{"id":11757,"date":"2020-12-23T22:47:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-23T22:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pjhmail.wordpress.com\/?p=11757"},"modified":"2020-12-23T22:47:00","modified_gmt":"2020-12-23T22:47:00","slug":"new-jerusalem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/11757\/new-jerusalem\/","title":{"rendered":"New Jerusalem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Yesterday at work, I was\u00a0just singing randomly, and I started singing about New Jerusalem, and then I had this question:\u00a0 Is New Jerusalem an actual city\/place, or is it the bride of Christ? I remembered the Bible talks about it coming down &#8220;as a bride adorned for her husband&#8221;.\u00a0 This morning, I looked it up in Revelation (21:2) and read through that chapter.\u00a0 I noticed in verses 9-10, the angel tells John he is going to show him the Lamb&#8217;s\u00a0<em>wife<\/em>, and then the\u00a0angel shows John the\u00a0<em>city<\/em>.\u00a0 \u00a0And he describes the city as having a wall and gates, etc.\u00a0 Then in verse 27, it talks about the ones who will\u00a0<em>enter into the city<\/em>\u00a0are those in the Book of Life,\u00a0so from that, I think the answer is that New Jerusalem is a place where only the bride is, not the actual bride, but I wanted to ask you about it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Thanks,<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Lyn<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">=========<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em>You have it right, Lyn.\u00a0 I have heard some believers say that the city itself is the bride of Christ because of the verses you mentioned, but that is nonsense.\u00a0 Jesus will &#8220;marry&#8221; his faithful saints.\u00a0 Paul suggests this when he said that his goal was to present the saints &#8220;as\u00a0a chaste virgin to Christ&#8221;.\u00a0 May God grant us the grace to be in that number &#8220;when the saints go marching into&#8221; the new Jerusalem!\u00a0 Oh, and to say that the city will be prepared for Christ and his wife\u00a0&#8220;as a bride prepares herself for her husband-to-be&#8221; is just another way to say that God will make it very pretty for His Son to celebrate his wedding.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em>Pastor John<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday at work, I was\u00a0just singing randomly, and I started singing about New Jerusalem, and then I had this question:\u00a0 Is New Jerusalem an actual city\/place, or is it the bride of Christ? I remembered the Bible talks about it coming down &#8220;as a bride adorned for her husband&#8221;.\u00a0 This morning, I looked it up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-qa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11757"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11757\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}