JERUSALEM (New)

“Now I SAW a NEW HEAVEN & NEW EARTH, for the FIRST HEAVEN and the FIRST EARTH HAD PASSED AWAY. Also, there was no more sea, Then, I John, saw the HOLY CITY, NEW JERSALEM, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.”

And I heard a loud voice from heaven saying, “Behold the TABERNACLE OF GOD is with men, and HE WILL DWELL with them, and thy shall be HIS PEOPLE. God Himself will be with them and be their God.”

“And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes; there shall be no more death, nor sorrow, nor crying. There shall be no more pain, for the former things HAVE PASSED AWAY.” -Rev 21:1-4.

“But I saw NO TEMPLE IN IT, for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb ARE ITS TEMPLE. The city had no need of the sun or the moon to shine in it, for the glory of God Illuminated it. The Lamb is its light. And the nations of those who are saved shall walk in its light, and the kings of the earth bring their glory and honor into it.

Its gates shall not be shut at all by (there shall be no night there). And they shall bring the glory and honor of the nations into it. But there shall be by no means enter it anything that defiles, or causes an abomination or a lie, but only those who are written in the LAMB’S BOOK OF LIFE.” -Rev 21:22-27

The NEW JERUSALEM is the heavenly home of all of God’s people for eternity. It is where God Himself is headquartered. It is where every believer has personal access to Christ in His Holy presence. It is better, heavenly country for all born-again, elect, saints, who are all holy and righteous in Christ. Therefore, God is not ashamed to be called their God, for He has prepared a NEW JERUSALEM city for them to be with Him for eternity. – Heb 11:16

All born-again believers goring forward in human history continually enter spiritually through the open gates of the NEW JERUSALEM city. This is positionally or relationally now in Christ while they are alive on this earth, but it is not fully realized for each believer until their death, when they put-on their new immortal bodies and live with Christ forever.

JERUSALEM (Old)

“WOE TO YOU, SCRIBES AND PHARISESS, HYPOCRITES! For you pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have neglected the weightier matters of the law: justice and mercy and faith. These you ought to have done, without leaving the others undone. BLIND GUIDES, who strain out a gnat and swallow a camel! WOE TO YOU, SCRIBES AND PHARISEES, HYPOCRITES! For you cleanse the outside of the cup and dish, but inside they are full of extortion and self-indulgence. BLIND PHARISEE first cleans the inside of the cup and dish, that the outside of them may be clean also. WOE TO YOU, SCRIBES AND PHARISEES, HYPOCTRITES! For you are whitewashed tombs which indeed appear beautiful OUTWARDLY, but INSIDE are full of dead men’s bones and all uncleanliness. Even so you OUTWARDLY APPEAR RIGHTEOUS to men, but INSIDE YOU ARE FULL OF HYPROCIRSY AND LAWLESSNESS.” -Matt 23:23-27

Christ condemned OLD JERUSALEM and the unbelieving Jewish leaders. He sent to them prophets, wise men, and scribes; but they killed some of them. They even crucified the Son of God, the Messiah. He found them unwilling to believe in Him as the PROMISED MESSIAH. Christ said that it was upon the OLD JERUSALEM that all the blood of those righteous prophets that He sent would fall. All of His judgments against OLD JERUSALEM would come upon THAT GENERATION of the Jews to whom He was speaking in the first century AD.

“ASSUREDLY, I say to you, all the things WILL COME UPON THIS GENERATION. “O JERSUALEM, JERUSALEM, the one who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her! How often I wanted to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under wings, but YOU WERE NOT WILLING! See! Your house is left DESOLATE.” – Matt 23:36-38

The city of OLD JERUSALEM, part of the “old earth” made up the non-believing Jews, was destroyed in the wrath of God in THAT GENERATION during the Jewish-Roman war in 66-70ad. THERE WAS NOT ONE STONE LEFT UPON ANOTHER IN THE TEMPLE, which they had committed abominations.

Christ then turned to HIS NEW JERUSALEM which is a heavenly city under HIS NEW COVANENT. It is a city in which only born-again, true Jews, called Christians (believing Jews and believing Gentiles) are located forever. All are indwelt by the HOLY SPIRIT and thus only righteous dwells therein. -2 Pet 3:13

God will NEVER AGAIN FAVOR THE OLD JERUSALEM city or the NATION OF ISRAEL AS HIS CHOSEN PEOPLE. They have become a rabbinical Jewish religion and are treated by God as any other unbelieving nation on earth. His kingdom is now made of HIS individual elect, born-again, people going forward in human history, not separate nations or groups of people.

-Michael Alan Nichols

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My thoughts:

With all the ‘support Israel’, ‘pray for Israel’ ‘they are God’s chosen people’ banter going around right now I felt led to share this topic.

What I see is people literally falling for an agenda that is NOT biblical but tends to sound biblely to those that lack unbiased, uninfluenced, unadulterated, unindoctrinated discernment!

It’s this exact undiscerned “prophecy seeking” that has, is and will continue to keep the wiles of the devil (Pharisees tactics) going. All these manmade prophecies create nothing but more pointless tragic wars! Its far time we realize that SATAN (deception) was completely defeated and that WE ARE THE GOVERNMENT UPON HIS SHOLDERS. We need to come to this understanding that we are to simply walk out our salvation and lead others into the NEW JERUSALEM now and for eternity!

Do we realize we are the elect through our born-again status! It is by FAITH IN GRACE THAT WE ARE SAVED AND SANCTIFIED BY WHAT CHRIST HAS DONE so that we can do all things through Christ who strengthens us! The word of God hides nothing from us, we need to desire the pure truths, without biases keeping us from growing spiritually in the Kingdom NOW! It’s Time to keep it pure folks, keep it pure!

All my ” PURE, NEW JERUSALEM LOVE, Diana ❤ xo 🙂

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