What Happens When You Die? (Part 6a) The Arrival of God's Heavenly City, Revelation 21

*We have every hope and can be very optimistic due to the wonderful care of the Lord.

Revelation 21 illusions

§ Isaiah 60, 65; Ezekiel 40-48

John weaves Isaiah and Ezekiel together

§ The vision of the new heaven and new earth, Revelation 21:1

o God’s plan is to reverse the decay

o There are two words for “new” in the NT

§ Something missing in v. 1

o Physical sense

o Symbolic sense

§ The idea of the new Jerusalem, vv. 1-2

o A place of activity

o A place where people dwell

§ The phrase coming down from God out of heaven

§ New Jerusalem prepared

Our eternal home

§ Similarity

§ Dissimilarity

4 passages on the 2 resurrections

§ Daniel 12:2; John 5:28; Acts 24:15; Revelation 20:5, 12-13

Hell

§ Deuteronomy 32:22; Isaiah 33:14; Luke 16:24; 2 Thessalonians 1:7-9; Mark 9:43, 45, 48; Matthew 5:29; Philippians 3:19; Jude 7; 2 Peter 3:7

Characteristic of God’s heavenly city, vv. 2-3

§ Where God will be, v. 3

§ What God will do, v. 4

o No more tears

o No more effects of sins