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The New Jerusalem is designed to reflect the identity of God’s people (notice the symbolisms of the twelve tribes and the twelve apostles). This vast city, represented as an enormous, perfect cube, is 1,500 miles wide and long and tall. This is roughly the size of the entire Roman empire at the time of the New Testament. Imagine the new Jerusalem fitting inside of the United States, stretching from the Mexican border to the Canadian border north/south. East/west from Cincinnati, OH to Salt Lake City, Utah! And 1,500 miles high!

“The intended effect of these numbers on the imagination, though, is not to stagger us with size, but to give us a feel for the enormous wholeness, the vast holiness that reduces every desecration and blasphemy around us into puniness” (Eugene Peterson – Reversed Thunder). “The new city is not just a dream, a comforting fantasy. Those who follow the Lamb already belong in that city, and already have the right to walk its streets” (NT Wright – Revelation For Everyone).