What is happening here?
John sees a new heaven and new earth, with the holy city, new Jerusalem, descending from God. God dwells with His people, wipes away every tear, abolishes death, sorrow, crying, and pain, and makes all things new. The city shines with divine glory, has twelve gates named for Israel’s tribes and twelve foundations named for the apostles, and needs no temple or sun because God and the Lamb are its temple and light.
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