Revelation 21:2

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Summary

And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.

I

Revelation 1:1

Coming

Revelation 21:10

Galatians 4:25

As

Bible References

I

A revelation made by Jesus Christ which God gave him to disclose to his slaves of what must very soon happen. He sent and communicated it by his angel to his slave John,

Coming

He carried me away in a trance to a great, high mountain, and showed me Jerusalem, the holy city, coming down out of heaven from God,

(and Hagar means Mount Sinai, in Arabia), and corresponds to the present Jerusalem, for Jerusalem is in slavery with her children.

As

Let us be glad and triumphant and give him glory, for the marriage of the Lamb has come, and his bride has made herself ready.

It is the bridegroom who has the bride; but the bridegroom's friend who stands outside and listens for his voice is very glad when he hears the bridegroom speak. So this happiness of mine is now complete.

I feel a divine jealousy about you, for I betrothed you to Christ, to present you as a pure bride to her one husband.

You who are husbands must love your wives, just as Christ loves the church and gave himself for her,