The Glory of the Holy City

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One of the seven angels having the seven bowls full of the seven last plagues approached me and said, “Come! I will show you the Bride, the Wife of the Lamb.”

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He carried me off in the Spirit to the top of a great, high mountain and showed me the holy city, Yerushalayim, coming down out of heaven from God.

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It had the Sh’khinah of God, so that its brilliance was like that of a priceless jewel, like a crystal-clear diamond.

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It had a great, high wall with twelve gates; at the gates were twelve angels; and inscribed on the gates were the names of the twelve tribes of Isra’el.

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There were three gates to the east, three gates to the north, three gates to the south and three gates to the west.

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The wall of the city was built on twelve foundation-stones, and on these were the twelve names of the twelve emissaries of the Lamb.

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The angel speaking with me had a gold measuring-rod with which to measure the city, its gates and its wall.

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The city is laid out in a square, its length equal to its width. With his rod he measured the city at 1,500 miles, with length, width and height the same.

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He measured its wall at 216 feet by human standards of measurement, which the angel was using.

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The wall was made of diamond and the city of pure gold resembling pure glass.

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The foundations of the city wall were decorated with all kinds of precious stones — the first foundation stone was diamond, the second sapphire, the third chalcedony, the fourth emerald,

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the fifth sardonyx, the sixth carnelian, the seventh chrysolite, the eighth beryl, the ninth topaz, the tenth chrysoprase, the eleventh turquoise and the twelfth amethyst.

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The twelve gates were twelve pearls, with each gate made of a single pearl. The city’s main street was pure gold, transparent as glass.

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