All things will be made new. We see glimpses of redemption and restoration here on earth, but when the first heaven and earth are destroyed and the new heaven and earth are created, it’ll be a whole new thing. When we have new bodies, it’s a whole other level of redemption!

All things will really be made new!

God will make His permanent dwelling place with man. He won’t be the man in the sky. He’ll be on His throne in the city of Jerusalem, a place we’ll be able to physically go to and be where He is.

I have no idea what any of this will be like. I’m not going to paint a picture. But, what do we know?

We know He will wipe away every tear. There will be no crying, no mourning, no pain, no death. It’s all gone, forever gone. All things will be made new.

And finally, we’ll finally say, “It is done.” This is really the end. But it’s just a beginning. Our life joined perfectly together with each other and our God will go on forever. There will be no end to the perfect world and perfect life.

Jerusalem is called the Bride, the wife of Christ. I don’t know what that’s about, unless we are all in her and she represents us collectively as His bride. Revelation 19:7 and 2 Corinthians 11:2 are places that talk about the saints as bride.

We see the number twelve all over everything in New Jerusalem. I’m not going to try to give prophetic meaning to all the descriptions. I’m not trying to figure this out. We’ll know when we’re there and we will love it.

We will love, period. We will be perfectly joined to God and each other. Love is the bond that does that.

No sin. No trouble. No sun. God’s glory is our light. No temple. Jesus is our temple.

The gate never shuts; that means no Sabbath. We will have entered our rest completely, forever.