything in the Bible is to be taken literally, as the preacher well explained, but I do not believe that in Rev
