Posted by Luke J. Wilson on 6th January 2016 in Second Coming Series | Revelation,new Jerusalem,The Church,Holy City,Early Church,Early Church Fathers,Eusebius,Origen,Barnabas,millennium,millennial reign,1000 years,new heaven and earth
...e see the
new heaven and earth, with the “holy city” – the
new Jerusalem – coming down out of
heaven.
Next we see that the
new Jerusalem IS the bride of Christ.
So, if the Church/body of believers is the bride,
and the
new Jerusalem is also the bride – then they must be one
and the same,
and therefore symbolic of the physical reality of what the Church is! Unless of course you believe Jesus will be getting married to a literal city...
This vision of the
new heaven and earth isn’t talking about a doing away with the current, physical realm, no; it’s a beautiful, poetic image of the marriage between God
and his people – of the
new wa...